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THE government is looking for suitable candidates to replace Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC), KV Chowdhry and Vigilance Comm...

THE Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) last week first cancelled 2002 batch Odisha cadre IAS Debjani Chakrabarti’s appoint...

A THOROUGH data mining of the past corruption cases of senior bureaucrats stored in agencies such as Central Bureau of Investigation (C...

THE Centre’s personnel department DoPT has sought comments as it proposes a policy of foreign training programme for Group “A” officers...

THE PM-headed panel that includes Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge selected the next Central Vigilance Commissioner (C...

BY January 19, retired secretary or additional secretary-level bureaucrats, former PSU chairmen and whole time directors etc. are expect...

WITH as many as nine Central PSUs being CVO-less and seven more vacancies on the card, the Centre has asked all the officers who are pre...

Shakespeare EXCERPTS of the immortal play of Hamlet authored by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare, have found a place in...

WITH anti-corruption protests on streets fading out, bureaucrats in various ministries seem to have taken it easy on routine complianc...

Photo Courtesy: BEML THE department of personnel and training (DoPT) has made it clear that officers applying as chief vigilance offic...

LIKE the post of Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) which was thrown open for private persons, the chairman of National Highways Authori...

Pradeep Kumar: Scaling High IN THIS season of scams and growing anti-corruption movements, it’s not unusual that power centre shifts ...

Kumar with a few mountaineers FOR quite sometime, 1972 batch officers have turned lucky, but defence secretary Pradeep Kumar is even lu...

THE tenure as deputy secretary, director, joint secretary etc. in Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), Central Vigilance Commission (CVC...

SOUNDS odd, but anti-corruption watchdog Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has virtually given license to junior officers of ministries or...

WITH the Supreme Court quashing the appointment of PJ Thomas as Central Vigilance Commissioner, the government now faces many an unanswered...

AS TWO former telecom officials, 1973 batch retired IAS Siddhartha Behura and 1984 batch Indian Economic Service officer RK Chandolia are b...

THE Central Vigilance Commission has formulated a draft anti-corruption strategy that will become a dynamic process with an in-built mechan...

A SEASONED Indian politician and Union law minister M Veerappa Moily’s sarcastic comment about failed bureaucrats becoming saints after re...

WITH Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s firm backing, telecom secretary PJ Thomas was sworn in as 14th Central Vigilance Commissioner by the P...