As against the normal tenure of three years, officers in Punjab are changed in weeks and months. The politicization of the civil bureaucracy continues apace and in the case of Punjab has gone from bad to worse and reached such a level that officers are changed frequently without any respect to tenure. However, the situation remained unchanged. Sources say that Hussain had spoken to the prime minister a number of times to address the issue of the bureaucracy’s politicization, particularly in Punjab, as it had seriously hurt performance and service delivery. Although, he did not cite any such reason for his departure in what was shared with the media, informed sources say that the government’s chief reformer was upset that although he had produced a comprehensive set of reforms after a detailed consultative process and got it approved from the cabinet, the implementation of the reforms remained elusive.
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I returned from the trip determined that, for the rest of my life, I would eat only the way I had during those three weeks of culinary bliss. Twenty years ago, my wife and I went to Italy for our honeymoon and I discovered the wonders of Italian food. On Sunday, the great Italian chef and cookbook author Marcella Hazan died, at the age of eighty-nine. Until an alien can be found, interviewed, and prove that aliens did in fact land on the earth, it's a little hard to make the argument without a few holes. This wasn't entirely at the fault of the writer. Though Erich von Daniken didn't use the phrase in the work, the meme "I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens," was playing heavily while reading the book. One of the first traits noticed while reading the work is the somewhat rushed decisions, when it comes to connecting the evidence between historical and archaeological findings Daniken uses to help support his arguments. 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As he slowly pieces his memories back together, he learns a horrifying truth: Earth is dying. In his most expansive work yet, Weir takes us out of the Solar system entirely to meet Ryland Grace, an astronaut who wakes up with no memory on an interstellar starship. Andy Weir, of The Martian and Artemis fame recently put out his third novel, Project Hail Mary. |