POLITICS

This is History (1004)

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Modi and Shah expect 260 seats for BJP ?

Top sources close to Narendra Modi and Amit Shah say, their internal assessment says that BJP will get 260 seats.

Ahmad Patel says BJP will get 150 seats ?

Senior Congress leader Ahmad Patel says, BJP will get 150 seats and the NDA will get 200 seats in the ensuing Lok Sabha polls.

Foreign funding ?

Government agencies are busy in collecting information of foreign funding to the political parties in the Lok Sabha polls.

DEBATE

Is ‘lateral entry’  in GoI a step in the right direction ?

Recruitment at Joint Secretary-rank posts through “lateral entry” mode, which means the appointment of specialists from outside, has left many a Civil Servants, specially IAS officers, jittery. They say that the newly appointed recruitees who are junior to them have been selected for a senior and responsible position which is bound to create hurdles in administration. How far the initiative, pegged by the Modi government as a civil service reform, a step in the right direction ?

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