Alphons, who had resigned from the IAS in 2006 and won the Kanjirappally assembly constituency in Kottayam district of Kerala as an independent candidate just 32 days after quitting service, told reporters that he had is joining BJP as he was "most impressed" with the party's development agenda.
Dr Sarvjeet Soodan from Jammu and Kashmir cracked the UPSC examinations recently. He tells Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar what it took to manage to make in the top 100 and much more.
A court on Tuesday sent suspended Indian Administrative Services officer Ravi Inder Singh, accused of leaking sensitive information, to judicial remand for 14 days, rejecting the plea of police which wanted to quiz him for three more days.
The objection comes against the backdrop of strong rumours and the Bharatiya Janata Party claim that Hemant Soren's wife Kalpana will be the first choice for the chief minister's post in case her husband was arrested.
Akhilesh Yadav said those who are looking for "profit" in the situation will leave.
There is no use of the BJP targeting the likes of Mamata Banerjee and M K Stalin, directly by the party's political bosses, both in Delhi and the respective state capitals, or even using the Raj Bhavans to fire those salvos from. Successive elections have proved that it's counter-productive, if anything. But the BJP is yet to understand it, acknowledge it, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached 8.86 acres of land in Ranchi allegedly owned by former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren as part of a money laundering investigation against him and his associates, the federal agency said on Thursday.
In yet another secretary-level change, government appointed Hasmukh Adhia, a 1981 Gujarat cadre IAS officer, as the new Financial Services Secretary replacing G S Sandhu.
If Prime Minister Narendra Modi fails to live up to the expectations that he has raised, it will be entirely his fault. He should have started by ending the IAS
A senior Haryana IAS officer has charged that the state government has "abruptly" transferred him, the 43rd in his career, as a "punishment" for acting as a whistle-blower in several dubious land transactions, a claim denied by authorities.
'Villages are much better prepared than towns as far as COVID-19 is concerned.'
When it comes to desi swag, very few can beat Aishwarya Sushmita.
Kuwait Airways and Indian Airlines have been ordered by a Delhi consumer court to pay Rs 10,000 each to passengers in separate cases for denying seats to them despite their having confirmed tickets.
The flight -- with 145 passengers and crew onboard -- made a normal landing, the sources added.
A total of 1,016 candidates -- 664 men and 352 women -- have qualified in the examination and have been recommended by the Union Public Service Commission for appointment to various services.
'The Centre and state need to take a unified approach and take concerted action before this matter assumes menacing proportions because unemployment, the drug trade and the levels of frustration among the youth make them vulnerable to any maverick who promises something better.'
In the note it was written that Pandey, a 2012-batch IAS officer, was fed up with his life.
Flights to Hyderabad (IC 928) will depart at 3.25 pm (instead of 4.15 pm), Jaipur (IC 611) at 3.20pm (4 pm), and to Delhi via Indore and Bhopal (CD 7133) at 3.15 pm (4 pm), Vadodara via Rajkot at 5 pm (4.45 pm)
According to the notice, "The conduct (wearing sunglasses) is in violation of the India Services (Conduct) Rules, Section (3), 1968."
The LBSNAA in Mussoorie is a premier research and training institute on public policy and public administration in India.
The Allahabad high court on Friday had a word of praise for suspended IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, who took on the powerful sand mafia in Gautam Budh Nagar, saying she "bravely" exercised her jurisdiction.
Khemka, as per the latest orders of the Haryana government, has been posted as Secretary, Archaeology and Museums Department and Director General, Archaeology and Museums.
According to data culled by PRS Legislative Research, Singh has asked 13 questions in the Lok Sabha in its proceedings up to the last budget session, while the average is 69.
Indian Police Services lost the race for having one of its officers as the head of National Technical Research Organisation, the country's top intelligence and surveillance agency, with the government appointing a retired Indian Administrative Services officer to the post.
Air-India and Indian Airlines will continue to take aircraft through the leasing route till its fleet acquisition comes through and have decided to take nine more planes by December.
In an affidavit filed in the apex court, the Union law ministry rejected the petitioner's claim that the two election commissioners were hastily appointed on March 14 to "pre-empt" the orders of the top court the next day, when the matters challenging the 2023 law were listed for hearing on interim relief.
It is suspected that detection of alleged irregularities in a fisheries project led to the incident.
A powerful IAS officer of the 1979 batch, Pandey was also divested of the additional appointments of principal secretary (secretariat administration) and the state's food and drug authority. He has been moved to the insignificant position of a member in the board of revenue.
Without making two-thirds of the country's population a development partner, India's prosperity is impossible, the Congress leader added.
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear on March 19 the pleas seeking a direction to the Centre to stay the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024 till the apex court has decided the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.
'Without a poverty line, how are we to know whether poverty is the same, or it has come down or it has gone up?'
'This is total fraud. You are showing me the slip of my vote but not counting it so this is fraud.'
Ask rediffGURU and tax expert Mihir Tanna your income tax-related questions.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's private secretary V K Pandian played audio of the CM at a public meeting in Barpali in which Patnaik can be heard telling the people that he has sent the IAS officer so that they can tell their grievances to him.
2023 has seen some beautiful performances in films that released on OTT as well as in theatres.
Tiwari's family had alleged that he was murdered at the behest of corrupt officers as he was about to expose a "scam" in the department of food, civil supplies and consumer affairs in Bengaluru where he was posted as commissioner.
Exigencies of electoral politics and individual ambitions often stoke family feuds and sibling rivalries.
An IA spokesman said that the airline is operating two "standby flights" to Kathmandu, one each from Delhi and Varanasi to fly back the passengers.
An eighth BJP candidate on Thursday filed his nomination for the Rajya Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, setting the stage for a contest with the Samajwadi Party on February 27.
