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IAS-turned-politician KJ Alphons while taking oath ON SUNDAY , four former bureaucrats — two IAS, one IFS and one IPS — were made mini...

“Add a traditional touch to your attire. Opt for hand-crafted shawls, bundis, kurtas, dhotis and churidars”  These fashion tips are no...

Taking Charge: New CEC Brahma LAST week, 1975-batch former IAS from Andhra Pradesh cadre Harishankar Bramha took charge as India’s 19t...

IF YOU thought this man in the photo is a star or a model, you are grossly mistaken. No prize for guessing, but tourism secretary Parvez...

FORMER Railway Board chairman and 1975 batch retired Indian Railway Traffic Service officer Vinay Mittal is the new Member of Union Publ...

IT’S now almost sure that 1975 batch Bihar cadre IAS Raj Kumar Singh will replace GK Pillai to become India’s next home secretary on June 3...

Pompa Babbar has taken over as the Financial Commissioner and ex-officio secretary of Indian Railways. Prior to this, she was General Manag...

Vijay Latha Reddy , a 1975 batch Indian Foreign Service officer has been appointed as Deputy National Security Adviser. Ms Reddy, who is cur...

IN A surprise move, 1975 batch IAS Ratnakar Gaikwad has been appointed as Maharashtra chief secretary replacing JP Dange who was to retire...

GUESS who is this doctor? See the photograph closely and carefully. Is he someone from corridors of power, or a hardcore physician from AII...

SURESH Yadav studied up to Class 8, but he is not only fluent in English, but well versed with complex bureaucratic system in India . After...

THE government has zeroed in Planning Commission principal adviser and 1975 batch Bihar cadre IAS Navin Kumar as the new urban development...

SOME bureaucrats in Gujarat have wondered whether state chief secretary Achal Kumar Joti, a 1975 batch IAS, is going overboard to please c...

STYLE does matter, particularly when the IPL fever catches everyone including the Indian bureaucrats. If you were hooked into the televisio...

HOW should a bureaucrat react if there’s a newspaper advertisement greeting him on his impending retirement? M Veerabhadraiah, a promoted A...

FOR Indian police, it was one of the most bizarre investigations ever when Uttar Pradesh chief minister Ms Mayawati asked her state cops to...

FORMER Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer and key advisor to Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Sandeep Tandon is no mo...

FOR someone who appeared for the civil service examination some 40 years ago, missing a newspaper advertisement for employment is nothing ...

Sunil Mitra , a 1975 batch West Bengal cadre IAS and currently secretary in the department of disinvestment in the ministry of finance, has...

IT’S now official. The much talked about Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) headed by corporate honcho and former Infosys co...