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I learned a lot from Rahul Sir's and Vaibhav Sir's lectures, and those lectures helped me gain conceptual clarity.
Meghna ChakravortyUPSC CSE 2024 · AIR 79 AIR 79 · CSE 2024
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AIR 73
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Namrata Choubey, AIR 73 in UPSC CSE 2021 — Anantam IAS testimonial Namrata ChoubeyUPSC CSE 2021 · AIR 73 · Hindi Medium GS Foundation · Hindi Track
AIR 11
“Vaibhav Sir has been my guide and mentor throughout. He would pick calls in the night when I used to panic.”
Shubhankar Pratyush Pathak, AIR 11 in UPSC CSE 2021 — Anantam IAS testimonial Shubhankar Pratyush PathakUPSC CSE 2021 · AIR 11 · First Attempt Integrated GS Foundation
AIR 85
“The classes were so precise and exam-oriented that nothing else was required. Subjects like Geography, Economy and Ethics were wonderful. I was in regular touch with Gaurav Sir, who helped me a lot.”
Pranay Mittal, AIR 85 in UPSC CSE 2024 — Anantam IAS testimonial Pranay MittalUPSC CSE 2024 · AIR 85
AIR 229
“I owe my success to this team. After the results, I called each of these teachers to pay my regards.”
Mukul Khandelwal, AIR 229 in UPSC CSE 2024 — Anantam IAS testimonial Mukul KhandelwalUPSC CSE 2024 · AIR 229
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P K Sidharth Ramkumar, AIR 4 in UPSC CSE 2023 — Anantam IAS testimonial P K Sidharth RamkumarUPSC CSE 2023 · AIR 4 Integrated GS Foundation
AIR 96
“For Polity and PSIR, just trust Rahul Sir and Vaibhav Sir.”
Kashish Kalra, AIR 96 in UPSC CSE 2025 and AIR 111 in CSE 2024 — Anantam IAS testimonial Kashish KalraAIR 96, CSE 2025 · AIR 111, CSE 2024 PSIR Drona Batch
AIR 171
“I owe my success to Anantam IAS. I am really thankful for Raja Sir's Economy teaching and Abhishek Sir's Ethics classes.”
Sania Seervi, AIR 171 in UPSC CSE 2023 — Anantam IAS testimonial Sania SeerviUPSC CSE 2023 · AIR 171

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Fresh off the press

Current affairs grouped by GS paper.

Twelve subject hubs, each with the ten most recent articles. Open any hub to see every article we have published in that paper.

GS II · 801 articles

Polity & Governance

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  1. 01How should RUPPs be regulated?
  2. 02Ladakh to get a Unique Elected Body under Article 371K
  3. 03Onus on legislature to make Marital Rape punishable: SC
  4. 04Capital Punishment 
  5. 05Census 2027 
  6. 06The Political cost of Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) schemes 
  7. 07Judicial Integrity and Corruption
  8. 08Phase-3 SIR Draft Rolls: Scale and Grounds of Deletions
  9. 09Bihar Sets Qualified Consent Rule for CBI Probes
  10. 10Police-Station CCTV: Modernisation Must Deliver Accountability
GS III · 906 articles

Economy

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  1. 01Middle Income Trap
  2. 02ASEAN-India Agriculture: A Results-Based Cooperation Work Programme
  3. 03Television Advertising: Why TRAI Repealed Its Duration Rules
  4. 04Proposed Seeds Law: Traceability, Farmer Rights and Compensation
  5. 05ASUSE District Estimates: Mapping the Unincorporated Economy
  6. 06E-Commerce Rules 2026: Prior Prices, Dark Patterns and Consumer Redress
  7. 07DILRMP 3.0: The Proposed Shift From Digital Records to a Land Stack
  8. 08NHAI Plantation Rules: Linking Completion and Payments to Survival
  9. 09FIU Notices to Crypto Platforms: Activity-Based AML Obligations
  10. 10Western Dedicated Freight Corridor
GS III · 761 articles

