New Delhi (06.01.2021): Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot has set a new and extraordinary example: in the last six months since July 2020, he has transferred about 150 IAS officers, around 100 IPS officers, and countless officers (some estimates put it at more than 300) from the India...

New Delhi (05.01.2021): What are the options of Susashan Babu to bridge the huge gaps in administration? Who would be his CS to continue and retain his grip and control over Bihar in the changed political equation in the state? Even as these questions hang in the balance, spec...

New Delhi (19.02.2021): Two young women IPS officers have proven themselves as the best interlocutors between the people of Nagaland and the GoI. Their compassionate, materially helpful, and practical approach to solving a plethora of problems of the Naga people in their areas...

The lack of esprit de corps has been not only undermining the efficiency and unity of All-India Services but is also tarnishing their image - perhaps beyond redemption. The latest case of a vicious internecine conflict shows how far an IAS officer can go to harm the interest o...

New Delhi (26.12.2020): Several RERA compliant projects have turned into big headaches, or even unending nightmares, for needy home-buyers. What goes in the name of RERA compliance is just the routine filing, and uploading on the state RERA portals, of details including the sa...

New Delhi (14.12.2020): Everyone loves to fish in troubled waters. And why not? The catch is always easy and abundant. So the NDA government may be missing the point in blaming the opposition for the continuing agitation of farmers of Punjab, Haryana, western UP, and possibly...

The pink city turned pink in the last few days as the All-India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation, known more by its acronym BAMCEF, went overboard in its excitement to congratulate CM Ashok Gehlot and his administration for having appointed Niranjan Arya...

Team India emerged as proud winners of the International Rotary- Rotaract debate held on October 18, 2020. The virtual competition had participants from 13 countries including Germany, Italy, and the United States of America, and followed after an elaborate elimination process...

The Department of Science & Technology (DST) Govt of India has honored the youngest woman entrepreneur Abhishree Arora (IIT Delhi) with a Bronze Award under an IIT Delhi initiative to help women from college going students to middle-aged housewives to embrace entrepreneurs...

NBCC India Limited, a state-owned construction giant, is a house divided on the issue of extending the services of its Executive Director (Engineering) R K Aggarwal beyond his scheduled retirement on 30 November 2020. While a section of the top management team favors the idea...

Yeduguri Sadinti Jaganmohan Reddy's march to state power was tumultuous. His crowning as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, though, is turning out to be more tumultuous for the state. Despite winning 151 out of 175 seats in the state assembly election of 2019, he is set out on...

The second-largest employment generator in India after agriculture, the real estate sector has a vital role to play in the growth of the Indian economy as it contributes around 6 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) each year. The sector embarked upon the jour...

A crucial gap in communication has been nagging and disturbing senior government officials. While it was decided in February/March to turn rotting cereals and grains in the state-owned stocks and godowns into biofuel for mixing with fossil fuels to reduce the country's depende...

The 360-degree method of empanelment of officers, which opened the window for retired officers to influence the careers of some of the best serving officers, is once again in focus, thanks to the bold decision taken by the ACC to not necessarily act on the advice of the 360-de...

The list of headless departments/organizations has been expanding of late. One may call it a usual sloppiness in filling the vacancies or a deliberate decision but it can not be given a discount on the pretext of COVId impact. By any means, this sort of drift is never conduciv...

‘Nobody can eye your land now’ told PM Modi to the beneficiaries of SVAMITVA scheme. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched the physical distribution of property cards under the ‘SVAMITVA’ (Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areassche...

The Railway Board on Monday (12.10.20) effected a major reshuffling of the senior officers as Divisional Railway Manager: Joginder Singh Lakra (IRSE) posted as DRM, North East Frontier Railway, vice Ram Bahadur Rai (IRSE). A.G Srinivas (IRSE) posted as DRM, Southern Railway, v...

Former CBI Director Ashwani Kumar's (1973 Batch IPS) suicide at his Himachal residence has shocked a lot of people around the country. Echoing their sentiments, Prof. Varun Arya, a distinguished educationist and Professor at Aravali Gurukul Ashram at Kaparda near Jodhpur in Ra...

There are only a few ministers in the current regime who enjoy the indulgence of the PM. Considered a shadow of PM Modi and a sort of link between North-West (J&K) and North East, Dr Jitendra Singh is known to have worked consistently to earn the affection of the PM. His c...

The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) is headless for over a month now. It has seen five chairmen in the last five years (between June 2015 and April 2020) and the chair has successively become fragile and unstable. Keeping in view the designated three years term (or t...

Old administrative misdeeds often fail to die down and keep giving nightmares to several others within the system. Something similar appears in Uttar Pradesh Police as well. Recently Dr Nutan Thakur, a social activist and wife of former IPS officer Amitabh Thakur, demanded the...

The Sushant Singh Rajput murder/suicide case has unleashed events that can't but be termed as unusual and odd. Even though the famous Jessical Lal murder case, as well as the Nirbhaya murder case, witnessed a lot of media hype or circus as one may like to call it, the police a...

"Devatva Chahiye, Kintu Iss Aag Ko Dhardu Kahan Main": Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' in Urvashi According to an old adage, it is better not to do anything. Wise man that he was, late PM P V Narasimha Rao once said that not taking a decision is also part of the decision-making proces...

New Delhi (28th August, 2020): The Nation’s largest steel producing Company, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) on Friday announced the results of its All India Open - SAIL Story Writing Competition–2020, “My Steel Story”. In its constant endeavour to create awareness abo...

Controversies continue to dog Delhi Gymkhana Club. In the latest episode, the Club's previous President, Prashant Narain Sukul, a retired officer of the Defence Accounts Service, has been charged with illegality for having stored seven bottles of expensive liquor in his locker...

Former Congress Minister of Finance P Chidambaram, as part of one of his 'noble' schemes, had aspired to ensure 'minimum human intervention' in tax assessment and execution. In a way, he wanted a faceless tax administration system. He couldn't execute it though he efficiently...

Modi 2.0 continues with disrupting the power structure and its patronage system built over the last 50 years. This has made the power and pelf seeking rentier class go helter-skelter and turned them into bitter critics of the NDA dispensation. While Modi 1.0 was limited in its...

The Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday decided to set up a National Recruitment Agency (NRA) that will conduct a common preliminary examination for recruitments to various Group B & C (non -technical) posts in the central government. The NRA...

The President of India is reported to have accepted the resignation tendered by the Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa (Retd IAS:1980: HY) with effect from Aug 31 following which the appointment of the new Election Commissioner is expected in a couple of days. Lavasa is set to...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on 13 August 2020 at 11 a.m., launched the platform for ‘Transparent Taxation- Honoring The Honest’ via video conferencing. He underlined that the new reform will instill a sense of fearlessness among honest taxpayers who play an important role in...