SRINAGAR/JAMMU: Amid grief and disbelief, two families — one from Kashmir’s Budgam district and the other from Jammu — find themselves bound by an unimaginable tragedy. What was meant to be a festive time of Karva Chauth for architectural designer Shashi Bhushan Abrol’s wife and children, and a hopeful return to routine life for Dr…
RANCHI: Enforcement Directorate on Monday carried out raids at 23 locations across Ranchi and Chaibasa districts of poll-bound Jharkhand, targeting the relatives of a minister in the Hemant Soren cabinet and an IAS officer, among several others.ED did not issue any official statement on the raids, but sources in the agency said the searches were…
An Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumnus has taken to social media to share his journey from a lucrative job offer at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to a career in the Indian Civil Services (ICS). Rohit Kumar Singh, a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1989 batch, Rajasthan cadre, took to social media…
NEW DELHI: The Union government announced a significant reshuffle of top-level bureaucrats on Friday. As part of this reshuffle, Punya Salila Srivastava, currently serving as special secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, has been appointed as the new Health Secretary. Initially, she will assume the role of Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Department…
NEW DELHI: Manorama Khedkar, the mother of former probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar, has been granted bail in a case concerning alleged criminal intimidation tied to a land dispute. Manorama was apprehended on July 18 from a lodge in Hirkaniwadi village near Mahad in Raigad district, where she had been hiding.Paud police in rural Pune…
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police Crime Branch on Friday filed a case against IAS Puja Khedkar under sections of Forgery, Cheating, IT Act and disability act.This comes after the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) initiated criminal action against IAS officer Puja Khedkar for fraudulently availing attempts beyond the permissible limit by faking her identity by way…
NEW DELHI: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Friday initiated criminal action against IAS officer Puja Khedkar for fraudulently availing attempts beyond the permissible limit by faking her identity by way of changing her name, her father’s and mother’s name, her photo/signature, email ID, mobile number and address. The UPSC has filed an FIR…
PUNE: Probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar had in Aug 2022 simultaneously applied for disability certificates for locomotor disability from District Civil Hospital, Aundh, and Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital, Pimpri, both in Pune, report Nisha Nambiar & Swati Shinde Gole.She did so despite having secured disability certificates for low vision in 2018 and for mental depression…
