First Principles
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Bribeless In Bihar
Bureaucrats in India’s most corrupt state are facing the heat from their own chief minister
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How The PDS Is Changing in Chattisgarh
The Chhattisgarh model offers some key lessons on how to make the public distribution system deliver
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The Make-Up Artist of Indian Courtrooms
Gujarat-based lawyer Niranjan Bhatt is working tirelessly to promote mediation as an alternative to tedious court cases
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Mobile Apps In India: Not an Apt Offering
Telecom operators do not want to pay app developers a higher revenue share. This does not bode well for the industry
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Pink Alert: How Real Is The Threat of Breast Cancer?
Advocacy groups routinely urge women in their 40s to have regular mammograms. But experts question their utility
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CAG Vinod Rai: Some Don’t Take Our Reports Seriously
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai tells us that its reports are often not taken seriously by ministries who find it all too easy to point fingers when matters go wrong
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Restructuring the Planning Commission
A crack team led by Arun Maira is trying to breathe new life into a fading institution
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India's Highways Follow A Crooked Path
Beneath India's grand scheme to build a world class highway network lies a web of corruption and inefficiency
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Cleaning Up the Indian Patent Office
To seed innovation and attract more patent applications, India needs an efficient system. The new patents chief P.H. Kurian has started with the basics
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Back To The Roots For Andhra Pradesh Farmers
Traditional practices can revive tired soil and pull small farmers out of debt. Andhra Pradesh shows the way
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The Bellary Minefield
Miners in the area have one by one capitulated to the might of Janardhan Reddy. But Rahul Baldota is putting up a stiff resistance