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UPSC Civil Services Result 2025 Out: Full List of Muslim Toppers

INDIA :

As many as 53 Muslims figured in the list of 958 candidates who emerged toppers in the Civil Services 2025 exams results of which was declared by the UPSC Friday March 06, 2026.

UPSC Civil Services Result 2025: 

As many as 53 Muslims figured in the list of 958 candidates who emerged toppers in the Civil Services 2025 exams results of which was declared by the UPSC Friday March 06, 2026.

As many as 04 Muslims – A R Rajah Mohaideen, Ifra Shams Ansari, Nabiya Parvez and Hassan Khan, figured in the coveted list of Top 100.

The result of Muslims in the Civil Services 2025 exams has improved as compared to the last year when only 26 Muslims had made to the final list.

List of Muslim Toppers with Ranks

1. 7 – 0818306 – A R Rajah Mohaideen
2. 24 – 6409132 – Ifra Shams Ansari
3. 29 – 0806993 – Nabiya Parvez
4. 95 – 0807895 – Hassan Khan
5. 124 – 0323682 – Arfa Usmani
6. 135 – 0607625 – Khan Saima Seraj Ahmed
7. 157 – 0851961 – Wasim Ur Rahman
8. 253 – 0413785 – Sophia Siddiqui
9. 254 – 1801309 – Towseef Ahmad Ganaie
10. 307 – 0830255 – Mantasha
11. 321 – 5811575 – Asad Aqeel
12. 354 – 4116180 – Md Ishteyaque Rahman
13. 382 – 6315003 – Mohammed Ashmil Shah
14. 411 – 1201049 – Shahida Begum S
15. 415 – 0841896 – Shadab Ali Khan
16. 429 – 1412531 – Muhammed Swalah T A
17. 455 – 6303619 – Shoiab
18. 478 – 6408494 – Nazia Parween
19. 485 – 1210110 – Sheik Mohamed Habisudeen S
20. 497 – 1912530 – Sheik Mohamed Nishath M
21. 513 – 5404215 – Minhaj Shakeel
22. 535 – 2105608 – Gulfiza
23. 549 – 6418492 – Hashmi Mohammad Umar
24. 575 – 0864413 – Sharukh Khan
25. 576 – 1907730 – Asna Anwar
26. 581 – 1804448 – Muneeb Afzal Parrah
27. 588 – 6405397 – Azeem Ahmad
28. 614 – 6421470 – Saista Parwin
29. 625 – 8003085 – Noor Alam
30. 646 – 6408831 – Mohd Irfan Kayamkhani
31. 648 – 2602406 – Mohsina Bano
32. 663 – 3402501 – Ghulam Maya Din
33. 665 – 2626864 – Danish Rabbani Khan
34. 668 – 5803808 – Md Nayab Anjum
35. 671 – 6407027 – Mohd Abuzar Ansari
36. 678 – 1139935 – Insa Khan
37. 695 – 5703524 – Abdul Sufiyan K
38. 708 – 2402117 – Fairuz Fathima M
39. 713 – 1904976 – Mohamed Hashim K
40. 718 – 1902416 – Muhammed Suhail
41. 741 – 0328051 – Thousif Ulla Khan
42. 763 – 3403061 – Koh E Safa
43. 764 – 0619109 – Sana Azmi
44. 773 – 4002952 – Reshma M
45. 811 – 3409679 – Yassar Ahmed Bhatti
46. 832 – 3401291 – Ghulam Haider
47. 860 – 1913151 – Mohamed Shezin C P
48. 869 – 3402386 – Mohd Ajaz Ul Rehman
49. 886 – 1804050 – Azhar Asif Khan
50. 936 – 3409886 – Mohd Sarfraz Choudhary
51. 942 – 1224289 – Abdulla Afridh A
52. 955 – 8001862 – Md Shahid Raza Khan
53. 957 – 0869957 – Irfan Ahmed Lone
54 and 55. It now turned out that there are also “Jahana Sareen V P” – having roll number 5702338 and All India Rank 511, and Shiyad, having roll number 1907064 and rank 743, should also be included in the list.

(Disclaimer: The UPSC does not reveal the religious identity of candidates. The above list has been compiled based on the names of candidates as mentioned in the UPSC Main result released by the Commission. Few names are Muslim sounding but are also used by people belonging to more than one religion. Accrodingly, this list is not final. Also some names might have been missing from the list, or if included, they might not be necessarily a Muslim.

UPSC Civil Services Toppers

The UPSC declared the list of UPSC CSE Toppers based on the result of the written part of Civil Services Examination, 2025 held by the Union Public Service Commission in August, 2025 and the interviews for Personality Test held in December, 2025 – February, 2026.

