The March 27 visit of the officials was far from demonstration of Bureaucracy’s undiluted political neutrality. Congratulating the Chief Minister for electoral victory was avoidable; it betrayed allegiance to the party and dented Bureaucracy’s apolitical ethos.
Notably, the Odisha cadre IPS officer of 1987 batch, Bansal took the reins of the State's police force from the outgoing DGP Abhay at a function at the Odisha Police Headquarters in Cuttack on December 31, 2021.
Job and business opportunities continue to be extremely limited in Odisha. A career in UPSC civil services is held in admiration in the state. The real reason behind youths increasingly getting disinterested in IAS, IPS or IFS exams seems to be the growing inadequacy in academic field that has made it increasingly difficult for Odisha candidates to compete.
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government effected a major reshuffle in IPS cadre on Tuesday. Puri SP Umashankar Dash will now head the police unit in the State Capital city. He has been posted as the Bhubaneswar DCP. Senior IPS of 1988 cadre & Director of Intelligence Satyajit Mohanty has been named as the DG of Fire Services. […]
The Centre has decided to lower the quota from existing 50 per cent to 33 per cent for local officers from state services to IAS, IPS and IFoS in the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, officials said on Tuesday. The Personnel Ministry has finalised all modalities in this regard and an official […]
Bhubaneswar: With filling of a mere 5 vacancies at the IPS level in 2018 and a mere 3 in 2017, Odisha is the only State in the country where the vacancy level of IPS officers, especially at the cutting-edge level of SPs or DIGs, has been among the worst in the country. The vacancy rate […]
New Delhi: Claiming that only half of the over 10 lakh aspirants who apply for civil services exam actually write the test, the UPSC Monday said it has decided to allow the candidates to withdraw from the examination, according to an official statement. The arrangement will be implemented beginning with Engineering Services Examination, 2019, it […]
At the first sight of her, you would mistake her as a beauty queen or someone straight out of Bollywood. Try to find more about her and you are certain to be shocked, for, she is one among the uniform-clad-baton-holding tough cops who has the distinction of being one of the first lady officers to […]
Mumbai: Former Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Himanshu Roy allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself here today, police said. The 1988-batch IPS officer allegedly shot himself at his residence with his service revolver. Roy, who also served as Additional Director General of Police (Establishment), was rushed to Bombay Hospital, where he was declared dead. Roy, […]
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik strongly condemned the attack on the official residence of his private secretary V. Karthikeyan Pandian by BJP activists in Bhubaneswar today. “It’s an absolutely shocking incident particularly as some members of a national party have agreed that they took part in it. It’s truly shocking,” Patnaik said while responding to […]
New Delhi: A promotee Indian Police Service (IPS) officer cannot claim seniority based on the length of his service and it will depend on the day of his induction in the All India Police Service, the Supreme Court has held. The apex court said that a promotee officer getting a higher pay and grade pay […]
Cuttack: Senior IPS officer Dr. Rajendra Prasad Sharma took over as the Director General of Police (DGP) from incumbent KB Singh in presence several senior police officials at State police headquarters here today. The newly appointed police chief was given guard of honour before he paid tributes at martyrs’ memorial. Soon after taking charge, Sharma […]
New Delhi: A new policy for cadre allocation has been finalised by the Central government for IAS, IPS and other officers, aimed at ensuring “national integration” in the country’s top bureaucracy. Officers of all-India services — the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFoS) — will have to choose […]
New Delhi: The central government has undertaken an exercise to review the service records of about 67,000 employees, including IAS and IPS officers, to identify non-performers. The review exercise is a part of the government’s efforts to further improve the service delivery and governance system. A senior official in the Department of Personnel and Training […]
Lucknow: In its sixth reshuffle of police officials since the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government came to power in the Uttar Pradesh in March, 67 IPS officials were transferred on Wednesday. Additional Director General of Police S.N. Rawat has been sent as ADG, Allahabad zone while Ramit Sharma, hitherto Inspector General of Police, Technical has been […]
Arup Patnaik, the man known for dealing with the likes of Dawood Ibrahim with an iron hand as the police chief of Mumbai for years, has a humane side to his personality. Though very few persons have had a peek into this concern of the man, who prefers to work silently, he has been associated […]
Cuttack: Former Director General of Police (DGP) of Odisha Bana Bihari Panda passed away at the age of 78 at a privately-run hospital in Cuttack where he was undergoing treatment on Thursday. Panda was suffering from Pneumonia due to which he was admitted to the hospital few days back. Dibya Jyoti Panda, son of the […]
Bhubaneswar: The President’s Police Medals were bestowed by Odisha Governor SC Jamir on 16 police personnel including two IPS officers today during a State-level function held at Jayadev Bhawan here. While IG Police (Railways) Vinaytosh Mishra and Inspector CID Prasanna Kumar Dash were given the Police Medal for distinguished service, Malkangiri SP Mitrabhanu Mahapatra and […]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government today promoted four IPS officers to the DIG rank and four IPS posted at different places of the State to Selection Grade. Angul SP Kabita Jalan, Sundargarh SP Nikhil Kumar Kanodia, Himansu Lal and Shefeen Ahamed K were promoted to the DIG rank. At present, Lal and Ahamed K are on […]
Cuttack: Arrested IPS officer Joydeep Nayak got a major relief today when the Orissa High Court granted him conditional bail against two sureties of like amount of Rs 1 lakh along with property surety of Rs 50 lakh. The property pledged as surety cannot be sold until the case is finalised, the court directed and […]
A special (vigilance) court here today allowed the vigilance department of Odisha police to take arrested Tripura-cadre IPS officer Joydeep Nayak on remand for two more days
Cuttack: The Vigilance department has applied for permission of the court to extend the remand of IPS officer Joydeep Nayak, who has been arrested in connection with a Rs 88 Lakh fraud, by two more days. Joydeep was produced before the special vigilance court after his 3-day remand ended on Saturday. Vigilance sleuths had arrested […]
The Special Vigilance Court here put off its hearing on the petition moved by the Vigilance to take arrested senior IPS officer Joydeep Nayak on a four-day remand till tomorrow
Arrested senior IPS officer Joydeep Nayak was taken to the Choudwar Circle Jail today while the remand application of the State Vigilance for four days will be heard by the Special Vigilance court tomorrow
A top Tripura Police official was on Friday suspended from service on charges of allegedly misappropriating Rs 88 lakh meant for training of tribal and scheduled caste students in Odisha, an official said here
Bhubaneswar: An unseemly fight has broken out between two top police officers – DG, Fire Services Binay Behera and former ADG, Fire Services and CBI joint director M Nageswara Rao – over an allegation of bungling worth Rs 3 crores in the purchase of uniforms and dungarees for the service during the latter’s tenure. The […]
Bhubaneswar: Joydeep Nayak, the 1991-batch Tripura cadre Odia IPS officer against whom the State vigilance has registered a case for allegedly misappropriating Rs 88 lakh, is untraceable after being discharged from Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi yesterday. Highly placed sources said despite several attempts, vigilance officials of Odisha have failed to trace the officer, who […]
The Odisha government today effected a massive reshuffle in the Indian Police Service (IPS) cadre