Rk Dutta

By-elections in Chennai's RK Nagar constituency -- to be held on Wednesday - have been cancelled by the Election Commission a day after cash-for-votes allegations surfaced.

Delhi police chief Alok Verma apparently leads the shortlist of contenders for the post of the Chief of Central Bureau of Investigation, sources said after a three-member committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi met this evening. Sources said Mr Verma had got two out of three votes - that of PM Modi and Chief Justice of India JS Khehar, but th...

The Prime Minister's Office has responded to the letter of Congress's Mallikarjun Kharge, which alleged that the appointment of CBI's acting chief Rakesh Asthana was made without a meeting of a selection committee so the charge can be given to a junior officer as RK Dutta, its Special Director, was transferred to the home ministry. The Prime Minist...

The transfer on Wednesday evening of a CBI officer RK Dutta to another department of the Home Ministry stunned bureaucratic circles. Not because he was the senior-most in line to be the next CBI chief - that frequently happens if the government wants another officer in the post - but because Mr Dutta was in charge of investigations in the coal allo...

Media mogul Subhash Chandra, an independent candidate backed by the BJP, scored an unexpected win in the Rajya Sabha elections today after 14 Congress votes were declared invalid. Union Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh took the other seat in the state.

Former TERI Director General RK Pachauri, accused of sexual harassment by a younger colleague, has been allowed by a Delhi court to travel abroad between August 21 and September 1 to attend a global climate meet in China and Japan.

Ajay Mathur, who has replaced RK Pachauri as the new chief of The Energy Research Institute or TERI, has said that ensuring that employees can work without worry about "other issues" will be his priority.

By-elections in Chennai's RK Nagar constituency -- to be held on Wednesday - have been cancelled by the Election Commission a day after cash-for-votes allegations surfaced.

Delhi police chief Alok Verma apparently leads the shortlist of contenders for the post of the Chief of Central Bureau of Investigation, sources said after a three-member committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi met this evening. Sources said Mr Verma had got two out of three votes - that of PM Modi and Chief Justice of India JS Khehar, but th...

The Prime Minister's Office has responded to the letter of Congress's Mallikarjun Kharge, which alleged that the appointment of CBI's acting chief Rakesh Asthana was made without a meeting of a selection committee so the charge can be given to a junior officer as RK Dutta, its Special Director, was transferred to the home ministry. The Prime Minist...

The transfer on Wednesday evening of a CBI officer RK Dutta to another department of the Home Ministry stunned bureaucratic circles. Not because he was the senior-most in line to be the next CBI chief - that frequently happens if the government wants another officer in the post - but because Mr Dutta was in charge of investigations in the coal allo...

Media mogul Subhash Chandra, an independent candidate backed by the BJP, scored an unexpected win in the Rajya Sabha elections today after 14 Congress votes were declared invalid. Union Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh took the other seat in the state.

Former TERI Director General RK Pachauri, accused of sexual harassment by a younger colleague, has been allowed by a Delhi court to travel abroad between August 21 and September 1 to attend a global climate meet in China and Japan.

Ajay Mathur, who has replaced RK Pachauri as the new chief of The Energy Research Institute or TERI, has said that ensuring that employees can work without worry about "other issues" will be his priority.