Public Policy

Elon Musk-led Twitter lays off more employees from public policy team

Twitter has laid off more employees from its remaining public policy team, after laying off an unknown number of engineers in its infrastructure vertical last week

WhatsApp India head, Meta Public Policy director step down

Director Public Policy Meta India Rajiv Aggarwal too resigned from his position

Resolving social media grievances a tough job for GACs, warn policy experts

Resolving social media grievances a tough job for GACs, warn policy experts

Convergent growth

Making lower-growth states part of a national value chain is an imperative, but difficult because of political rivalry

LIC taking steps to transform corporate governance: DIPAM Secretary

Some of these steps include improving LIC's 13th month and 25th persistency ratio, which is less than its peers

No proof that commodity derivatives trade causes price spikes, finds study

Suspension of their futures does not bring down price volatility either, finds study conducted on behalf of NCDEX Investor Protection Fund

India at 75: Prudent public finance policy still remains a challenge

Among other things, making the direct tax regime less confusing and bringing in expenditure reform are crucial challenges for the central government

Crafting credible public systems

Addressing the challenges of the last mile is key to ensuring outcomes

Arbitration can be set aside only if award is against public policy: SC

An arbitration award can be set aside only if the award is against the public policy of India, the Supreme Court has said.

When the Metro traffic projections go wrong; it is not just a Delhi problem

Metros not meeting their ridership projections is not a Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) problem alone

Govt spent Rs 1.3 trn for public welfare in last 2 years: Andhra Minister

Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minister said that the state govt spent Rs 1,30,000 crore through various schemes for the public welfare in the last two years

Facebook's India head Ajit Mohan deposes before Parliamentary panel

Mohan deposed before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, chaired by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor

Moving beyond L1/H1

The bigger takeaway from this year's Nobel winners is that an overhaul of public procurement processes in India is long overdue

Maximum government, minimum governance

Book review of The Gated Republic: India's Public Policy Failures and Private Solutions

Indian School of Public Policy: Homegrown institute for policy wonks

ISPP is the country's first institute of its kind

Same difference in public policy

Ruling regimes, irrespective of ideology, have benefited the middle class and rich

Junk sector policies as an instrument of development

Politicians love announcing policies and programmes because these can be narrowly targeted at specific beneficiaries for votes. This is the downside of the dharma of democracy