On Tuesday, the Union Public Service Commission declared its Civil Services Examination (CSE) 2022 results. The results reflected the outstanding achievement of female candidates with all the top four positions secured by women.

Ishita Kishore, a resident of Greater Noida topped the position, who is now all across the news for her remarkable achievement.

With Kishore’s story doing circles across internet, there’s the story of another ranker which would serve as an inspiration for lakhs of individuals dreaming to be in a position where candidates like Kishore have reached today.

The second position was bagged by Garima Lohiya from Bihar who fulfilled her father’s dream who died 8 years ago.  

Garima Lohiya is a resident of Buxar Nagar’s Bangla Ghat. She did her schooling from Woodstock School, Buxar and completed her senior secondary education from Sunbeam, Bhagwanpur.

For further studies, Lohiya moved to Delhi, she obtained her graduation degree from Kirodimal college, Delhi University with Commerce and Accountancy as her optional subjects.
Lohiya while speaking to APN said, she returned back to Buxar during the Covid-19 pandemic period and didn’t return back and started her preparations to pursue the dream of becoming an IAS officer.  

Lohiya who had set her mind to clear the attempt, did all her preparations sitting at home taking the help of Youtube and other sources.

Confident Garima said she knew she would pass the examination but did not expected of securing the 2^nd position.

Garima said his father Manoj Lohiya had dreamt of seeing her as an IAS officer but sadly he passed away in 2015.

Pained by father’s demise, Garima broke down but her mother Sunita Lohiya stood with her as the pillar of strength who didn’t let Garima’s dreams scatter away and equally contributed in helping Garima pursue the late father’s dream.

Garima shared her mother acted as a big source of motivation and inspiration for her during her journey.

For the preparations Garima went through many sleepless nights and so do her mother who used to sit with her all night.

She added her mother took care of every minute details of  her needs to ensure no hamper to her preparations in this journey.

It is because of this sheer dedication and hard work, Garima and many others like her have secured such ranks today and they can now walk with their head held high.

The Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) has issued a circular restricting the activities of the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh in over 1,200 temples under its management across south India.

The TDB circular restricts mass drills and other activities organized by the RSS on temple grounds and also bans displaying pictures of political leaders as they “destroy the temple’s purity.”

In a statement, TDB president Ananthagopan said that Dewaswom board is of the opinion that temples are meant for worship by devotees and they should not face any inconvenience in their religious activity.

He said that the circular was issued in 2016 as RSS shakhas were operating inside many temples and the right-wing outfit was performing mass drills inside the premises which hindered the day-to-day religious activities at the temple.

Now the circular has been reissued to bring to the notice of the officials.

Ananthagopan also said that a decision is also being mulled to ban the displaying of pictures of political leaders which will “destroy the purity of temples”.

He said that TDB officials will hold meetings with concerned people to avoid such situations, but no call has been taken yet, adding that the TDP is not under any kind of political pressure and acts on its own accord.

The TDB president noted that certain issues related to the above-mentioned activities were reported since January this year, especially during the festive season, when in certain instances these organizations have even interfered in temple activities.

The TDB had in 2016 issued a circular wherein it had banned all forms of arms training by the RSS inside temple premises. The order, which stressed that temple grounds must only be used for rituals and festivals, was reissued on March 30, 2021.

The TDB has now issued a fresh circular that restricts the activities of RSS such as arms drills. The circular also warns of strict action against those who won’t comply with the ban.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will seek the support of like-minded political parties to counter the BJP-led Central government’s “dictatorial” ordinance on the control of services in Delhi, Punjab Chief Minister and senior AAP leader Bhagwant Mann said on Tuesday.

Talking to newsmen in Chandigarh after flagging off 98 emergency response vehicles for the Punjab Police, Bhagwant Mann accused the Centre of trying to infringe upon the rights of individual states and claimed that by promulgating a “dictatorial” ordinance it wants to supress the duly-elected government in Delhui.

Mann said that AAP will seek support from political parties across the country in a bid to stall the ordinance in the Rajya Sabha.

On Friday, the Central government promulgated an Ordinance to form a National Capital Civil Service Authority to handle the transfers of IAS and DANICS cadre officers and also matters of disciplinary proceedings against them.

The BJP-led Centre’s ordinance essentially circumvented last week’s Supreme Court order which gave the control over services, excluding those related to police, public order, and land, to the elected government in Delhi.

On Monday, the AAP asked all non-BJP parties to unite and help defeat the bill in the Upper House of the Parliament.

Terming it “agni pariksha” (trial by fire), the AAP urged all Opposition parties to come together and to save the country’s democracy and Constitution.

On May 11, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led dispensation, stating that the AAP regime has legislative and executive power over services— including the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), except law and order, police and land—and the Lieutenant Governor (L-G) is duty-bound to comply with the elected government’s decision in this matter.

The Delhi government scored a major victory today in its arduous power-struggle with the BJP-ruled Centre as the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led dispensation, stating that the AAP regime has legislative and executive power over services— including the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), except law and order, police and land—and the Lieutenant Governor (L-G) is duty-bound to comply with the elected government’s decision in this matter.

In a unanimous verdict, a five-judge Constitution bench of the Apex court which comprises of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud along with Justices MR Shah, Krishna Murari, Hima Kohli and P S Narasimha, ruled that the Delhi government must have control over services and the Lieutenant Governor is bound by its decision.

The bench observed that the Union Territory of Delhi has ‘sui generis’ (unique) character and has legislative and executive power over services and stated that if a democratically elected government’s responsibility towards the legislature and the electorate becomes diluted if it was denied control over its officers and the power to hold them to account.