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On the morning of 1 November 1984, IPS officer Pereira led his small force to protect Sikhs taking shelter at the historic Sis Ganj gurdwara against a mob comprising hundreds of angry rioters.

GV Ramakrishna, a 1952-batch IAS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre, passed away this weekend. His legacy is marked by events like challenging the PMO during his stint as petroleum secretary and as the most effective chairman in the history of SEBI, where he oversaw the cleanup of the stock market.

A pioneering IISc professor, Lakshmi Sita's lab at IISc attracted visitors such as Prince Charles and Ratan Tata.

Twenty years before the Mizo Peace Accord was signed, the Indian government under Indira Gandhi had deployed fighter jets to drop bombs on Aizawl!

M Kamal Naidu, the dedicated IFS officer whose service in naxal-infested areas earned him the Shaurya Chakra, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 79.

Such was the sway of the founding father of RAW, that even the intelligence agents in his unit were know as the "Kaoboys."

In an age when most Indian women didn't even try getting into civil service, Anna Rajam Malhotra fought gender bias, stood her ground and went on to become India's first female IAS officer in 1951.

Here is the fascinating story of how India's first-ever indigenous supercomputer was made, a major milestone in modern India’s technological odyssey.

Any hobby that lets you talk to a geologist in Antarctica, an astronaut on the International Space Station, or the captain of an Italian ship sailing on the Pacific Ocean with just a ham radio, is nothing short of incredible. Here’s an insight into India's fascinating ham radio community, a social networking club powered by radio waves.