Data shows that until October 2024, of the AIS officers working at Centre as secy, additional secy & joint secy, only 7 were from Maharashtra & 12 from UP—2 of the largest cadres of AIS.
At least one of them plans to challenge order in Central Administrative Tribunal. Latest move comes months after 5 Telangana IAS officers were repatriated, decade after bifurcation.
The IAS Officers’ Wives Association in UP is no longer headed by just the wife of an IAS officer. In July 2024, Rashmi Singh became the first IAS officer to be its president.
In the latest case, BDPO Vivek Kumar and 4 more officials were suspended Thursday on the orders of Haryana's Minister of Development and Panchayats Krishan Lal Panwar.
In previous TDP rule, Vijayanand was instrumental in development of electronics manufacturing clusters. He brought in electronics, data centre policies, luring in some big firms to AP.
In its first prosecution complaint after Hans's arrest in October, ED says the firm that won the contract to supply smart meters in Bihar in 2022-2023 routed Rs 60 crore bribes to him.
Yerra Srilakshmi, state's 2nd-most senior IAS officer, is among those benched. They're being treated like 'pariahs' by colleagues which is 'more painful', one officer says.
Singh was appointed UP chief secretary in June but he has been a key member of Adityanath’s core team since the chief minister was re-elected for a second term in 2022.
Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a recognised minority—is now critical.
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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