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HOME secretary G K Pillai and his Bangladeshi counterpart Abdus Sobhan Sikder may thrash out some of the disputes between the two countries...

A LAST minute decision of debarring public servants from receiving state awards by the Chhattisgarh government forced an IAS officer to fac...

HAD current secretary to Planning Commission Sudha Pillai made it to the top as cabinet secretary, India’s top two bureaucrats today would ...

THERE would be no dearth of manpower to make Delhi safe in the run-up to the Commonwealth Games, said minister of state for home Ajay Maken...

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

A SENIOR IPS officer Utthan Kumar Bansal is joining the ministry of home affairs (MHA) as special secretary, internal secretary, in the vac...

IN YET another tale of Pati, Patni and Post , a 1983 batch Uttaranchal cadre IAS Anjali Prasad may join the department of industrial policy...

INDIA'S two most important bureaucrats, cabinet secretary and home secretary, may now be able to discuss security related matters in Ma...

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 ...

WHEN I began writing this blog on Indian civil servants exactly a month ago, a sense of silence prevailed in power corridors of Delhi as th...

Don’t call them power corridors anymore. Top bureaucrats and other employees of Delhi’s Udyog Bhawan housing the ministries of commerce and ...

It’s Pillai vs. Pillai for the top administrative post in India. Labour secretary Sudha Pillai and her spouse and IAS batch-mate commerce s...