Geopolitical analysis · updated continuously
India, explained one institution at a time.
IndiaStand maintains a living dossier for every Indian ministry, state, service arm and institution — analysed from open global news data, with the 1947→present record on each entity and a source on every claim. We are in the analysis business: we describe and explain, we do not predict or advise.
What we cover
10 desks live · scaling to ~170Every executive department of the Government of India — remit, structure and record.
All 28 states and 8 union territories as federal actors.
Armed forces, space, defence R&D, intelligence, paramilitary — and the judiciary.
Bilateral relationships and cross-cutting geopolitical domains.
Answers on India
Straight answers to what people ask about India — each links to the full dossier.
What is the status of the India–China border dispute? +
India and China share a ~3,488 km undemarcated boundary, the Line of Actual Control. After the deadly 2020 Galwan Valley clash the two sides entered a hardened forward posture; a 2024 patrolling arrangement at Depsang and Demchok eased the immediate crisis without resolving the underlying territorial claim.
Full dossier →Which ministry handles India’s foreign policy? +
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), formed in 1948 and headquartered in South Block, New Delhi, conducts India’s diplomacy, treaties and consular services through the Indian Foreign Service and roughly 200 diplomatic missions.
Full dossier →How is the Indian military structured? +
India’s armed forces comprise three services — the Army (land), Navy (maritime) and Air Force — supported by space and defence-R&D bodies, intelligence agencies and paramilitary forces. The Indian Army, the largest branch, plans around a “two-front” assumption of simultaneous pressure on the China and Pakistan borders.
Full dossier →What is IndiaStand? +
IndiaStand is an AI-native geopolitical analysis platform that maintains a continuously-updated dossier for every Indian ministry, state, service arm and institution, built from open news data with the 1947→present record on each entity and a source on every claim.
Full dossier →Topic briefs
Long-term, maintained analyses of major topics — updated as they evolve.
India's semiconductor strategy: the state of play
India is spending heavily to build a domestic semiconductor industry it has never had — betting large state incentives that it can move from chip design, where it is already strong, into assembly and fabrication, where it is not. This is the maintained topic brief on where that effort stands and what still has to be proven.
India's strategic autonomy: the state of play
Strategic autonomy — India's refusal to bind itself to any single power bloc — is being stress-tested by a more transactional Washington that wants sharper alignment, even as India's dependence on Russian arms and its live rivalry with China make hedging a structural necessity. This is the maintained topic brief on how India is holding the line and where it strains.
Latest dispatches
All briefs- 2026-07-03
Operation Sindoor: casualty disclosure becomes a parliamentary dispute
Defence coverage is dominated not by the anniversary commemoration of Operation Sindoor but by a dispute over what was disclosed about the operation's military casualties. The opposition has moved a breach-of-privilege notice alleging Parliament was misled; the government denies withholding information. This brief reads the contest and its notably domestic footprint.
- 2026-07-02
India–China resume delimitation talks: dialogue widens, the dispute holds
A fresh round of India–China talks turned "forward-looking" on boundary delimitation and LAC management, with both sides tying border calm to normalising the wider relationship — even as border infrastructure-building continues and the underlying territorial claim stays untouched.
- 2026-07-02
RBI holds the repo rate: a growth-supportive pause under an inflation watch
The Reserve Bank of India's Monetary Policy Committee left the policy repo rate unchanged, keeping a growth-supportive stance while flagging the inflation outlook. This brief reads the decision as a hold that buys optionality rather than a turn in the cycle.
How this is made
Open sources, in parallel
Official ministry sites, Google News and GDELT are pulled together and de-duplicated. No paid data.
Provenance on everything
Every claim carries its source, tiered official → reference → news → analysis. Cross-source corroboration is tracked.
Analysis, not prediction
We cover seats of power, not personalities, and describe the state of play — no forecasts, no recommendations.
Last updated 2026-07-03.