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Monday, December 15, 2025
TopicUPSC aspirants

Topic: UPSC aspirants

A UPSC aspirant faced a riddle in his interview. It featured JP Morgan and a diamond necktie

Many on X didn’t believe the question was real. Others saw it as part of a shift in the interview board’s approach, with more focus on decision-making and interpretation.

Bias in UPSC interviews—why candidates aren’t satisfied with randomised board allocation

Candidates often assume that board allocation happens in advance, but the UPSC has clarified that the assignment is generated through computerised randomisation.

Success to failure, UPSC is a family affair

UPSC is the Everest of competitive exams. The family are the sherpas.

You’re wrong about UPSC aspirants. I just got Rank 150 and it’s not about money & power

The scepticism surrounding the UPSC is largely misguided, driven by popular outrage rather than rational reflection.

A blacksmith’s son’s grind to a new mom taking the exam 17 days postpartum—UPSC candidates’ journeys

UPSC 2024 toppers & other candidates with high ranks reflect on their personal hardships, steady resolve, and family backing that carried them through.

IAS aspirant’s death: Kin reject suicide theory, coaching centre says he never indicated he was stressed

Deepak Kumar Meena had moved to Delhi in July. The 22-year-old's decomposed body was found hanging from a tree Friday. Police suspect suicide, but no note traced.

Mukherjee Nagar wasn’t just the pin code of UPSC ambition. It was an emotion

Change is sweeping through Mukherjee Nagar as coaching institutes and aspirants begin shift to Noida after safety crackdown, leaving behind bare rooms, quiet streets, a sense of loss.

Delhi’s NEET, CA coaching hubs just like UPSC areas—basement library, tiny room, narrow street

Poor infrastructure, inadequate drainage systems, and substandard living conditions aren’t confined to Delhi's Old Rajinder Nagar and Mukherjee Nagar. It's business as usual in Gautam Nagar and Laxmi Nagar.

4 coaching centres announce aid to families of deceased UPSC aspirants, offer to take in Rau’s students

Week after the 3 aspirants drowned in flooded basement of Rau’s IAS Study Circle in Delhi, Vajiram & Ravi, Drishti IAS, NEXT IAS and Sriram's IAS have come forward with support.

Implicated in act of ‘overenthusiasm’— court grants bail to SUV driver in UPSC aspirants death case

Manuj Kathuria was booked under BNS section 105 for wading through waterlogged street opposite Rau’s IAS Study Circle in Old Rajinder Nagar where flooding in basement claimed 3 lives.

On Camera

Why district judges almost never make it to India’s Supreme Court

Indian judiciary has a corrosive imbalance between the bar and the bench. Those who supervise the district judiciary do so without the lived experience that is essential for meaningful reform.

Rupee’s turmoil has echoes of 2013

With the US-India trade deal yet to get done, rupee depreciation may be helping to mitigate India’s loss of competitiveness. The other problem is extreme despondence among overseas equity investors.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.