PM urges young IAS officers to bring in new ideas

A section of 2017 batch IAS being appointed as assistant secretaries

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged the newly-appointed GoI assistant secretaries to bring in new ideas and approaches to the government, adding that the confluence of experience and freshness would be beneficial to the system. Here below is what PM told the young IAS officers:

IPS, a pillar that represents continuity, says President Kovind

IDEAL police system is one where a citizen gets services from the police without visiting the police station, President Ram Nath Govind told the 2017 batch IPS officer-trainees. President Govind interacted with the young officer-trainees in New Delhi’s Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday. Here below are the details of what Govind had said:

3 New IAS Couples: Who are they; and which partner opts for cadre change

Nitin Gaur-Saumya Pandey (Photo: A YouTube video grab)

THE government’s personnel department, DoPT, on Tuesday gave its nod to cadre change of three IAS officers on the ground of marriage. Whereas one officer changes cadre from Manipur to Maharashtra, the other two officers change their cadres from AGMUT to Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh to Uttar Pradesh. The three IAS couples are the following:

“For you, it is important to read between the lines”; President Kovind’s 10 advices to young diplomats

Young diplomats of 2017 batch IFS while listening to the Prez

PRESIDENT of India Ram Nath Kovind has asked the country's youngest diplomats to master the art of nuances, understand subtleties and read between the lines. While addressing the officer-trainees of the 2017 batch of Indian Foreign Service at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday, the President also asked them to learn more than one foreign languages. Here below are 10 advices of President Kovind to the young diplomats:

2017 batch IFS officer trainees complete training course; it's time to get posted across the world

Indian Foreign Service officer trainees of 2017 batch are getting ready to be full diplomats. Last week, the training at the Foreign Service Institute ended with external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj addressing them at the valedictory function of the induction training programme. Indian Foreign Service officer trainees of 2017 batch and Bhutanese diplomats were trained together. Ten days ago, these young would-be-diplomats met…

2017 batch IAS Ms Anju Arun Kumar transferred to MP cadre on grounds of marriage; IES Chanchal Sarkar appointed director at SAARC Secretariat, Nepal

THE government has transferred 2017 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS Anju Arun Kumar from Tamil Nadu to Madhya Pradesh cadre on the grounds of marriage to 2014 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS Arun Kumar Vishwakarma. A B.Tech from NIT Calicut, Anju was first selected as an IRS before getting into IAS. The government has also given its nod for inter-cadre deputation of...