Power Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha was appointed as the next cabinet secretary of the country on Friday. He will succeed Ajit Seth who has been holding the position for the last four years.
In the first secretary-level appointments by the Narendra Modi government, Rakesh Garg was on Sunday named the new telecom secretary while Jugal Kishore Mohapatra is to be secretary in the fertilizers ministry.
The top court, which was hearing a public interest litigation and several intervention pleas of activists and lawyers, was told that no fair trial was possible in Uttar Pradesh as the investigation has been allegedly botched up.
Chatterji, an IAS officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre, will take over from Dhanendra Kumar for a term of three years, an official spokesperson said. Kumar, a 1968 batch IAS officer from the Haryana cadre, was to retire on October 31. However, he has been granted an extension till January 31, next year.
Never before has the BJP faced such a crisis over the nomination of the Chief Minister as it is facing now, discovers Prakash Bhandari, veteran observer of Rajasthan politics.
In a close encounter, Team Akhilesh Yadav managed to hold its nerve and clinch a 2 run victory over the Chief Secretary's Eleven in a cricket match organised as part of the IAS officers' Services Week celebrations, at the La Martiniere ground in Lucknow on Sunday.
Less than half the ministers in Team Yogi are not long-term BJP members. Many old-timers have been dropped.
In the three months leading up to the Assembly elections, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's government distributed over 1.4 million tonnes (MT) of wheat, 0.95 MT of rice, 0.10 MT of chana (gram), 101.9 million litres of soybean oil and 100,000 tonnes of salt as free ration. This was part of the Covid relief package, officials said.
Over the past six months Rajasthan has introduced some of India's most radical free-market labour, land and welfare reform.
Mayawati ordered a large scale reshuffling of IAS and IPS officers.
Even as the government today gave Saurabh Chandra, secretary, department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP), the additional charge of secretary, Department of Commerce, Dinesh Kumar Mittal has emerged as the front runner for the post.
Taking potshots at the Bharatiya Janata Party, some opposition leaders also wondered if Goel resigned to contest the Lok Sabha polls on its ticket like former Calcutta high court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay.
A 1978 batch IAS officer, Ranjan, who assumed office this evening, said he would try to ensure clean administration.
Having invited much criticism for his mild mannerisms and soft ways, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is apparently out to cast himself in a new mould. And the first demonstration of his assertive action came late Saturday evening with the sacking of Khadi and Village Industries Miinister Raja Ram Pandey for use of intemperate language, deriding womanhood.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhikesh Yadav has been silent over his cabinet colleague Raja Ram Pandey's grossly obscene remarks about two women IAS officers.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday ordered action against more than half a dozen officials, including IAS and IPS officers, during surprise inspection of two districts.
The CBI had registered a case against him on March 22, 2005, and carried out searches at three places in Delhi, seven places in Lucknow, two places in Bahraich (UP) and four places in Nainital (Uttarakhand).
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.
President Pranab Mukherjee made the appointment filling a vacancy caused by the elevation of V S Sampath as Chief Election Commissioner after S Y Quraishi demitted office.
The appointment of retired IAS officer Ranjit Singh Pankaj as Uttar Pradesh's chief information commissioner has come under intense scrutiny. Governor B L Joshi, who had appointed Pankaj on June 30, 2009, has questioned the appointment on grounds of concealment of material facts by the appointee.
Controversial IAS officer and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Neera Yadav , who was on Tuesday, convicted by a special Central Bureau of Investigation court and arrested in Ghaziabad on account of her involvement in the NOIDA land scam had always received the patronage of successive chief ministers of India's most populous state.
Ajit Kumar Seth, an IAS officer of the 1974 batch from the Uttar Pradesh cadre has been appointed the new Union cabinet secretary. The announcement was made hurriedly to avoid an embarrassment to the government after speculation that the incumbent KM Chandrasekhar, who retires next month, would get a fourth extension
"If you look at newspapers, you will see that Modi Ji was the first to greet Yogij Ji (on birthday). In fact, we are of the view that Yogi ji is the most competent implement to fulfil the dreams of Modijee," he said.
Prasar Bharati CEO B S Lalli will face a Supreme Court inquiry into charges of administrative and financial irregularities against him following a Presidential reference.
Prasar Bharati CEO B S Lalli will face a Supreme Court inquiry into charges of administrative and financial irregularities against him following a Presidential reference.
A large number of farmers on Tuesday squatted at the gates of the district headquarters in Karnal, locked in a showdown with Haryana's Bharatiya Janata Party-led government over a police lathi-charge last month.
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a Public Interest Litigation seeking quashing of all proceedings against suspended Indian Administrative Service officer Durga Sakthi Nagpal, who had cracked down on illegal sand mining in Uttar Pradesh.
The Congress has alleged a Bharatiya Janata Party hand in the land deal controversy in Haryana involving Robert Vadra, alleging that IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who "exposed" the land deal with DLF, is playing into the opposition's hands.
No prizes for guessing what the BJP's election campaign is going to be, and who will provide important inputs for it.
'Sharma was sent to Lucknow for a purpose, but he has merely been adjusted in the party hierarchy because the chief minister refused to induct him into his government. He was secretary in the Central government and was holding a much higher office than the state ruling party's vice-president' Virendra Singh Rawat reports.
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.
'I'm talking about that predator in your house, and how one should protect one's children from him.'
Besides Yadav, the CBI is likely to question Gayatri Prajapati, who was arrested in 2017 following a complaint of rape by a woman residing in Chitrakoot.
Mayawati expressed serious resentment at the poor condition of the walls and floors of the park, the dirt there and the broken tiles.
Known as 'vikas purush' (man involved in developmental work), Sinha is a three-time Lok Sabha MP who held charge of the communication ministry as a minister of State in 2016 when the telecom industry was engaged in the sale of spectrum.
'The copying mafia is very powerful. We need to use technology to fight them.'
Karnal Sub-Divisional Magistrate Ayush Sinha, a 2018-batch IAS officer, was caught on camera telling police to 'break farmers' heads' during the farmers' protest.
Chaturvedi, a 1966 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, will have a term of two years, an official statement said.
1980-batch IPS officer Sulkan Singh, who was DG-Training, will replace Ahmed, a 1984-batch IPS officer, who has been shifted as the DG of Uttar Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary, a senior home department official said.
Principal Secretary, Urban Development and Employment, R Ramani has been given additional charge of Chief Secretary, an official release said.
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