As many as 17 candidates from Jammu & Kashmir have qualified the prestigious All India Civil Services Examination, the results of which were announced by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Friday. Akashvani Jammu correspondent reports that among the qualifiers from Jammu & Kashmir, Suvan Sharma secured the highest position with an All India Rank of 148, followed by Sugandha Gupta with Rank 207. Towseef Ahmad Ganaie from the Pulwama district achieved Rank 254, while Ritika Bhan secured Rank 456. Bhan, a Kashmiri Pandit whose family currently resides in Jammu, is originally from Batpora, Shopian. She previously secured 17th rank in the Jammu & Kashmir Combined Entrance Examination and has completed her Master's in Zoology from the Cluster University, Jammu. Other qualifiers from Jammu and Kashmir include: Sooyash Raj Shivam (572 rank), Muneeb Afzal Parrah (581 rank), Ghulam Maya Din (683 rank), Dwarka Gaadhi (721 rank), Akash Jaggi (747 rank), Koh E Safa (763 rank), Yassar Ahmed Bhatti (811 rank), Abhishek Kumar Dhyawana (820 rank), Pankaj Kumar (856 rank), Mohd Ajaz Ul Rehman (869 rank), Azhar Asif Khan (886 rank), Mohd Sarfraz Choudhary (936 rank) and Irfan Ahmed Lone (957 rank).