Govt empanels 33 officers as GoI joint secretary; Full List

THE government on Monday empanelled as many as 33 officers as union joint secretary or joint secretary-equivalent. The officers belongings to Indian Trade Service, Indian Police Service, Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME) and Indian Forest Service, are in batches between 1985 and 1997. Here is the full list of 33 JS-empanelled officers:

Prez to Probationers: “Stay away from any temptations”; 10 Commandments

PRESIDENT OF INDIA Ram Nath Kovind on Monday met probationers belonging to three services — Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Ordnance Factories Service and Indian Trade Service. During his interactions, first with the IPS and then with the two other services together, the President advised the probationers to live a life of optimism and make positive changes happen both in their work domains as well as in society at large. He also asked the probationers to stay away from any temptations. Here are the 10 things that the President told the probationers:

What President Mukherjee tells IIS, ITS officer trainees

OFFICER trainees of various services such as IAS, IPS and other Group “A” services are always taken to Rashtrapati Bhavan for a meeting with the President of India. A couple of days ago, probationers of Indian Information Service, Indian Trade Service and Indian Posts and Telecommunication Accounts and Finance Service called on the President. The President always makes it a point to give his prescription on governance, apart from having customary photo shoots. Here are 10 key points that President Pranab Mukherjee told to these young civil servants on Tuesday:

Untold story of Jawaharlal Nehru’s Udyog Bhawan room; Guess, who uses it now?

MS, an earlier occupant of the room, with three of today's officers 

HERE is something most people familiar with Delhi’s corridors of power are actually unaware of. The room of Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) in Udyog Bhawan was once used by India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru when he came to the building to preside over meetings of the Planning Commission. Nehru probably found the room (No: 008, H-wing) convenient because…

One IAS & 2 IPS figure among 30 officers selected for 2-year-long public policy course at IIM-Bangalore

One IAS, two IPS and 10 ITS officers are among 30 civil servants who have figured in the list of candidates selected for the Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy and Management from IIM-Bangalore for the year 2009-2011. The only IAS officer who is joining the course at IIM-B is a 2001-batch West Bengal cadre officer Asvini Kumar Yadav. Two officers of Indian Police Service (IPS) are M A Saleem and Natarajan G. Selected ITS officers include Dinesh Sharma, Mukesh Lal, Jitendra Khare, L S Ropia and T V Venkatram among others.