Oil sector is the highest and easiest way to generate revenue for the Centre as well as state governments.
February 20, 2021A Congress stalwart from West Bengal, Chowdhury, 65, has vast experience as a parliamentarian and is known as a political firebrand.
February 13, 2021Sasakawa is known for bringing an entrepreneurial spirit to his work with entities from the political, governmental, academic, and private sectors in addressing issues in such diverse areas like health, education, food security, and maritime safety.
February 6, 2021The Managing Director of the Transport Corporation of India (TCI), Agarwal has possibly the distinction of being the first head of a logistics company and one of the youngest industry captains to be appointed as the president of a leading chamber of commerce in India.
January 30, 2021After joining the Health, Population and Nutrition Department of the World Bank in 1987, she embarked on her stint with the WHO.
January 9, 2021He climbed Mount Everest for the first time in 1998, and went on to do it again in 2006, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2017 and 2018.
January 2, 2021A distinguished parliamentarian, Tyagi is a former member of the Lok Sabha as well as the Rajya Sabha.
December 12, 2020His last two significant assignments were in Goa and Arunachal Pradesh as Director-General.
December 5, 2020He was considered to be a loyalist of former Union minister Anand Sharma, but was backed for the coveted post by state party heavyweight and ex-CM Virbhadra Singh, Sharma's bête noire.
November 21, 2020His mission was to channelise unused or underutilised development resources, through even recycling, into underdeveloped or rural areas to help deprived people cope with basic but daunting challenges in their lives.
November 14, 2020Since the reconstitution of the Authority two years ago in the wake of the new central Mental Healthcare Act 2017, he has been at the forefront of grappling with key challenges in mental healthcare in HP and addressing them.
October 31, 2020A collusive two front challenge cannot be ruled out.
October 17, 2020Equipped with his camera, he captured vivid details of Chinese suppression of Tibetan people, arts, culture, and religion besides their development of military infrastructure along borders with India.
October 10, 2020Reacting strongly to what he believed is the RSS-BJP’s agenda to convert India into a Hindu Rashtra, he has given a call to his party cadres to go all out to celebrate the coming birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi in a big way while highlighting secularism and plural democracy of the country.
September 19, 2020His book ‘Dial D for Don’, published in 2015, was a bestseller in which he recounted the stories of eleven police operations that he conducted during his posting in the CBI. He represented India at the UN Convention on Transnational Organised Crime at Vienna.
September 12, 2020Born into a modest family in Pauri Garhwal district in 1949, Negi went on to become a district information officer and has many interesting stories to share about his dual roles as a folk singer and a government employee.
August 29, 2020He is known for his leadership, administrative skills and for strong bonding with the masses of his state.
July 25, 2020