Chhattisgarh polls: Cong retains 25 MLAs in second list, fields 22 new faces

The ruling Congress' second list of 53 candidates for the next month's Chhattisgarh assembly elections, released on Wednesday, showed an attempt to strike a balance between old and new faces.......

Cabinet Secretary stays on for another year

Capping weeks of suspense over the top-most bureaucratic post, B K Chaturvedi has been given a year's extension as the Union Cabinet Secretary. An order to this effect has been issued by the......

Cabinet secretary race narrows to 3

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is looking for a Cabinet secretary to succeed B K Chaturvedi, whose tenure ends on June 10. Dr Singh interviewed prospective candidates for the nation's top civil......

Dhirendra Singh is new Home Secretary

In the first major bureaucratic reshuffle by the new United Progressive Alliance fovernment, Home Secretary Anil Baijal and Defence Secretary Ajay Prasad, appointed by the previous National......

World Bank appoints Pulock Chatterji exec director

Pulock Chatterji, secretary in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's office, has been appointed as the new executive director of World Bank for a term of three years beginning February 1, 2009.......

New rules exempt M&As before June 1

Companies fearing a more difficult merger and acquisitionregime heaved a sigh of relief with the Competition Commission of Indiaon Wednesday notifying rules that are less harsh than the draft......

Top bureaucrats eye high profile CCI jobs

As many as 230 persons, including ex-Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla, former Corporate Affairs Secretary R Bandyopadhyay and other senior bureaucrats and eminent economists have lined up for the two......

Govt to notify new M&A rules by May 5

The government will notify the new rules for corporate mergers and acquisitions on May 5, following which it will be mandatory for companies to seek the Competition Commission's approval for high......