IAS officer on “10 years of study leave” deemed to have resigned; others still missing in action

THE government on Wednesday issued a notification to be published in Gazette of India that 1976 batch Odisha cadre IAS Jayanth Kumar Dev is deemed to have resigned from IAS with effect from May 10, 2007, after repeated attempts by the Centre to locate him, the most recent being its direction to the government of Odisha on September 9, 2014 to make available of the status of the show-cause notice issued to Dev. According to records available with the department of personal and training (DoPT), Dev, originally hailing from Tamil Nadu is 63 years old and was on...

Serving or Retired: DoPT says it has no clue on status of 2 missing officers; requests colleagues to give tips on their whereabouts

IN A bizarre situation, the department of personnel and training (DoPT) of the government of India has found out that the department not only does not know the whereabouts of two officers, Nokhey Lal Hans and Prem Prakash, but is also unsure whether they are still serving or retired. In other words, the two officers are missing, and their records too must have been lost. So, the DoPT in the last resort issued an office memorandum (OM) on April 16 requesting other officers to...

IAS officer Prashant who is “missing” in Washington DC deemed to have resigned

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Is Rahul Anand's a story of a generalist IAS wishing to be a hardcore economist?

IN HIMACHAL Pradesh power circle gossips, this 1996 batch IAS officer, Rahul Anand, is missing in action. Some are airing their sympathy as this bright officer would soon lose his job. The state government has already recommended to DoPT to terminate former Chamba and Hamirpur's deputy commissioner from services. But here is the reality. Anand is very much available at 700, 19th Street, N.W., Washington DC, the address which...

2 IAS officers deemed to have resigned; where are other missing bureaucrats?

IN THE last three months, the government has issued notification on two officers, 1991 batch LV Nilesh and now 1999 batch MP cadre Anil Yadav, as deemed to have resigned from IAS, as they were on unauthorized leave for a long period. In case of Nilesh, it took the government 12 years to act under 7(2) of the All India Services (Leave) Rules, 1955, as the officer had joined Microsoft in US way back...

New CDs reportedly show proximity of 3 IAS officers with missing nurse Bhanwari

Bhanwari Devi

THE sensational story of a missing nurse in Rajasthan may now haunt at least three IAS officers among others after the Central Bureau of Investigation looking into the case had reportedly stumbled upon more audio and video CDs. The nurse from Jodhpur, Bhanwari Devi, went missing two months ago, and she is feared dead. It is alleged that she was abducted at the behest of Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna who was sacked from Ashok Gehlot ministry on October 16. A number of photographs of the duo, the ex-minister and Bhanwari, are already in public domain. Maderna has vehemently denied the allegations.

In fact, Bhanwari is not an ordinary nurse. She was close to a number of politicians and bureaucrats of Rajasthan’s power corridors. According to reports, she used to film most of the people who came close to her, and those CDs could now drag many more politicians and bureaucrats into the case of abduction and possible murder.

According to reports, the three IAS officers whose names have now surfaced in the case came into contact with Bhanwari Devi when they were posted in Ajmer and Jodhpur.

IFS-IAS wedding today, groom blames media hype

The high profile marriage of 2009 batch IFS officer Neelam Sharma with Gujarat cadre IAS Kuldeep Arya is being held in Delhi today (November 8) amid Khap Panchayat’s objections to it on the ground of being an inter-caste marriage. The groom Arya told a section of newspapers that media had hyped it up and created a controversy around it. Meanwhile, head of Brahmin Sabha, Mahender Sharma, clarified in a national newspaper that community elders had objection to the marriage, but they would not oppose to the marriage.

BoI wishes the power couple a world of happiness and joy on this wedding day.

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