Roman Saini who quit IAS to turn an entrepreneur is now in "Forbes 30 Under 30" list

Roman Saini, a doctor-turned IAS officer, surprised many when he decided to quit IAS in January 2016 to be a full-time entrepreneur and tutor. Now, 26-year-old Saini, along with two other co-founders of Unacademy — Gaurav Munjal, 27, and Hemesh Singh, 25, have been recognised in Forbes' prestigious 30 Under 30, a list of Indians below 30 years of old and those who are "shaping new India”. Saini, who has a medical degree from New Delhi's AIIMS, and the one who left the administrative service only after two years as assistant collector in Jabalpur, now finds his name in the Forbes list along with celebrities such as...

Co-founded by an IAS-turned entrepreneur, Unacademy raises additional $1 million

Saini (File photo; Courtesy: Twitter)

Unacademy, a free online learning platform co-founded by IAS-turned entrepreneur Roman Saini on Wednesday announced raising an additional $1 million (Rs 6.7 crore) from some of the known start-up names including Flipkart's Sachin Bansal, Binny Bansal, Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma, and FreeCharge's Kunal Shah. Earlier this year, Unacademy raised $500,000, its first round of external funding round. Apart from Saini, who is a doctor-turned-IAS-turned-entrepreneur, there are…

Who are the bureaucrats in Twitter? And why their followers love to read about "safe" sarkari experiences

ON Thursday night, former foreign secretary of India and 1973 batch retired IFS officer Nirupama Rao thanked her 4 lakh Twitter followers. "400K followers today. Humbled and honored. Thank you all", she wrote in a post in the micro-blogging site, Twitter. In fact, if there is one area of Indian bureaucracy that has undergone a sea-change in the last couple of years is the very willingness of more and more serving bureaucrats and diplomats to share their “safe” sarkari experiences in social media platforms. BoI picks out a few bureaucrats from a list of about 500 who are effectively using Twitter to reach out to citizens: