Shimla, April 18 (IANS) Days after the salary cuts of the lawmakers, comprising Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, now 30 per cent pay cut has been made temporarily for senior government officials, including the Chief Secretary Sanjay Gupta and the Director General of Police (DGP) Ashok Tiwari, on Sunday. The Congress government has taken a major decision to address financial crisis in the hill state.The state government has issued an order temporarily suspending a portion o…
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Jaipur, April 9 (IANS) Former IAS officer Subodh Agarwal, who had been absconding in connection with the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) scam in Rajasthan, has been arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), officials said on Thursday. The ACB team brought Agarwal from Delhi to Jaipur, where he was questioned at the ACB headquarters by Deputy Inspector General of Police Om Prakash Meena. An arrest warrant had earlier been issued against Agarwal in the JJM scam.In the same case, nine officials of the…
Mumbai, March 10 (IANS) Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Tuesday issued a stern warning to bureaucracy, stating that the House is fully empowered to take appropriate action if secretary-level officers are found absent from the gallery during crucial legislative discussions. The warning came during the budget discussion in the Assembly. It was observed that only four ministers were present in the House, and the officers’ gallery remained largely vacant.Highlighting thi…
Chennai, Feb 5 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government has formally moved to dismantle the controversial “orderly system” in the police department, informing the Madras High Court that it has issued a Government Order (GO) constituting district-level monitoring committees to eradicate the long-criticised practice. The submission was made on Thursday before the division bench of Justices S.M. Subramaniam and C. Kumarappan. Advocate General P.S. Raman placed a copy of the January 21 GO on record and told…
Mumbai, Jan 21 (IANS) In a significant move to improve living conditions of the city’s police force, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday appointed senior IAS officer Iqbal Singh Chahal as Chairman of the Mumbai Police Housing Township Project.The appointment, announced through an official notification dated January 21, 2026, will take effect on February 1, 2026, immediately after Chahal’s retirement from active service on January 31.Chahal was one of the frontrunners for the post of stat…
Indore, Jan 10 (IANS) With four new cases of diarrhoea traced in the last 24 hours in Indore’s Bhagirathpura area, the number of patients admitted in hospitals rose to 41 on Saturday, including 12 in intensive care units (ICUs), according to Chief Health and Medical Officer (CHMO) Dr Madhav Prasad Hasani.There were 11 patients admitted to ICU wards on Friday. However, the health condition of one more patient admitted to a general ward in a hospital deteriorated on Saturday and the patient has …
Jaipur, Jan 1 (IANS) With the beginning of the New Year, the Rajasthan Personnel Department, on Thursday, issued orders for large-scale promotions in the state’s bureaucracy. A total of 61 Indian Administrative Service (IAS), 40 Indian Police Service (IPS), and 23 Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers have been promoted, with all promotions effective from January 1, 2026. Four senior IAS officers Ajitabh Sharma, Alok Gupta, Dinesh Kumar, and Rajesh Kumar Yadav have been promoted to the post of Ad…