Environment & Ecology

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  1. 01Forest Rights Review: From Recognised Titles to Community Governance
  2. 02Bakhira Lake Sediments: Reconstructing the Monsoon Before Rain Gauges
  3. 03Pollution from Open Waste Burning triples in cities during winter: study
  4. 04Organic Photocatalysts: How Self-Assembly Improves Charge Separation
  5. 05NHAI Plantation Rules: Linking Completion and Payments to Survival
  6. 06Orangutans Rescued in Odisha
  7. 07India-Japan Forest Roadmap: Trees Outside Forests and Better Inventories
  8. 08India’s carbon credit scheme receives U.K. recognition
  9. 09UK Recognises India’s CCTS for Conditional CBAM Relief
  10. 10PACT: Aggregating Demand for Zero-Emission Freight Corridors
GS II · 609 articles

International Relations

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  1. 01Houthis seize key city on Red Sea, advance towards Bab el-Mandeb
  2. 02India, U.S. armies commence Bilateral exercise Yudh Abhyas
  3. 03ASEAN-India Agriculture: A Results-Based Cooperation Work Programme
  4. 04Trade between BRICS countries shows marked increase
  5. 05US-Iran Conflict: Widening Threat to Regional Stability, Global Energy and Trade
  6. 06India’s 6G Call to Action: Security, Standards and Policy Autonomy
  7. 07No UAPA charges in NIA chargesheet against U.S. national & six Ukrainians
  8. 08India-Japan Defence Cooperation breaks new ground
  9. 09India-Morocco Defence Ties: From MoU to Joint Committee
  10. 10India-Japan Forest Roadmap: Trees Outside Forests and Better Inventories
GS III · 809 articles

Science & Technology

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  1. 01Bakhira Lake Sediments: Reconstructing the Monsoon Before Rain Gauges
  2. 02ORV Sagar Manthan: From Ship Launch to Ocean Research
  3. 033D-Printed Bone Grafts: Patient-Specific Bioceramics Move Toward Commercialisation
  4. 04Organic Photocatalysts: How Self-Assembly Improves Charge Separation
  5. 05DILRMP 3.0: The Proposed Shift From Digital Records to a Land Stack
  6. 06India’s 6G Call to Action: Security, Standards and Policy Autonomy
  7. 07Aadhaar Face SDK: Single-App Authentication and Safer Testing
  8. 08Bharat Ratna and C.N.R. Rao’s Scientific Legacy
  9. 09Mithun Behaviour AI: What a Single-Farm Study Can Establish
  10. 10Lumpy Skin Disease: Vaccination, Vectors and Movement Control
GS I · 232 articles

History

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  1. 01CERD General Recommendation 40 and Reparatory Justice
  2. 02Vaishya Tekri: Testing Ujjain’s Mauryan Stupa Hypothesis
  3. 03Gyan Bharatam Survey Reports More Than 1.19 Crore Manuscripts
  4. 04Sarnath: UNESCO Inscription Recognises a Living Buddhist Heritage
  5. 05Keeladi Excavations: New Brick Structures Deepen the Sangam-Age Record
  6. 06Lothal Heritage Complex: Recreating a Harappan Maritime Town
  7. 07Prambanan temple: Indonesia’s Hindu heritage site and the India connection
  8. 08Syama Prasad Mookerjee: 125th birth anniversary of the Jana Sangh founder
  9. 09Rakhigarhi Ancient DNA: What Harappan Skeletons Reveal About India’s Ancestry
  10. 10The ‘Dancing Girl’ of Mohenjo-daro: Art, Identity and a Naming Debate
GS I · 461 articles

Geography

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  1. 01Bakhira Lake Sediments: Reconstructing the Monsoon Before Rain Gauges
  2. 02ORV Sagar Manthan: From Ship Launch to Ocean Research
  3. 03UN ‘Correct the Map Controversy’ and India’s Territorial Concerns
  4. 04Equal-Area World Maps: UN Resolution and India’s Boundary Caveat
  5. 05India-China Corps Commander Talks: The New Wacha-Damai Channel
  6. 06Strait of Hormuz Exclusion-Zone Proposal: Transit Passage and Shipping Risk
  7. 07Brahmaputra Mega Dam: Transboundary Risks at the Great Bend
  8. 08Jammu Heroin Routes: Interstate and Cross-Border Trafficking Networks
  9. 09Anak Krakatau Eruption: Volcanic Ash, Aviation and Sunda Strait Risk
  10. 10Supersized El Niño to be strongest ever recorded: UN
GS I · 335 articles

