Public Service

The govt issued a fresh set of guidelines, asking TV channels to show at least 30 minutes of public service content everyday

Wickremesinghe urges public servants to work overtime 'to make cash-strapped island a prosperous nation this year'

The Supreme Court on Thursday said a public servant can be convicted for illegal gratification in a corruption case on the basis of circumstantial evidence when there is no direct oral or documentary evidence against them. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice S A Nazeer said complainants as well as the prosecution should make sincere efforts so that corrupt public servants are brought to book and convicted so that the administration and governance become unpolluted and free from corruption. "In the absence of evidence of complainant (direct or primary), it is permissible to draw an inferential deduction of culpability," the bench, also comprising justices B R Gavai, A S Bopanna, V Ramasubramanian and B V Nagarathna, said. The top court said that even if direct evidence of the complainant is not available, owing to death or other reasons, there can be conviction of the public servant under the relevant provisions. "In the event the complainant turns hostile or has died

I&B ministry set to issue a clarification in the matter soon

The Uttarakhand Cabinet on Friday decided to take away the responsibility of conducting recruitment to 7,000 government posts from the state Subordinate Service Selection Commission as the body is facing a probe in a paper leak case. The government handed over the responsibility to the State Public Service Commission. It has been done to maintain probity and transparency in recruitment examinations, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said. The chief minister has asked the State Public Service Commission to issue a calendar of recruitment examinations to be held in Uttarakhand and start the process.

In order to qualify MPSC state service prelims exam, the candidates are required to score a minimum of 33% marks

Kerala was able to achieve the highest score among the other states and union territories, due to its ability to use information technology to better manage government services, the NeSDA report said.

The bench was informed that no details of reservation were published in the advertisement published for conducting the preliminary examination by the Commission

Under this partnership, eGov will facilitate access to administrative data that can be used by J-PAL affiliated researchers to design and evaluate policy programs

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded them as outstanding karyakartas who have devoted their lives to public service and spreading the BJP's development agenda.

Fair trade watchdog CCI is assessing model concession agreements in infrastructure and public service delivery segments to mitigate possible competition issues.

The preliminary examination of the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC), which was earlier scheduled for coming Sunday, will now be held on March 21, the commission announced on Friday

Earlier in the day, the MPSC announced that the exam for government jobs which was to take place on March 14 (Sunday) has been postponed on account of rising coronavirus cases

The BJP's message is that since the past can't be checked, it must be reinvented as creatively as imagination allows

Is it legally possible for hotels to turn away anyone who wants to pay and use just their toilets?