Nod to bill for separate cadres for Manipur, Tripura
September 3rd, 2012 - 6:13 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) The Lok Sabha Monday cleared a bill for the establishment of a separate cadre of the Indian administrative, police and forest services for Manipur ... Read more...
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Odisha official arrested in US
July 26th, 2012 - 10:34 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, July 26 (IANS) An official of the Odisha forest department who is on training in the US was taken into custody by police in Pennsylvania for allegedly wrongfully confining ... Read more...
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8,455 SCs, STs, OBCs in IAS, IPS, IFS
December 14th, 2011 - 10:19 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) The number of Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Other Backward Classes directly recruited to the IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service was 8,455, parliament was ... Read more...
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Record 600 officials face action over illegal mining
October 27th, 2011 - 9:14 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Oct 27 (IANS) India's battle against corruption and for accountability from its huge bureaucracy is set to get a boost as the Karnataka government prepares to punish over ... Read more...
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Goa mining scam worth Rs.10,000 crore: Congress legislator
September 17th, 2011 - 6:52 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Sep 17 (IANS) Goa's illegal mining scandal is worth Rs.10,000 crore ($2 billion), former deputy chief minister of Goa and Congress legislator Dayanand Narvekar Saturday told the Justice ... Read more...
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Iron ore export eating away resources: Justice Shah
September 17th, 2011 - 6:34 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Sep 17 (IANS) Rampant extraction of iron ore for export was steadily eating away India's national wealth, retired Supreme Court judge M.B. Shah, who heads a commission probing ... Read more...
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Haryana announces security policy for whistle-blowers, RTI activists
September 8th, 2011 - 4:35 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Sep 8 (IANS) On the backfoot in the last four years over harassment to a whistle-blower from the Indian Forest Service (IFS), Sanjay Chaturvedi, the Haryana government Thursday announced ... Read more...
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CBI files case in Bhopal activist’s murder
September 3rd, 2011 - 9:43 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against "unknown" people for the murder of Right to Information (RTI) activist Shehla Masood, ... Read more...
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Special sop for officials of northeast cadre
August 31st, 2011 - 6:53 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, Aug 31 (IANS) The central government has introduced a special allowance for the all-India services officers belonging to northeast cadres to improve their performance, an official said Wednesday."The union ... Read more...
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Anti-corruption crusader killed in Bhopal
August 16th, 2011 - 10:12 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Aug 16 (IANS) Shehla Masood, an anti-corruption crusader and Right to Information activist, was Tuesday shot dead outside her residence here, police said.
Masood was in her car in the ... Read more...
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Decision on Haryana’s misuse of forest funds soon: Ramesh
May 6th, 2011 - 6:17 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh Friday said his ministry is examining the issue of misuse of forest funds by Haryana and will take a decision ... Read more...
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Orissa delays prosecution of officers: Activists
April 18th, 2011 - 6:51 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, April 18 (IANS) Orissa has failed to decide on requests by the vigilance department for sanction to prosecute as many as seven senior officers, anti-corruption group Transparency International said ... Read more...
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What next for Bellary: Mother of all mining violations (Lead Comment, correcting name in para 15)
April 17th, 2011 - 4:23 pm ICT by IANS
It is indeed significant that the Supreme Court's Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has called the ravaging of Bellary in Karnataka the worst-ever mining violation which it had been told to probe ... Read more...
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What next for Bellary: Mother of all mining violations (Comment)
April 17th, 2011 - 1:43 pm ICT by IANS
It is indeed significant that the Supreme Court's Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has called the ravaging of Bellary in Karnataka the worst-ever mining violation which it had been told to probe ... Read more...
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Jharkhand Vigilance Bureau files fresh chargesheet against Koda
April 2nd, 2011 - 12:13 pm ICT by ANI
Ranchi, Apr 2 (ANI): Jharkhand Vigilance Bureau has filed a chargesheet against former Chief Minister Madhu Koda, alleging that he took Rs. 90 lakh from two of his associates to contest the ... Read more...
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Minister denies harassing forest officer
March 5th, 2011 - 4:59 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, March 5 (IANS) Haryana Excise and Taxation Minister Kiran Chaudhary Saturday denied harassing an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer in the state."I have not done anything wrong. Everybody ... Read more...
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Jharkhand official commits suicide
February 16th, 2011 - 8:18 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Feb 16 (IANS) An Indian Forest Service (IFS) official posted in Jharkhand committed suicide by taking overdose of medicines, police said here Wednesday.Prasant Alok, a district forest officer (DFO), was under ... Read more...
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CBI to take custody of NDFB rebel
February 15th, 2011 - 6:23 pm ICT by IANS
Nongpoh (Meghalaya), Feb 15 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) would soon take custody of National Democratic Front of Bodoland's (NDFB) cadre Mathuram Brahma alias Mudoi, the prime accused in ... Read more...
