Tag: Secretary

Reshuffle in top bureaucracy, Srinivas new Corporate Affairs Secretary

New Delhi: The government on Wednesday made 13 high-level bureaucratic changes, appointing Ajay Narayan Jha as Secretary, Department of Expenditure in the Finance Ministry and Injeti Srinivas as Secretary, Corporate Affairs Ministry. The Appointments Committee of Cabinet also approved appointment of Health Secretary C. K. Mishra as Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
US health secretary resigns over private jet trips

Washington: US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price resigned on Friday, said the White House. Price offered his resignation earlier Friday and President Donald Trump accepted, White House Press Secretary said in a statement. “The President intends to designate Don J. Wright of Virginia to serve as Acting Secretary, effective at 11.59 p.m. […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
Chakkada
'Chakada' returns to haunt Odisha farmers

Bhubaneswar/Sambalpur: After crops in over 1.10 lakh acres of farmland across the state were affected due to brown plant hoppers last year, farmers expected that the Odisha government would come up with plans to prevent such pest attack. However, it seems that the government has learnt nothing from the ‘Chakada (brown plant hopper)’ menace that […]

  • Thursday, 01 July 2021
SEC
Govt appoints Defence Secy, Secy to Lokpal, Secy in defence production dept

New Delhi: The government on Wednesday appointed Ajay Kumar as Defence Secretary, Brij Kumar Agarwal as Secretary to the Lokpal and Subash Chandra as Secretary of Department of Defence Production. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved the appointments. Kumar, who has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Defence […]

  • Monday, 26 April 2021
Excellence
Concerns Raised Over Operation Of Centres Of Excellence In Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Concerned over the functioning of centres of excellence under different varsities of Odisha, the Higher Education Department today held a meeting with the vice-chancellors of different government universities and officials of the World Bank. During the meeting, Higher Education Secretary Saswat Mishra sought information on the utilisation of funds received from the World Bank […]

  • Sunday, 25 April 2021
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