Anuj Agnihotri has secured All India Rank 1 (AIR 1), and is UPSC Civil Services 2025 All India Topper. Rajeshwari Suve M has bagged the All India Rank 2 (AIR2) and Akansh Dhull has secured the 3rd position (AIR3).

The toppers have been recommended for various Civil Services posts including Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Central Services, Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’.

Of the total 958 CSE Toppers 2025, 317 are General candidates, 104 EWS, 306 OBC, 158 SC, and 73 ST.

UPSC Civil Services Result 2025 – Top 25

1. 1131589 Anuj Agnihotri
2. 4000040 Rajeshwari Suve M
3. 3512521 Akansh Dhull
4. 0834732 Raghav Jhunjhunwala
5. 0409847 Ishan Bhatnagar
6. 6410067 Zinnia Aurora
7. 0818306 A R Rajah Mohaideen
8. 0843487 Pakshal Secretry
9. 0831647 Astha Jain
10. 1523945 Ujjwal Priyank
11. 1512091 Yashaswi Raj Vardhan
12. 0840280 Akshit Bhardwaj
13. 7813999 Ananya Sharma
14. 5402316 Surabhi Yadav
15. 3507500 Simrandeep Kaur
16. 0867445 Monika Srivastava
17. 0829589 Chitwan Jain
18. 5604518 Sruthii R
19. 0105602 Nisar Dishant Amrutlal
20. 6630448 Ravi Raaz
21. 5810539 Shubham Singh
22. 0865516 Geetika Arora
23. 1018309 Jeenu Sri Jaswanth Chandra
24. 6409132 Ifra Shams Ansari
25. 3522397 Bhavika Chopra

Performance of Muslims in Civil Services Since 2009

In 2024, a total of 26 Muslims figured in the list of 1,009 candidates who emerged toppers in the Civil Services 2024 exams result of which was declared by the UPSC on April 22, 2025.

In 2023, a total of 1,016 candidates were recommended by the Union Public Service Commission for different Civil Services posts. Of them 51 were Muslims.

In 2022, a total number of 933 candidates were recommended for IAS, IPS, IFS, IRS and other civil services posts. Of them 30 were Muslims.

In 2021, a total of 685 were recommended in the UPSC Civil Services 2021 Merit List. Of them, 21 were Muslims. This was the worst performance of Muslim candidates in a decade.

On ther hand, a total of 31 Muslims had cracked the Civil Services Exam (CSE), also known as IAS exam, in 2020 when UPSC had recommended 761 candidates for the top CS posts.

In 2019, 42 Muslims had cracked the exam whereas in 2018 just 27 Muslims had made it to the final result.

The years 2016 and 2017 were the brightest period for Muslim candidates. In 2016, 52 Muslims figured in the list of successful candidates whereas in 2017 their tally was 50.

In 2015, 34 Muslims were among the 1,078 candidates recommended by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) whereas 38 Muslims were in the list of total 1,236 candidates in 2014.

In 2013, a total of 34 Muslims had cleared the exam, whereas in 2012, 30 Muslims were among the successful candidates, four of them were among top 100.

Similarly in 2012, 30 Muslims were among the successful candidates and in 2011, 31 Muslims were among the 920 selected for the civil services.

Likewise, in 2010 among the 875 successful candidates 21 were Muslims with Dr. Shah Faisal of Kashmir topping the exam at the national level.

In 2009, a total of 31 Muslims were in the list of 791 successful candidates.

source: http://www.ummid.com / Ummid.com / Home> Education & Career / by ummid.com news network / March 09th, 2026

Dr. Tasneem Khaleel – Professor, botany and biology, Billings, MT

Bengaluru, KARNATAKA / Billings (Montana), USA :

Tell me about your education?

My Ph.D is from India, at Bangalore University and I was the first woman to get a Ph.D from that university. I started education at a very young age because I started school when I was about 3. In those days there was not an age limit to start school, when your parents felt you were ready they took you to school. From then on it was up to you. When I started off, there was no kindergarten or pre-school, it was first grade. I sat on the teacher’s lap most of the time because I was so little.

Why did you study botany?

When I was a student in India, botany was a man’s field. They did not really take women in graduate courses for botany because they look at botany as a field science. Since the graduate seats were so limited they didn’t take a whole lot of graduate students. They thought if they took in a girl student, the only option for her would be to teach botany, not go out to the field.  They still looked at women in those days as better at home and in the classroom than in the field. That was a challenge for me. I just wanted to prove to them one could be in the field as well.

