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Why IAS, IPS and IRS officers are feeling vulnerable under Modi govt

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

   
IAS officers of the 2017 batch

IAS officers of the 2017 batch | Representational image | Praveen Jain | ThePrint

And then they came for me — IAS, IPS officers are sharing fears in WhatsApp groups

Hounding of senior officers, protests across the country and attempts — perceived and real — to change the constitutional ethos of the country have sparked a kind of unrest among civil servants, reports Sanya Dhingra.

Why Modi gets away with Maybach specs, Rs 10 lakh suit but Rahul with Burberry jacket can’t

It’s not ‘what’ Narendra Modi wears, it’s ‘why’ he chooses to dress the way he does that seems more subliminally political in its intent, writes Zainab Sikander.

5 Bollywood movies that should not have been made this decade

From Thugs of Hindostan to Sanju, Samira Sood lists five Bollywood films from the last decade you can give a miss.

Arvind Kejriwal’s start-up AAP is the political ‘Unicorn’ of the decade

AAP broke through entry barriers for newcomers in our politics — caste, ethnicity, ideology, dynasty — to establish itself as a Delhi party with all-India recognition, writes Shekhar Gupta.

This is how many foreign trips Rahul Gandhi makes every month — and misses all the action

Since 2015, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has travelled abroad at least 247 times — an average of 62 trips in a year, which amounts to five a month, reports Ananya Bhardwaj.

Bangladesh wants ‘written’ assurance from India that it won’t send immigrants after CAA

The political leadership in Bangladesh is concerned that India may now “push” Muslim immigrants deemed illegal under CAA across the border, reports Nayanima Basu.

‘Make chai, not war’ – Imran Khan’s message that almost won him the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize

Naila Inayat takes a look back at an eventful 2019 as things went south between India and Pakistan on multiple occasions.