Prasanna Mohanty

Contributions

• Slowdown has bottomed out, 8-9 pc growth in a few years: Rangarajan
• Out of shadow, PPPs at last come under RTI ambit
• The mystery of the missing tribals
• So sweet: party on as levy sugar, release mechanism gone
• UPA undermines EC, again
• Rajya Sabha has no time for the budget
• Green tribunal returns transparency to MoEF work
• Montek reforms: flaunts back-to-universal PDS poll!
• Why appointing ex-CBI, IB chiefs as governors not a good idea
• FM as Robin Hood – albeit selectively
• NCTC yes, but please think it through
• Expect another stormy start to parliament session
• Amartya Sen bats for universal food coverage
• Food security bill back to the drawing table
• Three non-UPA CMs question uniform criteria in food bill
• Chopper `bribe`: Is this the Bofors moment for UPA-II government?
• CBI prosecutor’s collusion a part of larger malaise
• Who will take the onus for 36 deaths in Allahabad stampede?
• CAG wins the debate; it isn’t a mere accounting body
• Odisha govt flouts laws to forcibly acquire land for Posco
• Nariman’ resignation a reflection on murky world of law ministry
• Ordinance: First UPA doesn’t do enough, and then it overdoes
• GM debate: Scientific evidence needed, not rhetoric
• “In science, we go by evidence”
• A mini revolution in the making?
• “How can Lynas ignore GM crops increased chemical usage in America?”
• Chautala’s delayed conviction best case for fast courts
• “It is the scientists who are asking for regulation and precaution”
• Indira Awaas Yojana: Plagued by a long and defective list
• Another goof-up, another ambush
• Really, Mr Ramesh?
• Chhattisgarh takes a big leap; passes food security law
• Corruption drowns Dhumal’s chances in Himachal
• Where MNREGS takes a back seat
• An officer who dares, and cares
• Making sense of the proposed decontrol of sugar sector
• No network: MHA waits for mobile towers to fight Maoists
• The answer to who guards the media shouldn`t be `no-one`
• Poor homework may endanger direct cash transfer
• Spare a thought for our elders
• Spare a thought for our elders
• Spare a thought for our elders
• How about making prime minister a three-member body?
• CAG’s censure on corruption evokes derision from govt
• In open defecation area, village says hello to own loo
• Spare a thought for oily tightrope Moily has to walk
• Odisha’s date with grassroots democracy
• MoEF bends: clearance to “no-go” coal block
• Empower urban local bodies: Experts
• What stinks so bad in Odisha CM`s constituency?
• Will India be a nation for the aged?
• “Freedom of expression is subject to defamation, contempt of court, to different forms of public interest…”
• Public health, private business?
• A divorce of little consequences
• Montek backs diesel price hike; favours fuel price deregulation
• Making sense of coal block allocation scam and CAG report
• Icing on CAG: Nobody’s business
• CAG findings: answers without answerability
• When protection system fell like pack of cards, dark night rose
• Silence me lord. Because the court is in session!
• Inside the Maoists’ den
• DeitY asks states to submit utilisation certificates
• Setback for fight against graft as Team Anna loses nerve
• It wasn’t just overdrawing that led to grid collapse: Moily
• Will Anna be able to achieve anything this time?
• Ex-spies pitch for parliamentary oversight
• ‘Disengage and retreat’ is the new mantra to avoid civilian casualty
• ‘Disengage and retreat’ is the new mantra to avoid civilian casualty
• Bt Cotton: Maha to ban Mahyco-Monsanto
• Centre talks tough, asks states to settle forest rights now
• Maha subverts forest rights of tribals
• Bumpy road ahead: NHAI’s projects go abegging, future grim
• Maoists set death squad after a colleague for advocating peace
• NAC to focus on reviving interest in MNREGS
• Chhattisgarh encounter seems more like a massacre
• Who is in and who is out of NAC? Wait for some clarity
• Free hand to illegal coal mining
• Problem of plenty: 25 MT food grain exposed to elements
• Worried about glut, food minister seeks PM’s help
• "JNNURM is a great success"
• No extra mileage
• Time’s up for Manmohan
• Ramlila lathi-charge: Police charge sheet is a joke
• Food glut: Boon for private players, bane for government
• "People don`t know how information is misused on social media"
• Kill Bill: Discretion in R&R will undo land acquisition law
• Ineptitude and inaction mar governance
• Haj subsidy and policy vacuum
• Haj subsidy and policy vacuum
• Haj subsidy and policy vacuum
• Bofors: Best argument for Lokpal
• Lokayukta takes on Delhi LG for not acting against ex-councillor
• Capriciousness rules aviation policy
• The rights epidemic
• 25 yrs after Bofors, middlemen continue to make merry
• Food stocks reach all-time high but left to rot in the open
• MMS and his govt in hibernation
• Things fall apart, centre cannot hold
• Governance policy class: what is a presidential reference?
