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Topic: IAS officers

Haryana’s Rs 645-crore IDFC bank fraud probe reaches the IAS, 8 officers in CBI crosshairs

The Haryana govt has granted Section 17-A sanction for five IAS officers to be interrogated by CBI, while a fresh application has been moved for three more.

For love & Lutyens: Haryana, the dream posting for India’s civil service power couples after marriage

Among latest is IPS Aditi Singh, who served as SP in Himachal's Vigilance & Anti-Corruption Bureau. Her cadre was transferred to Haryana on grounds of her marriage to IAS Vivek Arya.

Where are the UPSC toppers of the last 20 years in their careers today?

Topping the UPSC civil services exam turns candidates into overnight celebrities. A look at the careers of 20 IAS officers who secured AIR-1.

How IAS-IPS officers turned PESA, FRA, TRIFED into tools against Naxalism

There are many unsung heroes of India's anti-Naxal victory. Home Ministry's SAMADHAN framework gained acceptance because of their efforts.

The towel in sarkari offices. Why Indian govt officers can’t do without them

The Uttar Pradesh secretariat in Lucknow reportedly replaces around 1,000 towels twice a week on Monday and Thursday.

Transfers of IAS-IPS officers in poll-bound states shows ECI’s highhandedness

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Big heads roll after IDFC First bank ‘scam’ in Haryana: Saini govt suspends two senior IAS officers

Haryana chief secretary Anurag Rastogi issued the order suspending Pradeep Kumar of the 2011 batch and Ram Kumar Singh of the 2012 batch.

120 ‘premature’ transfers in a year: How Haryana shredded Supreme Court’s tenure rules for IAS officers

The Civil Services Board’s annual report to the Centre exposes systematic violation of the two-year minimum posting norm, with officers shifted in weeks.

Madhya Pradesh IAS officers deny using AI-generated images to win National Water Award amid row

Khandwa District Collector Rishav Gupta and District Panchayat CEO Dr Nagarjun B. Gowda have dismissed the row as fake and generated by confusion over portal.

For Andhra Pradesh’s all-season IAS Praveen Prakash, Naidu-Jagan rivalry cost him his career

Prakash took VRS in 2024 after he found himself without a posting in Naidu govt. He says he was also denied central deputation, reflecting on politicisation of Indian bureaucracy.

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Petrol, diesel prices hiked by Rs 3 per litre as Centre moves to ease OMC losses

The hike comes amid soaring global energy costs, with government citing mounting under-recoveries and fiscal pressure on state-run oil firms

Drones no longer enablers, they’re replacing manned aircraft roles—CISC Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit

Speaking at IAF think-tank seminar, Air Marshal Dixit was backed by Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh, who said unmanned aerial systems are no longer just the eyes in the sky but ‘claws in the sky’.

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.