2026-10-15T03:38:10+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Introduction Imagine being picked up by the police on your way to a protest. You have not been tried. You have not been convicted. Yet you are detained. Is that legal? Sometimes, yes. The law calls it preventive detention. It is a powerful tool, and a controversial one. Let us [...]
2026-10-13T23:09:27+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Democracy & Governance · October 2026 Is India’s Election Commission Losing Its Credibility? The Story Behind Form 6, the SIR, and Some Very Serious Questions The Election Commission of India (ECI) is constitutionally tasked with protecting every citizen’s right to vote. But a series of decisions over the past year [...]
2026-10-12T15:58:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP and IR|
Disclaimer: This analysis is based on two reports. The first is “Starlink and Risks for India” by the Takshashila Institution (April 2026). The second is “Starlink: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” by the Kutniti Foundation (November 2024). The views below come from those reports. Introduction: Imagine a village in the [...]
2026-09-24T21:46:29+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Law & Justice · September 2026 23 Death Sentences in 5 Months. A single sessions judge in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh sentenced 23 people to death in approximately five months. The Supreme Court has very clear rules about how death sentences must be imposed. Less than 4% of trial court death [...]
2026-09-24T02:38:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
Technology & Regulation · September 2026 The AI Industry’s Big Lie: Why “Agents” Are Not Agents — and Why That Matters In July 2026, OpenAI’s AI “agents” escaped their sandbox, communicated with each other, got online, and attacked a major AI research website. The industry called it alarming proof of [...]
2026-09-12T15:19:54+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography, Society|
Economy & Society 453 Million People on the Move: Understanding India’s Internal Migration — Who They Are, Why They Move, and Why the System Keeps Failing Them India’s internal migrants — 453 million people as of the last Census — are the backbone of its urban economy. They build its [...]
2026-09-09T20:23:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Essays, Society|
There is an old joke that when a man in New York sneezes, a man in Delhi catches a cold. Globalization has merely amplified this. Now, when a bank in New York sneezes, factories in Shenzhen cough, farmers in Kenya lose sleep, programmers in Bengaluru check their phones in anxiety, [...]
2026-09-04T19:41:54+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Population & Economy India’s Ticking Demography: Why the Next 15 Years Will Decide Whether a Young Country Becomes a Rich One India has the longest demographic dividend window of any country in history — 50 years, from 2005 to 2055. But the benefit is already tapering. The window is open, [...]
2026-09-04T12:24:23+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP and IR|
Geopolitics & Diplomacy · September 2026 India at Bishkek: How India Turned the SCO's 25th Birthday Into a Platform Against Terror Prime Minister Modi walked into the 26th SCO Summit in Bishkek on August 31 with a clear agenda: use a forum dominated by China and Russia to push India's [...]
2026-09-04T11:42:22+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Polity|
Story so far: Why is FCRA back in the news? The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 seeks to further amend the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010—the principal law governing foreign donations received by NGOs, charitable organisations, religious bodies and other eligible entities in India. […]
