Internal Security

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Saudi Arabia invokes defence pact with Pakistan amid West Asia conflict. What it entails

Saudi Arabia invoked the Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement signed with Pakistan in September 2025, deploying Pakistani fighter jets to Saudi territory amid ...

GS2 (International Relations Security) International Relations Internal Security 4m

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Inside India’s deportation policy: timelines to speed up deportation of illegal migrants, holding centres with 10-ft.-high barbed wire boundary

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued a new deportation policy directing all states and Union Territories to set up a Special Task Force (STF) in eac...

GS2 (Polity & Governance Internal Security) GS1 (Social Issues) Polity & Governance Internal Security Social Issues 5m

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Big boost for India as GE signs contract with IAF to set up engine repair facility in country for Tejas fleet

GE Aerospace formally signed a contract with the Indian Air Force on April 13, 2026 to establish an in-country depot-level repair and overhaul facility for t...

GS Paper 3 (Defence Technology Internal Security Indigenisation) Internal Security Science & Technology 6m

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Railways expedites 827 km line projects to improve border connectivity in Rajasthan

Indian Railways is expediting three strategic rail corridors totalling 827 km in Rajasthan's border districts, aimed at improving connectivity to areas near ...

GS Paper 3 (Infrastructure Internal Security Defence Logistics) Economics Internal Security 4m

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India strengthens Sri Lanka maritime push, counters China with strategic bets

India is strengthening its maritime and logistics presence in Sri Lanka, with an emphasis on countering China's expanding footprint in the Indian Ocean Regio...

GS Paper 2 (India's Neighbourhood Policy International Relations) GS Paper 3 (Internal Security Infrastructure) International Relations Internal Security 4m

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GE Aerospace, IAF to set up engine repair facility for Tejas fleet in India

The Indian Air Force and GE Aerospace signed a formal agreement on April 13, 2026 to establish an in-country depot-level overhaul facility for F404-IN20 turb...

GS Paper 3 (Internal Security Science & Technology Indigenization of Defence) Internal Security Science & Technology 5m

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GE Aerospace-IAF tie up for depo-level maintenance iof F404 -IN20 engines

GE Aerospace signed a contract with the Indian Air Force (IAF) on April 13, 2026 to establish an in-country depot-level maintenance facility for F404-IN20 tu...

GS Paper 3 (Internal Security Science & Technology Indigenous Defence Manufacturing) Internal Security Science & Technology 5m

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Kirloskar Brothers boosts naval capability with contribution to INS Taragiri

Kirloskar Brothers Limited, a major Indian engineering conglomerate, contributed key pumping systems to INS Taragiri (F41), India's fourth Project 17A stealt...

GS Paper 3 (Defence Indigenisation Internal Security) Internal Security Economics 4m

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GE Aerospace to set up engine maintenance facility for IAF’s Tejas jets

GE Aerospace has signed a contract with the Indian Air Force to help establish an engine maintenance facility within India for the F404-IN20 engines that pow...

GS Paper 3 (Defence Technology Indigenisation Security) Internal Security Science & Technology 6m

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IAF ties up with GE to build own facility for repair, overhaul of Tejas engines with quicker turnaround

GE Aerospace signed a contract with the Indian Air Force (IAF) to help establish an in-country depot-level maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) facility f...

GS Paper 3 (Defence Technology Security Indigenisation) Internal Security Science & Technology 5m

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UK Won’t Take Part in Trump’s Planned Blockade of Hormuz Strait

The United Kingdom confirmed it would not participate in the US-led naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz announced by CENTCOM on April 12, 2026. UK officia...

GS Paper 2 (IR International Organisations) International Relations Internal Security 4m

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U.S. military says it will start blockade of all ships going to and from Iran on Monday

US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that from April 13, 2026, US forces would begin a naval blockade preventing all ships from entering or departing Irani...

GS Paper 2 (IR) GS Paper 3 (Energy Security) International Relations Internal Security 4m

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Mazagon Dock acquires controlling stake in Colombo dockyard for $26.8 m, move will help counter China's control of Lanka port

Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL), a Navratna Defence Public Sector Undertaking (DPSU) under the Ministry of Defence, completed the acquisition of a 51...

GS Paper 2 (International Relations Internal Security) GS Paper 3 (Economy) International Relations Internal Security Economics 4m

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First batch of BrahMos made in Lucknow delivered to Army; national security is collective duty of every citizen, not just forces: Rajnath

The first batch of BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles manufactured at the new BrahMos Integration and Testing Facility in Lucknow was formally flagged off an...

GS Paper 2 (Internal Security) GS Paper 3 (Science & Technology Economy) Internal Security Economics Science & Technology 4m

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Science Snapshots: April 12, 2026

A digest of notable scientific developments from across domains in April 2026, relevant to UPSC examination Artemis II crewed mission surpassed the record fo...

GS Paper 3 (Science & Technology) Internal Security Polity & Governance 4m

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As Naxalism ends in Chhattisgarh, ‘highly sensitive’ village thirsty for development gets water

Nelangur village in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh — once classified as "highly sensitive" due to Naxal activity — has had its classification removed an...

GS Paper 3 (Internal Security Infrastructure) and GS Paper 2 (Governance) Internal Security Polity & Governance 5m

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Hezbollah | Ayatollah’s allies in Lebanon

Hezbollah, described as the "Party of God" and a key ally of the Iranian regime, has continued to fire hundreds of rockets and drones into Israel even after ...

GS Paper 2 (International Relations Bilateral Groupings) International Relations Internal Security 3m

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Vance-led team lands in Pak’s Nur Khan base, same air hub targeted by India during Op Sindoor

US Vice President JD Vance and an Iranian delegation landed at Pakistan's Nur Khan airbase in Rawalpindi for peace talks aimed at ending the 2026 Iran-US con...

GS Paper 2 (India's Foreign Policy India-Pakistan Relations) GS Paper 3 (Internal Security) International Relations Internal Security 4m

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Year after Sindoor, Vance lands at Pakistan’s Nur Khan airbase

One year after India's Operation Sindoor — which included strikes on Nur Khan airbase near Rawalpindi — US Vice President JD Vance visited the same base, sig...

GS Paper 2 (International Relations Internal Security) International Relations Internal Security 4m

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Iran’s untraced mines in Strait of Hormuz: Why naval mines are difficult to detect

Iranian forces deployed naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz beginning in early March 2026 as a strategic response to US-Israeli military operations, severely...

GS Paper 3 (Internal Security Defence Technology) GS Paper 2 (International Relations) Internal Security International Relations 5m