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Does anybody here have an idea on mains result? when are they expected to be released? and why is every coaching already conducting mock interviews😭

I missed this year's PCS by few marks as I was not prepared well and was my first attempt. How can I be fully prepared for the upcoming PCS as I don't want to leave any stone unturned . I have never attempted UPSC due to no preparation. Should I start prep for UPSC and then give PCS when it comes. Any idea when will the next PCS come ? I am a Class C govt employee and want to be an officer. Kindly share your valuable insight regarding total time for full prep and way ahead.

I personally found it very lengthy and ended up leaving a couple of questions in all four gs papers with some 12 qs neatly written and few more rushed and written in points without any introduction and conclusion.

How was the experience for others?

has any one else messed up page sequences and index in mains. as per my enquiry many have committed the mistake., shall we mass mail ppsc to exercise linency about the issue.

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Most of us only know about the 1947 partition, but Punjab has actually been carved up four different times since the British took over in 1849. Here's the full timeline:

1) 1901 — The NWFP Carve-out 🏔️

The British basically said "Punjab is too big to manage" and snipped off all the trans-Indus (west of the Indus river) districts to create the North-West Frontier Province. Peshawar, Kohat, Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Hazara — all gone. The real reason? They wanted a dedicated administration to deal with the Afghan frontier and the tribal areas without distracting Punjab's government. These areas are now mostly Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) in Pakistan.

2) 1911 — Delhi got separated 🏛️

Yep, Delhi was literally part of Punjab. When the British shifted their capital from Calcutta to Delhi, they quietly excised it from Punjab and made it its own separate province. Not as dramatic as the others but still — Punjab lost its most historically significant city just like that.

3) 1947 — The BIG one 💔

You know this one. The Radcliffe Line split Punjab straight down the middle. Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan → Pakistan. Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana → India. One of the largest and bloodiest mass migrations in human history followed — an estimated 10-20 million displaced, hundreds of thousands killed. Families split overnight. Villages erased. Pure tragedy.

4) 1966 — The final chop ✂️

If you thought what remained of Punjab after 1947 was safe — nope. In 1966, the Indian government split it AGAIN on linguistic lines into THREE states:

• Punjab (Punjabi-speaking, Sikh-majority)
• Haryana (Hindi-speaking)
• Himachal Pradesh (the hill districts)

And the cherry on top? Chandigarh — a city literally built from scratch to be Punjab's capital — was made a Union Territory and handed to both Punjab AND Haryana as a "shared capital." That dispute is still unresolved in 2026 btw 😅

So yeah, from a massive, culturally rich region spanning modern-day Pakistan, Delhi, Himachal, Haryana AND Punjab — it got reduced to one small state over about 65 years. Wild, right?

Hlo, where are you all staying. Also tell about food and centre