Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar has been in the spotlight after the abrupt resignation of Election Commissioner Arun Goel, who was scheduled to succeed Mr. Kumar next year as CEC. Mr. Kumar superannuated as Finance Secretary in February 2020 and in less than 45 days, he was appointed as the chief of the Public Enterprises Selection Board — the body …
A 1984-batch IAS officer from Jharkhand cadre, Kumar will take over post 31 August. He is likely to preside over the 2024 Lok Sabha polls New Delhi: 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 the date of his …
Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa’s son Abir and a firm linked to him have come on the radar of the Enforcement Directorate for alleged violations of forex regulations, officials said on Tuesday. They said the agency has filed a case under the Foreign Exchange Management Act to probe Abir Lavasa and about Rs 7.25 crore funds raised early this year by …
New Delhi: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the invalidation of 86% of currency notes on 8 November 2016, only a small group of carefully chosen bureaucrats were in the loop. Economic affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das was the top bureaucrat in the finance ministry who was leading the secret mission and ultimately became the government’s face explaining and clarifying the …