Bengaluru : Senior Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer, Avtar Singh, who was working as additional principal chief conservator of forests here, committed suicide by hanging himself at his residence on Sunday September 8. Singh (52), whose office was located at Aranya Bhavan in Malleshwaram, is believed to have been under tremendous work pressure. Deputy commissioner […]

Udupi: S Prabhakaran, who became the first Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer to scale Mount Everest in 2016 (May 20), has taken charge as the Deputy Conservator of Forests (DCF) in Udupi. A BSc (Forestry) graduate from Forest College and Research Institute at Mettupalayam and 2011 batch IFS officer from Tamil Nadu, he has earlier […]