The Prime Minister of India is the head of government of the Republic of India. Executive authority is vested in the prime minister and his chosen Council of Ministers,despite the president of India being the nominal head of the executive. The prime minister is often the leader of the party or the coalition with a majority in the lower house of the Parliament of India,the Lok Sabha,which is the main legislative body in the Republic of India. The prime minister and their cabinet are at all times responsible to the Lok Sabha.
The Supreme Court of India is the supreme judicial authority and the highest court of the Republic of India. It is the final court of appeal for all civil and criminal cases in India. It also has the power of judicial review. The Supreme Court,which consists of the Chief Justice of India and a maximum of fellow 33 judges,has extensive powers in the form of original,appellate and advisory jurisdictions.
The Government of India,also known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre,is the national authority of the Republic of India,a federal democracy located in South Asia,consisting of 28 union states and eight union territories.
The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India. The IAS is one of the three arms of the All India Services along with the Indian Police Service and the Indian Forest Service. Members of these three services serve the Government of India as well as the individual states. IAS officers are also deployed to various government establishments such as constitutional bodies,staff &line agencies,auxiliary bodies,public sector undertakings,regulatory bodies,statutory bodies and autonomous bodies.
Neelakanta Ramakrishna Madhava Menon was an Indian civil servant,lawyer and legal educator,considered by many as the father of modern legal education in India. He is the founder of National Law Universities system and first director of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) and the National Judicial Academy,Bhopal and the founder-vice-chancellor of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS). He has also served as Chairman of Indian Statistical Institute from 2002 to 2003.
The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is the diplomatic service and a central civil service of the Government of India under the Ministry of External Affairs. The Foreign Secretary is the head of the service. Vinay Mohan Kwatra is the 34th and the current Foreign Secretary.
Mirza Hameedullah Beg was the 15th Chief Justice of India,serving from January 1977 to February 1978.
The judiciary of India is a system of courts that interpret and apply the law in the Republic of India. India uses a common law system,first introduced by the British East India Company and with influence from other colonial powers and Indian princely states,as well as practices from ancient and medieval times. The constitution provides for a single unified judiciary in India.
The Government of Delhi,officially the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) is the governing body of the Union Territory of Delhi,whose urban area is the seat of the Government of India. It also governs the city or local governments in the area as per the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act.
Arjan Kumar Sikri is an eminent jurist and a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He was sworn in as a Supreme Court judge on 12 April 2013. Earlier,he had served as the chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He retired as senior most puisne judge of Supreme Court of India on 6 March 2019.
Nripendra Misra is a retired 1967 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre who served as Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India,Narendra Modi from 2014 to 2019. He has also served as the chairperson of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India,Telecom Secretary of India and Fertilizers Secretary of India. He was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan in 2021.
Justice Gita Mittal was an Indian judge,now retired. She is the former Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court and the first woman judge to serve in that capacity. She has also served as the Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court while she was serving as a Judge of the Delhi High Court.
Pramod Kumar Mishra,often abbreviated P. K. Mishra,is the 13th and current principal secretary to the Prime Minister of India,Narendra Modi. He is a 1972 batch Indian Administrative Service officer belonging to Gujarat cadre. During 2001–2004,Mishra has also served as the principal secretary to Narendra Modi,when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.
Shaktikanta Das is serving as the current &25th governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). He was earlier a member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission and India's Sherpa to the G20. Das is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.
The Defence Planning Committee is a senior decision-making organisation created on 19 April 2018 by the Government of India.
S. Muralidhar is an Indian Judge. He is former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court and Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and Delhi High Court.
Hima Kohli is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. She was the chief justice of the Telangana High Court,and the first woman judge to hold that office. Prior to that,she served as a judge of the Delhi High Court.
Pratibha Rani is a former judge of the Delhi High Court,in Delhi,India. She gained public attention after writing several controversial judicial orders,including an granting bail to political activist Kanhaiya Kumar,in which she quoted Bollywood song lyrics and described surgical procedures to caution him,and another order describing the offence of rape as a "weapon for vengeance and personal vendetta". She has also written several significant judgments,including the reaffirmation of death penalty to the convicts of the 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder,and the reduction of sentences and grant of bail to convicted offenders of child sexual abuse on the grounds that the child victim may have consented to the abuse.
Aruna Suresh is a former judge of the Orissa High Court in India. She also served at the Delhi High Court. She gained public attention after an association of lawyers boycotted her courtroom in Odisha,following her request to a senior counsel to refrain from intervening in a case where he was not involved.
Rajesh Khullar is an Indian bureaucrat and Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister,Haryana. Previously,he was Executive Director at the World Bank Group representing India,Bangladesh,Bhutan,and Sri Lanka. Khullar is a retired 1988 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer.
