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Channel Posts
| 2 |  Happy independence day 🇮🇳 | 463 |
| 3 | https://m.economictimes.com/opinion/et-commentary/the-delimitation-debate-reflects-our-inability-to-eschew-the-politics-of-handouts-caste-and-ethnicity/articleshow/130375799.cms | 309 |
| 4 | https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/decades-old-extortion-racket-why-manipurs-real-crisis-isnt-just-ethnic-11811290 | 265 |
| 5 |  No text... | 225 |
| 6 |  Case study for CRIMINAL TRIBES OF INDIA: 👩👧👦
Unlike most communities in India, the Banchhadas in M.P. invest more in their daughters’ upbringing than in their sons’, by giving them better nutrition and clothes 🍎👗, only so that they can force them into sex work and live off their earnings. Branded a ‘criminal tribe’ by the British 🇬🇧 and now classified as a Scheduled Caste. 📜⚖️ | 216 |
| 7 | Scientists found two mysterious ‘ghost’ ancestors hiding in our DNA | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260731034139.htm?utm_campaign=fullarticle&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=inshorts
Two previously unknown human relatives left traces of their DNA in people alive today, adding another layer to the genetic legacy already inherited from Neanderthals and Denisovans. The discovery reinforces a growing view of human evolution as a long history of encounters and interbreeding among many related hominin populations. | 241 |
| 8 | https://youtu.be/CsbLM96YmSk?si=bZmg0KImZUqwUO13 | 425 |
| 9 | Raising a Harappan skeleton from grave without losing history. A UP man on ASI speed dial
https://theprint.in/ground-reports/raising-a-harappan-skeleton-from-grave-without-losing-history-a-up-man-on-asi-speed-dial/2966799/?amp | 443 |
| 10 | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/andhra-pradesh-set-to-depute-native-language-speakers-for-koya-muria-tribes-along-sabari-godavari-rivers/article69834145.ece | 372 |
| 11 | https://www.downtoearth.org.in/governance/can-the-decades-old-constitutional-dispute-over-lambadas-scheduled-tribe-status-in-telangana-be-resolved | 317 |
| 12 | 🔆 Rakhigarhi Human Skeletal Remains Handed Over for Advanced Scientific Research
📍 Why in News?
✅ Human skeletal remains excavated from Rakhigarhi (Haryana) have been transferred by ASI to the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) for advanced multidisciplinary research.
📍 About Rakhigarhi
✅ Located in Haryana
✅ Largest known settlement of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization
✅ Spread over ~550 hectares
✅ Evidence of Early Harappan to Mature Harappan habitation
✅ Features planned settlements, drainage systems, craft centres, trade networks and burial grounds.
📍 Recent Discovery
✅ Eight burials unearthed at Mound No. 7 during 2025–26 excavations
✅ Three complete human skeletons recovered
✅ Remains shifted to AnSI’s skeletal repository and laboratory in Kolkata.
📍 Scientific Techniques to be Used
✅ Ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis
✅ Stable isotope studies
✅ Osteological assessments
✅ Palaeopathological investigations
✅ Environmental reconstruction.
📍 Expected Findings
✅ Ancestry and genetic history
✅ Migration patterns
✅ Diet and nutrition
✅ Disease prevalence
✅ Human-environment interactions
✅ Health and lifestyle of Harappan populations.
📍 Institutions Involved
✅ Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI)
✅ Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)
✅ Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP)
✅ Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
✅ University College London (UCL).
📍 Significance
✅ Strengthens India’s palaeoanthropological research
✅ Helps reconstruct Harappan population history
✅ Integrates archaeology, genetics, anthropology and environmental sciences
✅ Enhances understanding of one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations.
📍 Prelims Pointers
✅ Rakhigarhi — Haryana
✅ Largest known Indus-Saraswati Civilization site
✅ Excavated by ASI
✅ Human remains to undergo ancient DNA analysis.
Question
Elaborate how can advances in archaeogenetics and palaeoanthropology contribute to understanding the origins, migration patterns and socio-cultural evolution of the Harappan Civilization? | 314 |
| 13 |  No text... | 257 |
| 14 | Good Morning officers 🫡
Starting from today, there will be topic based mcqs posted at 7pm everyday!
Topics, polls will be posted on group itself.
Tracking sheets will be active. Ty!
Wishing you all the very best. | 263 |
| 15 | Hope the break was sufficient..
Shall we start back? | 444 |
| 16 | Give your best champ !
Be 'Focus'ed and rest will follow in the exam hall ✨️
All the best 💖 | 594 |
| 17 |  UPSC Annual Calendar 2027 Out
UPSC CSE : 23 May, 2027
Mains 20 August 2027 | 650 |
| 18 |  🚨 Important Update:
Medical stores across India will be closed today, May 20, for a 24-hour nationwide strike. Over 12 lakh chemists are protesting against unregulated online medicine sales.
Hospital pharmacies will stay open for emergencies, but retail shops will be shut.
⚠️ What you need to do right now:
Check your prescriptions immediately.
Buy your essential medications to avoid disruptions.
Share this to inform your family and friends! | 588 |
| 19 | Central-Eastern Europe's oldest Neanderthal group identified by DNA taken from teeth - study
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-895960 | 428 |
| 20 | https://theprint.in/india/a-village-in-maharashtra-is-now-caste-free-soundalas-journey-from-separate-wells-to-shared-meals/2863340/?amp | 398 |
