Get, Set, Resign..
Byline: Deepika Sahu 'There's a huge difference in the salary of government and the private sector. So, perhaps not all civil servants are quitting because of political pressure' A K Luke, a 1975 batch IAS officer known for his efficiency and passion - recently created...

DU girl tops IAS exam.
Byline: Amit Chanda NEW DELHI: Mona Pruthi, an officer of the Indian Revenue Service (IRS), took the civil service examination (CSE), 2005, and topped it. According to her, hard work, dedication and out-of-the-box-thinking are the tools that can help an IAS aspirant crack the prestigious examination. ...

Fit for exam, but unfit for babudom.
Byline: Rema Nagarajan NEW DELHI: May 8, 2006. That's the day when 12 candidates with different kinds of disabilities were selected in the all-India civil service examinations 2005 batch, filling the 3% quota for disabled for the first time since the Disability Act was passed in 1995....

UPSC won"t share public info.
Byline: Rema Nagarajan NEW DELHI: The Right to Information Act was, we thought, supposed to give people access to information that was hitherto not available. But the way the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) interprets the law, it turns out that even information that was...

Bureaucracy tops IITians job list.
Byline: Vinod Mishra NEW DELHI: In an age where the glitter of greenback speaks louder than anything else, there are those who continue to dig "power, prestige and job satisfaction that other lucrative professions don't offer''. For them, bureaucracy is still the buzzword. For those...

CBI relief for IAS officer irks personnel department.
Byline: Dalip Singh NEW DELHI: The CBI's attempt to close a criminal case against a senior UP bureaucrat accused of fudging his date of birth in UPSC records is facing stiff resistance from the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). The miffed DoPT, which is the administrative...

Sachar pitches for yet another quota.
NEW DELHI: The Rajinder Sachar commission report, tabled in Parliament on Thursday, has suggested that reservation be given to the most deprived sections among Muslims through the creation of a new category called most backward classes (MBCs). It recommended the constitution of an Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC)...

IIT-JEE '06 clashes with NDA exam.
Byline: Amit Chanda NEW DELHI: Two of the country's main professional entrance examinations - Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examinations (IIT-JEE) 2006 and the National Defence Academy and Naval Academy Examination (I) (NDA & NA) 2006 - are headed for a clash on April 9, 2006. ...

Road runner!
WORLDWIDE: Travel today sits alongside technology in the realm of infinite earning capacity. Consider this: the industry generated US $5,490.4 billion of economic activity, accounted for 10.4 per cent of total GDP, 214,697,000 jobs or 8.1 per cent of total employment and 12.2 per cent of total exports. ...

Create a civil service that is accountable and skilled.
After 20 years in office, Coleman Young announced last year that he would not run again for mayor of Detroit, where almost one in three people lives in poverty and the true unemployment rate is anybody's guess. The voters pointedly did not replace him with his anointed successor. ...