New Delhi: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) 2025 results are out; three of the top ten are women, while the topper is a doctor from Rajasthan.
Anuj Agnihotri, who got his MBBS degree from AIIMS Jodhpur and is currently handling administrative tasks in Delhi and Union Territories as part of DANICS, has secured the first rank.
Three of the top ten are women. Rajeshwari Suve M. has got second rank, Zinnia Aurora has been ranked sixth and Astha Jain is at tenth place.
Usually, the UPSC announces the final result about two weeks before the preliminary examination of the following year. Many candidates have complained about this timing, saying that those who fail to clear the exam and have to appear for the prelims again do not get enough time to prepare. This year the 2025 results have been declared 11 weeks ahead of the 2026 preliminaries.
A total of 958 candidates have been recommended for appointment to the Indian Administrative Service, Indian Foreign Service, Indian Police Service, and Central Services–Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’.
Of the 958, 180 have been cleared for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), 55 for the Indian Foreign Service (IFS), 150 for the Indian Police Service (IPS), 507 for the Central Group ‘A’ services and 195 for Group ‘B’ services.
Among the recommended candidates, 317 are from general category, 104 from the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), 306 from Other Backward Classes (OBC), 158 from Scheduled Castes (SC) and 73 from Scheduled Tribes (ST).
The UPSC has also maintained a reserved list of 258 candidates. In that list, 129 are from the general category, 86 from OBC category, 26 from EWS category, eight from SC category and six from ST category, along with candidates from the PwBD categories.
The candidature of 348 has been kept provisional and the results of two candidates have been withheld, UPSC said while announcing the UPSC CSE 2025 Mains result.
A total of 9,37,876 candidates applied for the 2025 examination, of which 5,76,793 finally appeared in the examination.
The preliminary exam for this batch was held on 25 May 2025. The main examination was conducted from 22 August to 31 August 2025. The final stage for the exam was a personality test and all the interviews ended on 27 February 2026. After one week of the last interview, UPSC declared the result.
(Edited by Viny Mishra)
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