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South Block’s strange shuffles

No good tidings from South Block, which houses the External Affairs Ministry. Even Secretary-level officers are unhappy with the way senior diplomats are...

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A jewel in the sarkar!

This is an affair the Chairman, Prasar Bharati, should respond to. When Prasar Bharati advertised in Employment News on November 15, 2014, two...

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Spat over seating

Whose orders run during the Prime Minister’s tours, especially when he travels abroad? The Chief Protocol Office (CPO) generally manages the show and...

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Disorder by orderlies

New Moti Bagh is a much sought-after address for senior civil servants in Delhi. It’s a beautifully constructed and well-maintained colony in Lutyens...

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New chief of Delhi police

Who will be the new Police Commissioner of Delhi as the present incumbent, Bhim Sain Bassi, a 1977-batch officer, is retiring in February...

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Nature-loving officer

Ajit Balaji Joshi, a 2003-batch IAS officer of the Haryana cadre and Deputy Commissioner, Jind, is a dynamic officer. A native of Veet...

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Secretaries rule the roost

The tradition so far has been that Cabinet Ministers have been instrumental in recommending and transferring officers within their ministry. But in the...

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Lohani is PM’s choice

Who would be the Chairman & Managing Director of Air India after Rohit Nandan? Everybody thought that someone from the IAS fraternity would...

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Not his highway

With the appointment of the competent Raghav Chandra, a 1982-batch IAS officer of the MP cadre, as Chairman of the National Highways Authority...

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For probationers, Delhi is first stop

The Narendra Modi government is implementing an innovative idea for the young civil services probationers of the 2013 batch. As many as 147...