Issues In News : Internal Security
In ‘Issues in News’, we cover those issues, which are making headlines as of now, and consequently there is a possibility of these issues finding their way to the question papers, whether ‘Prelims’ or of ‘Mains’. The Objective here is to expose an aspirant to 15/20 different issues every month, so that by the end of the year, the aspirant covers nearly 200 (odd) issues, which can be raised in the form of questions.
Internal Security

Insurgency in Meghalaya
In the morning of 15th August, 2021, the generally peaceful state of Meghalaya was thrown into unrest and violence. There were incidents of stone-pelting, capturing of police vehicles and weapons, vandalism of government and private [Read More]

India’s North-Eastern Border
Internal security concerns the activities, strategies, and programmes aimed at maintaining peace within the sovereign borders of a particular State or any autonomous territory. This is generally done by upholding conditions of the rule of [Read More]

Integrated Battle Groups
The roll out of Army’s new concept of agile Integrated Battle Groups (IBG) was forced to be delayed due to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and the urgent need of diverting critical resources towards containment [Read More]

Defence Research and Development Organization
National securities and defence capabilities of a country are highly dependent on technology. A typical defence research and development organization provides technologically superior equipment’s to its armed forces to defend and protect its country in [Read More]

Cyber Attacks and the Pandemic
In the digital era which began in the 1980s, technology is widely used in order to store and share information all across the world. With further advancement in the digital network, internet came into the [Read More]

GOLDEN CRESCENT AND GOLDEN TRIANGLE
India’s proximity to the Golden Crescent and the Golden Triangle has made Indian borders vulnerable to trafficking of drugs. Flow of illegal drugs from two fronts – North-Western and North-Eastern side possesses dual concern… [Read More]

Nuclear Arms Race in 21st Century
The withdrawal of the US from the INF Treaty has evoked A New Nuclear Arms between Russia and the US. However, this race is not going to remain confined between these two nations only, the impact will also fall on several other regional powers…

The 3rd Bodo Accord
In this article, we are looking into the backdrop of rise of Bodo insurgency in Assam, including the setup of rise of Assamese Nationalism. The different factions working within. The previous efforts to bring in peace in the region and the recent accord, along with the condition it is creating…

Women for Command Posts in Indian Army
Background of Women in Armed Forces India is world’s 2nd most populated country after China. Indian Armed Forces are the military forces of India consisting of 3 wings- The Indian Army, The Indian Navy and The [Read More]

Air Defence Command
India’s defence ministry had 4 different departments to deal with the military matters of the nation. Recently a 5th department i.e. Department of Military Affairs (DMA) was created under the defence ministry. The DMA will deal [Read More]