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TopicIAS Officer

Topic: IAS Officer

Harvard awards IAS officer who had scored 171 out of 170 in macroeconomics last year

Ankur Garg, who got Raymond Vernon Award for Commitment to International Development, says it adds value 'because I was representing India at the top international university'.

Threat to ‘personal safety’: Haryana IAS officer, who had accused boss of harassment, resigns

IAS officer Rani Nagar accused her then senior of sexual harassment in 2018, and wrote on Facebook last month that her life had been in constant danger.

‘Shocked and sad’: IAS Awanish Sharan after seeing his photo with suicide news on Hindi portal

Chhattisgarh's Kabirdham District Collector Awanish Sharan tweeted that the suicide news is not related to him and he was shocked to see it.

This 56-year-old IAS officer is the brain behind Bhilwara model of fighting Covid-19

Rajendra Bhatt isn’t ready to declare victory over coronavirus just yet, despite no new cases in 10 days. He says the Bhilwara model was ‘no rocket science’.

BN Yugandhar, ex-IAS officer and Satya Nadella’s father, had little patience for red-tapism

B.N. Yugandhar was a top bureaucrat in the Narasimha Rao govt and a Planning Commission member in 2004-09. He died Friday at the age of 82.

BJP MP Anantkumar Hegde tells IAS officer ‘to go to Pakistan’ for resigning from service

Hegde said Sasikanth Senthil's resignation from the Karnataka IAS was an act of arrogance, and called for the govt to take action against him.

Now, IAS officer posted in NITI Aayog quits over transfer to northeast

An AGMUT-cadre officer, Kashish Mittal quit after he was transferred to Arunachal Pradesh. His resignation is the fourth among IAS officers in recent weeks.

Karnataka IAS officer quits, says democracy being compromised, can’t be business as usual

Dakshina Kannada district deputy commissioner S. Sasikanth Senthil submits resignation, says ‘unethical to continue as civil servant’.

‘Disillusioned’ after J&K crisis, IAS officer quits service. Gets trolled as anti-national

G. Kannan, a 2012-batch officer, was lauded for his flood relief efforts in Kerala last year. He said his resignation was ‘an appeal to his own conscience’.

Delhi HC orders Bihar govt to pay Rs 5 lakh to IAS officer it ‘harassed’, orders his transfer

HC says Bihar govt caused “immense humiliation and harassment” to Dr Jitendra Gupta, a 2013-batch IAS officer, who took on the 'traffic mafia'.

On Camera

India’s think tanks double up as lobbyists, give no disclosures. Hurt policymaking

Many 'independent' reports, intended to shape policies, are sponsored by industry groups or entities with deep pockets and vested interests. This process must become transparent.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.