Know the Indian civil servants scaling Mt Everest; IPS Association quizzes who’s the first IPS to achieve it?

AS THIS article being written, IPS Association’s Twitter quiz on the first IPS officer to climb the Mount Everest is presently on. The quiz is: “We all know that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the 1st men to climb on the #MountEverest and Avtar Singh Cheema was the 1st #Indian to climb Mount Everest…#DoYouknow who was the 1st IPS officer to climb #MountEverest?”. The options provided are,  GR Radhika, Suhail Sharma, Aparna Kumar and Atul Karwal. And the voting is presently on. As the season of reaching the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak by climbers across the world is in the news, this…

More about Aparna Kumar, first woman IPS to scale Mt Everest; home minister calls it a “proud moment"

2002 BATCH UP cadre IPS officer Ms Aparna Kumar has become India’s first woman police officer to scale the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest. The DIG-ranked officer who had earlier conquered the highest peak in the Antarctica too, on Saturday morning scaled the Everest and hoisted the Indian Tricolour. “A proud moment for our police forces as Ms Aparna Kumar becomes the first female IPS officer to scale Mount Everest”, commented Union home minister Rajnath Singh in social media site Twitter. In January this year, Aparna Kumar became the country's first civil servant to...