23 June 2026
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Security & Defence Current Affairs
Security and defence current affairs for UPSC and State PCS: military exercises, defence acquisitions and indigenisation, border management, internal security, extremism and cyber security. Articles reflect the Government of India's official position on boundary questions, explain doctrine and capability in exam-ready terms, and map developments to GS Paper 3 with exercise names and platform facts for Prelims.
Latest Security & Defence Articles
All Daily →22 June 2026
India's BRICS Chairship 2026 and the NSA Meeting in New Delhi
21 June 2026
INS Dunagiri and Project 17A: India's Indigenous Stealth Frigates
20 June 2026
I4C's Money Restoration Module and India's Cybercrime Architecture
19 June 2026
India's Defence Decade (2014-2026): Indigenisation and the Export Surge
17 June 2026
India's Defence Production Hits Record ₹1.78 Lakh Crore in FY26
17 June 2026
US Reverts Indo-Pacific Command to "Pacific Command": What It Means for India
15 June 2026
The Army's New Uniform Code and the Decolonisation of Customs
13 June 2026
Current Affairs Today — June 13, 2026
All Security & Defence Articles by Month
June 2026 (26 articles)
- Five Eyes Warns Frontier AI Will Reshape Cyber Threats
- India's BRICS Chairship 2026 and the NSA Meeting in New Delhi
- INS Dunagiri and Project 17A: India's Indigenous Stealth Frigates
- I4C's Money Restoration Module and India's Cybercrime Architecture
- India's Defence Decade (2014-2026): Indigenisation and the Export Surge
- India's Defence Production Hits Record ₹1.78 Lakh Crore in FY26
- US Reverts Indo-Pacific Command to "Pacific Command": What It Means for India
- The Army's New Uniform Code and the Decolonisation of Customs
- Current Affairs Today — June 13, 2026
- First Women NDA Cadets Commissioned at the Indian Military Academy
- Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth Appointed the Next Chief of Army Staff
- Current Affairs Today, June 10, 2026
- Russia Offers India the Su-57 Stealth Fighter with Technology Transfer
- Army Plans Over 300 K9 Vajra-T Howitzers in Largest Artillery Buy in Decades
- Current Affairs Today, June 9, 2026
- Zojila Tunnel Achieves Breakthrough, Set to Give Ladakh All-Weather Access
- President Confers 51 Gallantry Awards at the Defence Investiture Ceremony
- Land Port Management System to Digitise India's Border Trade
- India Protests as Pakistan Holds Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly Elections
- Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit Named Next Vice Chief of the Air Staff
- India Issues Letter of Request for 114 Rafale Jets — Largest Defence Deal in History
- Current Affairs Today — June 3, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — June 2, 2026
- RudraM-II — DRDO and IAF Successfully Test Air-to-Surface Missile
- Current Affairs Today — June 1, 2026
- Operation Sheruwali — Multi-Agency Counter-Terror Operation in Rajouri
May 2026 (61 articles)
- Current Affairs Today — May 31, 2026
- Exercise PRAGATI 2026 — India's Maiden 13-Nation Army Multilateral Drill
- India Rejects US Mediation Claim on Pakistan Ceasefire at Shangri-La
- Current Affairs Today — May 30, 2026
- General Anil Chauhan Completes Tenure as India's 2nd Chief of Defence Staff
- Quad FM Meeting Delhi — IPMSC, Critical Minerals Framework, and India-US Bilateral CMF
- Current Affairs Today — May 29, 2026
- International Day of UN Peacekeepers — Two Indian Soldiers to Receive Dag Hammarskjöld Medal
- IAF-IIT Bombay Predictive Maintenance Pact for Su-30 MKI Fleet
- US Designates Brazil's Comando Vermelho and PCC as Foreign Terrorist Organisations
- Current Affairs Today — May 28, 2026
- Centre Constitutes High-Level Committee on Demographic Changes (HLCDC) Under Justice Naolekar
- Current Affairs Today — May 27, 2026
