Cross-cutting concepts that do not sit inside one paper. 18 concepts, each with its definition, key details and a timeline of every news story that touched it.
Northeast India has eight states: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura. Since India's independence, many...
Introduced by the Ministry of Home Affairs in 2017, SAMADHAN is a comprehensive counter-insurgency framework that integrates security operations with...
India's defence procurement is governed by the Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP), revised in 2020 (replacing DPP — Defence Procurement Procedure). The DAP...
Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Pure) is a Pakistan-based Islamist militant organisation designated as a terrorist entity by the United Nations, the United...
Energy security refers to the uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable price. The World Energy Council frames it as an 'energy...
The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, is India's primary substantive law for designating and prosecuting terrorism and 'unlawful activities' (acts...
The Assam Rifles is India's oldest paramilitary force, originally raised in 1835 as the Cachar Levy. It functions under a dual control structure...
The Communist Party of India (Maoist) was formed on September 21, 2004, through the merger of the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI) and the Communist...
India and the UAE have one of the most multi-dimensional bilateral relationships in West Asia. The UAE is India's third-largest trading partner and...
The NCB is the apex central agency for drug law enforcement in India, established under the NDPS Act with effect from March 1986.
The LoC is the military control line separating Indian- and Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir. It originated as the 1949 Karachi Agreement ceasefire...
The IBBI is the statutory regulatory body established under Section 188 of IBC, formally set up on October 1, 2016. It functions under the Ministry of...
Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS, 1982), ships of all states enjoy the right of transit passage through international...
The Framework Agreement between the Government of India and NSCN(IM) was signed on August 3, 2015, marking a step beyond the 1997 ceasefire toward a...
India's FDI governance is multi-layered. FEMA 1999 is the parent statute. The Foreign Exchange Management (Non-debt Instruments) Rules, 2019 (NDI Rules) are...
The Government of India adopted the National Policy and Action Plan to Address Left Wing Extremism (LWE) in 2015 (revising the earlier 2011 plan). The...
The Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) was introduced by the RBI in 2004 to allow resident individuals (including minors) to remit funds abroad freely for...
The Official Secrets Act (OSA), 1923 is India's primary legislation governing espionage and the protection of classified government information. Inherited...