Tracking Civil Services And Governance Since 2007

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DoPT
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DoPT’s caution: Declare assets

There is a saying that if you are an IAS officer, you can get away with anything, but no more, Prime Minister Narendra...

Haryana
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RSS perturbed in Haryana

Nobody knows what the RSS is doing in Haryana. The cadre is perturbed and disillusioned with the appointments of three new Information Commissioners....

PS PA
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PS and PAs in demand

Private Secretaries (PS) and Personal Assistants (PAs read stenographers) have become redundant in the age of computers and artificial intelligence. There has been...

bureacracy
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Bureaucrats as politicians

A bureaucrat interacts with politicians every day and gets a first-hand view of the power they enjoy. So it should come as no...

cec-sunil-arora
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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...

study-board
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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...