- India Becomes 7th Nation to Master Gallium Nitride (GaN) Chip Technology
- Current Affairs Today — May 26, 2026
- 11th Quad FM Meeting Delhi: USD 20 Billion Critical Minerals + IPMSC
- South Korea Unveils Jangbogo-N: Indo-Pacific Nuclear Submarine Race
- Quad FM Meet on May 26: Critical Minerals + Maritime Security Agenda
- Current Affairs Today — May 24, 2026
- Quad FM Meet Curtain-Raiser: Rubio in India for First Major US Outreach
- Current Affairs Today — May 23, 2026
- India Test-Fires Agni-1 Ballistic Missile from Chandipur
- Current Affairs Today — May 22, 2026
- Quad Foreign Ministers Meeting: India to Host Wong, Motegi, Rubio on May 26
- Current Affairs Today — May 21, 2026
- Anti-Terrorism Day 2026: 35 Years On — India's Counter-Terror Architecture
- Indian War Memorial in Seoul: 75 Years of Korean War Commemoration
- DRDO Completes ULPGM-V3 Trials: India's UAV-Launched Precision Missile
- Current Affairs Today — May 20, 2026
- Rajnath Singh in Seoul: India-South Korea Sign Defence MoU, Deepen Strategic Partnership
- Current Affairs Today — May 19, 2026
- Squadron Leader Saanya — IAF's First Woman Cat-A Flying Instructor
- India Rejects IWT Court of Arbitration "Maximum Pondage" Award as Null and Void
- Current Affairs Today — May 18, 2026
- India-Pakistan Ceasefire Has No Expiry Date — Army Clarifies; Pakistan's Framing Firmly Rejected
- Current Affairs Today -- May 15, 2026
- PM Modi UAE Visit: ADNOC SPR Deal, LPG Pact, and Strategic Defence Partnership
- Current Affairs Today -- May 13, 2026
- DRDO Scramjet: 1,200-Second Combustor Test Pushes India into Sustained Hypersonic Propulsion
- Current Affairs Today -- May 11, 2026
- One Year of Operation Sindoor: Tri-Service Integration and Technology Lessons
- Current Affairs Today -- May 10, 2026
- India's First MIRV-Capable Agni ICBM Test: Deterrence Recalibrated
- New CDS and Navy Chief: Theatre Command Push Gathers Pace
- Current Affairs Today -- May 9, 2026
- Operation Sindoor Anniversary: India's New Security Doctrine
- Current Affairs Today — May 8, 2026
- Joint Commanders' Conference 2026: India Frames New Doctrine for Cyber, Space & Cognitive Warfare
- Current Affairs Today — May 7, 2026
- Operation Sindoor — First Anniversary: New Military Doctrine and Strategic Lessons
- Current Affairs Today — May 6, 2026
- INS Mahendragiri Inducted — Project 17A and India's Stealth Frigate Programme
- Current Affairs Today — May 5, 2026
- North Tech Symposium 2026 — Raksha Triveni Sangam, Prayagraj
- Operation Sindoor — One Year On: India's New Deterrence Doctrine and the Changed Strategic Landscape
- Current Affairs Today — May 4, 2026
- INS Mahendragiri Delivered — Project 17A's Sixth Nilgiri-Class Stealth Frigate
- Current Affairs Today — May 3, 2026
- SIPRI 2026: India Becomes World's 5th Largest Military Spender at $92.1 Billion
- DRDO Conducts Phase-II Trial of LR-AShM — India's Long-Range Hypersonic Anti-Ship Missile
- Three Years of Manipur Ethnic Violence — May 3, 2023 to May 3, 2026
April 2026 (44 articles)
- India Fast-Tracks SBS-3 Spy Satellite Programme — 52 Military Satellites by 2029 Post-Operation Sindoor
- Rajnath Singh at SCO Defence Ministers' Meeting in Bishkek — India's Zero-Tolerance on Terrorism
- Current Affairs Today — April 25, 2026
- India-Japan Defence Export Policy Shift — Mogami-Class Frigate, Three Principles Amendment, and the Strategic Convergence
- Current Affairs Today — April 24, 2026
- Pakistan Withdraws from SAFF Women's Championship 2026 — Sports Diplomacy and India-Pakistan Relations
- Manipur Ethnic Conflict — Three Years On: 217 Dead, 58,800 Displaced, and No End in Sight
- DIVEX 2026 — India-Sri Lanka Naval Exercise and the Neighbourhood First Policy
- DRDO's Prajna Satellite Imaging System — MHA Integration for Border Surveillance
- Current Affairs Today — April 21, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — April 20, 2026
