Jammu, March 30 (IANS) The J&K government on Monday ordered transfers and postings of several IAS and JKAS officers, assigning new departments and additional charges.An order issued by the General Administration Department (GAD) said that the UT government ordered a series of transfers and postings of IAS and JKAS officers in the interest of administration, with immediate effect.As per Government Order No. 501-JK(GAD) of 2026 dated March 30, several key departments, including Food, Civil Sup…
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Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) Citing allegations of unlawful conduct, the Election Commission on Wednesday removed the District Magistrate of East Midnapore and other state government officials. On Wednesday, a new District Magistrate was also appointed to the district, which happens to be the home turf of the state’s Leader of the Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari.Additionally, on the very same day, the Commission effected a reshuffle involving five Additional District Magistrates (ADMs) across five ot…
New Delhi/Bengaluru, March 18 (IANS) Union Minister for Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs Pralhad Joshi on Tuesday criticised the Karnataka Congress government, saying it had repeatedly displayed administrative failures and that the latest incident, where the Assembly Speaker walked out of the House in anger, had once again exposed the government’s incompetence. It may be recalled that on Monday, Speaker U.T. Khader had expressed strong dissatisfaction, stating that the governm…
Mumbai, March 13 (IANS) The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Friday directed the Legislative Affairs Minister Chandrakant Patil to submit report on MArch 16 over the action taken against the Additional Chief Secretaries and Principal Secretaries who were not present during the discussion on budget grants on departments of urban development, social justice and special assistance, housing, tourism and cultural affairs and other backward classes welfare. The Speaker gave h…
Mumbai, March 11 (IANS) Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Wednesday announced in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly that a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Divisional Commissioner Pravin Gedam, will conduct a high-level probe into alleged large-scale irregularities in land acquisition for National Highways and other projects in Jalgaon district.The Minister clarified that the committee will include two IAS officers and one IPS officer to ensure that the crimin…
Kolkata, March 10 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Tuesday, directed the West Bengal administration to mandatorily complete the first phase of conducting the route marches and area domination exercises of the available Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) personnel in all districts of the state by March 14. Already, a total of 480 companies of the CAPF have arrived in West Bengal in two separate batches. “The ECI had on Tuesday directed the state government to ensure that the first…
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…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) The ECI appointed Ashok Kumar, a 2006 batch IAS officer, as the new Chief Electoral Officer of Delhi in place of R Alice Vaz, an official said on Monday. Principal Secretary, ECI, Rahul Sharma, informed Delhi Chief Secretary Rajeev Varma about Ashok Kumar’s appointment in an official letter on Monday.In January, the poll panel asked the Delhi government to furnish a panel of three IAS officers to select the CEO. Ashok Kumar was one of the three officers whose name…
Chandigarh, Feb 8 (IANS) BJP’s Punjab unit President Sunil Jakhar on Sunday described the India-US trade agreement as being in the interest of both the nation and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for safeguarding farmers’ interests in the deal. He said the agreement would boost Punjab’s industrial development and create new employment opportunities for the youth. Jakhar told the media here that the Union government, after careful deliberation, successfully concluded an agreement with the wor…
Hyderabad, Jan 22 (IANS) Former Rajya Sabha member V. Vijayasai Reddy on Thursday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate for questioning in the multi-crore liquor scam case. The former leader of YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials at the agency’s regional office in Hyderabad.The ED is conducting a money laundering investigation in the Rs 3,500 crore liquor “scam”, which allegedly occurred during the YSRCP rule.The ED has taken up the probe b…