CVC K V Chowdary and Vigilance Commissioner T M Bhasin completed their tenure at the anti-graft body on Sunday and Monday respectively.
Rediff.com has compiled a list of some renowned personalities in the fray for Bharat Ratna. You decide whether they deserve the honour or not.
Senior IPS officer Anil Kumar Sinha was on Tuesday night appointed the new CBI Director to succeed Ranjit Sinha who retired in a glare of controversy with the Supreme Court directing him to recuse from 2G spectrum scam case probe.
Commonly known as 'Face with Tears of Joy', the pictograph is chosen as the word for 2015.
India Post will have to re-align its bloated staff well before getting transformed into a full fledged bank.
Ben Stokes, who played a few memorable knocks this year, especially at the ICC World Cup final and then powering England to victory at Headingley in the Ashes, beat Lewis Hamilton, Raheem Sterling among others to win the coveted crown.
Tata Power, the country's largest power utility, has emerged as the only Indian company among the six firms shortlisted to bid for Singapore's largest power utility, Senoko Power, which is likely to be sold at over $3 billion.
A big prize is up for grabs and competition in fierce in the world of athletics as Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man, joined world high jump champion Bohdan Bondarenko and double Olympic and world 10,000 and 5,000 metres champion Mo Farah in the shortlist for the male Athlete of the Year award announced on Monday.
The new web form would facilitate on-screen filing and real time data validation for seamless incorporation.
With its back against the wall, the Congress party has channelised its resources to a strategically picked 32 constituencies in the national capital, though it is contesting on all 70 seats. The party, which was almost decimated in the 2013 Assembly election, thinks the worst is over. The Congress hopes to bag at least 12 seats, where it believes it is in a strong position.
The navy finds itself fighting for relevance, with navy planners lamenting that its share of the budget has dropped dramatically.
"Four directors have been shortlisted for projects which will go on the floor begining 2008-end. A few other projects are at the consideration stage and will be announced shortly," Wing commander P Ramesh, CEO of A B Corp told PTI. The four directors shortlisted are Chandraprakash Dwivedi, Rohan Sippy, Sujoy Ghosh and Balki. Ramesh said that Reliance Big Entertainment and A B Corp are equal partners in the film production in terms of creative input and finance.
Sources said Unsworth had submitted a one-page letter indicating his interest in Jet but without any accompanying documents.
France's Thierry Henry and Brazil's Ronaldinho were not included on the list of nominees for the 2008 Ballon d'Or award on Sunday.
Trinamool Congress's Lok Sabha MP Dinesh Trivedi would get the award for 2016 and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad would get it for 2015, the Lok Sabha secretariat said in a statement.
Milkha Singh, 92, best known as the 'Flying Sikh' and most remembered for finishing fourth in the 400m final in the 1960 Rome Olympic Games, was bestowed with the lifetime achievement award.
Former Pakistan skipper Javed Miandad has slammed the newly-appointed Inzamam-ul-Haq led national selection committee by describing it as a 'one-man show'. Inzamam was appointed as the Pakistan chief selector in a major overhaul of the team after Haroon Rasheed-led committee was sacked by the country's cricket board following the team's dismal World T20 performance in India. 46-year-old Inzamam had shortlisted former cricketers Tauseef Ahmed, Wasim Haider and Wajahatullah Wasti as a part of the new selection panel. According to Miandad, Inzamam has roped in all the yes men in his committee, the Dawn reports.
Three Indian universities feature in the top 200.
Kenya's marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge and Colombian jumper Caterine Ibarguen were honoured as IAAF athletes of the year at athletics' annual awards ceremony on Tuesday.
Two associations representing pilots and engineers have written to SBI chairman Rajnish Kumar proposing that they would take over the airline and can bring in up to Rs 7,000 crore.
The FIFA Ballon D'Or award has become a painful reminder of the sorry state Italian football, Juventus and Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon said.
"He will complete this tour as I have now accepted his apology," Rai added.
'Smart' Gandhinagar is now wired to the future, becomes India's first smart city; launches citywide WiFi services, smart streetlights, speed and face recognition surveillance.
The Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Bangalore, invites applications for its Post-graduate Diploma in Business Management programme.
Bangalore-based Smriti Subs was first scouted when she was 13.
Dav Whatmore, Geoff Lawson and Richard Done have been shortlisted for the coaching job.
Virender Sehwag on Tuesday evaded questions on the controversial selection of the Indian team's head coach after being pipped by Ravi Shastri for the high-profile job.
Both lenders and Etihad are not comfortable with the entities holding stake in Jet as they have no proven credentials in running a big business
The sale of the BPO business, run by Citigroup Global Services (formerly e-Serve), is expected to fetch around Rs 3,200 crore for the group. At this price, it will be the largest deal in the domestic BPO space.
Meet Aparna Nagesh and her dancers from High Kicks, one of just nine groups chosen from 54 countries around the world to perform at the Commonwealth Youth Dance Festival in Scotland.
Ramesh Batlish, expert FIIT JEE tells you how to ace the most difficult engineering entrance exam.
The campus placements process usually starts in July-August, but is likely to start earlier this year.
Darwin Group has offered Rs 14,000-crore deal to the lenders for acquiring the grounded airline
Christian Medical College, Vellore invites applications for admission to its various Medical Post-graduate Programmes.
Former captain and BCCI's Cricket Advisory Committee member Saurav Ganguly maintained that skipper Virat Kohli will be consulted over the selection but is not the main person to decide on the issue.
The Institute of Science and Management, Ranchi, invites applications for admission to its two-year Post-graduate Diploma in Business Management.
The National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli invites applications for its two-year, residential MBA programme.
The Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli, invites applications for its two-year, full-time, residential Master of Business Administration Programme.
The Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development invites applications for admission to its two-year, full-time Master of Business Administration programme.
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