- India-Russia RELOS Pact — What the Defence Logistics Agreement Means
- Bharat Maritime Insurance Pool — India Builds a Domestic Shipping Insurer
- Current Affairs Today — April 19, 2026
- End of an Era — India's Maoist Insurgency Nears Collapse After Decades
- India-China SCO Bilateral Talks: Pragmatic Re-engagement After the Ladakh Disengagement
- Current Affairs Today — April 17, 2026
- PM Chairs First High-Level CAPF Conference: Synergy, Modernisation, and the Internal Security Architecture
- Critical Minerals: India's 7th Tranche Auction and the Atma Nirbharta Push
- Current Affairs Today — April 13, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — April 12, 2026
- CAPF (General Administration) Act, 2026: India's First Unified Paramilitary Law
- Chagos Archipelago — UK Suspends Sovereignty Deal with Mauritius: Diego Garcia and Indo-Pacific Stakes
- Current Affairs Today — April 10, 2026
- Exercise Cyclone-IV & Brahmastra — India's Defence Exercises in Focus
- Current Affairs Today — April 8, 2026
- Indian Army Releases UAS and Loitering Munitions Technology Roadmap 2026
- Current Affairs Today — April 6, 2026
- INS Taragiri Commissioned and Large Cavitation Tunnel — India's Naval Expansion
- Current Affairs Today — April 5, 2026
- INS Aridhaman — India Commissions Its Third Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine
- BEL Mountain Radar Contract, Skytrax Airport Rankings 2026 & CMLRE Deep-Sea Repository
- Jan Vishwas (Amendment) Bill 2026 and India's Virtual Elimination of Left-Wing Extremism
- Current Affairs Today — April 4, 2026
- PLR Systems Delivers NEGEV LMGs to Indian Army — Aatmanirbhar Bharat in Defence
- India's Defence Exports Hit Record ₹38,424 Crore in FY 2025-26
- Current Affairs Today — April 3, 2026
- INS Taragiri Commissioned — Project 17A and India's Stealth Frigate Programme
- Current Affairs Today — April 2, 2026
- INS Malwan & INS Sanshodhak — India's Naval Indigenisation Milestones
- India Declared 'Naxal-Free' — End of Left Wing Extremism
- Current Affairs Today — April 1, 2026
- India's CCTV Certification Mandate — Digital Security, Chinese Hardware Risk, and Atmanirbhar Surveillance
- INS Shachi and India's Naval Indigenisation — The NGOPV Programme
March 2026 (29 articles)
- Current Affairs Today — March 31, 2026
- Andhra Pradesh Declared Naxal-Free — India's LWE Elimination Deadline Achieved
- GRSE Delivers INS Dunagiri, INS Sanshodhak & INS Agray — Three Naval Platforms in One Day
- Current Affairs Today — March 30, 2026
- IONS Maritime Exercise 2026 — India's Chairmanship and the Indo-Pacific Security Architecture
- Current Affairs Today — March 29, 2026
- MoD Signs Rs 858 Crore Contracts — Tunguska Air Defence and P8I Aircraft Maintenance
- Current Affairs Today — March 28, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — March 27, 2026
- Shaurya Drone Squadrons — Army Integrates Drone Warfare with Armoured Corps
- Current Affairs Today — March 26, 2026
- DRDO Tests ADC-150 Air-Droppable Container; INS Taragiri Commissioning Announced
- Current Affairs Today — March 25, 2026
- Philippines Energy Emergency and Hormuz GNSS Disruption — Global Energy Security Under Stress
- Current Affairs Today — March 24, 2026
- India's West Asia Dilemma — SPR at 64% Amid Gulf Crisis
- Current Affairs Today — March 20, 2026
- Exercise Amogh Jwala — Indian Army's Multi-Domain Warfare Showcase
- Current Affairs Today — March 19, 2026
- IOS SAGAR Second Edition — India's Naval Diplomacy and the Indian Ocean Security Architecture
- Current Affairs Today — March 17, 2026
- Shortage of Cybersecurity Talent in India: A Digital Economy Risk
- V.O. Chidambaranar Port: India's First Digital Twin Port
- Current Affairs Today — March 13, 2026
- Current Affairs Today - March 11, 2026
- Current Affairs Today - March 10, 2026
- Current Affairs Today - March 7, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — March 2, 2026
