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Services of State
The permanent arms of the Indian state: armed forces, space, defence R&D, intelligence, paramilitary and the judiciary.
9 maintained dossiers. Each carries a timeline from 1947 or its founding, its sources tiered by provenance, and the questions readers actually ask about it answered on the page.
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Defence Research and Development Organisation
The Defence Research and Development Organisation is the research-and-development wing of India's Ministry of Defence, tasked with making the armed forces self-reliant in weapons and military systems.
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Department of Atomic Energy
The Department of Atomic Energy is the Government of India agency that runs the country's civil and strategic nuclear enterprise end to end, from uranium mining and heavy-water production to reactor construction, reprocessing and waste management.
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Indian Air Force
The Indian Air Force is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces, charged with securing Indian airspace and conducting aerial warfare.
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Indian Army
The Indian Army is the land-warfare service of the Indian Armed Forces and the largest of its three branches.
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Indian Coast Guard
The Indian Coast Guard is an armed force of the Union under the Ministry of Defence, constituted under the Coast Guard Act, 1978 to protect India's maritime and national interests in its maritime zones.
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Indian Navy
The Indian Navy is the maritime-warfare service of the Indian Armed Forces, responsible for securing India's coastline, island territories and sea lines of communication across the Indian Ocean.
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Indian Space Research Organisation
The Indian Space Research Organisation is India's national space agency and the research-and-development arm of the Department of Space, which reports directly to the Prime Minister.
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Judiciary of India
The Judiciary is the third branch of the Indian state and the guardian of its Constitution.
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The Indian Civil Service
The Indian Civil Service is the country's permanent, career bureaucracy — the administrative machinery that runs the Union and the states regardless of which party governs.