Senior IAS officer B K Prasad, who probed the Ishrat Jahan missing files case and was at the centre of a row after a report alleged he was 'tutoring' a witness, on Thursday got a new Secretary-level posting for a two- year period.
The confrontation, which happened on January 2, saw the shepherds reportedly throwing rocks at the Chinese personnel.
The two met during a training in Mussorie and it was love at first sight.
'Modi knows the people here are opposed to this project, but he is using the might of government to push this port down our throats.'
Cuttack-based medical graduate Sriram Venkitaraman, who came second in this year's Union Public Services Commission examination says he has "realistic expectations" of his IAS career.
An IAS officer, who had made a mark in administration for his uprightness, was found dead at his official flat with police suspecting it to be a case of suicide.
The National Payments Corporation of India on Thursday granted approval to Paytm-owner One97 Communications Ltd to participate in UPI as a Third-Party Application Provider (TPAP) under the multi-bank model. Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, State Bank of India, and YES Bank will act as Payment System Provider (PSP) banks to Paytm.
Samariya, the first Dalit to have been appointed to the post, was working as information commissioner in the transparency panel Central Information Commission (CIC). A 1985-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Telangana cadre, Samariya retired after serving as the labour and employment secretary in the Government of India. He was sworn in as the information commissioner on November 7, 2020.
Outlook landed itself in trouble after Smita Sabharwal, an IAS officer sent a legal notice to the magazine.
Uttar Pradesh is under the scanner again as that state IAS Association has taken on CM Akhilesh Yadav for the suspension of Durga Shakti Nagpal, who campaigned against the sand mafia
Indian Airlines has floated tenders to lease 12 wide-bodied aircraft to launch new foreign operations, while its subsidiary Alliance Air would lease two business jets for operations of oil major ONGC.
As per the orders, 3 of the 85 posts for IAS this year will now go to persons with disabilities such as low vision or blindness, hearing impairment and cerebral palsy.
Activist Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday questioned the transfer of a senior Haryana IAS officer, alleging that he was shunted out because he ordered a probe into the land deal allegedly involving Robert Vadra and realty major DLF. A 1991-batch officer, Ashok Khemka, director-general of land consolidation and land records-cum-inspector general of registration in Haryana, was transferred out of the post within three months of assuming charge.
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The woman alleged that she was lured to the chief secretary's home with the promise of a government job, and then raped there on April 14 and May 1.
The Uttar Pradesh government, on being asked by the Centre's Department of Personnel and Training to explain its suspension of the officer of the Indian Administrative Service, Durga Shakti Nagpal, has replied by saying that her actions were "untimely, lacking in vision and reflected poor administrative acumen".
The drive is being undertaken by the India Regeneration Initiative.
Citing complaints against Rajshekhar for 'running an extortion racket and demanding protection money', Delhi vigilance minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on May 13 ordered withdrawing all work assigned to the officer with immediate effect.
'Not even a single rupee from the electoral bonds should be allowed to be used in the election.' 'If it is used in the election, it will taint India's electoral process itself.'
The government on Wednesday said that disciplinary action was initiated against seven Indian Administrative Service officers in the last three years for their alleged involvement in corruption
Blaming the "misconceived" policy of the previous (National Democratic Alliance) government for shortage of IAS and IPS officers across the country, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said that steps are being taken to recruit more number of officers in both categories to "make up" for the problem.
Indian Airlines' plans to add more planes to its existing fleet may not be delayed, even though the civil aviation ministry has sought a review of their plans, as the fresh proposal would be taken straight to the Public Investment Board the moment it
Soren, 48, has been asked to depose at the federal agency's regional office in the Hinoo area in Ranchi and get his statement recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the sources said on Monday.
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has pinned its hopes on the old guard to ensure victory in next month's assembly elections in Chhattisgarh as it gave tickets to 11 sitting MLAs and renominated 13 leaders who lost in the 2018 polls.
The Samajwadi Party on Monday struck a defiant note on the issue of suspension of IAS officer Durga Sakhti Nagpal, saying officials are punished whenever they do something wrong and the Centre can withdraw IAS officers from the state.
The Indian Airlines board on Friday approved a proposal to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary to undertake airport handling and allied services.
The CBI has booked cases under Section 420 as well as many sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act against the IAS officer, who as the then principal secretary in the mining department and had played a crucial role in issuing a government order allotting the land in Anantapur district to Obulapuram Mining Company of the former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy.
Indian Airlines is ready to operate flights from Delhi to Kabul and from Mumbai to Karachi subject to necessary clearances from the Indian government.
'This is a politically motivated decision.' 'Nitish Kumar is desperate to win as many parliamentary seats as possible.'
A formal letter in this regard was sent by the state government on Tuesday requesting the Centre to relieve six senior IAS officers, including G B Patnaik, Anoop Mishra, J N Chamber and R Ramesh Kumar, official sources in Lucknow said.
The sudden exit of Yogesh Agarwal as the chairman of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority, or PFRDA, has once again brought the relationship between financial sector regulators and the finance ministry into sharp focus.
Kejriwal had on Sunday assured the bureaucrats that he will use all the powers and resources at his command to ensure their safety and security and called them part of his family.
While addressing a rally at Alipurduar, Banerjee accused the Election Commission of removing the deputy inspector general of police of Murshidabad at the behest of the BJP.
With Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal having been sent to judicial custody till April 15 by a city court in connection with the excise policy case, buzz over his replacement intensified even as his party leaders asserted that he will continue to head the government no matter how long he stays in jail.
Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday started a preliminary enquiry into the "unnatural" death of Karnataka cadre IAS officer D K Ravi whose body was found hanging at his residence in Bengaluru a month ago.
