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Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth gets 6-month extension

Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth, who is due to retire on June 14, was on Monday given a six-month extension in service, the second time he has got it in the top bureaucratic post. The extension of......

Why Ajit Seth got another extension as cabinet secretary

Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving yet another six-month extension to Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth has created ripples in the corridors of power since the latter was a United Progressive Alliance......

Indian Navy Makes History!

Prime Minister Narendra D Modi dedicated three Made in India frontline naval combatants -- INS Surat, INS Nilgiri and INS Vaghsheer to the nation on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, morning, noting......

Ajit Kumar Seth will be next cabinet secretary

Ajit Kumar Seth, an IAS officer of the 1974 batch from the Uttar Pradesh cadre has been appointed the new Union cabinet secretary. The announcement was made hurriedly to avoid an embarrassment to......

Babudom gets ready for new PM with status note

The Cabinet Secretariat has prepared a status note for the new, incoming government giving five major thrust areas out of the various issues national and international importance that......

Ratan Tata, As I Knew Him

Ratan was extremely ethical in his dealings, which he brought to bear on the business house which he helmed, remembers Sailesh Kottary. IMAGE: Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus, Tata Sons, at the......

Why Ratan Tata Really Fell Out With Cyrus Mistry

Ratan Tata: A Life, the much awaited biography, reveals that after a year of 'parallel running', Tata began having second thoughts about Cyrus Mistry's 'suitability'.'Mistry targeted Ratan, the man......

Top bureaucrats take stock of economic situation

The day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for reversing the mood of pessimism, top bureaucrats on Thursday took stock of the economic situation with secretaries of various ministries to......

Steps on anvil to boost investments: Govt

Amid declining industrial growth, the government on Thursday said that several policy measures will be taken to arrest the slowdown and boost investments."Several policy measures are on the anvil......

Modi instructs ministries to curtail foreign, domestic tours

Top civil servants will get to travel much less than they are used to. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants secretaries across ministries and government departments to cut on domestic and foreign......

How Ajit Became Lion

'When Ajitsaab pronounced the word lion in his own, unique way, I retained it.''And so, 'lion' became 'loin' and my dialogue attained cult status after the film's release.' Hamid Ali Khan, more......

Does Anupam Kher look like Manmohan Singh?

Say hello to the cast of The Accidental Prime Minister. The key players in the The Accidental Prime Minister have been unveiled. Anupam Kher, who plays Dr Manmohan Singh, looks almost......

PIX: Bollywood stars celebrate Bhai Dooj

Bollywood actors celebrated Bhai Dooj -- called by many names like Bhau Beej and Bhai Tika as well -- on November 16 and posted lovely pictures. Photograph: Kind courtesy Preity Zinta/Instagram......

Why a Modi bhakt decided to play Manmohan Singh

'People have a certain perception about my political leanings -- and rightly so.''But I am an actor first, and then an activist.''And I am not an accidental actor.''There was no way I was going to......

IPL boosts fantasy sports apps' appeal

Betting as a function of pure luck is banned in the country, but games of skill with monetary stakes are not.Mayank Jain reports. Apps like Dream11 have rode the IPL wave year after year as people......

Will Yuvraj go unsold at 2019 IPL auction?

Yuvraj Singh managed just 65 runs in eight games for Kings XI Punjab and no wonder that the team decided to release him. IMAGE: Yuvraj Singh has put himself in the Rs 1 crore base price bracket......