A woman IRS officer from Karnataka, Nandini K R, has topped the civil services exam 2016. This is for the third year in a row that a woman has bagged the top rank in the elite exam, with Ira Singhal having topped CSE 2014 and Tina Dabi CSE 2015.
Guarding a border that runs through creeks, deserts, farmland, mountains, swamps, rivers and seas is no mean task. Standing guard along India’s borders in driving rain, sizzling heat and clattering cold is the Border Security Force (BSF). As Independence Day nears, join us in saluting the women and men of the BSF in a TimesofIndia.com mini-series, ‘Jaagtey Raho: Frontiers of Freedom’.