958 candidates qualify in CSE 2025

• The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) announced the final result of Civil Services Examination (CSE) 2025 on March 6.

• A total of 958 candidates — 659 men and 299 women — have qualified the examination and are recommended for appointment to different central civil services.

• Anuj Agnihotri, an MBBS graduate from AIIMS, Jodhpur, topped the exam.

• Second rank holder Rajeshwari Suve M, has a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Anna University, Chennai.

• Akansh Dhull from Delhi has bagged the third rank.

• The top 25 candidates comprise 11 women and 14 men.

• As many as 258 other candidates have been put on a reserve list.

• The Civil Services Examination is conducted annually in three stages — Preliminary, Main and Interview — by the UPSC to select officers of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS) among others.

• The central government had reported 1,087 vacancies to be filled through the 2025 examination.

• The Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2025 was conducted on May 25, 2025. 

• A total of 9,37,876 candidates applied for this examination, out of which 5,76,793 actually appeared in the test.

• As many as 14,161 candidates qualified for appearance in the written (Main) examination which was held in August 2025. 

• Of these, 2,736 candidates qualified for the Personality Test (interview) of the examination.

• Top 25 successful candidates had opted for subjects like anthropology, commerce & accountancy, chemistry, economics, electrical engineering, history, mathematics, medical science, philosophy, political science & international relations, public administration and sociology as their optional choice in the written (Main) examination.

• Of the total qualified candidates, 317 belong to the General category, 104 from Economically Weaker Section (EWS), 306 from Other Backward Class (OBC), 158 from Scheduled Caste (SC) and 73 from Scheduled Tribe (ST) categories.