babus of india

IS THERE a seniority post retirement? After the government decided to name former finance secretary and 1973 batch retired IAS Ashok Chawla...

A NUMBER of high-profile retired bureaucrats including former finance secretary Ashok Chawla and former corporate affairs secretary R Band...

HAD Indian minister Kapil Sibal chosen to accept the offer to join Indian Administrative Service (IAS) 37 years ago, he would have been bat...

  THE government may find the Commonwealth Games preparation an excuse to give yet another extension to incumbent cabinet secretary KM Chan...

YOU may have heard of B2B (business to business) or B2C (business to customers), but neither of these may have had any direct impact on you...

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

FINANCE secretary Ashok Chawla does not need to worry any longer how he would afford to fly first class with his immediate family members a...

HERE'S  the picture of India ’s B-team that has sealed the fate of Budget 2010-11, which is being presented in Parliament by finance min...

CALL it sheer talent or influence of numerological calculation, 1972 batch bureaucrats have continuously scripted success stories in occup...

SUDHA Pillai, Planning Commission secretary and 1972 batch Kerala cadre IAS, is back in the race for the next cabinet secretary’s post in ...

AS THE government mulls over creating a new service called Indian Educational Service (IES) on the lines of IAS, Indian Forest Service or I...

IF YOU are a regular in the power corridors of Delhi, here's a simple question. Is skin-headed food processing industries secretary Ash...

IMAGINE home secretary G K Pillai being debarred from holding press meets, or finance secretary Ashok Chawla being told that you can’t brie...

THE list of babuz, 09, is finally out. These 5 master bureaucrats have the power and ability to fix problems, manage crises, push agenda an...

HE IS one of the rare breed of senior officers in India who is a darling both to the Congress and the BJP leadership. Finance secretary Ash...

a) ASHOK Chawla , a 1973 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre and current finance secretary, will hold additional charge of the post of Secret...

SUNIL Mitra, a 1975 batch West Bengal cadre IAS, has been appointed as secretary, department of disinvestment under the ministry of finance...

CALL it the Team Budget from North Block, or simply backroom boys for India’s finance minister Pranab Mukherjee as he is presenting the Gen...

FINANCE secretary Ashok Chawla, a 1973 batch IAS from Gujarat cadre, has proved once more that he is one of the most powerful bureaucrats i...

WITH the government’s decision to give one year extension to current cabinet secretary K M Chandrasekhar from June 13, 2009, the hope of a ...