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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
TopicAffordable UPSC

Topic: Affordable UPSC

An aggressive UPSC coaching market war is underway, promising students the Great Indian IAS Dream

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Selling land, borrowing money, eating less: What UPSC coaching does to poor families

For many families with UPSC aspirants, it takes a village to fulfil the near impossible dream. Loans have to be taken and money must be saved to feed the great Indian coaching factories.

Jain, Muslims, Baniyas, Dalits—communities helping their own crack UPSC exams

The centres are located in big metropolitan cities and attract aspirants coming from smaller towns and villages with the UPSC dream.

State govts are getting into UPSC coaching game—not for business but as a strategy

From Gujarat to West Bengal and Kerala to Uttar Pradesh, state-run UPSC coaching centres are now part of the Rs 3,000 crore industry in India. But they don’t market themselves overtly.

An ‘affordable’ UPSC dream is taking off in small-town India. It can change the steel frame

There’s been a surge in edtech platforms like UPSC Wallah and StudyIQ offering online classes and study material in pen drives that are mailed across India for the civil services exam.

On Camera

The govt’s ‘fix’ to speed up insolvency could add at least a year to the process

The proposed amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code aims to reduce timelines and provide for a mechanism that involves minimal interaction with the court. It fails on both counts.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.