The list of 27 Haryana Civil Services officers who are being promoted includes 12 from the 2002 HCS batch, one from the 2003 batch, and 14 from the 2004 batch.
PM Modi evidently reposes more faith in serving and retired bureaucrats than in politicians. IAS officers must, however, be taking it with a pinch of salt.
RTI response reveals that only 80 of 236 joint secretaries at Centre are from IAS. Officers attribute trend to deliberate attempt under Modi govt to cut the service down to size.
In 1981, a drunk IAS probationer terrorised peers with a gun during a Himalayan trek. When Home Ministry didn’t act, academy head PS Appu quit in protest, setting off storm in Parliament.
The 2023 batch IAS officer had allegedly submitted an OBC non-creamy layer certificate. Centre has constituted a committee to inquire into the matter and verify her candidature claims.
New Delhi: The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) is assessing an internal report, which has recommended an increase in the recruitment of IAS officers...
In a research paper, Mayaram writes there's a need to ‘right-size’ Indian Administrative Service & ‘declutter the top’ which has ‘too many senior officers with very little to do’.
Armenia has procured significant defence equipment from India, including artillery guns, multi-barrel rocket launchers, air defence system, sniper rifles, weapons locating radars, anti-drone weapons.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
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