SC asks Lokpal search panel to recommend names by Feb end

The Supreme Court on Thursday requested the search committee on Lokpal to recommend by the end of February a panel of names for appointing the country's first anti-graft ombudsman. A bench headed......

Prasar Bharti chief, ex-SBI head in Lokpal search committee

The Modi government on Thursday constituted an eight-member search committee, to be headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, to recommend the chairperson and members of......

It's tea with Modi again, this time for bureaucrats

The setting is expected to be less structured than the prime minister’s introductory mega meeting with top bureaucrats soon after taking charge  Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to......

Finance Secretary Mayaram transferred even before taking charge

Arvind Mayaram, who was shunted from Finance Ministry to Tourism only a fortnight ago, has now been transferred as secretary in minority affairs ministry even before he took charge of his new post.......

List of Indian athletes qualified for Paris Olympics 2024

  India will send 117 athletes to the Paris Olympics, starting July 26 in the French capital. This will be India's second-biggest contingent at an Olympic Games after 121 athletes went to......

'Kalmadi, Bhanot may be questioned on dope fiasco'

Justice Mukul Mudgal, who was appointed by the sports ministry to probe into the athletics doping fiasco, today said that jailed Commonwealth Games organising committee officials Suresh Kalmadi and......

Dope scandal prompts calls for suspension of AFI

The positive dope tests of eight top athletes in the last few days prompted calls for the immediate suspension of the Athletics Federation of India. There is a growing clamour for action within......