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Monday, September 1, 2025
TopicGovernment jobs

Topic: government jobs

Vishwa Tharoor & curious case of missing 46th US President

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

BJP attacks Telangana govt for Ramzan work concession. Didn’t NDA do the same in Andhra, says Congress

Amit Malviya brought Telangana circular on a one-hour relaxation for Muslim employees during Ramzan to public notice. But, the party has been silent on a similar memo by the Naidu govt.

SC judgment pierces the smoke screen on Centre’s ‘right’ to prematurely retire govt staff

Unlike departmental disciplinary proceedings, which ensure that officers have adequate opportunities to defend their cases, no such provisions exist for employees facing premature retirement under FR 56(j).

Govt jobs are changing. PSU bank staff live in pressure cooker, 9-5 replaced by 24×7

Government bank employees sell mutual funds, insurance and just never log out. They have steeper targets and ‘performer of the month’ award to chase too.

Urdu is the ticket to a govt job in this Rajasthan village. Even more than English

‘There’s not a single Muslim student’ here. Sidra village has become the region’s Urdu ‘influencer’.

In a 1st, UP uses AI against paper leaks & cheating in recruitment exam for police constables

Facial recognition, behavioural monitoring & making papers with AI helped UP govt catch 530 cases of cheating & impersonation. Its aim is a framework with 'zero human involvement.

A crime-infested Rajasthan village is called IAS factory today. Next goal: more women officers

Nayabas was notorious as a village of criminals until the 1970s. Now, about 500 people from here hold govt jobs, including 10 UPSC officers and over two dozen in state services.

Plum govt posts for ‘son, daughter, niece, governor’s secy’ — what’s the Chhattisgarh PSC scam case

Relatives & acquaintances of Congress leaders, civil servants, businessmen & even secretary of governor are also alleged to have been appointed from 2020 to 2022 during Baghel's rule.

All about NRA, govt recruitment body that’s never conducted exam, now set to draft anti-paper leak SOP

Set up 4 yrs ago to conduct Common Eligibility Test for non-gazetted posts, National Recruitment Agency was once hailed as a 'historic reform' that would ease process for aspirants.

Bangladesh shuts universities, colleges indefinitely after anti-quota student protests kill 6

Amid high unemployment, students are rallying against 30% reservation in govt jobs for freedom fighters of the 1971 war.

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.