Simon Case is the head of the civil service, which makes him probably the most important unelected person in politics. The cabinet secretary’s role is to advise the prime minister, lead implementation of the government’s policies and manage other high-level civil servants. Born in Bristol in 1978, he first joined the civil service as a … Read more
Youths selected in 2023 UPSC exam at a felicitation function in Jaipur on May 6, 2024. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma on Monday felicitated candidates from the State selected in the Central Civil Services after passing out the 2023 Union Public Service Commission’s examination. Mr. Sharma greeted the young … Read more
The inquiry is shown a briefing that PHW prepared on 11 March making the case for the Welsh government to declare a major incident. It outlined predictions that Wales would see 1.5 million symptomatic cases, 200,000 requiring hospital admission, an estimated 18,000 needing mechanical ventilation and 25,000 predicted deaths. The briefing also said that a … Read more
The civil service protection rally organised by the Joint Council of State Service Organisations, which started from Kasaragod on November 1, entered Kozhikode district on Tuesday. Inaugurating the rally at Kallachi near Nadapuram, E.K. Vijayan, MLA, said the campaign against civil servants that they were a liability to society was false. Organising committee district chairman … Read more
The K.R. Puram police are on the lookout for a rowdy and his associates for allegedly kidnapping a city-based civil contractor and keeping him for 12 days in a lodge for ransom. According to the police, the accused kidnapped Murali from Sanjaynagar, who had borrowed a loan of ₹60 lakh from his friend for his … Read more
The Congress on October 23 night declared its candidate for the last remaining assembly constituency in Madhya Pradesh, Amla in Betul district. But, with a bureaucrat tipped to be the party nominee not getting the government’s nod in time to quit service, the ticket has gone to someone else for the next month’s polls. The … Read more
On Wednesday, August 2, 2023, Minister for Minorities Welfare and Non-Resident Tamils Welfare, Gingee K.S. Masthan, handed over the body of the engineer to his family | Photo Credit: Twitter@GingeeMasthan The body of V. Kannan, a civil engineer from Nagapattinam district, who was killed in the collapse of a girder launching machine in Thane district … Read more
Muslim opinion is quietly consolidating against the proposed Uniform Civil Code. After other Muslim organisations spoke out against Uniform Civil Code, the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, which had initially preferred to wait to see the draft of the proposed code, has written to the Law Commission, questioning the timing of the commission’s public notice, issued on June … Read more
On July 3, officials from the Law Ministry, informed a parliamentary standing committee headed by BJP MP Sushil Modi that they are awaiting the 22nd Law Commission report to proceed with their process on uniform civil code. Law Commission Member-Secretary Khetrabasi Biswal said on since June 14, the commission published a public notice inviting feedback … Read more
BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram (VKS) a tribal body affiliated with Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), on July 9 said that it welcomes the ‘role’ of BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, to keep the tribes out of Uniform Civil Code (UCC). … Read more