The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has decided to commence from August 2 the interviews for the civil services examination, 2020, which were deferred due to a surge in Covid-19 cases, accordin...

The Covid narrative has become bare and impoverished both as policy and story. It has become arid as a technical answer to a technical question. One needs to broaden it out so it has a sense of an eth...

An IAS and four IPS officers in Bengal were removed on Thursday by the Election Commission, two days ahead of the first phase of polling, officials said. Additional Director-General (West Zone) Sanja...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that no “extra attempt” or “age relaxation” could be granted to candidates for the 2021 civil services exams, rejecting a plea that adequat...

In a first, three students of St. Xavier’s School, Hazaribagh successfully cracked the prestigious UPSC examination this year. The trio, Dipankar Choudhary, Abhimanyu Kumar and Anurag Diwvedi, ...

In the January of 1948 Sardar Saran Singh, a young resident of New Delhi, was going almost every day to Birla House where Gandhiji would conduct his prayer meetings. Singh had just taken the Indian Ad...

Deputy development commissioner Vijaya Jadhav, a 2015-batch IAS officer, on Monday asked students to develop a reading habit, which she said is the “real strength” in cracking the goals of life. O...

Anil Swarup’s future was decided the day he was born. “My father had fulfilled his father’s dream of becoming an engineer and I had to fulfil his dream of me becoming an IAS officer,” he says....

What ails the Indian Administrative Service? This is precisely the question that has been raised in the book by N.C. Saxena, a role-model IAS officer who helped stop Vedanta’s mining project from de...

The Union home ministry’s decades-old Jammu and Kashmir division is likely to be shut down as the state has been bifurcated into two Union territories — Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.“There is ev...