Year End Special: Corridor’s 5 women newsmakers of 2014

Ruchira Kamboj

WHEN the preparation for Narendra Modi’s swearing-in as the 15th Prime Minister of India began, the ministry of external affairs directed one of its diplomats, Ruchira Kamboj, to take the first flight from Paris. Kamboj who had just joined as India’s permanent representative to UNESCO, was to oversee the protocol arrangements of the foreign dignitaries to be present during the oath-taking ceremony. Here are the five women bureaucrats who turned newsmakers in 2014:

13 of 2013: Meet these bureaucrats who turned newsmakers of 2013

THERE is no death of newsmakers in India’s corridors of power. Here, a new issue, whether big or small, crops up everyday. BoI picks out 13 bureaucrats who hogged the limelight in 2013 for reasons as varied as taking on sand mafia, becoming ministers, scaling up the Mt. Everest, and wrapping a steel almirah with a four-metre-long cloth to fix corrupt politicians. Here are those 13 of 2013: