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Electoral challenges

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora, a 1980-batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, is a very soft spoken and humble civil servant. He...

hand-astrology
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Shukla: blessings in disguise

Practioners of astrology normally believe in not reading their horoscopes and thus claim to know nothing about their own future. Their Sun signs...

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Schooled by court order

UP civil servants are perturbed with the Supreme Court notice of contempt to UP Chief Secretary Anup Chandra Pandey for failing to implement...

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Sinha, Singh protected

Where are Ranjit Sinha and AP Singh, both former CBI Directors, and the controversial meat exporter Moinnuddin Qureshi. Has the law taken any...

ashwani-lohani
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Slip between the cup and the lip

Ashwani Lohani, the former Chairman of the Railway Board, had a successful tenure, that ending on December 31. According to sources, he was...

yogi-adityanath
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IAS vs IPS in UP

A confrontation has risen between IAS and IPS officers on the commissionerate system in UP Police. Following Governor Ram Naik’s strong pitch for...

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Big brother is watching

When Narendra Modi took over as the Prime Minister, bureaucrats were overjoyed. There was a visible loss in the popularity of the elected...

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Change of fortunes

When Madhya Pradesh Congress leaders Kamal Nath, Digvijaya Singh and Jyotiraditya Scindia were watching the Assembly poll results on television at the PCC...

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IAS forum takes up cause

Former Coal Secretary HC Gupta (1971 IAS), KS Kropha (1982 IAS) and KC Samariya (1993 batch IAS) have been sentenced to jail in...

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Son rise in North Block

What happens when a civil servant becomes a secretary of the government in North Block, the power hub of India? Obviously, he or...