YEAR END SERIES: 10 Key Appointments of Bureaucrats in 2018

IT’S time to say goodbye to the year 2018. For Indian bureaucracy it was quite an uneven journey this year — from the IAS-AAP battle in Delhi to an unprecedented war within the CBI. But the year also saw a series of key appointments with wider implications. Here below are 10 such appointments: 

Know Your Diplomat: India's new ambassador to Germany Vijay Keshav Gokhale

Gokhale during a book launch

Vijay Keshav Gokhale, a 1981 batch officer of Indian Foreign Service, is India’s new ambassador to Germany. The post has been lying vacant since Indian ambassador to Germany Sujatha Singh took over as India’s foreign secretary on August 1. Gokhale, 54, has been…