In a clear signal that administrative reforms will be a key focus area in his second term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to expand the policy of lateral entry for vacancies in the federal government by increasing the intake of officers at the Joint Secretary level from outside the...
India Elections 2014 Result
Hopes for maintaining freedom and democracy are shaky in many countries today from Egypt, to Ukraine, to Iraq and Afghanistan. On the other hand the continued success of autocracies such as China has its scholars arguing that they have created a system better than Western democracy. The Economist recently ran...
Joe Biden envisons half-trillion dollar trade between USA and India
While acknowledging the need to remove trade barriers on both side, American Vice President Joe Biden celebrated the rising bilateral trade between India and the United States. Speaking at the Bombay Stock Exchange in Mumbai last week, he told business leaders, “Our bilateral trade has increased fivefold to $100 billion...
India promises electrical power access to every household by 2017
"Every household in the country will have electricity by 2017", Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised in his Independence Day speech this week. During the last five year over 100,000 villages have received electrical supply. Singh's statement came days after over half of India was left without any electric power...
India celebrates Republic Day, in Delhi in San Francisco and all over
India celebrated its 63rd Republic Day on January showing off its latest weapons at a military parade in the capital, Delhi. According to the BBC, thousands of people turned up at Rajpath (King's Avenue) to watch the parade amid tight security. More than 25,000 policemen and paramilitary forces guarded the...
Boeing to supply $4.1 billion in C-17 transport aircraft to India
By 2014, India’s ministry of defense will be the largest owner and operator of the Boeing C-17 transport aircraft outside the United States. A formal $4.1 billion order for ten of the aircraft is expected to keep the production lines in Long Beach (just six miles from where I am...