Arunraj likely to be given a post roughly equivalent to that of gen secy, it is learnt. He is said to have grown close to Vijay after an I-T raid on the actor’s properties in 2020.
In a statement, CBI says it conducted raids across Delhi, Punjab & Mumbai. IRS officer arrested held had ‘personal enmity’ with the complainant, his ex-business partner, complaint says.
Weeks after his letter to Murmu demanding Nirmala Sitharaman’s dismissal, the IRS officer from Tamil Nadu was suspended 2 days before his retirement & is facing disciplinary proceedings.
B.V. Umadevi, a 1987-batch Chhattisgarh-cadre IFoS officer, has been posted as an additional secretary in MHA. Govt officers also point to a crunch of IAS officers at the Centre.
Under new scheme, tax appeals can be randomly allotted to any officer, whose identity will remain anonymous. IRS officers say this will hit the service hard.
In episode 454 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta analyses the ideas presented by 50 IRS officers to revive the economy after Covid-19 that are reminiscent of 1970s India and Lenin's Soviet Union.
IRS trainees at National Academy of Direct Taxes in Nagpur say their leave requests weren’t heard earlier when transport was available. Official says order not mandatory.
Appointments Committee of the Union Cabinet has empanelled four non-IAS officers as secretaries and at least one of them was elevated to secretary level.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
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