Retd class IV staff's daughter cracks civil services exams.
Byline: Abhay Singh PATNA: It is the case of a small town and family hitting big. Traditionally, famous as an important foodgrain market and populated mainly by the insular people of business community, the house of retired fourth grade employee Shyam Sunder Sah has, of late, become...

Civil services OBC quota goes abegging.
Byline: Rema Nagarajan NEW DELHI: The government may be planning to extend the 27% reservation seats for other backward classes (OBCs) to higher education, but the quota has almost never been filled in the all-India civil services examination in the 12 years since it was first implemented....

Maha employees seek clarity on gifts.
Byline: Prafulla Marpakwar MUMBAI: For the Congress-led Democratic Front government, Rs 500 in 1979 is equivalent to Rs 7,000 in May 2008. This was evident from the amendment made by the government to the nearly three-decade-old Maharashtra Civil Services (Conduct) Rules in May. ...

Panel seeks quota in civil services.
NEW DELHI: The Administrative Reforms Commission, mandated with preparing a blueprint for revamping the public administration system, may recommend curtailing the benefit of reservation in civil services only up to entry level. The proposal, which seems to have found favour with the Commission, means that while candidates...

Govt will double IAS intake this year.
Byline: Ashish Sinha NEW DELHI: IAS aspirants may never have had it so good. The Union Public Service Commission has notified a total of 671 vacancies for civil services examinations this year, sharply increasing the number of entrants to the coveted bureaucratic enclaves often described as the...

UPSC results out, 1,859 shortlisted for interview.
NEW DELHI: Union Public Service Commission on Monday declared the results of Civil Services (Main) Examinations, 2007, shortlisting 1,859 candidates for final interview (personality test) for recruitment to Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police Service, Indian Foreign Service and other central services. The interviews will start on March 31. ...

Appraisals mantra for civil services.
NEW DELHI: The Centre has decided to replace the existing system of writing Annual Confidential Reports of civil servants, with Performance Appraisal Reports for more objective evaluation of their work as recommended by the Hota Committee on Civil Service Reforms. The second Administrative Reforms Commission, headed by...

On Civil Service Day, babus to discuss pay report with PM.
Byline: Ashish Sinha NEW DELHI: With government keen on implementing the recommendations of Sixth Pay Commission before inflation gallops further north, the 3rd Civil Service Day, to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Vigyan Bhawan on Monday, promises to be an interesting affair. ...

Bureaucrats on lookout for pay panel.
Byline: Yudhvir Rana AMRITSAR: They may be at the top of Indian bureaucratic ladder, but what civil servants earn is not even the tip of the corporate iceberg. After nearly 12 years in service, a deputy commissioner-level officer reportedly takes home Rs 20,000 per month - an...

Sheila Dikshit, 70 and going strong.
Byline: Abantika Ghosh She is the face of the Congress government and the only CM with two successive terms. But politics - says Sheila Dikshit in a freewheeling chat with Times City on the eve of her 70th birthday - was never in her scheme of things...