{
  "id": 7285297,
  "title": "From Mechanical Engineering To IFS: How Siddharth Babu Cracked UPSC With AIR 15",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/from-mechanical-engineering-to-ifs-how-siddharth-babu-cracked-upsc",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-14T08:41:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NDTV - India News",
    "slug": "ndtv-india-news",
    "url": "https://www.ndtv.com/education/from-mechanical-engineering-to-ifs-how-siddharth-babu-cracked-upsc-with-air-15-12044123"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "IFS officer Sidharth Babu transitioned from mechanical engineering and private sector work to join the Indian Foreign Service in 2017.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}