babus of india

WILL  the year 2010 see Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's government raising the retirement age of government employees to 62, benefit...

YET another high profile global post is on offer for Indian bureaucrats to apply. The DoPT (department of personnel and training) has come ...

AS many as 250 senior officers of the Central government will be participating in special workshops on Results Framework Documents beginnin...

VIDEO conferencing could turn out be an effective tool to arrange frequent interactions between officers of the Indian Central government d...

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

IT SEEMS India’s Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has made it very clear that continuity of key officers in the Prime Minister’s Office (PM...

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...

A WEEK before the announcement of Parliamentary results in May this year, cabinet secretary K M Chandrasekhar, a 1970 batch IAS of Kerala c...

IF Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh announces raising of Indian civil servants’ retirement age to 62 years in his Independence Day...

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

NIRUPAMA Rao, a 1973 batch IFS and currently Ambassador to China, will be India’s next foreign secretary on the retirement of the present i...

U RBAN development secretary M Ramachandran, a 1972 batch IAS, may emerge as a surprise candidate for the post of defence secretary after c...

FORMER tourism joint secretary and 1980 batch Kerala cadre IAS Amitabh Kant is now the front-runner for heading Delhi Mumbai industrial cor...

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...