IAS officer

New Delhi: Odisha-born IAS officer and Secretary in the Department of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Guruprasad Mohapatra died of COVID-19 related complications on Saturday. Condoling Mohapatra’s demise, Prime Minister Narendra Modi…

New Delhi: The Principal Director of  Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), Sharada Subramaniam has been dismissed following serious allegations during a previous stint as Coffee Board's Director of Finance. Although she was dismissed two…

Bhubaneswar: Suspended IAS officer Bijay Ketan Upadhyaya on Tuesday said that he had been framed in the bribery case. While being taken to the Special Vigilance Court, he told mediapersons that some staff of his department, including a top…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Vigilance department has deployed over 100 officials to conduct raids at various places after the arrest of IAS officer Bijay Ketan Upadhyaya, who was suspended as Director of Horticulture, and Santosh Kumar…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Monday suspended 2009-batch IAS officer Bijay Ketan Upadhyaya, who is currently serving as Director of Horticulture. Earlier in the day, Upadhyaya was detained while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1…

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police on Tuesday arrested four persons, including a juvenile, for an alleged break-in and theft at an IAS officer’s house here. The accused has been identified as Dinesh Kumar Gupta, Kartika Sethy and…

Bhubaneswar: Odisha-born bureaucrat Pramod Kumar Mishra on Wednesday took charge as Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mishra was serving as the additional principal secretary in the PMO. On June 12, he was elevated to…

Bhubaneswar: Asit Kumar Tripathy on Monday took charge as the new chief secretary of Odisha. The1986-batch IAS officer took charge from his predecessor Aditya Prasad Padhi, who had resigned on August 14 after assuming office of the State…

Bhubaneswar: Senior IAS officer Asit Tripathy on Thursday said being the chief secretary of a state is a big responsibility. Expressing happiness over his appointment as the chief secretary, he said it is a privilege for any IAS officer to…

Thiruvananthapuram: A 35-year-old journalist was killed when his motorcycle was hit by a car driven by an IAS officer here early on Saturday, police said. Survey Director Sreeram Venkitaraman was driving the car which rammed into K…