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How Indian postal service officers keep beating IAS, IPS to top posts

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

IAS Association activates idle welfare fund to help colleagues fight coal scam taint

Sanya Dhingra -
The IAS Association has thrown its weight behind former coal secretary H.C. Gupta and two others convicted in the coal block allocation scam.

An IAS officer writes about how he rebuilt Ayodhya after Babri Masjid demolition

Vijay Shankar Pandey -
Within a month or so of Babri demolition, all the damaged mosques in Ayodhya were restored to their original state.

Two women IAS officers in Punjab are spreading warmth among poor children

Chitleen K Sethi -
Raji P. Srivastava and Kavita Singh started a programme to contribute old blankets, clothes and books, and have been able to help over 500 children so far.

India needs Reforms 2.0 to save both bureaucracy and good IAS officers like H.C. Gupta

Nitin Pai -
Hope that the judiciary wakes up to the travesty of convicting good civil servants like H.C. Gupta.

Unethical for IAS officers to join politics ahead of polls or do they make for good netas?

ThePrint Team -
Senior Odisha-cadre IAS officer Aparajita Sarangi, who had sought voluntary retirement in September, joined the BJP last week. Joining the party just before the...

H.C. Gupta’s conviction in coal scam case will force IAS officers to play safe

Anil Swarup -
Despite being castigated and pilloried over the years, India’s IAS officers have performed well.

More & more IAS & IPS officers are retiring early to join politics – just before elections

Sanya Dhingra -
While many ex-bureaucrats & diplomats have succeeded in politics before, this phenomenon of joining parties just before elections has grown in recent times.

From UPSC to RAW chief, Indian postal service officers keep beating IAS, IPS to top posts

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
The IPoS was expected to die out along with traditional mail but it is reinventing itself, to remain a relevant part of Indian bureaucracy.

New UPSC chief Arvind Saxena among the few non-IAS officers heading recruiting body

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
Since 1949, 14 of the 25 chairpersons of the UPSC have been from the IAS, IPS and IFS.
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Opinion

Pakistan is bluffing. There’s no proof for $6 trillion mineral wealth claim

Pranay Kotasthane -
The minerals that Pakistan purports to offer to the US are either in quantities too small to matter, of a type that the US does not need, or would be much more easily sourced from other partners.

Moon madness has taken over modern dating. A waning crescent is the best time to ghost

Bihar’s Opposition parties are looking at migration the wrong way

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Economy

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Udit Bubna -
Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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