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Rajya Sabha polls returning officer who was branded ‘BJP agent’ among 23 IAS transferred in Haryana

Pankaj Agarwal, a 2000 batch IAS officer, was accused of being 'biased and predetermined' by the opposition Congress in the RS polls.

5 reasons to lower eligibility age for taking civil services exam. UPSC needs young people

Those who join beyond the age of 30 have limited chances of making it to the apex scale, irrespective of the service they join.

Not IAS or IPS, it’s the IFS that’s facing a crunch. Over one-third of posts lying vacant

The Union government informed the Rajya Sabha that a total of 2,834 All India Services posts were vacant across states.

Bail for 2 Telugu TV journalists arrested for ‘defamatory content’ on woman IAS & Telangana minister

Journalist associations accused Congress govt of carrying out 'witch hunt'. Police action came after news channel NTV aired an apology.

Angry protesting students call IAS Tina Dabi ‘reel star’. She says ‘non-issue created for a viral moment’

Dabi, who has often found herself at the centre of controversies owing to her popularity on social media, is an IAS of Rajasthan cadre. She is currently serving as Barmer collector.

All IAS, IPS officers can’t reach top positions. Many perks, few drawbacks is nature of the job

Promotion in the All India Services is time-bound, and nearly all officers reach the top of the scale. The creature comforts that come with the posts are also available to all officers.

Now in Congress, Gopinathan says govt never accepted resignation. What rules say on IAS officers quitting

Though it has been six years since he resigned from the IAS, the govt has not accepted his resignation, Kannan Gopinathan told ThePrint. He joined the Congress Monday.

UPSC Civil Services Exam has been reduced to a memory test. That’s not how you select officers

India’s civil services were once called the ‘steel frame’. But steel is forged in fire, not moulded in a coaching class. While dilution has made the exam easier, it has also made it harder to find the game-changers we need.

A UP minister’s son’s ‘fan moment’ with Rahul Gandhi & EC’s media blitz amid ‘vote chori’

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

2 transfers in 1 year: Meet B Ashok, the Kerala IAS officer who’s had run-ins with both UDF & LDF

Thiruvananthapuram: “An officer should only be worried if career has been a smooth sail through the backwaters,” B.Ashok said, shrugging off his latest faceoff with...

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How West Asia crisis can play out for PM Modi and BJP in Assembly polls

While the Russia-Ukraine war saw the BJP projecting PM Modi as a ‘vishwaguru’ who could end international conflicts, the party has made a nuanced shift in its electoral strategy vis-à-vis the West Asia war.

Foreign investors dump record $12 bn India stocks in March on war

Soaring energy costs have hurt oil-importing Asian peers, but the scale of outflows from India points to already bearish global sentiment.

India developing lethal autonomous weapon systems, database of citizens’ crime risk—House Panel report

Report on impact of AI emergence—drawing upon depositions from several ministries—confirms that the developments come in the absence of AI laws or considerations over them.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.