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Dilip Cherian | After Khedkar’s IAS exit, more complaints of fake credentials

Dilip Cherian | After Khedkar’s IAS exit, more complaints of fake...

Suspended IAS officer Puja Khedkar’s discharge from service has spotlighted a larger issue within the civil...

13 Sept 2024 12:08 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Sudan’s challenge is to clean and reform UPSC

Dilip Cherian | Sudan’s challenge is to clean and reform UPSC

Preety Sudan has her work cut out for her as she steps into the role of UPSC chairperson. Taking over from Dr...

8 Aug 2024 12:12 AM IST

Protestors raise slogans against the amendments to the Right to Information Act, in New Delhi in 2019.(PTI File)

Dilip Cherian | CIC sans chief, only 10 of 28 panels worked during...

Fifteen years after the Right to Information (RTI) Act came into force, does the nation have more transparency or less?

22 Oct 2020 10:58 AM IST

Centre spars with Mamata in bid to turn Bengal babus into stool...

Apparently, there is little the Centre can do against civil service officers who are posted under the state government

23 Dec 2020 7:02 AM IST

While the high-flying Mr Khare did not superannuate as a Cabinet secretary as some had expected given his stellar track record, he still retains key to the mighty PMO. (Twitter)

Dilip Cherian | Amit Khare to get job done'? PMO now has new point...

Given the buzz surrounding his appointment, he may well outshine the Cabinet secretary during his new two-year tenure

29 Oct 2021 2:34 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC candidate from Bhabanipur constituency Mamata Banerjee addresses during her Assembly By-election campaign in Kolkata, Sept. 26, 2021. (PTI)

Taking cue from Centre, Didi nod to lateral entry in state's executive

Sources say that the state government is hoping to get domain specialists in senior positions, such as special secretary...

6 Oct 2021 1:18 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Mizoram's curious case of two chief secretaries

Clearly, there has been an obvious lack of coordination between the two authorities leading to the creation of this...

3 Nov 2021 1:43 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Coalition karma takes babu to chief secy spot

A coalition alliance government creates its own special dynamics, which affects the bureaucracy uniquely

10 March 2021 7:30 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Diplomatic pool to get eight new joint secys soon

It is a known fact that India's foreign service is woefully understaffed, with most Indian missions abroad having too...

5 March 2021 7:37 AM IST

The court noted the instance of PPS officer Rajinder Singh Sohal who was convicted in a criminal case but has been posted as the SSP of Gurdaspur, a post meant for the IPS cadre. (Representational Image/PTI)

Dilip Cherian | High court pulls up Punjab govt for tainted cops in...

The court has directed the state govt to explain how and why it has chosen to appoint PPS officers to IPS-cadre posts of...

1 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

CPM leader and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, whose photograph is on right, addresses an election campaign wearing a mask in Kochi, on March 27, 2021. The southern state goes to polls on April 6 to elect members to its state legislature. (AP/R S Iyer)

Dilip Cherian | Kerala first state to appoint point man for diaspora,...

The bureaucracy in India moves at a slow pace is a truth that needs no explanation

29 Sept 2021 2:57 AM IST

A woman poses with a cut-out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as if receiving her appointment letter from him, during the launch of the Rozgar Mela, in Hyderabad. (S. Surender Reddy/DC)

Dilip Cherian | While UP police top-heavy, Centre struggles to fill...

BJP-ruled states have failed to meet the central deputation quota

24 Nov 2022 12:30 AM IST