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TopicCivil servant

Topic: Civil servant

2 transfers in 1 year: Meet B Ashok, the Kerala IAS officer who’s had run-ins with both UDF & LDF

Thiruvananthapuram: “An officer should only be worried if career has been a smooth sail through the backwaters,” B.Ashok said, shrugging off his latest faceoff with...

Decorated civil servant & spearhead of key Modi govt initiatives, Amitabh Kant resigns as G20 Sherpa

'Fascinating experience', he says, describing his 45-year stint in the government, as he looks forward to beginning a 'new chapter'.

Civil servants have long been favoured as RBI chief. Modi govt just has a better reason for it

Interestingly, the only governments that did not appoint a civil servant as the RBI governor were those led by Morarji Desai, Indira Gandhi in her second stint, and P V Narasimha Rao.

‘Puja Khedkar story is the opposite of mine’—they cleared UPSC but didn’t get the job

The 8-year-old legal battle has left such candidates fatigued. Many have had a hard time all these years explaining their non-selection to relatives and society.

Modi’s economic advisor red-flags ‘illegal temple’ in elite IAS officers’ colony in Delhi

Seeking action, EAC-PM member Ratan Watal has said in his letter to Modi govt that the temple is sitting on state land worth Rs 20-30 crore.

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.