Society

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  1. 01Building Collapses in India: Nearly 8,000 people died due to the collapse of structures in 5 years
  2. 02The Incongruity of Caste and Science
  3. 03Tamil Nadu’s Birth Decline and the Demographic Transition
  4. 04India’s Youth Power: An Electoral Force Still in the Making
  5. 05Master Plan for Delhi 2047 Notified
  6. 06Census 2027 Population Enumeration: Parental Data and New Fields
  7. 07Extreme Heat During Pregnancy and Adverse Birth Outcomes in India
  8. 08Nepal Communal Clashes: Secularism and Stability in the Border Belt
  9. 09Odisha PVTG Nutrition: Anaemia and Adolescent Stunting Gaps
  10. 10Canada Study-Permit Cuts: Why Indian Students Face the Largest Impact
GS IV · 311 articles

Ethics & Integrity

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  1. 01Judicial Integrity and Corruption
  2. 02Return of Profanation as a New Political Language
  3. 03SC calls on students to educate elders in Waste Management
  4. 04AI Agents, Consumer Control and Accountability
  5. 05AI-Designed Viruses: Scientific Promise and the Biosecurity Governance Gap
  6. 06Animal-Free Research Methods and India’s Biomedical Testing Transition
  7. 07AI-Fabricated Precedents: The Supreme Court’s Warning on Manufactured Justice
  8. 08Calcutta HC on Public Parading of Accused: State Power vs Human Dignity (UPSC GS2/GS4)
  9. 09​Gang of seven: On the AAP defections
  10. 10Subhas Chandra Bose: the paradox of a revolutionary’s theory and praxis
GS I · 202 articles

Art & Culture

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  1. 01Bharat Ratna and C.N.R. Rao’s Scientific Legacy
  2. 022026 Ramon Magsaysay Awards 
  3. 03Vaishya Tekri: Testing Ujjain’s Mauryan Stupa Hypothesis
  4. 04Gyan Bharatam Survey Reports More Than 1.19 Crore Manuscripts
  5. 05Sarnath: UNESCO Inscription Recognises a Living Buddhist Heritage
  6. 06Keeladi Excavations: New Brick Structures Deepen the Sangam-Age Record
  7. 07Jagannath Dham Trademark: Protecting Puri Temple’s Sacred Identity
  8. 08Mission Senehjori: Turning Muga Silk Waste into High-Value Yarn
  9. 09Lothal Heritage Complex: Recreating a Harappan Maritime Town
  10. 10Bhojshala Dispute: Supreme Court to List All Petitions Against the High Court Order
GS III · 242 articles

Internal Security

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  1. 01India’s 6G Call to Action: Security, Standards and Policy Autonomy
  2. 02FIU Notices to Crypto Platforms: Activity-Based AML Obligations
  3. 03No UAPA charges in NIA chargesheet against U.S. national & six Ukrainians
  4. 04India-Morocco Defence Ties: From MoU to Joint Committee
  5. 05Watchdog report warns of rise in tech-driven hawala network
  6. 06Defence Acquisition Council: AoN and Indigenisation
  7. 07Roadmap ready to make India drug-free by 2029
  8. 08India, China hold Military talks in Arunachal Pradesh
  9. 09North Korea’s Kang Kon Destroyer: Naval Signalling and Freedom Edge
  10. 10India-China Corps Commander Talks: The New Wacha-Damai Channel
GS III · 96 articles

Disaster Management

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  1. 01NIDM Review: Turning Disaster Lessons Into Preparedness
  2. 02Building Collapses in India: Nearly 8,000 people died due to the collapse of structures in 5 years
  3. 03Anak Krakatau Eruption: Volcanic Ash, Aviation and Sunda Strait Risk
  4. 04Climate Overshoot: The Peak-and-Decline Pathway
  5. 05What are Hanging Glaciers?
  6. 06India-Nepal Power Trade: Flood Damage Reverses Seasonal Electricity Flows
  7. 07Zaporizhzhia Power Loss: Why Off-Site Electricity Is a Nuclear Safety Pillar
  8. 08Shared Disaster beyond Borders and Geopolitics
  9. 09Aditya-L1 Solar Flare Precursors: From Small Brightenings to Space-Weather Warning
  10. 10Western Disturbance linked to Nepal Flash Flood

हिन्दी माध्यम

Originally written in Hindi — not translated.

