Lieutenant General Srinivas Kumar Sinha,PVSM,ADC was an Indian Army General who served as the Vice Chief of Army Staff. After his retirement,he served as Governor of the states of Jammu and Kashmir,and Assam.
St. Columba's School in Delhi,India,established in 1941,is one of the 12,000 English medium schools of its kind established by the Indian Province of the Congregation of Christian Brothers,which was founded by Edmund Ignatius Rice. The school's campus is located in the heart of Delhi and extends over a couple of acres. St. Columba's School alumni include three Rhodes Scholars,a Pulitzer Prize winner,and a Forbes 30 Under 30 awardee. Students are referred to as Columbans. The school admits only boys.
WAmbika Soni is an Indian politician in the Indian National Congress. She has been Minister of Information and Broadcasting. She was a Member of Parliament representing the state of Punjab in the Rajya Sabha.
Khanna is a Punjabi clan and surname. Khannas belong to the Khatri community and are part of the Dhai Ghar sub-group of Khatri Hindus.
St. Xavier's High School,Patna,is a private Catholic primary and secondary school,located in the neighborhood of Gandhi Maidan in Patna,Bihar,India. Established in 1940,it is the oldest Jesuit school in the city of Patna and in the state of Bihar,established by missionaries from the American Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus. Founded in 1940,it is named after St. Francis Xavier,a Spanish Jesuit saint of the 16th century,who travelled to India. The independent,non-diocesan school is operated by the Patna Province of the Society of Jesus and located in the heart of the city of Patna.
Narinder Nath Vohra,popularly referred as N. N. Vohra,is a retired 1959 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Punjab cadre who was the 12th governor of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. He was the first civilian governor of Jammu and Kashmir in eighteen years after Jagmohan.
Najeeb Jung is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer who served as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Delhi from July 2013 to December 2016. He previously served as the 13th Vice-Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia from 2009 to 2013.
Lieutenant General Ajay Kumar Singh,PVSM,AVSM,SM,VSM is the former Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He is an alumnus of Sainik School Rewa and National Defence Academy. He is former General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Command of Indian Army.
The Fifth Legislative Assembly of Delhi was constituted on 28 December 2013 after the Delhi Legislative Assembly elections on 4 December 2013.
Shakuntala Doley Gamlin is a 1984-batch Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre IAS officer. She served as Secretary,Dept. of Empowerment of Person With Disabilities,Govt. of India. She also served as Chief Secretary of Arunachal Pradesh. She is the first lady IAS from North East to reach a Secretary level post in central ministry. She is the first female IAS officer from Mishing tribe of Assam.
The 1903 New Year Honours,announced at the time as the Durbar Honours,were appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India. The list was announced on the day of the 1903 Delhi Durbar held to celebrate the succession of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra as Emperor and Empress of India. The membership of the two Indian Orders were expanded to allow for all the new appointments.
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.
Shunglu Committee was a committee of three experts instituted to examine the irregularities and cases of nepotism in the appointments across various Delhi state government departments under the Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi.
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.
The Second Kejriwal cabinet is the Council of Minister in Delhi Legislative Assembly headed by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Government of NCT of Delhi versus Union of India & Another [C. A. No. 2357 of 2017] is a civil appeal heard before the Supreme Court of India by a five-judge constitution bench of the court. The case was filed as an appeal to an August 2016 verdict of the Delhi High Court that ruled that the lieutenant governor of Delhi exercised "complete control of all matters regarding National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi",and was heard by the Supreme Court in November and December 2017.
P. K. Dave was an Indian bureaucrat,civil servant,former Chief secretary of Jammu and Kashmir state and 15th lieutenant Governor of Delhi,served in office for over five years from 1992 to 1997.
