IAS

Arti Dogra, an award-winning IAS officer is 3.5 feet tall. Undaunted by all the discrimination she faced because of her appearance, she cracked the civil services exam in her first attempt.

Life at Mussoorie's Lal Bahadur Shastri National Administrative Academy (LBSNAA) entails a whole lot of learnings and ice-breaking sessions for civil servants who've cracked UPSC. Three officers share their experiences on Quora.

IAS, IPS, IFS: Meet the 12 officers whose exemplary work in 2021 ensured that we picked them for our 'Excellence in Public Service' yearender list.

Meendum Manjapai: IAS officer Supriya Sahu’s new eco-friendly initiative is an ode and bid to revive Tamil Nadu's ancient practice of using yellow cloth bags instead of plastic.

The Union Cabinet has introduced a bill to raise the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years. Here are four initiatives by IAS officers, local communities and civil society that show us how this can be done better.

UPSC CSE: IAS officer T Prateek Rao scored one of the highest marks in the Essay paper of UPSC Mains. Here's his strategy.

IAS officer Himanshu Gupta once had to travel 70 km everyday to attend school. Years later, in 2020, he topped UPSC CSE without taking any coaching. Here's how.

Gita Gopinath's husband, Iqbal Dhaliwal is a UPSC topper and a gold medal-winning IAS officer who left his job and moved to the US. He now heads MIT's Poverty Action Lab.

Sumit Kumar Rai secured an All India Rank (AIR) of 54 in UPSC CSE 2018. He shares tips and the strategy that worked for him in his fifth attempt.

IAS officer Ashish Kumar cleared the Union Public Service Commission’s (UPSC) Civil Service Examination (CSE) in 2019 and secured an All India Rank (AIR) of 53. Find out what changes he made in his second attempt.