8th Pay Commission to hold consultations in Jaipur, Chennai and Chandigarh soon
The 8th Central Pay Commission (CPC) is in the process of wrapping up its nationwide consultation phase. With this view in mind, it is...
Haryana’s administrative crisis looms large as 17 top bureaucrats to retire this year
The New Year brings bad augury for Haryana as this state is verging on an acute administrative crisis as 17 top bureaucrats are going...
Bihar CS Pratyaya Amrit introduces era of official austerity
Matching an austerity push reflecting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s repeated calls for leaner governance and expenditure control, Bihar Chief Secretary Pratyaya Amrit (IAS:1991:BH) has...
Actors Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and Tiger Shroff may be slapped ₹10 lakh...
Endorsing Vimal Elaichi may prove costly for Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn, and Tiger Shroff, as they now face the prospect of...
Supreme Court dubs RERA a ‘rehab center’ for retired IAS, calls for its abolition
The Supreme Court has reacted sharply to the functioning of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA), saying it is doing nothing except protecting defaulting...
Projects of Rs 85 lakh crore cleared by the PM-led panel: Cabinet Secretary
The country’s biggest bureaucrat, Cabinet Secretary TV Somanathan (IAS:1987:TN), shared his views on what is coming in the way of implementing the infrastructure projects...
Haryana govt in a bind over 1990-batch seniority issue as it gears to choose...
Haryana bureaucracy is faced with a bizarre predicament as its Chief Secretary (CS) Anurag Rastogi (IAS:1990:HY)'s extension is ending on June 30, which has...
Maharashtra govt cracks whip on practice of ‘loaning’ and ‘oral’ appointments in ministerial offices
The Maharashtra government has cracked the whip on officers and employees appointed in ministerial offices and various govt departments on deputation, on a loan...
Meet India’s 1st batch IPS Harivallabh Mohanlal Joshi
Call him a living legend or a former Madhya Pradesh DGP, but a frail centenarian Harivallabh Mohanlal (HM) Joshi is not an ordinary retired...
Decoding Nandini Chakravorty’s rise to Bengal’s Chief Secretary post
When the 1994-batch IAS officer, Nandini Chakravorty, was named as Bengal’s Chief Secretary by the Mamata Banerjee government, it raised many an eyebrow, as...
























