UPSC 2020: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has revised its main examination schedule for the engineering services exam and geo-scientist exam. According to the revised schedule, the Engineering Services (Main) Examination will be conducted on October 18, while the Combined Geo-Scientist (Main) Examination will be held on October 17-18. The main examinations for both the subjects, for which the preliminary tests were held in January this year, were scheduled for June 27 and 28. But due to the coronavirus pandemic, the exams were postponed to August 8 and 9 before being stalled until further notice.
According to the revised UPSC Calendar 2020, the notification for the combined medical services exam 2020 will be released on July 22 and its exam will begin from October 22.
Moreover, the NDA, NA exams will be held on September 6. This time, a common exam will be held for both, NDA, NA (I) and (II) exams.
Also, the personality test for UPSC Civil Services 2019 for remaining candidates will resume from tomorrow, July 20.
The notification for Central Armed Police Forces (ACs) Examination will be released on August 18 and the exam will be held on December 20, while the N.D.A. & N.A. Examination (II) will be held on September 6, which will be a common examination for both the N.D.A. & N.A. exam. These dates of notification, commencement, and duration of examinations are liable to alteration if the circumstances so warrant.
Personality tests for Civil Services
Meanwhile, personality tests for UPSC Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2019 for remaining candidates are being resumed from July 20, for which the candidates will be informed individually. The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC 2020) had recently released a new notification regarding the UPSC CMS exam on its official website. The official notification has mentioned that the interview round of the UPSC CMS exam 2019 will begin from July 21, 2020. The UPSC CMS exam’s interview round will be held until August 4, 2020.
Meanwhile, New coronavirus cases in India rose 37,148 in the past 24 hours, pushing its tally past the 11.5 lakh mark today, while the total number of recoveries crossed 7.24 lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll due to the disease rose to 28084 with 587 fatalities reported in one day.
The data updated today showed that the total number of COVID-19 cases stands at 1155191. There are 402529 active cases in the country, while 724577 people have recovered and one person has migrated. The recovery rate stands at 62.72%. In the past 24 hours, 24,491 patients recovered.
