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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicTop bureaucrats

Topic: top bureaucrats

Hasmukh Adhia set to inherit K Kailashnathan’s legacy as Gujarat’s most powerful official

Chief Principal Secretary to CM K. Kailashnathan retired last Sunday, paving way for the former Union finance secy. Adhia has Modi's ear & was his principal secretary when he was CM.

Cabinet & home secretaries to CBDT & IB chiefs — Modi govt’s penchant for extensions to top officials

Since 2nd term, Modi govt has retained top civil servants beyond retirement for ‘continuity in policymaking’. But extensions are also being seen as service rule violations & demoralising.

‘Go-getter’, facilitated TCS & Infosys campuses in Indore — Raghvendra Singh, MP CM’s principal secy

Singh, a 1997-batch IAS officer, was seen as an important officer under ex-CM Chouhan, was instrumental in bringing TCS & Infosys to Indore and has good rapport with Yadav, say colleagues.

RSS grooming future BJP leaders is clear by Sangh’s embrace of Adityanath, workers slogging in UP

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Top Chhattisgarh bureaucrats under ED scanner, carried ‘illegal’ forex on Maldives holiday

ED issues show cause notice to Chhattisgarh addl chief secy M.K. Raut and OSD P.K. Janawade for acquiring foreign exchange worth $13,360 and $10,020...

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India must allow citizens to invest beyond its borders. It’s risk management, not luxury

The financialisation of Indian household savings is one of the most important economic shifts of the past decade. But financialisation without international diversification creates fragile balance sheets.

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.