The Civil Services (Main) examination will be held in November or December this year and applications for it will be called in August or September, according to a notification issued by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). UPSC, which conducts the prestigious examinations to select IAS, IPS and IFS officers among others, has in a recently issued public notice dropped the mandatory English language paper from the main test. ...
04:22 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Shortly after the opening bell, the Dow rose above 14,198.10, the intraday all-time high reached in October 2007, when the world was heading toward the financial crisis. ...
08:55 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Besides learning all the disciplines of film making come up with your own ideas, says Shyam Benegal. ...
10:25 AM, Feb 14, 2013
When the Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta Police raided 1987 batch Indian Forest Service officer BK Singh's Bhopal residence on Wednesday morning, his wife refused to let them in at first, insisting that she must speak to her husband. And while Singh tried to vanish from the scene with his valuables in a suitcase, he was stopped in the nick of time by the Lokayukta team which recovered Rs seven lakh in...
08:29 PM, Feb 06, 2013
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has suggested changes in the prestigious Civil Services examination to make it more relevant in the present day scenario. ...
05:37 PM, Dec 06, 2012
Mohammad Hamid Ansari was born in Calcutta (now renamed Kolkata) on April 1, 1937, though his family hailed from Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh. The grand nephew of former Congress President Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari, a leader of the Indian independence movement, Ansari studied at Shimla's St. Edwards High School and St. Xavier's College of the University of Calcutta. A two-doctorate degree holder, he joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1961. He...
11:24 AM, Aug 08, 2012
Washington/Bhubaneswar: A senior Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Surendra Prasad Mohapatra, who is in the US on a training course, has been detained by police in Pennsylvania following a woman staff's complaint of "sexual assault" at a hotel where he was staying. The incident is reported to have happened on Tuesday night following which the officer was put under detention by the local police, sources said on Thursday. Mohapatra is...
02:33 AM, Jul 27, 2012
The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) was formed in the year of 1946. The cadre controlling authority for IFS is the Foreign Secretary. After selection, the training program consists of two stages, at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Massouri and then at the Foreign Services Institute in New Delhi. Functions of IFS Officers As a career diplomat, the Foreign Service Officer is required to project Indias interests, both at...
06:45 PM, Jul 04, 2012
India has extensive forests which are an important resource. India thus requires scientific management of its forests. The British India Government recognized the need of a premier forest management service and constituted the Imperial Forest Service in 1867. The Imperial Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, presently & popularly known all over the world as FRI was established at Dehradun in 1906. Since then, the training program shifted to Dehradun. The subject...
03:54 PM, May 22, 2012
The Indian Civil Service forms the backbone of the Indian government machinery and constitutes all the major departments which run the state and central administration. The three types of services recruited through the Civil Services Examination are All India Services, Central Services, and State Services. The Civil Services examination is one of the most prestigious examinations conducted by UPSC. Historically it has been of the most sought after career by...
03:45 PM, May 22, 2012
The Union Public Service Commission, popularly known as UPSC, was accorded a constitutional status as an autonomous entity in the new constitution on 26th January, 1950. One of the major functions of the Commission is recruitment to services and posts under the Union through conduct of competitive examinations. The Commission usually conducts a number of examinations every year on an all-India basis for direct recruitment in various fields, such as...
03:36 PM, May 22, 2012
Bangalore: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) is attracting the country's most bright youngsters and maintained that Indian Foreign Service and Indian Administrative Service are no longer the only most sought-after careers. Speaking after inaugurating the new campus of the Direct Taxes Regional Training Institute, he said gone are the days when the most brilliant joined only IFS and IAS. After the combined...
11:29 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Tonight at 10, Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts if the government should stay away completely from the Kingfisher crisis.
11:54 AM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: Symbolising power and movement through centuries of kingship, the march of civilisation and modern living, horses remain vital to man's artistic imagination in the world of contemporary art. The horse motifs in Indian and Asian art date back to the early Vedic age when migrants from Central and West Asia - from the Caucasian region - came to the subcontinent on horses. In the ensuing millennia, horses galloped...
05:11 PM, Dec 13, 2010
New Delhi: Delhi Police have registered a case of rape and criminal intimidation against IFS officer Dr Ketan Shukla, accused of sexually harassing his maid when he was posted in Kenya. The medical examination of the victim will be carried out on Friday. In her complaint filed at Moti Nagar Police Station in New Delhi on Thursday night, the maid alleged that Shukla sexually harassed her and tortured her for...
06:51 PM, Dec 03, 2010
Madhuri Gupta was recruited by her Pakistani handlers either in Baghdad or Kuala Lumpur. ...
06:32 PM, Apr 28, 2010
PML-N leader to govern Pakistan's most important province again. ...
04:15 PM, Mar 31, 2009
Kolkata: Indian spinners sparked an England collapse after skipper MS Dhoni's fireworks with the bat to hand the visitors a 5-0 bashing by winning the fifth ODI by 95 runs here at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday. Chasing a stiff target of 272, England's opening pair of Craig Kieswetter and Alastair Cook gave them a solid 129-run foundation, but the visitors lost their way with the departure of these two,...
10:59 PM, Mar 12, 2008
An IFS officer told ED Natwar called him in Baghdad to say the Indian Mission was discriminating against Andaleeb. ...
07:38 PM, Sep 07, 2006
