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.
Pinarayi Vijayan once called Vellappally Natesan, the general secretary of SNDP Yogam, Kerala’s Pravin Togadia. Now he is giving his hate speech a free pass.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says bill will be 'well-timed, as Ukraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent'.
Islamabad-based think-tank PICSS's new report says Pakistan saw 'pronounced escalation' in violence last year, with 3,413 conflict-related deaths compared to 1,950 in previous year.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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