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Nandan Nilekani-headed UIDAI has invited applications from retired bureaucrats including from defence services and PSUs to work as performa...

Sam Pitroda... IN power corridors of Delhi, Sam Pitroda and Nandan Nilekani have similar identities. Both are immensely successful priva...

URBAN development secretary and 1972 batch Uttarakhand cadre IAS, M Ramachandran, who missed the bus to become the country’s top bureaucrat...

IN A classic case of how future bureaucracy may look like, the administration in South Sumatra is now preparing a blueprint to implement a...

AS the year 2009 nears end, Babus of India (BoI) presents 9 events that may impact the corridor of power in 2010 and beyond. 1) Third...

FINALLY, there has been a clarity on how many officials, and non-officials will get a berth in newly formed Unique Identification Authority...

THE government has given a reminder to all chief secretaries of state to forward the names of the willing and eligible officers to fill up ...

NANDAN Nilekani, a corporate honcho now in government, is preferring to take bureaucrats, mainly IAS, on board for executing key managerial...

THE number of senior government officials at the rank of joint secretaries working full-time for Unique Identification Authority of India (...

IT CZAR Sam Pitroda’s appointment as the Advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on infrastructure, innovation and information after Infos...

A BLACK Ford Ikon parked not so far away from finance minister Pranab Mukherjee’s white ambassador outside a North Block gate made a new se...

IF all-powerful Indian bureaucrats feel that they will someday be able to wipe out the word babu, which still carries a negative connotatio...

IN A lighter vein, principal secretary to Prime Minister T K A Nair gave a strong message to Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDA...

WILL 1978 batch IAS officer from Jharkhand and former IITian Ram Sewak Sharma don a formal designation of the CEO of Nandan Nilekani-led Un...

NANDAN Nilekani’s UID project will now have a dedicated project director. Ram Sewak Sharma, a 1978 batch Jharkhand cadre IAS, has been brou...

FINANCE minister Pranab Mukherjee said he wanted tax officials to be like honey bees who don’t harm flowers, as he talked about a future ta...

A CORNER area of the third floor of the Planning Commission is ready for accommodating the support staff of newly-created Unique Identifica...

IN A rare instance of choosing a corporate honcho over a politician or a bureaucrat to spearhead a mega government initiative, Nandan Nilek...