Hindi Belt

UPSC row: Will Hindi-heartland politics now let students set question papers?

Without entering into a serious dialogue with other stakeholders such as political parties from non-Hindi states, when the government said the marks for English will not be graded, what it has done was effectively diluting the autonomy of a constitutional institution such as the UPSC.

UPSC row: Modi govt should worry about careers, not only BJP votes

The decision to not count the English comprehension marks in the Civil Services Aptitude Test now threatens to open up a Pandora's box on the issue of language.