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TopicIndian Administrative Service

Topic: Indian Administrative Service

SC stays axing of cheating charges against 8 Haryana officers provisionally elevated to IAS. A 20-yr saga

Stay on HC order puts question mark on promotions of 8 officers named in a 2023 chargesheet for alleged irregularities in their original 2002 selection to Haryana Civil Services.

What’s the controversy behind Nayab Saini govt’s decision to promote 27 HCS officers to IAS

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.

4 revenue secretaries in 4 weeks. Modi govt’s quest for ‘committed bureaucracy’ continues

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.

Only 33% joint secretaries belong to IAS. How the service’s dominance has eroded under Modi govt

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.

Gun-toting IAS trainee vs academy director. 1981 scandal shaped dissent in civil services

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 first undersea map of Ram Setu, courtesy ISRO with help from a NASA satellite

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

More trouble for IAS trainee Puja Khedkar — old video appears to show mother waving gun at farmers

Video circulating on social media appears to show Manorama Khedkar threatening farmers over land dispute in Pune district.

IAS trainee Puja Khedkar’s ‘false’ OBC certificate highlights ‘lapses’ in UPSC, DoPT verification process

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.

Higher intake of IAS officers for 10 years on the cards as Modi govt deliberates internal report

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...

Ex-finance secretary Arvind Mayaram’s tips on reforming IAS — recruitment overhaul, 20-yr service

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’.

On Camera

No amount of welfarism and futurist illusion can remove poverty of Indian people: BS Sanyal

The methods of the welfarist reduce the productivity of human effort and thus affect the welfare of the invalids as well as of the able-bodied. This is a greater injustice, BS Sanyal wrote in 1957.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.