• Politicians are out to gag supreme court and high courts
• Poverty alleviation matters, not the numbers
• Frivolity mars the debate over army chief’s disclosures
• Has desperation put Maoists in Odisha at the Italian job?
• EC indeed needs financial autonomy
• From dust to dust
• NTRO nailed: CAG confirms gross irregularities
• PM’s foreign hand bogey is showing
• ‘Sticky bomb’ exposes serious fault-line in security architecture
• ED charges Marans for money laundering
• A reprieve for now, but Chidu is not off the hook
• Delink legislative, executive works
• SC`s slap on UPA`s face: Decide on graft trials in 3 months
• Let there be checks on babus jumping into poll fray
• RTI at premium: Chhattisgarh assembly charges Rs 500 per query
• Should Sachin Tendulkar be given Bharat Ratna?
• Distorting army chief`s age flies in the face of law and logic
• Fixing education — let Sibal’s kids study with ours…
• Fixing education — let Sibal’s kids study with ours…
• In Odisha, housing grants are a plot against the distressed
• Why can’t president find time to decide mercy pleas?
• Daggers drawn on Lokpal as LS prepares to decide bill`s fate
• Lokpal headed the CVC way
• Maya skips homework
• Food security, Lokpal and lessons in policymaking
• Politics vs public welfare: No prize for guessing the winner
• Is Delhi`s masterplan defective?
• More than 200 vacancies in the Tamil Nadu`s lower courts
• Anna ko gussa kyon aata hai
• Legislative paralysis spells RIP for UPA
• Singhvi panel report deconstructed
• Lokpal panel shortchanges parliament, opposition
• For how long will we have to live with such lazy policymaking?
• Mr FM, name those 700 names
• What we need is something here and now
• Now you know: biz details of RS members
• The Joshi way: NHAI`s Rs 1,600 crore bonanza
• After talks with Mamata, Pranab meets PM
• Uncertainity looms over Country`s first ultra mega power project
• Will it and it will happen
• Montek is innocent...
• `Crime and Punishment` by Khurshid
• For our law minister, crime of the private sector is no crime
• Govt gets it right. Junks BPL, links schemes to special census
• This is the NIA. Wonder why we can`t beat terror!
• Don’t fiddle, dismantle MPLADS
• Congress and vote bank quota
• Resurrecting Irom Sharmila
• Anna’s pathshala: What about parliament’s accountability?
• Anna’s pathshala: In democracy, people are ‘king’
• Which are the ‘forces’ PM is blaming for his Anna woes?
• Why we need ‘right to recall’ the elected
• Natarajan`s task cut out: just hand over forests for mining
• Chidambaram shows the right way to handle a crisis
• Watchdog or a lapdog?
• Are not sports ministry, SAI and federations responsible for doping?
• Telangana - a flawed idea?
• Government`s spin minister
• Government`s spin minister throws a no-ball at Lokpal
• Making a hash of its mandate
• Democracy minus people
• Why grudge `political` protests
• Fibbing on Lokpal may not work
• Democracy minus people: True face of governance in Orissa
• Ramesh makes a silly point
• Manmohan and Sonia long on rhetoric, short on delivery
• How about GoM for good governance?
• Ramesh’s mea culpa: A sham
• Ramesh signs RIP for FRA
• Did the Narasimha Rao government sanction Purulia arms drop?
• Bill without will
• Keeping the Lokpal at bay
• Anna, an anarchist?
• Anna, an anarchist?
• What Anna Hazare wants
• MSP for minor forest produce: 15 years too late
• Poll freebies as “corrupt practices”
• MPLADS has no mechanism to identify local needs: CAG
• Focus on relief, not reform
• Thank you Thomas, for showing the way to fight corruption!
• Logjam over seat sharing between DMK, Cong continues
• Thomas out. What about culpability of PM, HM in the case?
• Union budget is a missed opportunity: Greenpeace
• Where are you, Mr Chidambaram? We can`t afford your aloofness
• Go green to avoid food crisis
• Budgeting for scams
• Ramesh paves way for Posco`s Rs 11K crore bonanza
• Hunter`s guide to fight corruption
• Latest PJ? Thomas says "I am still the CVC"
• Plan panel against telecom operators setting up banking cos
• Jaipur Literature Festival, hostage to unethical firms?
