NHAI Member, WAPCOS Chairman get two-year extension

RK Pandey, Member, NHAI

THE government has reappointed RK Pandey, Member (projects) of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), for two more years with effect from November 11, 2018. Belonging to Central Engineering Service cadre, he had earlier served as chief engineer in the…

OBITUARY: 1998 batch IPS Praveen Kumar who fought many a battle against the Naxals lost one to cancer

AS Ranchi SSP, this 1998 batch Jharkhand cadre IPS, Praveen Kumar, bravely fought against the Naxal menace, gunning down many and forcing others to surrender. On Sunday, this IPS officer and DIG in National Investigating Agency (NIA) lost a crucial battle; his opponent this time was not the Maoists, but cancer. He was 46. After his death in New Delhi on Sunday, his mortal remains were flown to…

Railway officer Anurag Tripathy appointed CBSE secretary; Rajiv Gandhi is new DDA commissioner

Anurag Tripathy, 1998 batch Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS) officer, has been appointed as secretary, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), a non-CSS post. The CBSE comes under the department of school education and literacy.  “He (Anurag Tripathy) may be kindly relieved of the duties immediately with instructions to take up his new assignment in the Central Board of Secondary Education under Department of School Education and Literacy”, said a DoPT office memorandum issued on Thursday and addressed to the ministry of railways. Tripathy is 42 years old, and is currently serving as...

23 IAS officers of 1998 batch empanelled as GoI joint secretaries; Full List

23 IAS officer of 1998 batch have been empanelled for holding the post of joint secretary. The list includes two names of Uttar Pradesh cadre — Alok Kumar-iii and Anil Kumar-iii. It’s because there are two other Alok Kumars of UP cadre (1988 and 1993 batch) and two other Anil Kumars of UP cadre (one in 1989 batch, other not available). Here is the list of 23 IAS officers empanelled as JS:

B Ashok: 10 things about the Kerala IAS; his support for Modi and state govt’s disciplinary proceedings

THE Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed disciplinary proceedings initiated by Kerala government against 1998 batch IAS officer B Ashok who had in a 2013 article supported the proposed visit of the then Gujarat chief minister (and current Prime Minister) Narendra Modi to a Sivagiri Madhom function, something which the state government had disapproved of. An apex court bench said, merely writing a newspaper article could not be construed as a breach of All India Services (conduct) Rules, 1968. BoI here presents 10 things about IAS officer Ashok and the case he got embroiled into:

Safety in India’s Silicon Valley: When 2 motorcycle-borne men bully an IAS officer in the heart of Bengaluru

Munish Moudgil

THIS incident questions the safety of the citizens living in Bengaluru, dubbed as India’s Silicon Valley. The story is about Munish Moudgil, a 1998 batch Karnataka cadre IAS, who was allegedly bullied and assaulted by two motorcycle-borne men when the officer went out for jogging at night last week. Moudgil’s wife, D Roopa, is incidentally an IPS officer working as Bengaluru’s joint commissioner of police. It was past 11 pm on October 14, when Moudgil went out for…

IAS officer Prashant who is “missing” in Washington DC deemed to have resigned

Prashant, 50, does not write his family name. A West Bengal cadre IAS officer of 1998 batch, he was “missing” in action. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the cadre controlling authority of the IAS officers, had no clue, at least officially, where Prashant has been in the recent years after he completed a foreign posting in Washington DC in 2010. He went to US in August 2009 as a…

Know Your Babu: Andhra IAS who shares birthday with Sachin Tendulkar

Tendulkar after swearing-in as an MP (June 4, 2012)

AS legendary cricketer Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar turned 40 on Wednesday, there were celebrations all around. At Kolkata, the birthday boy cut the cake with his wife Anjali standing beside him, and hundreds of camera persons capturing the historic moment. Somewhere in Andhra Pradesh, a 1998 batch IAS officer who shares the birthday with Tendulkar,…