Home Secretary Pillai to visit Srinagar

Union Home Secretary G K Pillai will visit Srinagar on Wednesday to review the law and order situation in violence-hit Kashmir. He is scheduled to meet Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and some top......

G K Pillai takes over as Union Home Secretary

Former commerce secretary Gopal Krishna Pillai on Tuesday took over as the new Union Home Secretary after the superannuation of Madhukar Gupta. The 59-year-old Pillai, a 1972-batch Indian......

Exclusive! Home Secretary G K Pillai on his tenure

Union Home Secretary Gopal Krishna Pillai is retiring on June 30 after 39 years in service. Bureaucrats in India are made of hard stuff but Pillai injected some soft power to the job by making the......

Ex-home secretary R K Singh set to join BJP tomorrow

Former Union Home Secretary RK Singh is expected to join the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday afternoon. A Times Now television channel report late on Thursday evening revealed that a formal......

Why Deloitte resigned as Adani Ports' auditor

Before resigning as an auditor of an Adani Group firm, Deloitte had sought an independent external examination of allegations made by a US short-seller but the company said the allegations had no......

PM pulls up Ramesh for criticism of home ministry

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh was in the eye of a storm on Monday with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pulling him up for his comments against the Union home ministry, and the opposition......

B Muthuraman's 48-year stint with Tata Steel ends

Widely acknowledged as the person behind transforming Tata Steel into the world's eleventh-largest steel-maker, B Muthuraman on Friday had his last day in office after a 48-year stint and attaining......

Tata-Radia case: SC to hear plea from April 19

The Supreme Court on Friday said it will hold final hearing on a day-to-day basis from April 19 on Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata's plea to bar online portals and electronic media from airing his......

No plan to ban Lamhaa, says Govt

Home Secretary G K Pillai speaks to Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa. With Kashmir on the boil, one would think a film with the troubled valley as its theme could run into trouble with the government.......

BCCI vs Lodha panel: SC adjourns hearing till December 14

IMAGE: BCCI president Anurag Thakur. Photograph: BCCI The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned the hearing regarding the Justice (Retd.) R.M Lodha-led committee's recommendations and the Board of......

Lodha recommendations: BCCI to wait for Supreme Court verdict

The BCCI has maintained its opposition to some of the reforms recommended by the Lodha committee and will wait for the Supreme Court's verdict on the matter come December 5. At a Special General......

BCCI to hold SGM on December 2 to discuss Status Report

The under-fire Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) will hold its Special General Meeting on December 2 in New Delhi to discuss the Status Report filed by the Supreme Court appointed Justice RM Lodha......

Nearly 100 tenders pending as BCCI top brass under fire

With the Lodha Committee seeking direction from the Supreme Court on appointment of former Union Home Secretary GK Pillai as observer to "guide" BCCI, the top brass of the board are unaware as to......

Lodha panel's recommendations really good for Indian cricket, says Kumble

- 'Many of the aspects of Justice Lodha recommendations are really good, especially the proposal to form Steering Committee of Players' Association.' Former captain Anil Kumble said that many of......