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Friday, April 26, 2024
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Topic: IAS

A year on, why Haj Houses have failed to start free UPSC coaching for IAS aspirants

After a record 51 Muslim candidates cleared IAS exam in 2018, Haj committee had announced to start free UPSC coaching for Muslim aspirants across India.

Common foundation course for IAS, IPS officers begins, Modi to address them at Patel statue

2-month training is being imparted to the officers at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie and HRD institute in Hyderabad.

If India is in crisis, it is because good guys like ex-IAS Kannan Gopinathan rather quit

To arrest India’s decline, it is important that the government attract, retain and empower the good guys. Kannan’s leaving is a loss to the government.

India’s DGCA, snubbed globally, is a cosy club of IAS officers with no aviation expertise

In the past decade, India's civil aviation watchdog DGCA has only had IAS officers heading it, none of whom have had real domain expertise. 

Modi govt clamps down on IAS, its association goes conspicuously silent

Pre-Truth — snappy, witty and significant snippets from the world of politics and government.

Of 89 secretaries in Modi govt, there are just 3 STs, 1 Dalit and no OBCs

Minister Jitendra Singh told Lok Sabha that higher entry age of SC/ST/OBCs meant they retired before their batches came up for central govt secretary posts.

TN govt changes 28 IAS, 88 IPS officers in 5 weeks in major bureaucratic reshuffle

While officials are tight-lipped on the transfers, local media has been speculating that some of them could be due the AIADMK's drubbing in the recent parliamentary elections.

RSS affiliate doesn’t want Modi govt officials to attend Huawei 5G conference

In letter to PM Modi, Swadeshi Jagran Manch alleges conflict of interest in govt’s policy-making & conduct of civil servants, to take up other issues too.

India has 60-plus civil services, but Modi govt plans to cut them down to just 3 or 4

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Like his tenure as finance secretary, IAS officer Subhash Garg’s exit was also on own terms

Subhash Garg, after handing charge to his successor Atanu Chakraborty, exited North Block with a broad smile this week.

On Camera

Every time the Congress thinks it has a ‘revolutionary’ idea, it shoots its own foot

From Sam Pitroda talking about inheritance tax to Goan candidate saying the Indian Constitution was 'forced' on Goa, Congress has been having its own foot-in-the-mouth moments.

JP Morgan CEO praises ‘tough leader’ Modi — ‘has taken 400 million people out of poverty’

Jamie Dimon also lauded India's Aadhaar recognition system, broad availability of banking services & country's 'unbelievable' education system & infrastructure.

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.