Cover Story : Internal Security
General Studies: Cover Story
The ‘Cover Story’ section has been designed keeping in mind the requirement of looking in-depth into various aspects of the general studies syllabus of Civil Services Examination, conducted by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). Here, we would be taking up various challenging parts of the general studies syllabus, which a student may find difficult to prepare and especially in accessing comprehensive materials. It is exactly here we come into play, as we would be presenting in front of you different dimensions of these sections in the form of a series of articles.
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INTERNAL SECURITY

Challenges to India’s Internal Security: Trafficking in the Northeast
India’s Northeast is comprised of eight states – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, and Sikkim – sharing international borders with Bhutan, China, Myanmar, and Bangladesh. The region possesses numerous cultural and geographical particularities [Read More]

Challenges to India’s Internal Security: Cyberthreats
On 26th November 2021, the Brahma Research Foundation released a report entitled National Security Challenges – 26/11 and beyond! Atmanirbharta se hi Atmanirbhaya Bharat, which enumerated cyber warfare, narco-terror, and misinformation warfare, as among the [Read More]

Challenges To India’s Internal Security: Organised Crime
Over the last decade, there has emerged significant discourse in academic and policymaking circles that the proliferation of organised crime entities – engaged in activities such as kidnapping, human trafficking, and illicit finance, with growing [Read More]

Challenges to India’s Internal Security: Terrorism
Though a comprehensive legal definition of terrorism has not yet been agreed upon, the precedents set by existing declarations, resolutions and universal “sectoral” treaties related to its aspects define it as violence directed toward civilians [Read More]

Deciphering the Indo-China Territorial Dispute
We all know about the on-going Indo-China territorial dispute in Ladakh. Two names came up as the center of flash points. These are (1) Galwan River Valley & (2) Finger 4 of Pangong Tso Lake. [Read More]

External State & Non-State actors in India’s internal Security: Part 1
The article looks into India’s neighbourhood relations, especially the roles played by Pakistani and Chinese security and intelligence agencies in promoting internal disturbances in India. [Read More]

Insurgency in North-Eastern India: Part 2
The article documents the different insurgency movements going on in the Northeast of India. The article discusses the rise of Naga movement, subsequent Assam Movement, rise of United Liberation Front of Asom… [Read More]

Insurgency in North-Eastern India: Part 1
Nearly every state in the North-Eastern region of the country is inflicted by secessionist violence. And the sequence of violence is going on for a considerably longer duration from 1956 till date. This first part of the article looks into the various reasons which led to the rise of insurgency in the region which broils the region even today.

Left-Wing Extremism: Threat to Internal Security
The issue talks about threat to India’s internal security from Left Wing Extremism or Naxalism, as popularly called. It discusses the historical perspective of rise of radical-left in India. Rise and spread of Left-Wing Extremism…