The Union Cabinet on Thursday night gave the go-ahead for the creation of a 10-district Telangana and outlined the blueprint for carving out the country's 29th state from the current Andhra Pradesh.
State-run Power Finance Corporation (PFC) on Thursday said it has appointed four merchant bankers - Goldman Sachs, JM Financial, DSP Merill Lynch and ICICI Securities - to manage the Rs 5,600 crore (Rs 56 billion) follow-on public offer.
'Nitish Kumar is fooling the people of Bihar.' 'He will not probe anything because if he does so, he will be trapped himself.'
Public sector bank chairmen and executive directors will have to wait for some more time to see their purse swelling, as government is in favour of maintaining uniformity in pay structures of all of its nominees.
The Naresh Chandra committee on civil aviation has recommended allowing upto 49 per cent foreign direct investment in the country's airlines.
The Congress MLAs who have been appointed advisers are Jitendra Singh, Rajkumar Sharma and Danish Abrar. Independent legislators Babu Lal Nagar, Sanyam Lodha and Ramkesh Meena have also been appointed advisers to Gehlot, according to a list released by the Chief Minister's Office.
Y Venugopal Reddy, currently executive director of International Monetary Fund will be the new Governor of Reserve Bank of India, succeeding Bimal Jalan.
The government also appointed B B Wanchoo, a 1976 West Bengal IPS officer, as the new Director of Special Protection Group handling the security of the prime minister.
According to sources U S Misra, IPS officer of 1968 batch from Orissa cadre, is among the frontrunners.
The announcement was a surprise as the new administration to be headed by the new Premier is scheduled to take over during the annual Parliament session slated to be held from March 5 next year.
Air Marshal N A K Browne, an ace MiG-21 and Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter pilot, will be the next chief of Indian Air Force.
The government on Monday approved the appointment of B P Mishra as the new executive director of International Monetary Fund.
Manish Sisodia is set to be Deputy CM, while four new faces are likely to join the AAP cabinet.
The name of Mitra, a 1975 batch IAS officer from West Bengal cadre, was cleared by the appointments committee of the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
His name was cleared by a three-member selection panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and comprising Chief Justice of India Jagdish Singh Khehar and Congress leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge as members.
The share sale would see government offloading 10 per cent of its stake in the steel maker, while the company will raise fresh equity in the same proportion.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed 14 rallies in Madhya Pradesh during campaigning for polls and reached out to young voters by reminding them of the failures of previous Congress governments on various fronts as he doubled down on development of all sections.
The leader of the largest opposition party in Lok Sabha will be included in a panel to select the chairperson and members of Lokpal under the amended law, governing the functioning of the anti-corruption body, approved by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday.
Doval, a Kerala cadre IPS officer of the 1968 batch, will serve in the post till January 31, 2005.
Former commerce secretary Gopal Krishna Pillai on Tuesday took over as the new Union Home Secretary after the superannuation of Madhukar Gupta.
A top Home Ministry official said no note has been prepared yet to be placed before tomorrow's scheduled meeting of the Cabinet to be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Arvind Mayaram, who was shunted from Finance Ministry to Tourism only a fortnight ago, has now been transferred as secretary in minority affairs ministry even before he took charge of his new post.
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Gill, a 1972 batch IPS officer at present posted in the rank of director general of police in Rajasthan, will remain in office till January 31 next year. His name was cleared by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Asthana is the 27th chief of the force and is expected to hold office till July next year, his scheduled date for retirement from service.
'I wonder how people who come to power through democratic means turn out this way.' 'But people of India are strong, and those who think they can hoodwink people, are mistaken.' 'You can fool some people for some time, but not all people, all the time.'
It was during his tenure that Air India made its first operating profit of Rs 105 crore in FY17 since the merger of Indian Airlines and Air India in 2007.
For Sikhs, they say, honour is the bottom line; and whatever the state of the SAD's political fortunes today, arrogance will not be helpful in the negotiation.
Cooperation Minister K N Rajanna on Saturday floated the idea of having three more Deputy Chief Ministers in Karnataka, and said he will discuss it with the Congress high command, keeping in mind the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Modi will hold the post till his superannuation on May 31, 2021.
With the cabinet expansion being deferred repeatedly, several aspirants, especially those from Congress, had openly expressed their displeasure over the delay, piling pressure on the party to fill its quota so as to avoid any trouble ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
The decision to extend the tenure of the two intelligence chiefs was taken due to the forthcoming general election by the prime minister-led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.
Rohatgi was in June, 2014 appointed as the country's chief law officer for a fixed three-year term.
Ashwani Lohani is presently working as Managing Director of Madhya Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation in Bhopal.
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Following is the gist of the controversy over sudden transfer of West Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, who retired on Monday, to Delhi and related rules.
Kumar said the Commission will follow the time-tested methods of consultations and consensus building in bringing about any reforms and will not shy away from tough decisions, according to an Election Commission (EC) statement.
The move to make the appointment process more robust comes after last month's arrest of S K Jain, chairman and managing director of Syndicate Bank last month, over graft charges.
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