Precis Exercise In two days of meetings, the participants carried out extensive consultations on various aspects of the situation in Afghanistan, particularly in light of the recent developments. The conference expressed concern at the escalation of armed hostilities in Afghanistan, which has resulted in immense human losses and irreparable damage to the country in the economic, social, and cultural spheres. d endangered regional peace, stability, and security. The conference deplored the...

Precis Exercise  World reaction to India’s nuclear explosion has so far been on expected lines. Bhutto has been terribly upset. The western powers particularly the U.S. are not exactly happy and the Afro-Asian countries of the Third World have taken it in their stride. The reasons for this varying reaction are not so difficult to understand. Pakistan’s leaders seem incapable of reconciling themselves to the realities of the sub-continent, and they...

The inauguration of the Republic of India is an act of high faith in the people of this country, a gesture of dedication of all the nation’s talent and resources to the realisation of worthy purposes. It amounts to an implicit pledge on the part of every Indian that he will, to the extent of his strength and capability, uphold the honour of his country augment her strength for good and...

For long after independence, the Civil Service attracted the country’s best brains, but bureaucracy became a dirty word — it was held responsible for all that went wrong in we areas where the Government’s role mattered. Was it the sinner or was it sinned against? Perhaps both, Bureaucrats did not function in a vacuum or in lofty isolation. They were part of the new milieu, where the machinery was concerned not...