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Ajay Narayan Jha appointed as new Finance Secretary of India

Ajay Narayan Jha, a 1982-batch IAS officer of Manipur Tripura cadre, has been appointed the new Finance Secretary of India. He succeeded Hasmukh Adhia. The Finance Secretary is...

December 5, 2018

Arvind Saxena appointed as Chairman of Union Public Service Commission

President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed Arvind Saxena as Chairman of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), which conducts examination to select bureaucrats, diplomats and police officers. He will...

November 29, 2018

Sunil Arora appointed as new Chief Election Commissioner

President Ram Nath Kovind appointed senior IAS officer Sunil Arora as the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC). He will be the 23rd CEC and shall succeed OP Rawat...

November 27, 2018

Ajay Bhushan Pandey appointed as new Secretary of Revenue

The Government of India (GoI) has appointed UIDAI CEO & GSTN Chairman Ajay Bhushan Pandey as new Secretary of Revenue in place of Hasmukh Adhia, who is set...

November 19, 2018

Ashok Kumar Gupta appointed as new chairperson of Competition Commission of India

Ashok Kumar Gupta, a 1981 Tamil Nadu cadre IAS officer, has been appointed as new chairperson of Competition Commission of India (CCI). His tenure as the CCI Chairman...

November 10, 2018

Snehlata Shrivastava appointed as new Secretary General of Lok Sabha

The tenure of the Lok Sabha Secretary General, Snehlata Shrivastava, has been extended by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan for one year. Snehlata, who is 1982-batch retired IAS officer of...

November 9, 2018

Lateral Entry into the Civil Services

Recently, the government has proposed lateral entry into the civil services. While there are several concerns, the idea is neither totally new nor an anathema that should be...

September 27, 2018

Anindo Majumdar appointed as new secretary of Central Vigilance Commission

Anindo Majumdar, a 1985-batch IAS officer Arunachal Pradesh, Goa and Mizoram Union Territories or AGMUT cadre, has been appointed as the new Secretary of Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)....

September 20, 2018

India’s first woman IAS officer after Independence Anna Rajam Malhotra passes away

Anna Rajam Malhotra (91) was the India’s first woman IAS officer after Independence, who passed away in Mumbai, Maharashtra on September 17, 2018. Born in July 1927 in...

September 19, 2018

Binoy Kumar appointed as Secretary of Ministry of Steel

Binoy Kumar, the 1983 batch IAS officer of the Telengana cadre, has assumed charged as the new Secretary of the Ministry of Steel on September 1, 2018. He...

September 2, 2018

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