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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
TopicUPSC aspirants

Topic: UPSC aspirants

Broke, burnt-out & now bereaving—the crushing cost of UPSC aspirations

UPSC aspiration story isn’t just about 24x7 study. It’s about daily financial stress, penny-pinching, and heavy guilt over parents' loans. Deaths of 3 aspirants have deepened despair

Protesters disappointed by popular teachers’ silence on UPSC aspirants’ death — ‘nowhere to be seen’

Educators & heads of offline coaching centres have kept quiet on the issue so far, while faculty members of some online platforms have been visiting protest site in Old Rajinder Nagar.

A UPSC aspirant sent a complaint, 2 reminders to MCD about Rau’s IAS basement month before incident

In complaint dated 26 June, Kishor Singh Kushwah warned MCD there was 'potential for major accident'. In another complaint, a person flagged issue of electrocution caused by waterlogging.

Rau’s IAS coaching centre student from Tamil Nadu says he’s not missing. ‘Stop using picture in media’

Kingsley Kannan says he’s safe and living with his friend in Delhi’s Sultanpur. Friends were unable to trace him on fateful day & reached out to media for his whereabouts, he adds.

Rau’s IAS was an elite, small-batch institute. Then, competition led to rapid expansion

In 1986, an associate of Dr Rau, VP Gupta, took over and began to herald a new age. His son-in-law, Abhishek Gupta, has been CEO since 2010, qualifying Rau’s as a family business of sorts.

UPSC aspirants’ desperation & the coaching mafia exploitation. ‘No one sees us as human’

Just a week ago, an aspirant who was about to write the mains exam died from electrocution. And at least three fire incidents have been reported since last year in Mukherjee Nagar and Old Rajinder Nagar.

MCD sacks 1 engineer, suspends another over Delhi IAS coaching centre flooding, initiates probe

Municipal Corporation of Delhi has sealed 13 coaching centres & has demanded explanation from Karol Bagh executive engineer on why basement was being run as library without permission.

‘Cooperating fully with agencies,’ says Rau’s IAS Study Circle in 1st statement on flooding deaths

Three UPSC aspirants drowned in flooded basement of Rau’s IAS Study Circle centre in Old Rajinder Nagar Saturday evening. Owner and coordinator of the centre have been arrested.

Exam stress, rent hikes — aspirant’s suicide note about life in Delhi’s UPSC hub back in focus

On Sunday, Anjali’s uncle joined protesters demanding accountability for deaths of three aspirants who drowned in flooded basement of a coaching centre in Old Rajinder Nagar.

UPSC aspirants want Rs 1 cr compensation for flooding victims, ban on commercial use of basements

Hundreds of aspiring civil servants took to streets of Old Rajinder Nagar in Delhi to protest deaths of three aspirants who died due to drowning in basement of coaching centre.

On Camera

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.