New Delhi/Lucknow, May 14 (IANS) The Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow Bench has directed the CBI, Enforcement Directorate (ED), Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) and other authorities to file responses within eight weeks on a petition alleging disproportionate assets against Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi. A Division Bench of Justices Rajesh Singh Chauhan and Zafeer Ahmad passed the order while hearing a criminal writ petition filed by Karnataka-based BJP worker S. Vi…
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New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) The Centre has approved the appointment of Justice (Retd.) Anupinder Singh Grewal, former judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, as President of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT).According to an official notification issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet cleared the Ministry of Corporate Affairs’ proposal for Justice Grewal’s appointment to the top post in the NCLT.“The Appointments Commit…
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea filed by candidates belonging to the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) seeking age relaxation and additional attempts in the Civil Services Examination on a par with the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC). A Division Bench of Justices Anil Kshetrapal and Amit Mahajan held that the policy decision of the Centre not to extend such relaxations to EWS candidates does not suffer from arbit…
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the government has appointed Vir Vikram Yadav as the new Director General of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), replacing Faiz Ahmed Kidwai.Yadav, who is currently serving as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, will now head India’s aviation regulator at a time when the sector is expanding rapidly.With rising air traffic, growing airline fleets and increased focus on safety,…
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh on Sunday said that the government is addressing employees’ service-related issues through structured dialogue and reforms, stressing that regular engagement with staff representatives is key to improving administrative efficiency and career growth.Chairing a meeting with delegations from employee bodies, including the Government Employees National Confederation and the Central Secretariat Group-C Employees’ Association, the Minister …
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) A total of 3,032 mentors have been onboarded across the country by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) under the National Mission on Mentoring (NMM) for developing skills of school teachers, the Centre told the Lok Sabha on Monday. Minister of State (MoS) for Education, Jayant Chaudhary, said in a written reply that mentors under the NMM are selected by NCTE through a structured process that examines professional excellence, mentoring aptitude, and alignment…
Kolkata, Dec 31 (IANS) West Bengal got its first-ever woman Chief Secretary, with the current additional chief secretary to the state home and hill affairs department, Nandini Chakraborty, being named as the new bureaucratic head of the state on Wednesday by the state government.Chakraborty succeeded Manoj Pant, who retired on Wednesday. Pant, who was supposed to retire in June this year, was already on an extension for six months.Although the state government appealed to the Union Government fo…
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) The Union government on Thursday launched five digital reforms to boost transparent and citizen-centric administration in the country.The reforms — Ex-Servicemen Reservation Compendium, AI Recruitment Tool, e-HRMS 2.0 App, iGOT AI Platforms, and Karmayogi Digital Learning Lab 2.0 — were unveiled by Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), at the National Workshop on Good Governance Practices 20…