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.
Indira Jaising is an Indian lawyer and activist. Jaising also runs Lawyers' Collective, a non-governmental organization (NGO),the license of which was permanently cancelled by the Home Ministry for alleged violations of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act in 2019. The Bombay High Court later passed an order to de-freeze NGO's domestic accounts. The case is ongoing in the Supreme Court of India.
University College,Thiruvananthapuram,abbreviated as UCT,is a constituent college of the University of Kerala,based primarily in Thiruvananthapuram,the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. The college,is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions of higher education in India.
G. K. Pillai may refer to:
Amit Anil Chandra Shah is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the 31st Minister of Home Affairs since 2019 and the 1st Minister of Co-operation of India since 2021. He served as the 10th President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2020. He has also served as chairman of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) since 2014. He was elected to the lower house of Parliament,Lok Sabha,in the 2019 Indian general elections from Gandhinagar. Earlier,he had been elected as a member of the upper house of Parliament,Rajya Sabha,from Gujarat from 2017 to 2019.
On 15 June 2004,officers of the Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch and members of the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB) of Ahmedabad shot and killed four people to death. Those killed in the incident were Ishrat Jahan Raza,a 19-year-old woman from Mumbra,Maharashtra,and three men –Javed Ghulam Sheikh,Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar. The Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) made allegations about the entire operation being an instance of "encounter killing". The state agencies and police claimed that Ishrat Jahan and her associates were Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives involved in a plot to assassinate the Chief Minister of Gujarat,Narendra Modi.
Raj Kumar Singh is a former Indian bureaucrat and former Union Cabinet Minister in the Government of India (2014-2024). He was the Member of the Indian Parliament for Arrah,Bihar,from May 2014 to 4 June 2024. Singh is a 1975 batch Bihar cadre Indian Administrative Service officer and former Home Secretary of India.
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.
Joseph Alexander was an Indian bureaucrat and politician who served as Chief Secretary and Cabinet Minister,Karnataka State. He was the first Indian Administrative Service officer to serve as a minister in the State.
The Chief Secretary is the top-most executive official and senior-most civil servant of the state government. The Chief Secretary is the ex-officio head of the state Civil Services Board,the State Secretariat,the state cadre Indian Administrative Service and all civil services under the rules of business of the state government. The Chief Secretary acts as the principal advisor to the chief minister on all matters of state administration.
Secretary to the Government of India,often abbreviated as Secretary,GoI,or simply as Secretary,is a post and a rank under the Central Staffing Scheme of the Government of India. The authority for the creation of this post solely rests with the Union Council of Ministers.
Anil Baijal is a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and served as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. He took over office on 31 December 2016 after the sudden resignation of Najeeb Jung. He resigned from the post of Lieutenant Governor and sent his resignation letter to President of India on 18 May 2022 as his term was over.
S. Krishna Kumar is an Indian former IAS officer,technocrat,and politician from Kerala. He was a former leader of Indian National Congress in Kerala and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 20 April 2019.
Ramakrishna Pillai Ramachandran Nair is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer from Kottayam,Kerala,who served as collector of Kannur and Kollam districts,managing director of Travancore-Cochin Chemicals,secretary to various departments,and finally as the Chief Secretary of Kerala state in different intervals. He was also the founding Vice Chancellor of Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit,Kalady. A prolific writer,he has also written many poems and essays in Sanskrit,Malayalam and English. His Sanskrit compositions,most of them being Carnatic kritis,praise more on the deities of Kerala temples,especially around Thiruvananthapuram and Kottayam. Nair is credited with popularising many temples in Kerala.
B.V.R Subramaniyam is a retired 1988-batch Chhattisgarh cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer who was empaneled as a secretary in the central government and is experienced with conflict zone administration. He is former Principal Secretary Finance department of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. He has previously served in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) under both Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi. He has been instrumental in containing insurgency in Chhattisgarh in the 2010s. In February 2023,he has taken charge as 4th CEO of NITI Aayog.
Ishrat Jahan is an Indian practising advocate and former municipal councillor for the Indian National Congress in Delhi who is an accused under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and was granted bail on 14 March 2022 after her incarceration since February 2020.
Events in the year 2004 in Kerala.
