If you are a UPSC Civil Services (IAS exam) aspirant and want to know the biography and other details of the present UPSC members to prepare for your upcoming Civil Services Exam interview and other interviews conducted by the UPSC then you can download the pdf made by Ghanshyam Thori. Ghanshyam has uploaded the pdf file on Rapidshare and we are putting it below so that you can download it. It is genrally advisable to know at least something about all UPSC members as each interview panel is headed by one UPSC member. You can click on the save button (floppy button in adobe) and save it or enlarge it and read it. If you can’t see it below then click this link to download the pdf file Profile_of_UPSC_Members.pdf
On January 20, 2010, In UPSC Members, By UPSC Blogger
On January 13, 2010, In Other Exams, By UPSC Blogger
While this post is being written the Joint Recruitment Cell’s notification link for the ‘examination for recruitment of Executive/legislative/committee/protocol officers and research/reference officers in Lok Sabha secretariat’ is not working. The parliament staff have uploaded a wrong download link and it does not work.
The protocol officers/research officers in the parliament is an important post and many apply for it. It is shameful that the parliament staff are so careless with it! Please note that if you can download it from the link then they may have corrected the error.
On January 12, 2010, In Must Read, UPSC Interviews, By UPSC Blogger
The following extracts are from a discussion on the Orkut forum (the page may have been removed if the link gives an error) few days ago. It discusses among other things how the UPSC Civil Services Exam (IAS exam) is unpredictable, the subject score trends etc. Please note that all views below are the views of the UPSC aspirants in the said forum. Follow the link to see the authors if the page exists. Please note that it is a discussion and you may have problems understanding it; follow the link if the page is there.
On January 9, 2010, In UPSC Notifications, By UPSC Blogger
UPSC has just released the Examination schedule for the year 2010. If you are still wondering when the UPSC CS (Main) exam will start, the answer is 29 October 2010 and will last for 21 days. Of course, this is subject to change as written in the disclaimer (which is very rare). See the snapshot below saved from the UPSC website few moments ago.
It also has the dates for other UPSC exams such as the CDS, NDA, IES, Geologists’ exam, Central Police Forces Exam, Indian Forest services etc.
On January 7, 2010, In UPSC Interviews, By UPSC Blogger
A lot of people give Yoga as hobby in the popular ‘IAS exam (Civil Services Exam).’ In a forum a person gives a small but useful list of questions that could be asked if your hobby (real or indicated 
) is Yoga! It is fashionable among UPSC aspirants to include Yoga as a hobby in the Main exam form! Follow all the links for original authors and more discussion:
On January 7, 2010, In UPSC Interviews, By UPSC Blogger
With the UPSC Civil Services (Main) Examination result expected soon, students and aspirants are preparing themselves for the interview (called personality test) by preparing themselves on their hobbies, home state, Bio etc. (such as travelling, Yoga, Music, Movies, reading novels).
Somebody asked in a forum a list of questions to expect when the hobby is ‘travelling’
Here is the list of questions to expect that some creative body wrote:
On January 7, 2010, In Girls in UPSC, UPSC Notifications, By UPSC Blogger
Please see this post on the same issue on this blog before reading this. On the same forum a new elaborate comment on this matter by a forum member:
It is true that the government does many things on the gender front without following it whole-heartedly (such as the gender budgeting by Chidambaram). Still in my opinion, this has a lot more than what meets the eye.
1. It is a clear policy statement by the UPSC/government. It has no tangible benefits except the 50 Rupees for the womenfolk but it will have ramifications. They may extend it to all other UPSC exams (ideally they should) including the Civil Services Main examination. Maybe someday the reservation for women in the parliament will also become a reality.
There is a debate among students on this in a forum in the third week of November 2009. These are the excerpts. You can go to the forum link if the page has not expired. Please note that the following points are the views of the experienced students writing on that forum. This post also has a lot of comments on the Science subjects as optionals in the UPSC Civil Services Examination.
UPSC is completely biased against science optionals esp maths, physics,engg…..last year maths paper 2 was extremely difficult even though heavy scaling was done…..as many as 22 candidates got “zero” in paper 2…… average marks was 143/600….howz that possible….if scaling is for providing level playing field among all subjects then why is that average marks of optionals like pub ad and history were more than 280 while maths and physics optional average was less than 150….i’ll advise newcomers not to take any science optional……
On January 6, 2010, In Girls in UPSC, By UPSC Blogger
Sonali Dutta, was an active member of the Interview Prep for IAS forum. She passed away recently thanks to a car crash. 
The following info is by Ellora her friend who posted this message in the forum (visit the link above, page may have been removed due to bugs or some Orkut issue).
She had been badly wounded when her Skoda was crushed by a lorry driven by a drunkard on Diwali day 2009..She fought bravely for the next 2 months,but could not carry on any further after 30th Dec 2009..She is survived by her parents & brother Shubhro,who is a 1st year Engineering student in IIT Mumbai..This a moment of trauma & intense grief for the family..I have been requested by Shubhro to pass on this heart-wrenching message to all her friends & well wishers in this community..
On January 6, 2010, In UPSC Interviews, UPSC Members, By UPSC Blogger
This is continuation from an earlier post on how Purushottam Agarwal is in an interview board. Please read volume one, other details and disclaimer here.
These are some of the questions that were asked to would-be IAS officers in his board: