WOMEN BAG TOP THREE UPSC SPOTS

NEW DELHI: Women have bagged all the three top slots in the prestigious Civil Services examination to select IAS and IPS officers among others. Ira Singhal topped the examination, followed by Renu Raj and Nidhi Gupta, according to the results announced by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Saturday. Singhal and Gupta, who hail from Delhi, are Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise) officers, while Raj is a doctor fraom Kerala. “I want to be an IAS officer. I want to do something for the benefit of physically-handicapped people,” said Singhal, who is physically handicapped herself.