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Assam killers arrested in Meghalaya
February 11th, 2011 - 12:36 am ICT by IANS
Shillong, Feb 10 (IANS) Meghalaya Police Thursday arrested two senior leaders of the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) who were the prime accused in the massacre of 21 people in ... Read more...
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Bihar’s anti-corruption drive: Declare assets or go without salary, says Nitish
January 27th, 2011 - 5:21 pm ICT by ANI
Patna, Jan 27, (ANI): In an attempt to weed out corruption, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has decided to withhold salaries of officials and employees who fail to declare assets held in ... Read more...
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‘Some unscrupulous elements making politics look ugly’
November 22nd, 2010 - 11:27 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Nov 22 (IANS) The wrong-doings of some "unscrupulous elements" make it look ugly, but politics is necessary for establishing the rule by majority in a democratic set-up, filmmaker-cum-politician Prakash ... Read more...
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‘No ransom paid for official kidnapped by Bodo militants’
August 3rd, 2010 - 11:48 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Aug 3 (IANS) No ransom was paid to secure the release of a forest official of Maharashtra who was kidnapped by Bodo militants while on a holiday in Arunachal Pradesh, ... Read more...
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Kidnapped Maharashtra official freed after 78 days in Arunachal
August 2nd, 2010 - 2:02 pm ICT by IANS
Pune, Aug 2 (IANS) Senior Maharashtra bureaucrat Vijay S. Bardekar, who was kidnapped May 13 from Arunachal Pradesh where he had gone on a vacation, has been released from captivity by alleged ... Read more...
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Nafed board decision to remove managing director rejected
July 12th, 2010 - 8:57 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) The agriculture ministry Monday rejected the decision by the board of National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (Nafed) to remove the government-named managing director C.V. Ananda Bose and ... Read more...
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Kerala issues new guidelines for action against officials
July 6th, 2010 - 10:19 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, July 6 (IANS) Kerala Tuesday issued new guidelines for disciplinary action to be taken against officials of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Police Service (IPS), found involved in ... Read more...
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Court orders arrest of accused in 1999 rape case
June 25th, 2010 - 1:41 am ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, June 25 (IANS) The Orissa High Court Thursday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to arrest, within three months, the absconding accused in a more than 11-year-old rape case, a ... Read more...
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Maharashtra officer ‘kidnapped’ in Arunachal untraced
May 15th, 2010 - 3:44 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, May 15 (IANS) There has been no trace of high-ranking Maharashtra forest officer Vijay S. Bardekar who was allegedly kidnapped by suspected Bodo militants in Arunachal Pradesh, where he was on ... Read more...
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Maharashtra concerned about its official abducted by Bodos
May 15th, 2010 - 12:24 am ICT by IANS
Mumbai, May 14 (IANS) The Maharashtra government is concerned over the reports of a senior bureaucrat allegedly kidnapped by Bodo militants in Arunachal Pradesh where he had gone on a vacation, an ... Read more...
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Jharkhand to issue notices to bureaucrats over assets
March 17th, 2010 - 7:31 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, March 17 (IANS) The Jharkhand government Wednesday said it planned to issue show cause notices to over 200 bureaucrats who have not declared their assets since 2007.
"Around 200 bureaucrats, including ... Read more...
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Forest officials, scribes under scanner for official’s suicide
February 23rd, 2010 - 3:56 pm ICT by IANS
Nagpur, Feb 23 (IANS) A day after an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer - believed to have been fighting the timber mafia in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra - committed suicide, police Tuesday ... Read more...
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Zoo-bred Asiatic lions for Madhya Pradesh jungles?
October 6th, 2009 - 9:54 am ICT by IANS
By Sanjay Sharma
Bhopal, Oct 6 (IANS) The king of the jungle may yet roam the forests of Madhya Pradesh, with the state now planning to borrow and breed zoo lions for the ... Read more...
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CVC displays list of ‘corrupt’ officials first time (Lead)
September 17th, 2009 - 10:52 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) Officials from the Indian Police Service, nationalised banks, forest service and the railway ministry are among the 123 against whom the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has advised ... Read more...
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Supreme Court panel inspects Mayawati’s park project in Noida
August 6th, 2009 - 4:06 pm ICT by ANI
Noida, Aug 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court panel on Thursday inspected Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's Noida park project.A high-level committee constituted by the apex court visited the Ambedkar Park to ... Read more...
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Centre seeks explanation from Mayawati on Noida park project
July 11th, 2009 - 8:11 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, July 11 (ANI): Ministry of Environment and Forest has sought an explanation from Uttar Pradesh government over alleged violation of environmental laws in construction of a park in NOIDAUttar Pradesh ... Read more...
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Forest administration to be modernised: Minister
June 10th, 2009 - 10:33 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, June 10 (IANS) The central government is working on a new scheme to modernise forest administration with a view to preventing encroachment and increasing the green cover across the country, Minister ... Read more...
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