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...

'Hold UPSC exams on pattern of GMAT, IIM'.
NEW DELHI: To check "enormous wastage of time" between advertising vacancies and declaring results, a parliamentary standing committee has recommended that UPSC should consider conducting its examinations on the format adopted for GMAT, IIT and IIM entrance tests. The Union Public Service Commission conducts various tests for...

IAS aspirant killed in 'encounter'.
Byline: Pranava K Chaudhary PATNA: Last Thursday, this civil services aspirant got killed in a police encounter after a Rs 1.53-crore bank heist in Ranchi. Dadan Kumar Ram is dead, but not gone. In death, the Dalit boy awaits another encounter: this time, with the...

Govt needs to pay more for top talent.
Byline: Umesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI: High-profile IAS officer and Finance Secretary Ashok Jha may or may not join the corporate bandwagon, but it certainly suggests that the best from the civil services are on the radar of the corporate sector. In the recent past...

Civils: Engineers grab 27% share.
Byline: Rema Nagarajan NEW DELHI: Bureaucracy? Perhaps, technocracy would be more apt, considering that more than a quarter of those who are selected in the all-India civil services examinations are engineers. The fact that an engineering student has topped the 2006 civil services list only reinforces the...

UPSC stonewalls DoPT's request to disclose marks.
Byline: Rema Nagarajan NEW DELHI: Union Public Service Commission's (UPSC) paranoia about parting with information on the marks of candidates appearing for the all-India Civil Services Examinations extends not only to candidates but even to its nodal ministry, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). ...

'The fake encounters shouldn't be treated as a template'.
Byline: CHARUDUTTA JENA This year's All-India Civil Services Exams topper, Revu Muthyala Raju, is surprisingly humble for a person, whose decision to join the Indian Police Services as probationer was just a back-up career move. His journey from the island village of Chinnagollapalem, in Krishna district of...

IPS probationer tops Civils exam.
HYDERABAD: AP lad Revu Muthyala Raju has topped the 2006 Civil Services examination. Announcing the final results on Monday, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) recommended 474 candidates of which 214 are from general category, 144 OBCs, 80 Scheduled Castes and 36 from Scheduled Tribe. About two lakh candidates...

Cleared UPSC, but now stuck in limbo.
Byline: Abhinav Garg NEW DELHI: Praveen Sharma was the only candidate whose result for the 2006 civil services examinations was withheld by the Union Public Service Commission: he was said to have exhausted all his attempts though the high court had ordered UPSC to allow him to...

Reveal marks to candidates, HC tells UPSC.
NEW DELHI: It's a huge leg up for transparency seekers. On Tuesday, the Delhi High Court brushed aside UPSC's arguments of confidentiality and protection of its intellectual property rights and directed the commission to make public the scaling system and cut-off marks for the civil services preliminary examination. ...