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TopicHome secretary

Topic: Home secretary

In long due review meet with Delhi Police, home secretary discusses extortion calls, traffic jams

Top home ministry officer lists policing priorities for Capital in 90-minute meet, the first such after Anurag Kumar took over as Delhi Police chief on 17 July

Protocol violated in CJP protest crackdown, pellet guns shouldn’t have been used—ex-home secy GK Pillai

In an interview with ThePrint, former home secretary GK Pillai explains graded response followed in such situations, faults manner in which tear gas shells were lobbed into crowd.

UPA’s man in DC to Covid ‘point person’ — IAS officer Govind Mohan’s ascent to home secretary

Officers in govt who have worked with incoming home secretary Govind Mohan say 1989 batch IAS officer ‘knows how to get things done’ and ‘prefers clean desk with no pending files’.

Modi govt reshuffles top secretaries, Ajay Kumar Bhalla to be next home secy

Power Secretary Bhalla will serve as OSD in the home ministry until Rajiv Gauba retires, Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg will replace Bhalla.

Top J&K IAS officer in home secretary race as Modi govt seeks Kashmir hand for post

B.V.R. Subrahmanyam, credited with leading a crackdown on Maoists during an earlier stint in Chhattisgarh, is likely to be the next home secretary.

On Camera

‘Good or evil comes from Yemen’—Riyadh’s oldest fear is back, allies are nowhere in sight

Riyadh now finds itself squeezed between a receding America and an advancing Ansar Allah, while the Mecca Pact has not proved a saviour.

Iran war-risk pushes tanker freight higher for India. Even alternative crude routes not immune

VLCC freight on the Arabian Gulf-India route has nearly doubled since August as disruption to key shipping routes push up crude transportation costs.

Not just ‘ballistic missiles’, Saudis also have Chinese drones, artillery systems

OSINT analysts and international experts reviewed purported footage of debris and identified the distinctive markings and components of the China-made Dongfeng 15.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.