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Becoming a civil servant is one of the most sought-after, respected and challenging career choices in India.The respect, power and pay-checks that come with the job are enormous. However, the work is highly demanding and the work conditions aren't always favorable.The officers are often subject to transfers through their work tenure. Here's the Transfer and Posting policy for IAS officers.

A new national poll suggests that President Barack Obama is personally more popular than his policies. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, two days before Obama marks 100 days in the White House, indicates that three in four Americans feel Obama has the personal qualities a president should have. But when asked if Obama agrees with the respondent on the issues, that number drops to 57 percent. The survey also indicates that 63 percent of Americans approve of how Obama is handling his duties as president. One in three questioned in the poll disapprove.

The two biggest lenders of India, ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank will be treated as foreign banks from now. Both the banks have a situation of overseas investors owning more than 51% equity. The government finally decided not to carry anymore changes to its new policy on overseas investment. The Govern

In what is sure to cause major inconvenience to commuters, taxis, autos will go on strike on Monday in Delhi/NCR. Adding to this, petrol pumps have also called for a strike. The strike of autos and taxis has been called by Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti against the government's policies.

The exponential rise in start-up ecosystem in the country has given opportunities to many. And states have played an important role in facilitating the same. The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion released the maiden 'States Start-up Ranking 2018' and Gujarat has emerged as the winner.

A day after Foreign Policy published a report claiming the US counted F-16s given to Pakistan and none of them were found missing, the Pentagon said it wasn't aware of any such investigation. The report contradicted India's claims of shooting down an F-16 in a dogfight on February 27.

The US government is not indulged in any trick of diplomacy while luring employees from overseas with the remuneration of assured 1 dollar per day as strongly condemned by the US today. The reports conveyed that less than a dollar is paid to foreign employees as salary per day that comes under the compensation plans based on "prevailing wage rates and compensation practice" in the periphery of employment policy.

A brow raising case of assaulting children sexually by the bestial clergymen hungry for want of sex has generated shockwaves in Vatican City. A UN panel has subtly pointed finger at the policies of the church that allowed such kind of brutal sin to be occurred right under the nose of the priests. The UN panel has called for dismissing those evil-doing priests with immediate effect and also advocated for the suspension of the suspects who committed the offence.

An alarming 90% of the Indian population isn't currently covered under any  pension scheme, mainly due to the lack of availability of affordable schemes. To address the issue and provide an affordable old-age income security plan, the government launched the Atal Pension Yojana in 2015.

The government has an innovative solution to keep all essential documents safe in the cloud. Eliminating the need to carry them physically, the government launched the cloud-based DigiLocker document storing facility in 2015. Here's everything you should know about DigiLocker.