Uttarakhand: Three vehicles fall into gorges in separate accidents; 7 killed, 6 injuredA series of tragic road accidents in Uttarakhand claimed the lives of seven people and injured six. A family of three died in Chamoli distr...
30 May, 2026, 03.42 PM IST
Odisha IAS officer accused of cheating man of Rs 95 lakh in land fraud; Complainant also alleges death threats & legal intimidationA senior Odisha IAS officer, Aradhana Das, is under investigation after an FIR was registered over an alleged Rs 95 lakh land fraud case. T...
12 Apr, 2026, 02.26 PM IST
Vir Vikram Yadav appointed new Directorate General of Civil Aviation chiefVir Vikram Yadav is the new chief of DGCA. This appointment is part of a major reshuffle of senior bureaucrats. Twenty-five civil servants ...
31 Mar, 2026, 06.36 PM IST
Harvard-educated Odisha DIG-rank IPS officer suspended for misbehaving with inspector in BhubaneswarThe Odisha government suspended DIG-ranked IPS officer Pandit Rajesh Uttamrao following allegations of misconduct with a woman inspector in...
31 Jul, 2024, 02.55 PM IST
Odisha government effects major bureaucratic reshuffleHemant Sharma, principal secretary of the Industries department with the additional charge of chairman of the Industrial Promotion and Inve...
11 Jul, 2024, 09.20 AM IST
Pandian's IAS wife goes on six months' leaveOdisha IAS officer, Sujata R Karthikeyan, wife of BJD leader V K Pandian, takes 6 months' child care leave till Nov 26 to support daughter ...
07 Jun, 2024, 07.58 PM IST
IAS VK Pandian may join politics after his voluntary retirementThe Centre has approved the voluntary retirement of IAS officer VK Pandian, who is considered the right-hand man of Odisha Chief Minister N...
24 Oct, 2023, 12.40 AM IST
Association of IAS officers in Odisha objects to 'personal attacks' made by senior politiciansIn a memorandum submitted to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, it demanded that the matter be taken up at the "appropriate level" to av...
29 May, 2018, 10.11 PM IST
Shortage of over 1,400 IAS, 900 IPS officers in country: GovernmentThere are 4,926 officers of IAS as against their total authorised strength of 6,396, leaving a vacancy of 1,470, he told Lok Sabha in a wri...
22 Mar, 2017, 03.36 PM IST
- Aditya Prasad Padhi named Odisha chief secretary
The Odisha government on Monday appointed Aditya Prasad Padhi as its new chief secretary, replacing GC Pati who retired.
30 Nov, 2015, 07.08 PM IST
167 IAS, IPS and IFS posts lying vacant in the state: Naveen PatnaikOdisha Chief Minister today said that as many as 167 posts of Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian F...
24 Aug, 2015, 08.44 PM IST
Bureaucratic reshuffle: Government appoints nine new Joint SecretariesNine new Joint Secretaries, including five IAS and four officers belonging to other services, have been appointed in the central government...
30 Jun, 2015, 06.50 PM IST
R K Sharma new secretary of steel and mines department in OdishaSharma, a 1987 batch IAS officer, was working as the principal secretary of forest and environment department.
20 Dec, 2014, 09.48 PM IST
New secretaries appointed for civil aviation, steel ministriesAshok Lavasa, a 1980 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre, will replace V Rajagopalan, a 1978 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, who s...
29 Aug, 2014, 03.02 PM IST
Senior IAS officer Asha Ram Sihag appointed DG Acquisition in Defence MinistryHe will be the key officer responsible for overseeing Defence Ministry's multi-crore acquisition process.
26 Nov, 2013, 03.42 PM IST
G Mohan Kumar is new Steel SecretarySenior IAS officer G Mohan Kumar has been appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Steel, officials said.
02 Sep, 2013, 07.05 PM IST
Gokul Chandra Pati appointed Secretary Department of Defence ProductionSenior IAS officer Gokul Chandra Pati has been appointed as Secretary in Department of Defence Production.
06 Aug, 2013, 05.09 PM IST