New Delhi: The Supreme Court’s observation last month that Real Estate Regulatory Authorities (RERAs)—which were set up to ...

Supplicants of every stripe, from ambassadors to public servants seeking lifetime sinecures as federal judges and the like, stayed there. So did five people who were later granted presidential ...

If salaries and benefits for even a twentieth of those sinecures were redirected to actual benefits, the difference it could make in needy veterans’ lives could be substantial. With those two ...

His senior team will be busy parlaying their government jobs into private sector sinecures, signing on with speaker’s bureaus ...

by offering sinecures for their loyal but otherwise unemployable cronies, and by spinning off lobbying and speaking fees (the original font of their $100-million-plus personal fortune and the ...

Soviet arms may have helped prolong the bush war until the diplomats could finish the job, and government sinecures from the frontline states — e.g., Herbert Chitepo, Tanzanian director of ...

CJI D.Y. Chandrachud’s recent admission that he decided the Babri Masjid dispute in favour of Hindus, after he prayed to god ...

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“Is there any accountability whatsoever? Or isn’t this really just a means of providing sinecures for people that they like ...

MSPs are talking tough - but sinecures of this kind are an integral part of a bloated public sector which has put the brakes on any prospect of growth. Don’t be surprised if the bonfire of the ...