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Facts for Prelims (FFP) Source: IE Context: Reports suggest that the Islamic State (IS) and Syrian fighters widely consumed Captagon to increase alertness and suppress appetite during their gruelling battles. About Captagon: Captagon is a highly addictive amphetamine-type drug, which is produced mainly in Syria and widely smuggled across West Asia. Several …
InstaLinks : help you think beyond the issue but relevant to the issue from UPSC prelims and Mains exam point of view. These linkages provided in this ‘hint’ format help you frame possible questions ina your mind that might arise(or an examiner might imagine) from each current event. InstaLinks also connect every issue to their …
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GS Paper 2 Syllabus: Bilateral, Regional and Global Groupings and Agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests Source: The Hindu Context: The decision to host the United Nations Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee (UNSC-CTC) is one of several events planned by the Government of India to strengthen its counter-terror diplomacy. How India is strengthening …
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GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security. Context: The Supreme Court has pulled up the Tripura Police and the government for repeated notices under UAPA sent to journalists, activists, and people who tweeted the articles on alleged violence in the state. Background: …
GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Important Security Agencies. Context: The Union government has asked the States to share more intelligence inputs through the Multi Agency Centre (MAC). Need for: States are often reluctant to share information on the platform. There are several gaps in sharing critical information at the right time. Plans are …
GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security. Context: As per the information given by the Union Home Ministry in Lok Sabha: Nearly 57% of those arrested in the country under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act between 2018 and 2020 were below 30 years …
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GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security. Context: A Special Bench of the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana, recently protected two lawyers and a journalist booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) from any “coercive action” by the …
GS Paper 3 Topics Covered: Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security. Context: The Editors Guild of India (EGI) has expressed shock over the Tripura police’s action of booking 102 people, including journalists, under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. This was for reporting and writing on the recent communal violence …
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Introduction: India has once again asked Pakistan to take credible and irreversible steps to end its state-sponsored terrorism and dismantle the terrorist infrastructure in its territories. The Permanent Mission of India at the UN hit out against Pakistan while exercising its right of reply at the 48th session of UNHRC. Last week …
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GS Paper 2: Topic covered: International relations Context: The recent withdrawal of USA troops from Afghanistan after nearly two decades of waging war on terror An analysis of America’s achievements in Afghanistan in last 20 years USA under President Biden is contesting that it has significantly thwarted the Al-Qaeda terrorist network operating out of …
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GS Paper 3 Topics Covered: Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security. Context: A ban under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act may be imposed on both factions of the secessionist conglomerate Hurriyat Conference which has been spearheading the separatist movement in Jammu & Kashmir for over two decades. …
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Topic: Security challenges and their management in border areas – linkages of organized crime with terrorism. 5. “All terrorists are criminals but not all criminals are terrorists”, in the light of the statement above explain in what way anti-terror laws in the country have led to a period of over-Criminalisation. (250 words) Reference: The Hindu …
Topic: Security challenges and their management in border areas – linkages of organized crime with terrorism. 7. Drones as a technology offer a distinctively puzzling and complex security threat when it comes to terrorism and hybrid warfare. Critically analyse. (250 words) Reference: The Hindu Why the question: In the first such instance in India, explosive …
Topic: Security challenges and their management in border areas – linkages of organized crime with terrorism. 5. The human rights agenda in the world is facing a major challenge from terrorism, in this context discuss the challenges posed by Terrorism and suggest steps to be taken by the world countries to combat the menace. (250 …
5. What is the concept of ‘’Smart Wall” with respect to border management? Examine the scope of smart wall in protecting the territorial borders of India? (250 words) Reference: The Hindu Why the question: United States President Joe Biden stopped the construction of the much-publicised “border wall” between the U.S. and Mexico but an alternative …
Context: Mumbai, the financial capital of India and its busiest metropolitan city, has been a prime target for terrorist attacks. In the last two decades, the number of terrorist attacks in Mumbai have caused over 700 fatalities. On 26 November 2008, ten transnational terrorists attacked Mumbai, which included the busiest railway station in peak …
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Topics Covered: Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security. The US ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism’ list? Context: Last week, Sudan became the third Arab nation in recent weeks to normalise relations with Israel, days after the US removed it from its State Sponsor of Terrorism list. What is the …
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Topics Covered: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora. Global Terrorism Index (GTI) What to study? For Prelims: GTI- rankings, database and latest report highlights. For Mains: Concerns expressed by India. Context: Niti Aayog has questioned Australian institute’s terror ranking of India in its Global Terrorism Index …
RSTV: THE BIG PICTURE- UNITED AGAINST TERROR FUNDING Introduction: The Enforcement Directorate said it has attached over a dozen assets in Jammu and Kashmir in a terror financing case against Pakistan-based terrorist and chief of the globally banned Hizbul Mujahideen, Syed Salahuddin. The central probe agency issued a provisional order under the Prevention of …
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RSTV: THE BIG PICTURE- TACKLING TERROR FINANCE Introduction: In the wake of the dastradly terror attack in Pulwama carried out by Pakistan based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad , India had upped the ante against Pakistan on the issue of terror funding by pushing to blacklist the neighbouring country at the plenary meeting of the anti …
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