Did IAS officer C Umashankar's suspension have anything to do with his proposal that Sumangali CableVision, owned by the politically powerful Maran family, be nationalised?
Former secretary in the Union ministry of energy, Hari Shankar Brahma, was appointed as the new Election Commissioner on Wednesday.
Pulok Chatterjee, secretary in the Prime Minister's Office, has been appointed as executive director in the World Bank
An officer of the Indian Administrative Service, who returned to Patna from London recently, has tested positive for swine flu. This is the first confirmed case of the viral disease in Bihar.His test reports received on Monday confirmed that the official had contracted swine flu, health officials said on Tuesday.The officer, who is staying at his official bungalow, has been kept under observation and is being given Tamiflu, they said.
The Telecommunications Bill, 2023, which was passed by a voice vote after a short debate, also allows the Centre to take possession of a telecom network in case of any public emergency or in the interest of public safety.
A senior IAS officer, Mohammed had served as chief electoral officer of Uttar Pradesh for nearly eight-and-a-half years.
They also slammed the "violent rhetoric" against India's Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu and said free speech does not mean a license to incite violence or vandalise property.
A top bureaucrat in the home ministry was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in New Delhi on Wednesday for taking a bribe of Rs 50 lakh from a businessman. O Ravi, 54, is a 1983-batch Indian Administrative Service official from the Gujarat cadre. He is currently serving as a joint secretary in the department of disaster management and policy, and has been on central deputation since February 2007. The CBI carried out a raid at Ravi's residence today morning.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh on a PIL challenging the alleged arbitrary and irrational transfers of Indian Administrative Service officers in the state.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday chargesheeted former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, his son and Member of Parliament, Ajay, two Indian Administrative Service officers and 56 others in connection with a scam relating to appointment of over 3,000 junior teachers in the state during 1999-2000.
A doctor by profession, Karthik Adapa gave up scholarships to Harvard and Cambridge to join the Indian Administrative Services.
Banks may become more cautious in extending loans, as more and more farmers may take loans, relying on the assurance that a debt relief commission will back them in the event of default.
Dynamic change is needed to transform the system, he said.
Dr Renu Raj cracked the UPSC exams at her very first attempt. 'You should be sensitive to what is happening in society and you will get through the exams,' she tells A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has sacked three employees, including the Kashmir University public relations officer, for allegedly working with Pakistan-based militant outfits, raising finances for them and propagating their ideology, officials said on Monday.
The parliamentary panel, headed by Bharatiya Janata Party's Sushil Kumar Modi, has also decided to examine remote voting and e-postal ballots for Indians residing abroad.
At least three BSF personnel sustained bullet injuries after gunmen fired at security forces in Manipur's Thoubal district, police said on Thursday.
The Centre has appointed Navin Chawla as chief election commissioner with effect from April 21, 2009.
The Centre's decision to strip police officers convicted of 'moral turpitude' of medals and awards fuelled a demand by an ex-woman Indian Administrative Service officer on Tuesday that the Padma Shri award be taken back from Punjab's former 'super cop' K P S Gill convicted for molesting her.
The BJP criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his 'silence' over special observer in Bihar during Lok Sabha elections L V Saptarishi's 'unsubstantiated allegations' against two election commissioners.
'This is not China. There is freedom of movement in Kashmir, even in Sikkim. I can go anywhere. But in the SEZs created in my own hinterland I can only enter if I have a pass issued by a civil servant who is appointed as the caretaker of that SEZ,' says Magsaysay Award winner Aruna Roy.
Former Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vijay Kapoor and two former chief secretaries -- Baleshwar Rai of Goa and Arun Kumar of Chhattisgarh -- on Saturday formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Goswami, who was on the run for nearly a month after an arrest warrant was issued against him, has now been suspended from service.
In a sensational case of murder and suicide, a senior Indian Administrative Service officer shot dead his wife, father and two sisters before turning the gun on himself at his residence late on Thursday night. He was reportedly depressed after the Central Bureau of Investigation filed a case against him. A 1983-batch IAS officer, Jagadananda Panda also shot his 22-year-old son Swapneswar, who was critically injured and is battling for his life in a local hospital.
Former commerce secretary Gopal Krishna Pillai on Tuesday took over as the new Union Home Secretary after the superannuation of Madhukar Gupta.
Duvvuri Subbarao on Monday joined as secretary, department of economic affairs, Ministry of Finance. He belongs to the 1972 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (Andhra Pradesh cadre).
Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao said his government would conduct a workshop next month to give a final shape to these proposals.
Merely because an educational institution is regulated by a statute does not take away from it the character of a minority institution, the Supreme Court observed on Tuesday as it commenced hearing the vexed question of minority status of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).
As part of the exercise, each family will get complete ownership of the businesses it manages while scrapping the holding company.
Quoting officials, The Washington Post said, the foiled assassination was part of an escalating campaign of aggression by RAW against the Indian diaspora in Asia, Europe and North America.
Indian Administrative Service official Neera Yadav, who was removed from the position of Uttar Pradesh chief secretary on serious charges of corruption by the country's apex court approximately two years ago, sought voluntary premature retirement on Saturday. While she reportedly did not assign any reason for seeking retirement, insiders say that Yadav took the step as she was apprehensive about bigger problems for her in the future. Yadav was due to retire in June 2008.
She has been called again on Wednesday for a fresh round of grilling.
In a rare instance, the home ministry has asked a right of information applicant to prove he is an Indian before disclosing details about the one-member panel looking into the missing files related to the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan.
In the results announced Friday, April 5, as many as 759 candidates including 577 men and 182 women have been selected.
Lalit Srivastav, chairman of the Noida, Greater Noida and Taj Express Way Authority, was given additional charge as CEO of Greater Noida and Taj Express Way Authority.
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