• Adopt ‘adarsh’ policies, Mr Ramesh, ad hoc ones will not do
• More Pawar to hoarders, consumers be damned!
• Five things for Mrs Gandhi to do
• FM asks lenders to check exposure to firms named by CBI
• Should non-Delhiites be barred from the DDA housing scheme?
• Time to go beyond resignations
• Aman Kachroo ragging case: Four seniors convicted
• Ten mistakes NAC made on food bill
• Lessons from the Narmada Bachao Andolan
• "Plan com needs refurbishing to offer change"
• Govt says CWG may add USD 5 bn to economy, create 2.5 mn jobs
• TN govt has no plans to stop free power supply to farmers: CM
• Will Ayodhya verdict lead to resolution of the dispute?
• India’s first ever noise barrier in Mumbai
• Higher MSP recommended for pulses, oilseeds
• Judiciary and Corruption
• Jairam a green crusader, did you say?
• SC green bench directive an invitation to more violations
• Nitish shows the right way; stands firm in hostage situation
• Should leader of opposition be in the CVC-appointment panel if she has no say?
• SC slaps Pawar; says free food distribution is our order
• Another kill bill clause for nuke non-liability
• Whistleblower bill is self-defeating
• Punjab farmers miss Bihar’s helping hands
• Niyamgiri shows Gandhian humbug actually works!
• Ramesh champions environmental laws, corks Niyamgiri mining
• Mining Niyamgiri hills will be illegal: NC Saxena report
• For god`s sake Mr PM, Mamata has just accused your govt of murder
• Go Kalmadi Go. Games can’t be a bigger fiasco without you.
• POSCO’s land acquisition in Orissa is illegal
• Unified command against Maoists a cosmetic exercise
• Don`t take that call from the PMO, Mr Ramesh!
• Rajiv`s self-governance dream is shattered, so let`s not talk about it
• Cabinet defers decision on khaps, honour killings
• Don`t bet on Met for accurate monsoon forecasts
• Well done, Manmohan, Mugambo khush hua. Very khush!
• Don’t make a Quixotic rush to cash transfer: Dreze
• Tribals as partners in development
• A largesse too late: Cong washes its Bhopal guilt with Rs 1500 cr
• Turning the PDS around
• Fighting the market forces - why PDS scores over cash transfer
• Ram rattles BJP
• Bhopal`s Hall of Shame
• Right to Food or just a route to wash off governmental guilt?
• What do we do when the three pillars of governance conspire against us?
• Jharkhand: Hurtling from one crisis to another
• So many rights – and none saved their lives
• It`s high time PC got a free hand in dealing with the Maoists
• For Maoists, even children are no more than a “shield”
• Vedanta`s theology spells end of the world for Orissa`s tribals
• Is Kasab alive a better message to terrorists than Kasab dead?
• No time for legislation
• For Ganjam, diamonds are not forever
• Shouldn`t we bar MPs and ministers from taking any job we have not given them?
• `Link food bill to agriculture`
• PC in a pickle?
• Digvijay Singh has gone mad: BJP MP
• Rules flouted but Ramesh has only “regret” to offer
• How to deal with the Maoists
• Are half-baked operations taking precedence over full-fledged strategy against Maoists?
• Maoists` financing - the blood flows as long as the cash flows
• Should we prosecute journalists who sting to expose corruption?
• `Lack of training led to Dantewada slaughter`
• Is the Congress persecuting Amitabh Bachchan?
• Governance Now Headlines
• Postcards from the Republic of Hunger
• Judicial standards bill to refurbish judiciary`s image - govt
• SC decision on CJI should be respected: Habibullah
• Seven RS members suspended for unruly behavious
• What`s new about your model, comrades?
• Cloud service for e-governance
• After G2B services, Adobe keen on G2C stake
• Futility of talking to Muivah
• Airtel ready for m-gov ecosystem
• Reaching the masses - next step for e-gov
• SGPC condemns beheading of Sikhs in Pakistan
• India takes first step to bring back black money from abroad
• Infrastructure report by CDE
• India`s defence expenditure to be commensurate with growth
• Manipur info commissioner orders Rs 1 lakh fine
• Should Bt Brinjal be allowed for cultivation?
• Edged out of the Republic
• Bad governance, frittering away public money
• `Only solution is to finish off Maoists`
• Elect one CM, get three free... loaders!
• DK: Back of the Beyond
• Kapil Sibal
• Playing hookey with hockey