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Ahead of 8th Pay Commission, IAS officers elect new body with MeitY secretary at the helm

The newly elected executive committee members include Sriram Taranikanti and A. Anbarasu as vice-presidents and Kunal as secretary and Aditi Singh as treasurer.

Dear Narayana Murthy, LBSNAA & UPSC are doing a fine job. They don’t need corporates

Murthy has a point. Govt can cut costs by hiring gig workers with attendant benefits. The question is, can we outsource elections, census, and disaster management?

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.

Govt cuts short controversial IAS probationer Puja Khedkar’s training, recalls her to LBSNAA

Directions to 2023-batch IAS officer Khedkar come close on heels of report submitted by Maharashtra govt to Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration about her conduct.

VP Dhankhar to visit Dehradun, Mussoorie on April 5

During his visit, the Vice-President will also interact with the faculty members at LBSNAA.

6 books for Doon literature students—why I picked them, what they say about 1900-1947 India

Starting this year, English literature students of Doon University will read Kim by Rudyard Kipling, Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore, A Passage to India by EM Forster, Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand, and Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh.

‘Never knew it happens like this’: Twitter mocks Tamil movie clip on civil service allotment

A clip from the movie Saamy 2 has gone viral as users express amusement over a seemingly inaccurate depiction of the civil services academy and its service allotment process.

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India’s tech ambitions need private sector investment in R&D. Budget 2026 holds the key

India’s private sector remains hesitant to invest in R&D. This is understandable, as the domestic market often fails to reward differentiated technologies adequately.

SEBI green-lights NSE IPO. What exchange’s CEO Ashishkumar Chauhan revealed about next steps

Speaking at ThePrint OTC Thursday, NSE CEO Ashishkumar Chauhan said the exchange has been trying to list itself since 2016, but it couldn’t happen due to one reason or the other.

‘LCA man’ Ravi Kota, key in operationalisation of IAF’s Tejas fleet, picked as next HAL CMD

Mechanical engineer & alumnus of IIM-A & IAS France, Kota was General Manager in HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft division. He was selected from a pool of eight candidates.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.