DELHI GETS NEW CHIEF SECRETARY AFTER PRAKASH GOES TO CENTRE

NEW DELHI : Vijay Dev, a 1987 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh,goa, Mizoram, Union Territories) cadre, will be the next chief secretary of Delhi. Dev will succeed Anshu Prakash, who was transferred to the Union ministry of telecommunications on November 17. The appointment was confirmed by a senior official in the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA). Dev, an electrical engineer, is currently posted as the chief electoral officer (CEO) of Delhi, his second stint as the top official in the national capital’s poll panel. Before being appointed CEO, Delhi, in March 2016, Dev was posted as the advisor to the then administrator of Chandigarh Kaptan Singh Solanki since December 2014. The administrator in Chandigarh, a union territory, is the governor of Punjab and Haryana. The elected Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government of Delhi led by Arvind Kejriwal has been at loggerheads with outgoing chief secretary Prakash..

Herald House: HC reserves order on plea against ruling

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Thursday reserved its order on the Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) plea challenging the Central government’s October 30 direction asking it to vacate the Herald House. Justice Sunil Gaur extended the high court’s interim direction to maintain status quo till his further orders. The court was hearing AJL plea alleging that the Centre was “illegally, unconstitutionally, arbitrarily and in a deliberate attempt” trying “to suppress and destroy the legacy of first Prime