The game is conventional and there are two unconventional players in the field. Delhi is going to vote again on February 7. The last assembly election...

The disinvestment drive of the NDA government kicked off on 5 December with an offer for sale (OFS) in public sector behemoth Steel Authority of India...

If the right to education (RTE) is the book, the story is indeed bleak still. Here’s the writing on the blackboard: even nearly four years since RTE’s...

Punjab is a unique state in its own way and has its own set of problems. And these problems were never part of the poll manifestos of the traditional...

My experience with elections dates back to the 2007 Delhi Sikh Gurudwara management committee (DSGMC) elections. DSGMC is an organisation that, apart...

Public sector undertakings – more specifically, their boards of directors – could be a fit case for politicians to build their spiel on women’s...

Like most of her neighbours, Parmeelaben’s family too is in the business of recycling old clothes, collecting them door to door, and offering new...

The quality of learning in schools in rural India has declined and remained neglected in the nine years of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)...

The national media, and as a corollary the nation, woke up to the narcotic menace prevalent in Punjab when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi highlighted...

Nitish Sengupta, erstwhile chairman of the Board of Reconstruction for Public Sector Enterprises (BRPSE) who died on Sunday, was one of those in my...

The month of September delivered a double whammy to the disinvestment story, as the stake sale of the two of the five biggest public sector units...

Set up in 2007, Central Railside Warehouse Company (CRWC) is a young organisation by public sector standards. Coming under the department of food and...