- Missile Defence Systems: Layers, Logic, and India's Own Shield
February 2026 (47 articles)
- Current Affairs Today — February 28, 2026
- INS Anjadip — Fourth ASW-SWC Vessel Commissioned at Chennai
- Current Affairs Today — February 27, 2026
- LCH Prachand — India's Indigenous Attack Helicopter and its Strategic Significance
- Current Affairs Today — February 26, 2026
- CM-302 Anti-Ship Missile — China-Iran Deal and Gulf Security Implications
- Current Affairs Today — February 24, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — February 23, 2026
- Prahaar — India's First Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Policy Framework
- Current Affairs Today — February 22, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — February 21, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — February 20, 2026
- Bihar Declared Naxal-Free — Left Wing Extremism, SAMADHAN Strategy, and India's Internal Security Transformation
- Exercise MILAN 2026 — India's Multilateral Naval Exercise and Indo-Pacific Maritime Strategy
- Current Affairs Today — February 19, 2026
- Cadet Training Ship Krishna — India's Naval Indigenisation and L&T Shipbuilding's Strategic Role
- Current Affairs Today — February 18, 2026
- India-France Special Global Strategic Partnership — Rafale-M, Nuclear, H-125
- Exercise MILAN 2026 — India's Largest Multilateral Naval Exercise
- Current Affairs Today — February 17, 2026
- Great Nicobar Project — NGT Approval and the Ecology vs. Development Debate
- Current Affairs Today — February 16, 2026
- 114 Rafale Jets — India's Largest Ever Defence Deal Gets DAC Approval
- Current Affairs Today — February 15, 2026
- India-Seychelles SESEL Vision — Island Diplomacy and the SAGAR Doctrine
- Current Affairs Today — February 14, 2026
- HAPS for IAF and Ladakh Telescopes — DAC's Rs 3.60 Lakh Crore Defence and Science Push
- Brahmaputra Rail-Road Twin Tunnel — India's First Underwater Transport Corridor
- Current Affairs Today — February 13, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — February 11, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — February 10, 2026
- Colombo Security Conclave — Seychelles Joins, Expanding India's Indian Ocean Architecture
- India's Strategic Balancing Act — Navigating the US-Russia Triangle Amid Oil and Defence Dependencies
- Current Affairs Today — February 8, 2026
- Meghalaya Illegal Coal Mine Explosion — Rat-Hole Mining, NGT Ban, and the Governance Failure
- Current Affairs Today — February 7, 2026
- Agni-III Ballistic Missile Test — India's Strategic Deterrence Architecture and the Agni Programme
- Current Affairs Today — February 6, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — February 5, 2026
- DRDO SFDR Technology — India's Air-Breathing Missile Propulsion Breakthrough and the Astra Mk-3 Programme
- Current Affairs Today — February 4, 2026
- India-US Defence S&T Partnership — From DTTI to Innovation Bridge, the 24th JTG Plenary and What It Means
- Current Affairs Today — February 3, 2026
- DRDO's SFDR Test — Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet and the Future of India's Beyond Visual Range Missile Programme
- Current Affairs Today — February 2, 2026
- Yantra India's Miniratna Status — Early Dividends from India's Ordnance Factory Corporatisation
- Current Affairs Today — February 1, 2026
January 2026 (31 articles)
- Current Affairs Today — January 29, 2026
- India-EU Security and Defence Partnership 2026 — Strategic Convergence in a Multipolar World
- Current Affairs Today — January 28, 2026
- India's 77th Republic Day 2026 — EU Chief Guests, Padma Awards, Ashoka Chakra, and the LR-AShM Hypersonic Missile
- Current Affairs Today — January 27, 2026
- Republic Day 2026 Parade — Phased Battle Array, Swarm Drones, Robotic Dogs, and the Awards
