Current Affairs for UPSC IAS

GS-III: Security

• Linkages between development and spread of extremism.
• Challenges to internal security

According to recent reports (New York Times and Recorded Future), Chinese state-sponsored actors may have used malware to target India’s power grid system and seaports. The reports claimed that “Red Echo”, a group sponsored by the Chinese state, was behind the 12 October 2020 grid failure in Mumbai. 

The past experiences show that pandemics not only destroy immune systems but also undermine the social, economic, and political systems that underpin entire nations and regions.

Masood Azhar is heard in a recent audio clip exhorting ‘Kashmiri’ youngsters to do their religious duty by rising up against India’s move to abrogate Article 370. Pakistan knows that turning Kashmir into a ‘religious’ war will attract terrorists and lone wolf attackers.