When did you know you wanted to become an educator?

Oh I loved teaching right from the beginning. One of the reasons you do your masters in any discipline in India was so that you can teach in college. When I graduated with my masters degree in botany, I was 19 years old at the time and so I went off to find a job. There was one person who was in charge of recruiting and allocating all of the lecturer positions. So I talked to him and said, I need a job but he took one look at me and said, you look like you just came out of high school. He didn’t think I would be impressive enough in front of a classroom and to be able to control a classroom, the kids wouldn’t take me seriously. So I sat there and cried, I wanted the job and he refused to give me something that I had a passion to teach. I didn’t want to keep all the knowledge to myself. So then he said how about if you went and did a Ph.D. and then came back a few years later and by then you will have grown up a bit. I took him up on that option but there was no Ph.D. program at the university so he said he would help start one, which he did. And then we got the university grant fellowship to support me and I did my Ph.D. By then I wasn’t interested in going to him anymore to teach because people were after me to come and teach being I was the first woman with a Ph.D. there.

Tell us about your passion, building the herbarium at MSUB?

The value of the herbarium is based on what plant collections you have in it. When I first came here there were just two wooden cabinets here, with maybe 500 specimens. And they said, this is your herbarium. It was shocking because where I came from there is a whole building dedicated to the herbarium. So I challenged myself to build a herbarium here.  The very first grant I wrote was to buy herbarium cabinets. The next step I did was to call out to local agents here who had small collections to see if they were willing to consolidate to a central location. The US Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Land Management and Rocky Mountain College were all very willing to give collections and we incorporated those in our herbarium. Over the years, the herbarium is a part of the national database with about 16,000 specimens.

Of the classes you teach, what is your favorite?

All of my classes are my favorite classes. I love teaching. I teach freshman biology, in fact that’s one of my most favorite classes to be honest. That’s when students are first starting out and I’m introducing them to biology for the first time and to get them excited about that. I really enjoy doing that and it gives me opportunities to mentor students because they’re just starting out. My second most favorite is plant systematics, they are both equally enjoyable classes for me. I just love teaching botany.

source: http://www.msubillings.edu/snapshots/2015-16/Khaleel.htm / msubillings.edu / by Cassie Winter, University Communications and Marketing / October 09th, 2015 / Montana State Univeristy Billings

UP 10th Result 2020: Alisha Ansari, Arshad Iqbal, Arshima Sheikh among Top Ten

Lucknow / Kanpur, UTTAR PRADESH:

A total of 33 students from various districts of Uttar Pradesh have found their place in the Class Xth 2020 list of top ten.

Uttar Pradesh 10th Result 2020: 

Three Muslim students – Alisha Ansari, Arshad Iqbal and Arshima Sheikh, have cracked the 2020 UP Matric High School Class 10 exam 2020 and have been included in the list of Top Ten.

A total of 33 students have found their place in the 2020 list of top ten. While Alisha Ansari secured 9th rank, Arshad Iqbal and Arshima Sheikh have bagged the 10th rank in Uttar Pradesh Class 10 Merit List 2020.

Alisha Ansari Mohd Rizwan Fazli of Bal Nikunj Inter College Lucknow has got 564 marks (94%) out of the total 600 marks and jointly shared the 9th rank with five other students

Arshad Iqbal Iqbal Hussain of PT RN MHSS Shahjahanpur and Arshima Sheikh Aftab Ahmad of St Xaviers School Kanpur have got 563 marks (93.83%) and secured the 10th rank with 02 other students.

Uttar Pradesh Class 10 result was Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UPMSP) Saturday at 12:30 pm by Dy CM and UP Education Minister Dinesh Sharma.

The overall pass percentage of Uttar Pradesh board Class 10 this year is 83.31 percent – an improvement by more than 3% as compared to last year. In 2019, the overall pass percentage was 80.07%.

Riya Jain Bharat Bhushan of Shri Ram SM Inter College Bagpat has topped the Uttar Pradesh board in 2020 High School or Class 10 (UPMSP Class X) exam result of which is declared today.

Ria Jain has secured 96.67 percent marks to secure the 1st position in the 2020 Merit List.

Abhimanyu Verma Ramhut Verma of Shri Sai Inter College Barabanki came 2nd with 95.83% marks and Yogesh Rajendra Pratap Singh of Sadhbhavna Inter College Barabanki came 3rd with 95.33%.

“All toppers will get laptops and cash rewards”, Dy CM Dinesh Sharma and UP Education Minister said while declaring the result.

source: http://www.ummid.com / Ummid.com / Home> Education & Career / by Ummid.com News Network / June 27th, 2023