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.
Weak governance, corruption and poverty continue to define tribal life in India. The introduction of industrial and mining projects has benefited contractors, politicians and officials more than Adivasis.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
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