Lucknow, Nov. 7: An IAS officer who had launched a crusade against corruption in the bureaucracy sprang a surprise today by disclosing his assets, days after judges of the Supreme Court did so.Vijay Shanker Pandey, a 1979 batch officer, was joined by three others in what is the first attempt at bureaucratic transparency in the country: colleagues Sunil Kumar and Renuka Chaudhary and IPS officer Jasbeer...
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Statues and memorials, if installed with noble intentions, truly perpetuate the sacred memory of great leaders. But, of late, memorials for the departed political leaders and statues even for those leaders like Mayavati who are alive and kicking, smack of myopic partisanship sans national interest.In this context, the Supreme Court was right in directing the UP Government to stop constructing memorials...
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A senior IPS officer allegedly committed suicide on Sunday with his son alleging that “harassment” by some of his colleagues led him to take the extreme step.Jagjeet Kumar, 57, shot himself with his service revolver. Police said Kumar had killed himself over problems with his son, who had earlier been arrested in a car theft case.(PTI): Authorities in Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri district have cancelled...
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Samajwadi Party today suffered a rout in its bastions with its rebels helping Mayavati eat into Mulayam Singh Yadav’s OBC votes for the first time, making her the biggest winner of these Uttar Pradesh bypolls.The Congress did the same to Mulayam by fielding another Samajwadi rebel, Raj Babbar, in the high-profile battle in Firozabad, turning the former chief minister into the biggest loser of these...
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Uttar Pradesh government today sent all files relating to “controversial” mergers of Amar Singh’s companies to the Enforcement Directorate.Shivkant Tripathi, a social worker, had lodged an FIR against the Samajwadi Party leader on October 15, accusing him of amalgamating his companies in a bid to convert black money into white.Cabinet secretary Shashankh Shekhar told a news conference this evening:...
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