India Governance

PM Modi introduced innovation in governance, made it tech driven: Minister

Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has introduced innovation in governance and made it technology-driven.

Nation seeing political will, reforms being implemented since 2014: PM

Owing to continuous political instability during the last three decades, the country suffered from lack of political willpower and stayed away from implementing reforms and decisions, said PM Modi

Too early to celebrate economic recovery in India: Arvind Subramanian

Stock markets reflect the Indian economy less. It would be a kind of policy mistake to infer from this (stock boom) anything about the diverse Indian economy, said Subramanian

Pakistan pushing large quantity of drugs for terror funding: J&K DGP

Pakistan is pushing a huge quantity of drugs into Jammu and Kashmir for funding terror here in a planned manner and getting our youths falling prey to the menace, Jammu and Kashmir police chief Dilbag Singh said on Friday. The J&K director general of police made the remark while presiding over a specialised training programme for J&K Police officers held in collaboration with the Narcotics Control Bureau here. Referring to the seizure of 52 kg of heroin on Thursday at Jajar Kotli and huge quantities of various drugs earlier in Poonch, Baramulla, Kupwara and other border areas, the DGP said "Pakistan is pushing huge quantities of drugs for terror funding in a planned manner and getting our youths involved in the menace to satisfy its evil intentions." Underlining the need for improving the conviction rate in NDPS cases, the DGP said the cases of drug smuggling and trading must be probed professionally, leaving no room for doubts to ensure conviction in such cases. DGP Singh ...

Mixed reaction by netizens to govt's decision of repealing farm laws

The prime minister announced his government has decided to repeal the three legislations

Governance & politics

Neither the Nehru-era approach nor the Chinese model is right for India. It needs to create room for the private sector

Governance in India has been economics illiterate; here's how to fix it

The government needs to appoint economists in secretary level positions in all ministries for things to improve

Governance by diktat, in an echo chamber

Is the current mood of the nation turning in the direction similar to the days of Congress-led government in 2011-13?

Ahankar-mukt leadership

Just watch political leaders across the world - the debilitating effects of power are so visible

Turf wars between IAS, IPS officers not good for governance

India's policy-makers and the enlightened elements in the steel frame need to appreciate the gravity of the problem and understand the ramifications

Except graft, India didn't improve on any WB governance indicator in 10 yrs

India improved its ranking by 13 positions over the decade to 2016, moving to 111 from 124 among 214 regions on the World Bank's corruption indicator