Guj-based educationist Manoj Soni takes over as UPSC member

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that the state government is committed to protecting the welfare of citizens and with this view various programmes have been introduced for the benefit of people. Addressing a gathering after laying the foundation stone for ...

New Delhi : As the key figure in the balance of power between the government and the Reserve Bank of India, former RBI Governor Y.V. Reddy once contemplated resignation, and had to even offer an unconditional apology to the minister, his autobiography ...

Senior Indian analyst and a fellow of Observer's Research Foundation (ORF) Ashok Malik has been appointed as the Press Secretary to President by the Union Cabinet. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved his appointment on Friday for a period of ...

Given the international practice, it is inexplicable why the government is going ahead with anonymous electoral bonds, says Jaimini Bhagwati. A political bombshell in the past months was the 'ghar-wapsi' (home-coming) of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal-United to realign itself with the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is a welcome development since the issue on which the splitting of the ‘mahagathbandhan’ (grand alliance) of Kumar’s JD-U, Lalu Prasad ...

The Supreme Court's latest observation – for an 'introspection' into the collegium system of judicial appointments – has rekindled the debate on the efficacy of the age-old appointing process. Amid the rising instances of allegations of judicial ...

IMAGE: Outgoing Vice-President Hamid Ansari being presented a scroll by RS Dy Chairman P J Kurien as Vice President-designate M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan look on, during his farewell function at GMC Balayogi Auditorium at Parliament in New Delhi on Thursday. All Photographs: Shahbaz Khan/PTI Photo On his last day as Rajya Sabha Chairman, Hamid Ansari was on Thursday accorded a warm farewell by leaders from across the political spectrum, ...

Of late, Congress leaders in Haryana seem to be on overdrive. In a bid to consolidate and expand their spheres of influence, they're singing the same song – albeit in their own individual styles. In the process, the leaders are merely justifying the old ...

The Monsoon Session of Parliament began on 17 July and will extend up to 11 August. There will be a total of 19 sittings during the session. The agenda for legislation includes 18 pending bills for passing. Of these 18, nine have been cleared by Lok Sabha.

It sounds like something straight out of the classic BBC comedy series 'Yes, Minister'. The minister proposes to bring experts into senior positions in the bureaucracy, and the mandarins reject the proposal, because “they aren't one of us!” The ...