Power secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla is all set to become the new home secretary with the government appointing him officer on special duty in the high-profile ministry on Wednesday. IMAGE: Prime......
By castigating the reforms themselves because of the remediable and reversible defaults here and there in carrying them out, Yashwant Sinha is throwing out the baby along with the bath water, says......
The government is also planning to replace the current ageing Air India One or Boeing 747 with Boeing 777s. Arup Roychoudhury and Archis Mohan report. The Indian Air Force might own and......
Breaking a long tradition, the PMO has ensured that specific divisions in each ministry are allocated to junior ministers, report Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Archis Mohan. Within about a fortnight of......
Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday carried out searches in Mumbai on a law firm and a chartered accountant in connection with its probe into alleged sale of confidential government documents......
The finance minister continues to be backed by the same policy team in charting out the broad strategy as in the few earlier Budgets. IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman distributes halwa......
The new government that presents the full Budget for 2024-2025 in July should be ready to restructure the way divestment is managed and implemented, proposes A K Bhattacharya. Illustration:......
'Inter-ministerial coordination, information on the proposed PSUs, and due diligence are taking longer than expected to conclude the process.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com In......
The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has named Ravneet Kaur, a Punjab cadre IAS officer of 1988 batch, as chairperson of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). Kaur will hold the post for five......
Ahead of the Budget, the government has achieved almost half the divestment target of Rs 65,000 crore.FY23 divestment receipts are unlikely to be anywhere close to the budgeted target.......