Governance

In an important development, the Supreme Court has ordered the Uttar Pradesh government and the Centre to conclude all four pending disciplinary proceedings against...

In a landmark development, the Union Government has introduced a unique system of performance-linked reform to assess the performance of top-ranking civil servants working...

A Parliamentary Committee has flagged an acute shortage of IAS officers at the national level. According to its report submitted to the Parliament, the...

The GOI’s attempt to use 360-degree evaluation system for selection and promote officials has put the bureaucracy on tenterhooks. Officers are against the system,...

A parliamentary panel has lamented that excessive judicial intervention is adversely affecting India’s arbitration efficiency at a time when the country is trying to...

The Haryana government finds itself staring at an inexplicable bureaucratic vacuum at the top, with Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi being confined to bed following...

With an eye on the next assembly elections, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy recently urged senior IAS officers of the state to provide their...

In a significant move to cater information to an RTI activist, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has instructed the Department of Personnel and Training...

The Union Government is expanding capacity building for scientists and academics in its efforts to prepare institutions for evolving governance demands. This was disclosed...

India’s Cabinet Secretary T V Somanathan (IAS:1987:TN) has come out with a directive asking all Union Secretaries and Chief Secretaries to document best practices of ‘innovative governance’ in order...