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Dilip Cherian | Agility Is Key: Foreign Service To Undergo A Strategic Reset

Dilip Cherian | Agility Is Key: Foreign Service To Undergo A Strategic...

The real test of diplomacy lies in securing influence, opening markets, building strategic partnerships, shaping...

19 Jun 2026 12:28 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Foreign Service Or Forest? IFS In A Tizzy Over Acronym Wars

Dilip Cherian | Foreign Service Or Forest? IFS In A Tizzy Over Acronym...

In 2016, the ministry of external affairs essentially told the forest fraternity: “We were born in 1946. You arrived in...

26 Feb 2026 11:26 PM IST

Several IAS officers feel that the move is a clear attempt to attack the autonomy of UPSC which conducts the examination.

In a first, UPSC aspirants can call back forms

In order to avail this facility, the candidate has to provide details of application, it said.

2 Oct 2018 1:42 AM IST

Dilli Ka Babu: Lateral entry MEA tried it first

Almost all of India's ambassadors in major world capitals are from the Indian Foreign Service.

8 July 2018 12:54 AM IST

A 1997-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, Yadav is expected to take up the assignment shortly, a statement by the MEA read. (Photo: ANI | Representational)

Birender Singh Yadav appointed as Indian Ambassador to Iraq

MEA on also announced the appointment of Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi as India's next High Commissioner to Samoa.

26 Oct 2019 3:52 PM IST

Diplomat Vikas Swarup was appointed as Secretary, Overseas Indian Affairs, in the Ministry of External Affairs on Friday. (Photo: ANI)

Vikas Swarup appointed Secretary of Overseas Indian Affairs

Swarup, a 1986-batch IFS officer, who is currently serving as the High Commissioner in Canada, will replace senior...

12 July 2019 2:09 PM IST

CPM leader and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, whose photograph is on right, addresses an election campaign wearing a mask in Kochi, on March 27, 2021. The southern state goes to polls on April 6 to elect members to its state legislature. (AP/R S Iyer)

Dilip Cherian | Kerala first state to appoint point man for diaspora,...

The bureaucracy in India moves at a slow pace is a truth that needs no explanation

29 Sept 2021 2:57 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Non-IAS cadre officers making inroads in PMO

Some observers note that increasingly the Modi Sarkar is keen to promote non-IAS services to positions that formerly...

1 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

New dark cloud hangs over India's babudom

The training academy is controlled directly by the PM's own DoPT which explains his gameplan.

26 May 2018 4:43 AM IST

Top diplomat Pankaj Saran is new deputy NSA

He has held various positions in India and abroad, including the country's high commissioner to Bangladesh.

30 May 2018 1:46 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: AP)

Save the integrity of the civil service

It is to such abuses that the 65 brave retirees of the All India Services and Central Civil Services should now devote...

2 July 2017 1:27 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu: Modi's Mantra Perform or perish

A service review on a government employee is conducted twice first after 15 years and again after 25 years of...

4 Jun 2017 12:15 AM IST