CEC Rajiv Kumar, a strong critic of exit polls, demits office

Rajiv Kumar, who oversaw the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and the crucial Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls, demits office on Tuesday as the 25th chief election commissioner after a nearly three-year......

Ex-bureaucrat Rajiv Kumar to replace Lavasa as EC

Retired bureaucrat Rajiv Kumar was appointed the election commissioner on Friday in place of Ashok Lavasa, who has resigned. President Ram Nath Kovind cleared Kumar's appointment with effect from......

President's secretary Sanjay Kothari is new CVC

Sanjay Kothari, the secretary to the president, was on Saturday appointed the Central Vigilance Commissioner, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique. IMAGE: President Ram Nath Kovind wearing......

Rajiv Kumar assumes charge as chief election commissioner

Former finance secretary Rajiv Kumar took charge as the 25th chief election commissioner (CEC) on Sunday and the first major task before him will be to hold the President and the Vice President......

Govt headhunter fails to find a suitable candidate to head ONGC

Government headhunter PESB on Friday did not find anyone suitable from nine candidates, including two serving IAS officers, to head India's largest oil and gas producer, ONGC. Photograph: Amit......

10 in fray for ONGC's top job

Senior bureaucrats Avinash Joshi and Niraj Verma are among the 10 candidates who are in the race to become chairman and managing director of India's largest oil and gas producer, ONGC. Mangalore......

Meet Alka Mittal, first woman to head ONGC

Alka Mittal has been appointed interim chairman and managing director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) - the first woman to head the country's largest oil and gas producer. Mittal......

New wage system for AI, no productivity-linked incentive

The civil aviation ministry has decided to overhaul the pay structure of Air India employees by scrapping the contentious productivity-linked incentive (PLI) remuneration structure, which......