Retd. IAS officer JC Lynn passes away
Bengaluru: J.C. Lynn passed away at 9:30pm (Thursday 15th April) at St. Philomena's Hospital where he had been in the ICU for the past 10 days battling a COPD exacerbation from which he has been suffering these last few years.
J.C. Lynn (IAS retd) served a Chief Secretary to the Govt of Karnataka between 1992 and 1994. In a career spanning 34 years, he held several important positions in the State and Central Governments. He had served as Secretary to three Chief Ministers, Veerendra Patil, D. Deveraj Urs and briefly of R. Gundu Rao holding the post for ten years. He also held the posts of Home and Industries Secretaries to the Govt of Karnataka, before being appointed Chairman of Karnataka Road Transport Corporation KSRTC and simultaneously as Chairman of the KSTDC, before being posted to Delhi, where he served in the Departments of Coal and Personnel before being appointed Chairman of the Food Corporation of India in the rank of Secretary to the Government of India.
He was recalled to serve as Chief secretary to the Government of Karnataka by Chief Minister Veerappa Moily in 1992 until his retirement from service in December 1994. After his retirement he was appointed as the first Ombudsman of the RBI in Karnataka, a post he held till 1998. J.C. Lynn is widely regarded as an officer of impeccable integrity, who set high standards and was well respected by members of all the Civil Services, especially during his tenure as Establishment Officer in the Ministry of Personnel, Govt of India between 1988 to 1990, where his policies on criteria for selection to key bureaucratic posts became the norm for promotions and appointments to top management of PSUs and the selection of personnel on Central deputation. As KSRTC Chairman between 1981 and 1983 he expanded the Transport network by sanctioning the building of bus stations in remote areas as well as the construction of the Subhas Nagar Bus Terminus opposite City Station.
As the Secretary to Devaraj Urs in the 1970s he was instrumental in setting up the Somanahalli leper project in association with the Archbishop of Bangalore. This was after the lepers had made a fervent representation before the Chief Minister. He played an important role in establishing Bangalore on the IT map of India, first as Industries Secretary in 1983-84 and then as Chief Secretary between 1992 to 1994. J.C. Lynn was a proud Bangalorean, who was the first student of St. Joseph's Boys high school to enter the Civil Services in Independent India in 1960. He had been a brilliant student in school holding an unbroken record of 617 out of 700 in the Senior Cambridge examination of 1952 which remained unchallenged until the school adopted a new examination system.
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President Trump in 'freefall', says fan-turned-critic podcaster Alex Jones
'Advises' Republicans to stay away from Trump while campaigning for midterm polls
Washington DC: Podcaster Alex Jones has reportedly claimed in his programme, 'The Alex Jones Show', that US President Donald Trump was in 'freefall', suggesting that it was best for Republican candidates to distance themselves from the President while campaigning for the upcoming midterm polls.
According to US media agencies, Jones, who was identified as a strong supporter of the President during his first term but a major critic of Trump in the recent months. He has reportedly criticized all of Trump's moves, from the attacks on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to the President's health, not to mention the government's handling of the documents relating to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
On the Tuesday edition of his show, Jones was found to be all the more vehement in his criticism of Trump, and was heard opining that the President looked sick. “When your ankles swell up three times the size they were before, that means heart failure. And he does look sick. And he does babble and, you know, sound like the brain’s not doing too hot,” said Jones. “And so we just cut bait on Trump, and we just mobilize against the Democrats.”
The podcaster also spoke about his father’s decline due to dementia, adding that Trump too was deteriorating in a similar manner and advising the President to take a holiday.
“Not the man he was that last year. And that– we need to be sad about Trump. This is not funny. This is not good. But he’s gone. And that’s it,” said Jones. “And all the people rallied around him, you can see, [Pete] Hegseth’s freaked out. You can see, the press secretary’s freaked out. They’re being loyal. They think it’s a lesser of two evils. And I, okay, but I just– Trump needs intervention. He needs to take some time off.”
Referring to the approval rate of merely 33 per cent for the President during the new election from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the podcaster pointed out that Trump's popularity had fallen from 56 per cent and advised Republicans to keep away from Trump.
As reported by The Independent, the White House firmly denied in an official statement that Jones' claim that the President's health condition was waning.
“This is a complete b****t story that’s being desperately told to boost podcast views,” spokesperson Davis Ingle said. “The truth is that President Trump is the sharpest and most accessible President in American history who is working nonstop to solve problems and deliver on his promises, and he remains in excellent health.”
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