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IAS probationers of 2013 batch ONE of the highlights of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s speech to the IAS probationers on Friday is hi...

CALL it picture imperfect. This is a still from the National Development Council (NDC) meet held at Vigyan Bhawan at the heart of New ...

CALL it a reel plan. Two days ago, senior officials of the Planning Commission came out of their mundane life of preparing what is often pe...

WHAT has happened to the man who spends time only on planning and macro economics to have a relaxed afternoon in appreciating traditional p...

MEMBER Secretary to Planning Commission Sudha Pillai, who was recently elevated to the rank of a minister of state, played a perfect host a...

A PANEL of three members of Planning Commission has refused to endorse a draft package for Naxal areas terming it a “bureaucratic exercise”...

  THE government may find the Commonwealth Games preparation an excuse to give yet another extension to incumbent cabinet secretary KM Chan...

THOSE who made into IAS and other elite Indian civil services across the country spent a busy Friday as they were flooded with congratulato...

IN January this year, babusofindia.com ( BoI ) presented the rise of 1972 batch officers with a tagline of “Numerological Influence” afte...

IF THE Indian government has its way, the “Monday, the March 8” won’t just be remembered just for routine celebration of international wome...

THE race for the next cabinet secretary’s post may get intensified in the coming days as there are just three and half months left for a ne...

HAD current secretary to Planning Commission Sudha Pillai made it to the top as cabinet secretary, India’s top two bureaucrats today would ...

IF Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh announces raising of Indian civil servants’ retirement age to 62 years in his Independence Day...

CALL it a freedom from boredom. Come August 29 and 30, civil servants in India may have some fun in water. The Central Civil Services Cultu...

IN YET another tale of Pati, Patni and Post , a 1983 batch Uttaranchal cadre IAS Anjali Prasad may join the department of industrial policy...

NIRUPAMA Rao, a 1973 batch IFS and currently Ambassador to China, will be India’s next foreign secretary on the retirement of the present i...

INDIA'S two most important bureaucrats, cabinet secretary and home secretary, may now be able to discuss security related matters in Ma...

SHE is back, but not yet on top. The 1973 batch IFS officer and India’s ambassador to China Nirupama Rao’s ability to grab the crucial fore...

WITH the government’s decision to give one year extension to current cabinet secretary K M Chandrasekhar from June 13, 2009, the hope of a ...

WHEN I began writing this blog on Indian civil servants exactly a month ago, a sense of silence prevailed in power corridors of Delhi as th...