The prime minister of India is the head of Union Council of Ministersof 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 has to be a member of one of the houses of bicameral Parliament of India,alongside heading the respective house. The prime minister and his cabinet are at all times responsible to the Lok Sabha.
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 All India Services along with the Indian Police Service and 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 and line agencies,auxiliary bodies,public sector undertakings,regulatory bodies,statutory bodies and autonomous bodies.
Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan was an Indian civil servant,bureaucrat who served with the Indian Administrative Service and as a politician. After serving in various positions in Madras and in various ministries of the Central Government,he served as the 18th Cabinet Secretary of India in 1989. He was appointed the 10th Chief Election Commissioner of India (1990–96) and became known for his electoral reforms. He won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for government service in 1996. After retirement as the CEC,he contested the 1997 Indian presidential election and lost to K.R. Narayanan after which he unsuccessfully contested 1999 Gujarat assembly election from Gandhinagar constituency under Indian National Congress.
Kiran Bedi is a former tennis player who became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021. She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General,Bureau of Police Research and Development.
The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is a diplomatic service and a central civil service of the Government of the Republic of India under the Ministry of External Affairs. The Foreign Secretary is the head of the service. Vikram Misri is the 35th and the current Foreign Secretary.
Sir Chettur Sankaran NairCIE was an Indian lawyer and statesman who served as the Advocate-General of Madras from 1906 to 1908,on the High Court of Madras as a puisne justice from 1908 to 1915,and as India-wide Education minister as a member of the Viceroy's Executive Council from 1915 until 1919. He was elected president of the 1897 Indian National Congress,and led the Egmore faction,opposing the Mylapore group.
The University of North Bengal is a public state university in the North Bengal region of West Bengal,India. Its main campus is located in Raja Rammohanpur,Siliguri,Darjeeling district,in the Indian state of West Bengal. Its second campus is located in Danguajhar,Jalpaiguri in Jalpaiguri district and the third campus is located in Salt Lake,Kolkata. The university was established in 1962 by the Government of West Bengal. North Bengal University offers degrees in undergraduate,post-graduate,doctoral and post-doctoral programmes. It is accredited by NAAC with B++ grade.
Times Now is an English-language news channel in India owned and operated by The Times Group. The channel launched on 23 January 2006 in partnership with Reuters.
Chonira Belliappa Muthamma was the first woman to clear the Indian Civil Services examinations. She was also the first woman to join the Indian Foreign Service. She was the first Indian woman diplomat as well. Later,she became the first Indian woman Ambassador also. She is remembered for her successful crusade for gender equality in the Indian Civil Services.
Sakshi is an Indian Telugu-language media group. The group owns the daily newspaper Sakshi,24-hour news channel Sakshi TV,and associated digital ventures. Its first asset,Sakshi newspaper,was launched on 23 March 2008 by Jagati Publications Ltd. owned by Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. Sakshi TV was launched on 1 March 2009,by Indira Television Ltd.,also owned by Reddy. The group is currently run under the chairmanship of Y. S. Bharathi Reddy,wife of Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Sarojini Varadappan was an Indian social worker from the state of Tamil Nadu. She was the daughter of former Chief Minister of Madras,M. Bhaktavatsalam.
Central Secretariat Service is the administrative civil service under Group A and Group B of the Central Civil Services of the executive branch of the Government of India. They are governed by Central Secretariat Service Rules of 1962,which has been issued under the powers of Article 309 of the Constitution of India. The service members work under restrictions and rules of Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules.
Nirupama Menon Rao is a retired civil servant of 1973 batch Indian Foreign Service cadre who served as India's Foreign Secretary from 2009 to 2011,as well as being India's Ambassador to the United States,China and Sri Lanka during her career.
The Foreign Secretary of India is the top diplomat of India and administrative head of the Ministry of External Affairs. This post is held by an Indian foreign service officer of the rank of secretary to the government of India. Vikram Misri is currently serving as the Foreign Secretary of India from July 2024,succeeding Vinay Mohan Kwatra.
Sakshi TV is an Indian Telugu-language 24-hour news channel. It was launched on 1 March 2009,by Indira Television Ltd. owned by Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. It is currently run under the chairmanship of Y. S. Bharathi Reddy,wife of Jagan Mohan Reddy. The media group also owns the Telugu daily newspaper,Sakshi.
Niira Radia is a former corporate lobbyist whose taped telephone conversations implicated her influence in the allocation of key ministries in the Government of India in 2009. Discussion of the tapes resulted in the Radia tapes controversy,which was a media event that led to the uncovering of the alleged 2G spectrum scam involving former telecommunications minister A Raja. These events led to Raja's resignation and later acquittal by Special CBI court,and Radia's departure from corporate lobbying.
Joint Secretary to the Government of India is a post under the Central Staffing Scheme and the third highest non-political executive rank in the Government of India. The authority for creation of this post solely rests with the Cabinet of India.
Nripendra Misra is an Indian bureaucrat and civil servant. An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1967 batch from the Uttar Pradesh cadre,he served as the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India,Narendra Modi from 2014 to 2019. He earlier served as the chairperson of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India,as the Telecom Secretary of India and the Fertilizers Secretary of India. He was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan in 2021. His son Saket Misra is a nominated Member of Legislative Council in Government of Uttar Pradesh since April 2023.
Sujata Mehta is a former Indian Foreign Service officer and former member of the Union Public Service Commission.
Sangita Iyer is an Indian-born Canadian author,broadcast journalist,writer,biologist and documentary filmmaker. She is known for her advocacy on wildlife conservation,especially for wild elephants,and for exposing the atrocities against Asian elephants by religious institutions. She is the founding executive director and president of the Voice for Asian Elephants Society,which was created in 2016 with the aim of protecting wild and captive elephants of India.