- Current Affairs Today — January 26, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — January 23, 2026
- Operation Megaburu — Anti-Maoist Strike in Saranda and the LWE Endgame
- Current Affairs Today — January 22, 2026
- India-Germany Strategic Partnership — Project 75I, Semiconductors, and the G4 Axis
- Pralay Missile — India's Indigenous Precision Strike Capability Comes of Age
- Current Affairs Today — January 15, 2026
- 78th Army Day 2026 — Jaipur, Digital Transformation, and India's Evolving War Doctrine
- Current Affairs Today — January 13, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — January 12, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — January 11, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — January 10, 2026
- Indian Army 2026 — Year of Networking and Data Centricity
- Current Affairs Today — January 9, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — January 8, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — January 7, 2026
- Bhairav Drone Force — India's Army Builds a 1-Lakh-Strong Drone Warfare Corps
- 35 Years of Nuclear Lists — India-Pakistan's Most Durable Confidence-Building Measure
- Current Affairs Today — January 5, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — January 4, 2026
- Airwaves on the LoC — Community Radio, Border Communities, and India's Information Gaps
- Current Affairs Today — January 3, 2026
- Pralay's Promise — India's Quasi-Ballistic Precision Strike Missile and the New Deterrence Architecture
- Current Affairs Today — January 2, 2026
- Current Affairs Today — January 1, 2026
Security & Defence Editorial Analysis
All Editorials →8 May 2026
Operation Sindoor at One Year: Underground Infra to Air Defence — India's New Security Priorities
7 May 2026
Operation Sindoor's Key Lesson — Future Conflicts Will Not Resemble the Past
25 April 2026
Japan's Defence Export Pivot — Strategic Opportunity and Structural Constraints for India
25 April 2026
India at the SCO Table — Bishkek Meeting and the Limits of Multilateral Diplomacy with Pakistan
24 April 2026
Cycle of Violence — On Manipur and the Persistence of Hostilities
23 April 2026
India's Post-LWE Future — From Red Sun to New Dawn
All Security & Defence Editorials (59 total)
- Operation Sindoor at One Year: Underground Infra to Air Defence — India's New Security Priorities
- Operation Sindoor's Key Lesson — Future Conflicts Will Not Resemble the Past
- Japan's Defence Export Pivot — Strategic Opportunity and Structural Constraints for India
- India at the SCO Table — Bishkek Meeting and the Limits of Multilateral Diplomacy with Pakistan
- Cycle of Violence — On Manipur and the Persistence of Hostilities
- India's Post-LWE Future — From Red Sun to New Dawn
- How the Pahalgam Attack Forced a Radical Security Grid Overhaul in J&K
- After the Red Corridor: India's Post-Maoist Challenge Is Development, Not Celebration
- India-China After Ladakh: Pragmatic Re-engagement Without Strategic Concession
- The UAPA at the Crossroads: Anti-Terror Law and Civil Liberties Under Strain
- INS Aridhaman and the Completion of India's Nuclear Triad: Power, Prudence, and Provocation
- Reimagining India's Defence Sector: Beyond Export Headlines to Real Indigenisation
- India's Defence Export Surge: The Private Sector Equation
- India's Multi-Domain Deterrence — Bridging the Gap with China
- Digital Sovereignty Begins at the Hardware Layer — India's CCTV Mandate and What Comes Next
- Beyond Collateral Damage — How the West Asia War Is Devastating the Environment
- AP Naxal-Free: A Security Victory, Not Yet a Governance Triumph
- Three Warships, One Day — India's Defence Shipbuilding Moment and Its Market Gap
- After Somanna — What the Maoist Decline Tells Us About India's Counter-LWE Strategy
- IONS 2026 — India's Second Chairmanship and the Test of Maritime Leadership
- Tunguska Deal — Can India Reduce Defence Dependence on Russia?
