UP government removes DG, ADG of CBCID; 4 IPS officers reshuffledR.K. Swarnakar, who returned from central government deputation, has been asked to take charge as ADG CBCID, while P.V. Ramasastri, who is ...
03 Apr, 2021, 07.40 PM IST
LG announces job reservation for national-level sportspersons from LadakhSpeaking at the closing ceremony of the first Lt Governor Ice Hockey Men's Cup 2021 at NDS Sports Complex here, Mathur announced the job re...
19 Feb, 2021, 07.50 PM IST
R K Mathur sworn in as Ladakh LGRadha Krishna Mathur was on Thursday sworn-in as the first Lt Governor of Union Territory of Ladakh, which came into existence after bifurc...
31 Oct, 2019, 12.30 PM IST
New defence secretary G Mohan Kumar given additional charge of DDRDKumar, who today took over as Defence Secretary from RK Mathur for a period of two years, has been asked to handle additional charge of DDR...
14 Jul, 2018, 02.13 PM IST
Coast guard not prepared, 26/11 can recur: Ex-Defence secretary RK Mathur to House PanelRK Mathur had raised fears that a 26/11 style attack can happen again because a boat might still enter Indian waters undetected.
13 Jul, 2018, 04.32 PM IST
RTI used mostly to settle personal scores: Information Commissioner Bimal JulkaThe number of people filing RTI applications asking about how government schemes are being implemented has shrunk, and it has largely becom...
23 Jan, 2018, 10.36 AM IST
- CIC reconstitutes bench to hear complaints against political parties
The CIC's June 2013 order was neither challenged in a high court nor changed but the political parties have refused to entertain the RTI ap...
02 Aug, 2017, 05.31 PM IST
Your application might just be lying unopened at CICOver 7,000 cases, some received at the Central Information Commission (CIC) in September, have not been registered and have piled up at the...
31 Dec, 2016, 01.56 AM IST
Cleanliness is next to godliness: CIC plans mass file destructionThe CIC is on a cleanliness drive. After a decade of implementation of the Right to Information Act, it has initiated mass destruction of o...
15 Apr, 2016, 11.34 AM IST
Central Information Commission wakes up to thousands of missing case filesAfter making the applicants wait for 8 years, the transparency watchdog has suddenly realised that it has no record of thousands of appeals...
18 Feb, 2016, 05.53 AM IST
Government refuses to divulge CIC's appointment detailsCall it ironical or plain bureaucratic secrecy, the government does not want to share the details of appointment of new Chief Information C...
05 Jan, 2016, 09.22 PM IST
Former Defence Secretay RK Mathur takes oath as new CIC62-year-old Mathur, a retired IAS officer of Tripura cadre, completed his two-year fixed tenure as Defence Secretary in May last year.
04 Jan, 2016, 02.34 PM IST
President Pranab Mukherjee to administer oath of office to new CIC on MondayThe Central Information Commission has been headless for about a month after Vijai Sharma completed his tenure on December.
31 Dec, 2015, 05.04 PM IST
After long cooling-off period, Ajay Mathur to be TERI chiefMathur, who was appointed as the new Director of TERI in July to replace RK Pachauri, will join as Director TERI next month.
23 Dec, 2015, 05.10 AM IST
New TERI chief Ajay Mathur hopes to see ‘excitement’ in staffPachauri’s presence at the Governing Council meeting, where Mathur was chosen as the new director, evokes strong responses.
25 Jul, 2015, 04.12 AM IST
RK Mathur to hold additional charge of Secretary, Defence ResearchRK Mathur will continue to hold the additional charge of Secretary, Department of Defence Research and Development, till May 24.
05 May, 2015, 03.12 PM IST
Nepal earthquake: Mammoth relief operation on by IndiaAn inter-ministerial team, headed by a top Home Ministry official, will leave for Nepal soon to coordinate the rescue and relief efforts.
26 Apr, 2015, 10.17 PM IST