COVER STORY: BUREAUCRACY Bloated Babudom
More heads, less work--that's the
state of the bureaucracy in India.
A privileged lot with guaranteed rights, pay and perks, the babus cost the
tax-payers Rs 75,000 crore a year
giving little in return.
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THE NATION: CONGRESS Taking The Plunge Congress President Sonia Gandhi shedding her inhibitions and taking a dip at the Mahakumbha in Allahabad and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad's Dharma Sansad at the same venue were both seen as political moves.
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STATES: ORISSAStarved Of A Future With the state reeling under a severe drought and government measures providing little succour, the prospect of a famine looms large. The debilitating results are now showing up as a chain of catastrophes in this rain-fed region.
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THE NATION: BOFORS Sting Of the Hindujas A British minister quits, adding to the brothers' woes. |
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| PROFILE: ARADHANA SHUKLA | CINEMA: KARISMA KAPOOR Moving Ahead She is one of the finest among her contemporaries. | |
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| ARTS: 10TH TRIENNALE The Three-Year Itch India's international art festival is marked by a sense of inertia. | BUSINESS: LUDHIANA | |
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| ECONOMY: NOIDA-DELHI FLYWAY Smooth Going India's technologically most advanced toll bridge opens. | ECONOMY: | |
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| CRIME: PAEDOPHILIA Deviant Devils The arrest of a Swiss couple exposes a cybersmut racket. | SOCIETY & TRENDS: | |
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| OFFTRACK: DELHI Moving Theatre A low-profile man is happy making larger-than-life tableaux | ||
Fifth Column Tavleen Singh Let's Get Real It's time we demanded a budget that will give us what we genuinely need. | Kautilya Jairam Ramesh Core to RBI, Sore to Others The RBI governor says that core inflation is comfortable--what does it mean? | ||
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| Flip Side Dilip Bobb Panic Stations Officials have been huddled together to solve the winter fog challenges. | Right Angle Swapan Dasgupta Knee Dip In Hindu Votes The gains of Sonia's competitive Hindutva will accrue to the VHP. | ||
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| VOICES "My father told me that you were like a Bedouin, like us, and that we can trust you." Prince Miteb, son of the Saudi Arabian crown prince, after presenting Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh a prize Arabian steed More... | ||
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| Luck's Abode 1 Talkatora Road is not just an MP's bungalow in Delhi. | Pen Friend | |
| Remote Affair Software ditches Chandrababu Naidu in front of Li Peng. | Losing Sleep Fernandes recalls sleeping on Mumbai's footpaths. | |
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| Books Dilli O Dilli Traversing the past and exploring the present of the Capital Sholay: The Making Of a Classic The roller-coaster creation of India's best loved Hindi film Civil Fare New writings, known romance New Releases Jayanta Mahapatra, V.A. Pai Panandiker & S.C. Kashyap, Asif Farrukhi, Subhadra Sen Gupta |
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