India's lions have rebounded to 891 — yet every wild Asiatic lion still lives in one landscape. Decoding the single-site risk, the…
Essay Editorials
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Editorials
📖 UPSCPDF Editorial Analysis is a dedicated daily editorial initiative for UPSC Civil Services aspirants. Our team analyses important editorials from The Hindu, The Indian Express, Business Standard, Business Line, and other credible publications, mapping each directly to the UPSC syllabus.
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38 editorials
The passport as a mere "travel document," the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, and recent Supreme Court rulings have reopened a…
Chokepoint vulnerability versus institutional preparedness — how a 90% crude-importing economy weathered a Strait of Hormuz energy shock through a calibrated, whole-of-government…
The apex court likens AI "hallucinations" to methyl isocyanate — invisible, insidious, catastrophic. Decoding the zero-tolerance standard on fabricated precedents, the draft…
The 2026 U.S.–Iran framework, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the limits of coercive power — decoding energy geopolitics, nuclear…
A rising cancer burden meets a patchy data system. Decoding the case for national notification — and the constitutional, administrative and privacy…
Why the monsoon can no longer fix India's water crisis — and how climate-proofing, wastewater reuse, micro-irrigation and basin-scale data can move…
How one Madhya Pradesh district turned data invisibility into data intelligence — using database convergence, behavioural "nudges" and service bundling to hit…
Innovation versus accountability — decoding the UN Scientific Panel's warning that safeguards cannot keep pace with AI, the widening Global North–South divide,…
June 2026 GST touched ₹1.95 lakh crore — but the lift came from imports, not domestic strength. Decoding why buoyancy driven by…
Liberty versus security in the age of anti-terror law — decoding prolonged pre-trial incarceration, the UAPA bail bar under Section 43D(5), Article…
As Australia enforces and the UK, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh propose under-16 bans, the sharper question emerges — should the State gate…
Paper leaks from NEET to teacher-eligibility tests expose insider networks, examiner conflicts and a compromised coaching nexus. This guide weighs transparency, technology…
Why India's refinery flexibility in the Strait of Hormuz crisis is only half the story — and how "coal chemistry", producing domestic…
From vibrant self-government to scheme clearinghouse — decoding gram sabha "participation fatigue," fiscal centralisation, and the right to withhold consent under PESA…
Adequacy, access, affordability and appropriate sustainability — decoding the INSA-CSTIP four-pillar framework that treats coal, renewables, gas, biomass and clean tech as…
Aggressive AI policy is the new normal. As frontier models become instruments of statecraft, India must leverage global AI while steadily reducing…
A five-month-high 5.1% industrial growth — or a statistical puzzle? Unpacking the IIP–core sector divergence, the belated WPI-to-PPI deflator shift, and the…
National identity and linguistic plurality versus student choice, exam stakes and school capacity — decoding CBSE's rollout of the three-language formula, the…
Wedged between the Golden Crescent and the Golden Triangle, India must decide whether to keep counting seizures and arrests — or start…