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Pension to double once a retired bureaucrat turns 100; full text of amended pension rules 27 Aug 2013 | 09:37 am
A RETIRED bureaucrat will receive almost double of his pension amount if he survives 100 years or more, an amended rules of All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958, said. In a n...
BoI Power List 2013: Diva of Diplomacy Nirupama Rao ranked India's 4th most powerful bureaucrat 26 Aug 2013 | 10:09 am
Nirupama Rao is former foreign secretary of India. Post-retirement, she has been assigned the job of India’s ambassador to US. Why then BoI chooses to call Rao, a 1973 batch retired Indian Foreign Ser...
Food For Thought: What’s Green Book in Government? Hint: Think during lunch 23 Aug 2013 | 12:51 am
EACH central government office invariably has a canteen on its own. But when the government wanted to change its managing committee, as it did recently through an office memorandum dated August 14, 20...
5 Points to Ponder: Appointing a Naga woman as UPSC Member, Chinese soldiers in Arunachal Pradesh, and more 22 Aug 2013 | 11:28 am
APPOINTING a Naga educationist (also a woman) as Member of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is a good symbolic gesture to the North-East region comprising seven sisters and the eighth brother (S...
Know Your Babu: Inland Waterways Authority of India’s new chairman Amitabh Verma 21 Aug 2013 | 09:19 am
BIHAR cadre IAS of 1982 batch, Amitabh Verma will be the new chairman of Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), a post that lied vacant after its chief Vishwapati Trivedi was elevated as Union sh...
BoI Power List 2013: Ex-IRS, Chhattisgarh secretary Aman Kumar Singh is India's 5th Most Powerful Bureaucrat 20 Aug 2013 | 11:47 am
SOUNDS odd, but you do spot highly powerful bureaucrats, that too non-IAS, a thousand miles away from the usual power corridors of Delhi’s North and South Blocks. This Indian Revenue Service officer o...
What does chief secretary Jawed Usmani mean when he compares UP with a big aircraft? 19 Aug 2013 | 09:55 am
WHEN BoI tweeted UP chief secretary and 1978 batch IAS Jawed Usmani’s statement on Saturday that “Uttar Pradesh is like a big aircraft which cannot be turned around quickly”, there were endorsements a...
Flashback August 15, 2004: Manmohan Singh’s definition of government & bureaucratic stranglehold 16 Aug 2013 | 08:13 am
PM delivering his maiden speech from ramparts of Red Fort PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday addressed the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort, for the 10th time in a row, on the occasion...
UPSC releases sample paper on “ethics”. Want to try it out? Full Paper here 14 Aug 2013 | 09:04 am
UPSC Headquarters FROM this year, IAS aspirants will have to take a compulsory paper on “Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude” in civil services (mains) examination. And on Tuesday, Union Public Service Co...
Know your UPSC Member and ex-Railway Board chairman Vinay Mittal 13 Aug 2013 | 09:39 am
FORMER Railway Board chairman and 1975 batch retired Indian Railway Traffic Service officer Vinay Mittal is the new Member of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). An August 12, 2013 order said the ...
