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Internal Security

Guarding the Frontiers: Border Management

Per-border challenge tables, CIBMS and smart fencing, the Vibrant Villages Programme, coastal and airspace security, illegal migration, AFSPA's 2026 status and the Rohingya debate: the complete GS-3 guide.

29 September 2026 · 35 min read

Social Justice

Food fortification in India: the +F logo, fortified rice and the anaemia debate

Adding iron, folic acid and vitamins to rice, flour, salt, milk and oil: how India's food fortification programme works, what the +F logo means, and why universal iron fortification is debated.

29 September 2026 · 24 min read

Science & Tech

Giants of Indian Science: Achievements of Indians in S&T

From C.V. Raman's Nobel to Sarabhai's space programme and Swaminathan's Green Revolution: the Indian scientists UPSC asks about, with their science explained.

28 September 2026 · 62 min read

Science & Tech

Reaching for the Stars: India's Space Programme and Policy

From Thumba's sounding rockets to the Indian Space Policy 2023: how India's space programme evolved, why privatisation matters, and what Space Vision 2047 aims for.

28 September 2026 · 48 min read

Post-Independence India

Rockets from a Church, Atoms from Trombay: India's Science Story

From church-building rocket labs to the Moon's south pole: how independent India built a nuclear programme, a space agency, missiles and supercomputers under sanctions and scarcity.

27 September 2026 · 43 min read

Social Justice

Nutrition missions: ICDS, PM-POSHAN and POSHAN 2.0

India's nutrition delivery machinery: the ICDS anganwadi network, the PM-POSHAN school meal programme, and Mission POSHAN 2.0's first-1000-days strategy.

27 September 2026 · 28 min read

Social Justice

Poverty alleviation: programmes, gaps and the way forward

From MGNREGA to DAY-NRLM and PM Awas: a review of India's poverty-alleviation programmes, why outcomes lag outlays, and what a credible reform agenda looks like.

27 September 2026 · 33 min read