Ethics to Leadership: List of 13 training programmes IAS, IPS, IFoS etc. need to undertake in FY 2017-18

FROM investigating economic crimes in financial markets and inner engineering leadership programme to subjects like ethics in public services, the All India Service (IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service officers), Group 'A' officers working under Central Staffing Scheme and officers belonging to Central Secretariat Service (CSS) etc. will be imparted one-week-long in-service training this fiscal, 2017-18. The training will be imparted in various institutes across India — Coimbatore-based Isha (Foundation) Yoga Centre and Bengaluru-based Art of Living Foundation to institutes such as Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. The following is the list of the programmes and the names of the institutes where the training sessions will be held:

UPSC releases sample paper on “ethics”. Want to try it out? Full Paper here

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FROM this year, IAS aspirants will have to take a compulsory paper on “Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude” in civil services (mains) examination. And on Tuesday, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) that conducts the exam has uploaded in its website a sample paper (Paper V) so as to give an idea of the nature of questions that may be asked in the exam. In the backdrop of…