Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu’s 10 commandments for bureaucrats

Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday asked India's civil servants to be flexible, adaptable, open and dynamic, and strive to reform outdated government practices. He was interacting with the officers of 93rd foundation course at the Dr Marri Channa Reddy Human Resource Development Institute, in Hyderabad. Here are Vice President’s 10 commandments for bureaucrats:

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…

PM asks India's future diplomats to be more tech-savvy; 5 takeaways of PM’s meeting with 39 officer-trainees

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked India’s future diplomats to be more tech-savvy with an urge to engage more with diaspora, who, according to the PM, are increasingly becoming important stakeholders in the conduct of foreign relations. Here are five takeaways of the PM’s meeting with 39 officer trainees of Indian Foreign Service, currently undergoing training in the Foreign Service Institute:

“Anonymity is the biggest strength of the civil servants”, says PM Modi at day 2 in LBSNAA

PM at a Yoga session at LBSNAA

ANONYMITY is the biggest strength of the civil servants, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a gathering of officer trainees at LBSNAA, Mussoorie, on the second day of his visit to the IAS academy. PM compared the civil services to the fourth lion of the Ashoka Emblem, saying how the emblem remains…

PM on 2-day visit to LBSNAA, Mussoorie; Day 1 saw PM having a 4-hour-long interaction with officer trainees; 10 things to know

A section of the officer trainees while listening to the PM

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi spent close to four hours interacting with about 360 officer trainees at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie on Thursday. PM is at LBSNAA on a two-day visit. Here are the 10 developments of the PM’s day-1 of the LBSNAA visit:

It’s no longer “collector”, but “district development commissioner”: Minister Jitendra Singh

Outstanding performers of 2016 batch IAS probationers at LBSNAA

INDIAN Administrative Service (IAS) has come a long way since it reincarnated itself from its earlier "Avatar" of British "Indian Civil Services”, said union minister of state for personnel and PMO Jitendra Singh on Friday in Mussoorie while felicitating probationers for outstanding performance in different categories at the felicitation-cum-valedictory function of 2016 batch IAS probationers. The function was held at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie. The minister said, the district head is now the “district development commissioner” and not “collector”, as was…