Ajay Seth, secretary of the department of economic affairs, has been assigned additional charge as secretary of the department of revenue following incumbent Sanjay Malhotra’s appointment as governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Seth, a 1987-batch Indian Administrative Service officer from the Karnataka cadre with over 33 years of experience in public finance and social sector administration, has been …
City residents will have to wait more for 24/7 water supply as the project’s commencement itself is set to get delayed by at least three to six more months. Chandigarh MC officials, in May this year, had even announced the timeline for the project, stating that the agreement will be signed in August or September, tenders floated by October-end and …
Less than a week after a former Mexican defense secretary was arrested on drug trafficking charges at Los Angeles International Airport last month, Mexican authorities summoned the U.S. ambassador to express their dismay — an action followed by a formal note of protest to Washington. In explaining the extraordinary decision to suddenly end a multiyear investigation, U.S. authorities said in …
Subhash Chandra Garg, the former finance secretary who was shunted out of the finance ministry within three weeks of Modi-2.0 government's first budget last year, on Saturday alleged that new Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman got him transferred out. Garg, who took voluntary retirement soon after being moved from the finance ministry – where he handled the Department of Economic Affairs …
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