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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission (now replaced by NITI Aayog), has backed the lateral entry into the government but noted that it creates certain resentment ...

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 ...

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, ...

The political sphere in Punjab was stirred by controversy as a 2011-batch IAS officer Parampal Kaur Sidhu on Thursday officially joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alongside her husband Gurpreet ...