829 candidates qualify in CSE 2019

IRS officer Pradeep Singh tops the list of 829 candidates who have qualified for the prestigious civil services, including the IAS, the IPS and the IFS, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) announced.

The top three rank holders — Pradeep Singh, Jatin Kishore and Pratibha Verma — are serving officers. Singh is a resident of Haryana, while Kishore hails from Delhi and Verma from Uttar Pradesh.

A total of 829 candidates have been recommended for Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS), among other civil services.

Of the total qualified candidates, 304 are from General category, 78 from Economically Weaker Section (EWS), 251 from Other Backward Classes (OBC), 129 from Scheduled Castes (SC) and 67 from Scheduled Tribes (ST) category, according to the UPSC.

A total of 182 other candidates have been put in the reserve list. The selection has been made against 927 vacancies reported by the government.

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Govt launches National Transit Pass System

The ministry of environment launched an online system for issuing transit permits for timber, bamboo and other forest produce. 

Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said the National Transit Pass System (NTPS) will make the process of getting permits faster and without physically going to forest department offices.

The pilot project will be functional in Madhya Pradesh and Telangana for now. It enhances seamless movement of forest produce and the system will be operational in all states by Diwali.

NTPS will replace manual paper-based transit system by online transit system and will bring in one permit for the whole India for transit of timber, bamboo and other minor forest produce for ease of doing business.

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China formally launches BeiDou navigation satellite system

China has formally launched full global services of its BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System (BDS) to rival the widely-used American GPS and provide independent navigation structure for its increasingly modernising military.

The launch marks the completion of China’s domestically developed BeiDou network, one of the four global navigation networks alongside the US’ GPS (Global Positioning System), Russia’s GLONASS and the European Union’s Galileo.

India too is building its navigational system called the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), with an operational name of NAVIC.

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