Sriram Taranikanti, a 1992 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre, has been promoted as an executive director in the Insurance Regulatory and...more
Arun Maira, member, planning commission, talks about the UPA's flagship scheme...more
Officers do not want to risk courting any CAG controversy...more
Shambhu Singh is among those bureaucrats in North Block whose every moment is a race against time. The 1986 batch IAS officer of Manipur cadre ha...more
Rajesh Bhushan, a 1987 batch Bihar cadre IAS officer will soon join ministry of rural development as a joint secretary. At present, Bhushan is wo...more
Rupak Kumar Dutta, a 1981 batch IPS officer of Karnataka cadre has joined the central bureau of investigation (CBI) as an additional director in ...more
Retired IAS officer Rajinder Pal Singh to head the headless NHAI to curb the sorry state of highway construction...more
Ministry of personnel is likely to empanel the 1982 batch IAS officers as additional secretaries...more
Even a superhuman cannot handle the kind of workload that our district magistrates, DMs, are expected to handle. The over-reliance on the DM to do and deliver everything in his district has made the DM not just the pivot of our bureaucracy's steel frame, but also its biggest problem. Everybody knows the DM has to be unburdened for governance to be more effective, but nobody is willing to disturb status quo. Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has. In Bihar now, the DM is a "supervisor" not superhuman....more
Sudhir Kumar, a 1978 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer will join ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution as a secretary in...more