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PM-WANI, PM विद्यालक्ष्मी, PM-PRANAM और UPSC के लिए ज़रूरी केंद्रीय योजनाएँ4 Sep 2026 · शुरुआत "PM-WANI, PM विद्यालक्ष्मी, PM-PRANAM, PM रोज़गार प्रोत्साहन" — ये चार नाम UPSC प्रीलिम्स में और मुख्य परीक्षा के GS2…NRLM और स्वयं सहायता समूह (SHG): ख़ूबियाँ, मक़सद और असर4 Sep 2026 · भूमिका जब कोई अभ्यर्थी NRLM SHG लिस्ट खोजता है, तो उसके पीछे आम तौर पर कोई काम की वजह होती…PM विश्वकर्मा योजना: स्कीम, फ़ायदे और पात्रता की पूरी जानकारी4 Sep 2026 · एक छोटे क़स्बे का लोहार वह भट्ठी अब भी जलाए रखता है जो उसके दादा ने जलाई थी, लेकिन कोई…PM SHRI योजना: मक़सद, ख़ूबियाँ, बजट और अहमियत4 Sep 2026 · PM SHRI योजना, यानी Prime Minister Schools for Rising India, एक केंद्र प्रायोजित योजना है जो सितंबर 2022 में शुरू…पीएम धन धान्य कृषि योजना — मक़सद, हिस्से और अमल4 Sep 2026 · पीएम धन धान्य कृषि योजना (PMDDKY) की घोषणा केंद्रीय बजट 2025-26 में हुई थी। इसका मक़सद देश भर के 100…भरण पोषण भत्ता योजना: छत्तीसगढ़ की मातृत्व योजना4 Sep 2026 · भरण पोषण भत्ता योजना — नाम का सीधा मतलब है "पालन-पोषण और पोषण के लिए भत्ता" — छत्तीसगढ़ सरकार की…

FAQ

What most aspirants ask us first.

Do I need a background in Polity/History to start?

No. The Foundation programme starts from NCERT-level concepts and layers up. We run a week-zero bridging module specifically for aspirants from science, engineering, and commerce backgrounds — so day one of GS doesn't feel like you've walked into the wrong classroom.

Can I switch from online to classroom mid-way?

Yes — once. You pay the delta and we move your enrolment, recordings, books, and faculty notes to the new mode. We don't restart the clock and you don't lose any progress.

Is the Hindi-medium track a translation, or originally written in Hindi?

Every Hindi-medium note is written by Hindi-medium faculty from scratch — not translated. Our Hindi topper ranks (including AIR 71, 2021) came through this programme.

How much of the daily answer-writing actually gets reviewed?

100% of submitted answers get written feedback within 24 hours. When your faculty spots a pattern running across your copies — introductions, conclusions, diagrams, structure — they call you to work through it rather than leaving it in the margins.

What is the refund policy?

Full refund until the 14-day mark — no questions asked. After that, prorated until 30% of the coaching programme completes. Printed materials, once dispatched, are non-refundable.

How big is each batch — and why does it matter?

Foundation batches are capped at 50 aspirants. That's non-negotiable: it's the only way every essay, every Mains copy, and every doubt gets read and answered by the same faculty who taught the class.

Do you offer an optional subject I'm interested in?

We run full programmes for PSIR, Geography, and History, plus curated modules for other optionals. If your optional isn't listed, book a demo call — we've placed aspirants in subjects we don't formally teach by pairing them with the right faculty.

Will classroom recordings be available if I miss a live session?

Yes. Every online class is recorded and uploaded to your library within two hours. Classroom students also get the same online recordings — so a missed day never turns into a missed week.

How does 1-on-1 faculty guidance actually work?

You get a 30-minute private video call with a senior faculty, scheduled around what your preparation actually needs — after the opening diagnostic, when your answer copies start showing a pattern, after a test that went wrong, when the optional decision is live, and in the run-up to Mains and again before the interview. You can ask for one at any point as well. Topics are yours to set, and the same faculty member stays with you for the full programme.

Do you help with the interview (Personality Test) too?

Yes. Our Interview Guidance Programme is what several of our CSE 2025 rankers (including AIR 28, 48, 106, 116) specifically credit. You get DAF analysis, subject-specific mocks, and mock boards with retired civil servants.

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