Coal secretary Anil Swarup: Meet this officer who tweets till mid-night on coal auction updates

Swarup (right) near the auction display board

SIX minutes past 10 at night on Wednesday. Coal secretary and 1981 batch UP cadre IAS Anil Swarup was still continuing his running commentary in a social media platform about the ongoing coal auction that has made the government richer by Rs 60,000 crore in less than a week of bidding. "Coal block auction status at 2206 : Gare Palma at 3084. Bidding still on", the secretary tweeted. It’s quite unusual that the top bureaucrat of a department…

Cabinet secretariat auctions two old white ambassadors. Interested?

DO YOU have any fascination for white ambassador cars? Cabinet secretariat is auctioning two such cars which are currently being displayed at its campus inside the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The description of the nine year old cars, as written in the bid documents, says both are…