📘 Recent Current Affairs – February 2026
Page 15 – Internal Security & Strategic Affairs
🔹 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
Q1. Cyber security threats primarily affect:
A) Agricultural yield only
B) Digital infrastructure and national security
C) Weather forecasting
D) Cultural heritage sites
Answer: B
Explanation: Cyber attacks target financial systems, defence networks, communication systems and critical digital infrastructure.
A) Agricultural yield only
B) Digital infrastructure and national security
C) Weather forecasting
D) Cultural heritage sites
Answer: B
Explanation: Cyber attacks target financial systems, defence networks, communication systems and critical digital infrastructure.
Q2. Left Wing Extremism in India is mainly concentrated in:
A) Coastal regions
B) Tribal and resource-rich regions
C) Metro cities
D) Border ports
Answer: B
Explanation: LWE has historically affected tribal-dominated and mineral-rich areas due to governance and development deficits.
A) Coastal regions
B) Tribal and resource-rich regions
C) Metro cities
D) Border ports
Answer: B
Explanation: LWE has historically affected tribal-dominated and mineral-rich areas due to governance and development deficits.
Q3. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) primarily deals with:
A) Agricultural marketing
B) Terrorism and national security offences
C) Education reforms
D) Public health schemes
Answer: B
Explanation: NIA investigates terrorism-related offences and threats to national sovereignty.
A) Agricultural marketing
B) Terrorism and national security offences
C) Education reforms
D) Public health schemes
Answer: B
Explanation: NIA investigates terrorism-related offences and threats to national sovereignty.
🔹 Analytical Questions
Q4. Discuss the emerging challenges of cyber warfare in the 21st century.
Explanation: Cyber warfare includes data breaches, ransomware, misinformation campaigns and attacks on critical infrastructure. It blurs the line between war and peace.
Explanation: Cyber warfare includes data breaches, ransomware, misinformation campaigns and attacks on critical infrastructure. It blurs the line between war and peace.
Q5. Evaluate the role of cooperative federalism in tackling internal security threats.
Explanation: Internal security requires coordination between Centre and States, intelligence sharing, police reforms and joint operations.
Explanation: Internal security requires coordination between Centre and States, intelligence sharing, police reforms and joint operations.
20 Marks Mains Model Answer
Q6. “Internal security challenges are increasingly multidimensional.” Examine with reference to terrorism, cyber threats, and border management.
Introduction: Internal security today goes beyond traditional threats and includes digital, economic and hybrid challenges.
Body:
Introduction: Internal security today goes beyond traditional threats and includes digital, economic and hybrid challenges.
Body:
- Terrorism: Cross-border networks, radicalization, sleeper cells
- Cyber Threats: Data theft, ransomware, AI-based misinformation
- Border Management: Smart fencing, surveillance drones, maritime security
- Left Wing Extremism: Development + security strategy
- Institutional Measures: NIA, NATGRID, Multi-Agency Centre
- Technology-driven surveillance with safeguards
- Police modernization
- Community engagement and deradicalization programs
- Stronger intelligence coordination
🔹 Essay Practice (Bonus)
Essay Topic:
“National Security in the Digital Age: Balancing Liberty and Surveillance.”
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