Ever since the advent of the Liberalisation-Privatisation-Globalisation era in India, in the early nineties, the clarion call has been to privatise everything that belonged to the people and the ...

The decision to recruit professionals from outside the bureaucracy into senior positions of the Indian Administrative Service could be the greatest reform undertaken by the Narendra Modi government.

The government has ruled out lateral entry of professionals into the Indian Administrative Service to make up for the existing shortfall of IAS officers in the country. He said the shortage of IAS ...

Lateral Entry in UPSC: The recent selection of nine private sector professionals as joint secretaries in the Government of India has triggered heated debates. Though specialists had been inducted ...

Lateral Entry into UPSC: Nine professionals from private sector have been recommended for induction into the government as joint secretaries. The Indian bureaucracy is unperturbed by the recent ...

The lateral hiring initiative by the government for the bureaucracy may have stirred up a debate but the number of appointees is insignificant to bridge the gap, especially as India faces a shortage ...

Strange coincidence? Name of education minister Ram Bilas Sharma’s daughter, a medical officer posted in Narnaul, tops the list for two consecutive years through criteria chief secretary-headed ...

The IAS, the elite bureaucrats who are constitutionally required to make every decision of consequence in the country, number only about 5,000 officers. An old joke in Indian policy circles is that ...

A fact-check into social media claims that Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla's daughter Anjali Birla cleared the country's top civil services examination without even appearing for the highly competitive, ...

Sidhu, the daughter-in-law of senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Sikandar Singh Maluka, joined the BJP in the presence of Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri and its national general secretary ...