- Iran's Endgame — Why West Asia's Outcome Will Reshape India's Strategic Calculus
- India's Defence Procurement Dilemma — Strategic Autonomy vs Speed of Acquisition
- INS Taragiri and India's Blue-Water Ambitions — Project 17A and Naval Indigenisation
- CAPF Centralisation Debate — Unified Command vs State Autonomy in Internal Security
- India's SPR at 64% — A Dangerously Thin Buffer Amid West Asia Turmoil
- South Sudan's Descent — India's Peacekeeping Commitment Faces Its Hardest Test
- Encrypted Platforms and Digital Terrorism — The Dark Digital Ecosystem
- A War Redraws India's Choices — Economic and Strategic Impact of the Iran Conflict
- Drones and the Future of War — India's Defence Manufacturing Imperative
- Fire and Fury — The Ill-Conceived War on Iran and Its Global Fallout
- Energy Security Under Threat — The Ras Laffan Attack and India's Vulnerabilities
- Pakistan-Afghanistan Conflict — India's Strategic Calculus
- NavIC — India's Navigation Sovereignty and the Long Road to GPS Independence
- Educational Institution Security — Bomb Threats, Cyber Hoaxes, and the Safety Deficit
- National Security Cannot Be Outsourced — India's Defence Indigenisation Paradox
- India's Naval Indigenisation — Building Capability, Not Just Ships
- BRO and the Logic of Border Infrastructure — Building Under Adversity
- China's Gulf Arms Strategy — What the CM-302 Deal Tells Us
- Mission Divyastra — MIRV Changes India's Strategic Equations, Not Its Doctrine
- After Naxalism: Bihar's Lesson for India's LWE Policy — Development or Deterrence?
- MILAN and the Indo-Pacific: India's Inclusive Naval Diplomacy in a Contested Ocean
- India-France Defence Partnership — Balancing Indigenisation with Strategic Import
- Great Nicobar — Can Strategy and Ecology Co-Exist?
- India's Island Diplomacy — SAGAR, SESEL and the Battle for the Indian Ocean
- India's First Ricin Case — Assessing CBRN Threat Preparedness
- India's Strategic Tightrope — Navigating the Russia-US Triangle Without Losing Balance
- Defence Budget 2026-27 — Record Allocation, But Is India Closing the Indigenisation Gap?
- The End of New START — What the Nuclear Arms Control Vacuum Means for Global Security and India
- From OFB to DPSUs — Three Years of Corporatisation and the Aatmanirbhar Balance Sheet
- Bridge Between Worlds — The India-EU Security Partnership and Strategic Autonomy
- Naxalism's Endgame — What Operation Megaburu Tells Us About LWE in 2026
- Pralay and the Precision Revolution — Can India Build a Conventional Deterrent from Scratch?
- BSL-4 and BioE3 — Is India Building the Biodefence Architecture It Needs?
- India's Quantum Mission — Technology Sovereignty in the Post-Classical Era
- Wiring the Battlefield — What India's Army Networking Push Really Requires
- India's Drone Doctrine — What the Bhairav Force Tells Us About the Future of Indian Warfare
- Beyond Deterrence by Punishment — India's Precision Strike Doctrine and the Pralay Revolution
- Atmanirbhar Bharat in Defence — Reading the CQB Carbine and Torpedo Contracts
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