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The Karnataka High Court on Monday ordered a court-monitored investigation — by constituting a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by senior IPS officer and Director-General of Police Alok Kumar — into the alleged large-scale irregularities in the recruitment processes conducted by the Karnataka State Public Service Commission (KPSC). While giving 100 days for the SIT…
The Karnataka Public Service Commission in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: File photo After spending 10 days in CID custody, IAS officer Gyanendra Kumar Gangwar and his alleged associate Basavaraj Kannale were produced before the court on Wednesday (September 9) and remanded in 14 days of judicial custody in connection with the alleged irregularities in the…
A CID team investigating the case, led by SP Raghavendra Hegde, searched the KPSC office and examined recruitment-related documents and other records. | Photo Credit: MURALI KUMAR K The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Tuesday (August 25, 2026) conducted a second search at the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) office in Bengaluru as part of…
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A new scandal has hit the Karnataka State Public Service Commission (KPSC) — the State’s premier recruiting agency — even as the government has launched one of the largest recruitment drives to fill up 72,186 posts across departments. The commission has been in the news for the wrong reasons multiple times over the last two…
A view of the Karnataka Examination Authority in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: File photo The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has written to the government seeking permission to conduct a single examination simultaneously for posts of different departments of the same cadre, conduct document verification based on the model of Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC), and…
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A file photo of the Karnataka Public Service Commission building, near Vidhana Soudha, in Bangalore. | Photo Credit: K. MURALI KUMAR “Unlike other States, regular recruitments have not taken place in various departments at the State government level in Karnataka,” said Gaurav Gupta, Additional Chief Secretary to the Energy Department. Speaking after inaugurating the National…
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