IAS officer who served as coal secretary says Sharma’s ‘persuasive skills were such that even principal secretary to PM started pushing me (Swarup) to decide in favour of the industrialist’.
AK Sharma's appointment comes months ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.There had been speculation that Sharma would be made a minister in UP.
Arvind Kumar Sharma, a Gujarat cadre IAS officer, had joined Modi CMO in 2001, before moving with him to the PMO in 2014, where he served in key positions.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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