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TopicDistrict magistrate

Topic: District magistrate

J&K’s lone AAP MLA Mehraj Malik booked under PSA. ‘Jail can’t intimidate soldier of AAP,’ says Kejriwal

The AAP's J&K president was taken into preventive custody after videos circulating on social media purportedly showed him verbally abusing the Doda DM.

Noida gets its first woman DM. Jewar airport is her first priority

Medha Roopam’s appointment as Gautam Buddh Nagar DM comes in the backdrop of a major administrative reshuffle by the UP govt on Monday. A total of 23 IAS officers were transferred.

Shahjahanpur Sub-Divisional Magistrate forced to do ‘uthak-baithak’ by lawyers? Here’s the real story

Lucknow: It wasn't exactly a warm welcome for IAS officer Rinku Singh Rahi on his first day as Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) of Shahjahanpur district....

Kanpur DM–medical officer spat exposes faultlines within UP BJP. Dy CM Pathak is caught in the middle

One section of the party is backing the medical officer, while some officials from Chief Minister’s Office siding with the DM. 'It’s turning into a CM office-vs-dy CM conflict,' sources say.

DM position is outdated. It’s a personality cult, not leadership

The concentration of powers concerning both regulation and service provision in one position, that is the district magistrate, is institutionally irrational and administratively inefficient.

Deportations, conversions to waqf, the ever-increasing powers of district magistrates in India

Collectors or DMs, as they are interchangeably called, already had several existing powers, which have now been explicitly delineated, or in some cases, significantly enhanced.

In UP, appraisals of DMs & DCs now linked to how much investment they draw to their districts

Govt order says these officers will now have to mention about increase in investment and CD ratio in their districts in the column for self-appraisal in annual confidential report.

SC tells Madhya Pradesh to withdraw controversial order that sparked IAS vs IFS row, or face contempt

MP govt in June said district magistrates & divisional commissioners would have say in appraisals of IFS officers serving in districts, which the latter said undermined their authority.

UP has the 2nd most women DMs after Tamil Nadu. A surprise ‘pink power’ poster child

UP has 14 women district magistrates, with Bahraich as the jewel in the crown for its all-female administration. Many are driving woman-centric measures, from pink autos to feeding rooms.

MP govt order letting DMs evaluate forest officers puts conservation in jeopardy — IFS Association

In letter to administration, association says order also violates SC ruling that reporting authority can be from outside of dept only for principal chief conservator of forests.

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BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.