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Friday, August 15, 2025
TopicAll India Services

Topic: All India Services

Amid Centre-state tussle, legal suspense over Jharkhand DGP’s post retirement tenure

Anurag Gupta was due to retire on 30 April, 2025, when he turned 60. However, it remains unclear whether Gupta is working with or without a salary.

Why Maharashtra & UP send fewer IAS, IFS officers on central deputation, while Odisha & AGMUT dominate

Data shows that until October 2024, of the AIS officers working at Centre as secy, additional secy & joint secy, only 7 were from Maharashtra & 12 from UP—2 of the largest cadres of AIS.

Morality, live-ins & ‘Rajasthan’s Ashok Khemka’: Curious case of IPS officer’s unprecedented demotion

In 2019, Choudhary was dismissed from service on the same grounds, but the courts ruled in his favour. He is considered Rajasthan’s 'Ashok Khemka’.

A promised land in limbo. Chief secy to DGP, civil servants await Amaravati plots after Naidu’s return

Around 300 IAS, IPS & Indian Forest Service officers had paid Rs 25 lakh each for a 500-sq.yd plot in Amaravati during Naidu's previous term, before Jagan scrapped the capital project.

Lateral entry is no silver bullet. Works more for NITI Aayog than ministries

The argument that the govt wanted to induct lateral entrants to inject ‘new ideas’ does not cut much ice. Perhaps it was trying to push multiple agendas, but this has backfired.

Modi govt does U-turn on contentious 360-degree appraisal for senior civil servants — ‘no such system’

The evaluation process was started in 2015 for empanelling All India Services & other Central Government Group A officers for the post of joint secretary, additional secretary & secretary.

Women breaking barriers to enter bureaucracy. But UPSC numbers don’t tell the whole truth

More than 34% of CSE 2022 candidates recommended for public appointment are women, the highest-ever figure. But the barriers in bureaucracy remain.

HC’s ruling on ‘services’ — how it’s different from pending L-G vs Delhi govt case in SC

Delhi HC, while upholding termination of a former OSD to Delhi assembly Speaker, said latter can't create a post or make appointments to a post in the secretariat. 

Odisha IAS-IPS officers ‘politicians in disguise’, says BJP, after visit to ‘congratulate’ CM

Chief secy & DGP led officials to CM’s house to congratulate him on BJD’s civic polls win. But chief secy says visit, 1st after Covid, was to update Naveen Patnaik on projects.

Retd IAS officers aren’t bound by any code of conduct. There should be no room for them in CMO

Gujarat under Narendra Modi started it, India now must end the CMO culture of letting retired IAS officers in.

On Camera

Dismiss debate on EC functioning as ‘hoo-haa’, then hail India as ‘robust democracy’

The Election Commission's arrogant functioning and its failure to ensure the integrity and fairness of elections could well be the undoing of India’s electoral democracy.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

President awards 1st set of Sarvottam Yudh Seva medals since Kargil, 7 honoured for leading Op Sindoor

This year, the Indian Air Force received four of the seven awards, followed by the Indian Army with two medals, and the Indian Navy with one. 

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.