{"id":364703,"date":"2026-06-08T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=364703"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:30:10","slug":"psir-brief-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/psir-brief-73\/","title":{"rendered":"PSIR Brief #73"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s brief covers these important themes:<\/p>\n

Harsh V. Pant<\/strong> in ORF talks about America\u2019s strategy to counter China in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n

Dharmakirti Joshi<\/strong> in Indian Express analysis India\u2019s growth challenge and importance of domestic reforms.<\/p>\n

Sangmian Hangsian<\/strong> in The Hindu focuses on Northeast as India\u2019s strategic resource frontier.<\/p>\n

UPSC has previously asked question on these themes:<\/p>\n

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  1. 2025 PSIR Paper II<\/strong>: \u201cIndia maintains strong ties with countries that will assure a free and open Indo-Pacific and guarantee greater connectivity with rest of the world. Analyze.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. 2025 GS Paper III<\/strong>: \u201cWhat are the challenges before the Indian economy when the world is moving away from free trade and multilateralism to protectionism and bilateralism? How can these challenges be met?\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. 2025 GS Paper III<\/strong>: \u201cMineral resources are fundamental to the country\u2019s economy and these are exploited by mining. Why is mining considered an environmental hazard? Explain the remedial measures required to reduce the environmental hazard due to mining.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. 2025 GS Paper III<\/strong>: \u201cWhat are the major challenges to internal security and peace process in the North-Eastern States? Map the various peace accords and agreements initiated by the government in the past decade.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. 2024 PSIR Paper II<\/strong>: \u201cDiscuss the rationale behind replacing the \u2018Asia-Pacific\u2019 strategy with the new term \u2018Indo-Pacific\u2019 strategy.\u201d<\/li>\n
  6. 2024 PSIR Paper II<\/strong>: \u201cDiscuss the implications of the scrapping of the Free Movement Regime with Myanmar by the Indian Government on the complex ethno-political dynamics of the north-eastern region.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Today\u2019s brief covers these important themes: Harsh V. Pant in ORF talks about America\u2019s strategy to counter China in the Indo-Pacific. Dharmakirti Joshi in Indian Express analysis India\u2019s growth challenge and importance of domestic reforms. Sangmian Hangsian in The Hindu focuses on Northeast as India\u2019s strategic resource frontier. UPSC has previously asked question on these… Continue reading PSIR Brief #73<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}