Dynamic change is needed to transform the system, he said.
An officer of the Indian Administrative Service, who returned to Patna from London recently, has tested positive for swine flu. This is the first confirmed case of the viral disease in Bihar.His test reports received on Monday confirmed that the official had contracted swine flu, health officials said on Tuesday.The officer, who is staying at his official bungalow, has been kept under observation and is being given Tamiflu, they said.
A senior IAS officer, Mohammed had served as chief electoral officer of Uttar Pradesh for nearly eight-and-a-half years.
A top bureaucrat in the home ministry was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in New Delhi on Wednesday for taking a bribe of Rs 50 lakh from a businessman. O Ravi, 54, is a 1983-batch Indian Administrative Service official from the Gujarat cadre. He is currently serving as a joint secretary in the department of disaster management and policy, and has been on central deputation since February 2007. The CBI carried out a raid at Ravi's residence today morning.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh on a PIL challenging the alleged arbitrary and irrational transfers of Indian Administrative Service officers in the state.
A doctor by profession, Karthik Adapa gave up scholarships to Harvard and Cambridge to join the Indian Administrative Services.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday chargesheeted former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, his son and Member of Parliament, Ajay, two Indian Administrative Service officers and 56 others in connection with a scam relating to appointment of over 3,000 junior teachers in the state during 1999-2000.
The EU mission noted that political and campaign fundraising and financial expenditure lack transparency and effective oversight.
The Centre has appointed Navin Chawla as chief election commissioner with effect from April 21, 2009.
The Centre's decision to strip police officers convicted of 'moral turpitude' of medals and awards fuelled a demand by an ex-woman Indian Administrative Service officer on Tuesday that the Padma Shri award be taken back from Punjab's former 'super cop' K P S Gill convicted for molesting her.
Dr Renu Raj cracked the UPSC exams at her very first attempt. 'You should be sensitive to what is happening in society and you will get through the exams,' she tells A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com
The BJP criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his 'silence' over special observer in Bihar during Lok Sabha elections L V Saptarishi's 'unsubstantiated allegations' against two election commissioners.
Nazim confirmed the meeting and said the agenda for the meeting was the request to withdraw troops by March 15.
'This is not China. There is freedom of movement in Kashmir, even in Sikkim. I can go anywhere. But in the SEZs created in my own hinterland I can only enter if I have a pass issued by a civil servant who is appointed as the caretaker of that SEZ,' says Magsaysay Award winner Aruna Roy.
Former Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vijay Kapoor and two former chief secretaries -- Baleshwar Rai of Goa and Arun Kumar of Chhattisgarh -- on Saturday formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Goswami, who was on the run for nearly a month after an arrest warrant was issued against him, has now been suspended from service.
In a sensational case of murder and suicide, a senior Indian Administrative Service officer shot dead his wife, father and two sisters before turning the gun on himself at his residence late on Thursday night. He was reportedly depressed after the Central Bureau of Investigation filed a case against him. A 1983-batch IAS officer, Jagadananda Panda also shot his 22-year-old son Swapneswar, who was critically injured and is battling for his life in a local hospital.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao said his government would conduct a workshop next month to give a final shape to these proposals.
Former commerce secretary Gopal Krishna Pillai on Tuesday took over as the new Union Home Secretary after the superannuation of Madhukar Gupta.
Muizzu's announcement also comes days after a Chinese research vessel spent about a week around Male and more than a month just outside Maldives' EEZ.
A bench of justices D Y Chandrachud and Hima Kohli asked Yediyurappa to implead the Karnataka government in his plea and issued notice to the state.
Indian-Americans are taking over the country, United States President Joe Biden said on Thursday, referring to the high number of people from the community getting a place in his administration.
Duvvuri Subbarao on Monday joined as secretary, department of economic affairs, Ministry of Finance. He belongs to the 1972 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (Andhra Pradesh cadre).
The personnel ministry has decided to amend existing service rules to ensure the availability of a sufficient number of IAS officers for central deputation, officials said on Tuesday.
Indian Administrative Service official Neera Yadav, who was removed from the position of Uttar Pradesh chief secretary on serious charges of corruption by the country's apex court approximately two years ago, sought voluntary premature retirement on Saturday. While she reportedly did not assign any reason for seeking retirement, insiders say that Yadav took the step as she was apprehensive about bigger problems for her in the future. Yadav was due to retire in June 2008.
'He was directly involved in the rarest of rare crimes -- the killing of an IAS officer.'
In the results announced Friday, April 5, as many as 759 candidates including 577 men and 182 women have been selected.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday announced compensation and jobs to the kin of the three civilians who were found dead in Poonch district as a massive search operation was underway to track down terrorists behind the recent ambush on two Army vehicles that left five soldiers dead.
Besides launching initiatives for technological, administrative and infrastructural improvement, Chandrachud, like his illustrious father Y V Chandrachud, who was the Chief Justice of India for the longest time from February 22, 1978 to July 11, 1985, kept delivering significant verdicts in the last one year.
In a rare instance, the home ministry has asked a right of information applicant to prove he is an Indian before disclosing details about the one-member panel looking into the missing files related to the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan.
'We failed as a country because those who should have been there to say goodbye did not show up.'
Lalit Srivastav, chairman of the Noida, Greater Noida and Taj Express Way Authority, was given additional charge as CEO of Greater Noida and Taj Express Way Authority.
Suspended Jharkhand IAS officer Pooja Singhal was paid "commission" by subordinate staff from MGNREGA funds of Khunti district which she and her husband subsequently utilised for acquiring various properties, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) claimed in a statement on Wednesday.
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