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The provincialisation of All India Services

All India Services were to be all India in character for a purpose. Any dilution of this central tenet should worry policymakers

Edtech unicorns go hybrid to tap India's $180 billion education sector

Innovations and strategies in the works to build offline presence

UPSC extra attempt: SC asks Centre to consider appeal of Covid-hit students

The Centre had last week told the apex court that additional attempt in the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) civil services examination is not possible

Can't change number of attempts, age limit for civil services exam: Centre

The Centre on Wednesday said it has not been found feasible to change the existing provisions regarding the number of attempts and the age limit for the civil services examination.

Covid: 3 UPSC aspirants move SC, seek extra attempt to appear in main exam

Three aspirants, who cleared the UPSC 2021 prelims exam but could not appear in all papers of the main exam after testing Covid positive, have approached the Supreme Court

How the Centre plans to use tax data to settle social justice issues

The govt committee on EWS might have set the template for future; EWS limits and income tax exemption limits are now twinned, if the Supreme Court accepts the panel's report

Civil services (main) examination to be conducted from Friday: UPSC

The UPSC has asked the state governments to ensure that no inconvenience is caused to the candidates and examination functionaries in their movement

UPSC launches helpline for govt job aspirants from EWS, backward classes

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Wednesday launched a toll-free helpline to help government job aspirants from economically weaker sections and backward classes among others. The UPSC conducts civil services examination to select the country's bureaucrats, diplomats and police officers among others and also holds other tests to recruit government officers. "This initiative is also a part of the commission's endeavour of undertaking queries of such candidates in a friendly manner," the UPSC said in a statement. The helpline will remain operational on all working days during the office hours, it said. The initiative is part of celebrations under the 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence. The commission has opened a helpline, toll free number 1800118711, with the objective to assist candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC), Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and Perso

Delhi: 25-year-old UPSC aspirant die by suicide in Rajender Nagar

25-year-old Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) aspirant died by suicide in Delhi's Rajender Nagar, informed Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Shweta Chauhan.The deceased was identified as Akanksha Mishra who was preparing for UPSC, she stated.Chauhan informed that the incident took place on Friday and the Police Control Room (PCR) call was received in Rajender Nagar police station at 11:50 pm about a suicide.According to the DCP, the deceased was found hanging from the ceiling fan the Prima facie informed.There were no other external injuries aside from the ligature marks on her neck and the door was locked from inside, it said.The inquest proceedings under S 174 Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) have been initiated accordingly.

UPSC selects 31 pvt sector specialists as joint secys, directors, dy secys

Thirty-one private sector specialists were on Thursday selected as joint secretaries, directors and deputy secretaries in central government departments, the Union Public Service Commission said

NDA, Naval exam 2022: Registration open; girls to apply too, says UPSC

NDA, Naval Academy exams: UPSC has allowed unmarried women to apply for the national defence academy (NDA) and naval academy exam

UPSC Result 2020 declared on upsc.gov.in: Know toppers' list, what next

UPSC Mains result 2020: Candidates who have qualified UPSC Civil Services exam need to fill up and submit DAF-II online. Know what to do next and other important details

Bihar's Shubham Kumar tops civil services exam examination 2020

Shubham Kumar has secured the 1st position. He has graduated in B Tech (Civil Engineering) from IIT Bombay

Unmarried women can apply for national defence, naval academy exam

The move follows a Supreme Court directive on the issue last month.

Paralympics bronze medallist archer Harvinder wants to crack UPSC: Coach

Harvinder Singh, who on Friday became the first Indian to win a Paralympics medal in archery, is a man of many parts. Pursuing Ph.D. in economics, the 31-year-old, whose legs stopped functioning properly due to adverse effect from an injection during his childhood, loves history, is a painter and dreams of cracking the UPSC examination some day, according to his coach Gaurav Sharma. Having taken up archery in the compound section after getting inspired from watching the 2012 London Paralympics, Singh almost quit the sport after he did not make it to the 2014 Incheon Asian Para Games Indian team. "He was completely demoralised and was telling archery was not his domain," his childhood coach Sharma told PTI. Sharma, however, did not want to let his effort go in vain and "wanted to take a risk". In the bronze playoff, Singh was leading 5-3 before Kim Min Su clinched the fifth set, shooting a perfect 10 to force a shoot-off where the Indian responded in style with a perfect 10 against

Maha govt to train 2,000 OBC students for MPSC, 1,000 for UPSC exams

The Maharashtra government has decided to train 2,000 OBC students for the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) exams

SC allows 5 UPSC civil candidates to appear for interviews as special case

The Supreme Court on Friday as a special case allowed five civil service candidates, who had cleared the UPSC main examination but were disqualified for not submitting the degree certificates

UPSC to commence interviews for civil services exam from August 2

The UPSC has decided to commence interviews for civil services examination 2020, which were deferred due to a surge in Covid-19 cases, from August 2, according to an official statement.

UPSC postpones June 27 civil services prelims exam; to be held on Oct 10

The commission conducts civil services examination annually in three stages -- preliminary, main and interview

UPSC declares results of civil services main exam 2020

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Tuesday declared the results of civil services (main) examination 2020.