MEA has asked the Indians in Canada to be cautious and vigilant Subject : Internal Security/ PIC Context : Citing a “sharp increase in incidents of hate crime, sectarian violence, and anti-India activities” in Canada, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) issued an advisory for Indian nationals and students who are in Canada. […]
ASSAM-ARUNACHAL PRADESH BORDER DISPUTE TOPIC: Internal Security Context- Arunachal Pradesh, which was earlier a part of Assam, shares a boundary of roughly 800 km with the state—with frequent flare-ups reported along the border since the 1990s. Concept- Bone of contention: 1951 The dispute dates back to colonial times, when the British in 1873 […]
6 policemen killed in Assam-Mizoram border row Subject : Internal Security Context: Assam-Mizoram border dispute: The violence spotlights the long-standing inter-state boundary issues in the Northeast, particularly between Assam and the states that were carved out of it. The history of dispute: The boundary issue between Assam and Mizoram has existed since the […]
FREE MOVEMENT REGIME Subject: Internal Security Context: In halls, safehouses, Myanmar nationals pray India does not send them back: ‘will be killed’. Concept: Free movement regime (FMR) The formation of Myanmar as a separate State in 1935 and decolonisation of the sub-continent in 1947 divided ethnic communities living along the Indo-Myanmar border. These […]
OPERATION BLUE STAR Subject : Internal Security Context : Pressing for a speedy resolution of the farmers’ agitation, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh invoked the state’s troubled past to remind an all-party meeting that prolonged negotiations that time too over a list of demands led to Operation Blue Star in 1984. Concept : […]