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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Topic: IPS

How IAS, IPS, IRS and other associations have lost their voice under Modi govt

The associations are meant to support officers and voice their grievances, but they’ve hardly addressed any issue — be it reforms or high-profile resignations.

No pay parity with IPS yet, govt to grant rank benefit to a section of armed police

Central Armed Police Forces officers are outraged as MHA office memorandum says grant of Non-Functional Selection Grade will only be extended to director rank.

Lynching becomes heart attack, victim pays not rapist & rope turns snake in police-neta raj

The police-politician nexus isn’t new. But it has worsened dramatically and IPS has now lost its moral and professional centre of gravity.

Relax rules for CAPF officers and give them pay parity with IPS, DoPT tells home ministry

The Department of Personnel and Training has recommended that Central Armed Police Force officers be given Non-Functional Financial Upgradation.

CAPFs won’t upgrade their Recruitment Rules for pay parity with IPS officers

If the RRs are amended, then the lateral deputation of IPS officers in the CAPFs would end eventually. All the forces are currently headed by IPS officers.

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.

Media portrayal of women officers unrealistic, causes wrong perception: IPS Rema Rajeshwari

At ThePrint's Democracy Wall event in Hyderabad, Rema Rajeshwari stressed the need for states to provide affirmative action to encourage women to join IPS.

How one line in a Supreme Court order has led to a clash between IPS & CAPF officers

Confusion stems from a February 2019 ruling, in which SC said the 'grant of status of Group 'A' Central Services to RPF shall not affect (the deputation of) the IPS'.

Armed police forces allege foul play by IPS, take grievances to Ram Madhav and Om Birla

Meetings with Ram Madhav and Om Birla came in the backdrop of several letters written by CAPF officers earlier to Home Minister Amit Shah.

IAS officers from Assam-Meghalaya cadre dominate Modi govt, not UP, Bihar or Gujarat

Officers, however, say that this is because states in the North-East are seen as 'punishment' or 'condemned' postings.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

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.