Forest Research Institute Deemed University in Dehradun has never been headed by an academic. All its V-Cs are officers from the Indian Forest Services.
From a physics grad heading home ministry to an English scholar in agriculture, 49 of 57 secretary-level IAS officers in posts at odds with their educational qualification.
Experts weigh in on the PMO's proposal that services and cadres should be allocated after civil services entrants complete their three-month foundation course.
For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
Together with the IFS and IAS you should also have added Gen V.K. Singh, former Chief of Army Staff, who has had the ignominy of being demoted from the Ministry of External Affairs to Roads and Highways.
I see this as a disturbing trend for two reasons.Firstly, it is indicative of a dearth of talent in the BJP. Imagine having 352 MPs and not being able to find a Foreign Minister!! Secondly, which is even more dangerous, if the bureaucracy and defence services are taking a sharp right turn they can never fulfill their constitutional duty with equanimity.
Will JS would be real EA or Modi would hog or hug all limelight, and Shankarji would remain a minister for rescue of Indians in overseas.
Together with the IFS and IAS you should also have added Gen V.K. Singh, former Chief of Army Staff, who has had the ignominy of being demoted from the Ministry of External Affairs to Roads and Highways.
I see this as a disturbing trend for two reasons.Firstly, it is indicative of a dearth of talent in the BJP. Imagine having 352 MPs and not being able to find a Foreign Minister!! Secondly, which is even more dangerous, if the bureaucracy and defence services are taking a sharp right turn they can never fulfill their constitutional duty with equanimity.
Among the former bureaucrats, Jaishankar got a prize portfolio