Sources & credits
iamaware is a curated publication rather than original reporting. It rests on public records, official press releases, and open datasets. These are the sources behind each part of the site.
News & official sources
The Daily Bulletin is compiled each day from official Indian institutions, the public broadcaster and leading newspapers and specialist publications, chosen for UPSC relevance. Every item also credits its own source inline and links to the original.
- PIB (Press Information Bureau): India’s nodal agency for official government press releases and feature backgrounders.
- RBI (Reserve Bank of India): Central-bank press releases and notifications (economy).
- MEA (Ministry of External Affairs): Foreign affairs.
- NewsOnAIR (Prasar Bharati, All India Radio): The public broadcaster’s national and international news.
- DD News (Prasar Bharati): National, international, science and environment news.
- UN News: The United Nations’ news service.
- The Hindu: National, international, economy, science, health, environment, and history and culture.
- The Indian Express: UPSC current affairs, Explained, and national news.
- BusinessLine: The economy and agri-business.
- The Economic Times: Defence and security.
- LiveLaw: Supreme Court judgments and hearings.
- Supreme Court Observer: Case explainers on the Supreme Court’s docket.
- Mongabay India: Environment and conservation (CC BY-ND 4.0).
- Factly: Government schemes and public data (CC BY 4.0).
- Carbon Brief: Climate science and policy (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
- Earlier editions: Bulletins before October 2026 also drew on the Hindustan Times, SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) and PIB’s regional offices.
Explained: long-form feeds
Topic ideas for the Explained section are drawn from leading Indian editorial feeds and research publications, then independently researched and written.
- The Indian Express, Explained: Editorial explainer feed.
- The Indian Express, UPSC current affairs: Syllabus-mapped current affairs.
- The Hindu, Opinion: Editorial and opinion feed.
- Supreme Court Observer: Constitutional and legal analysis.
- Carbon Brief: Climate science and policy.
- Dialogue Earth: Environment, water and climate in Asia (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
- Takshashila Institution: Public policy, geopolitics and technology.
- Gateway House: Foreign policy and geoeconomics.
Market data
The daily market strip is assembled after market close, once per day. Figures are point-in-time.
- RBI (Reserve Bank of India): Reference exchange rates, policy and money-market rates, Treasury bill yields and foreign exchange reserves.
- Yahoo Finance: The BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 indices, and ICE Brent crude futures.
- IBJA (India Bullion & Jewellers Association): 999-purity gold and silver rates.
- GSTN (Goods and Services Tax Network): Monthly GST collections.
AI & language model
The language model behind the bulletin’s summaries and the Explained drafts.
- Google Gemini: Using gemini-2.5-pro (with gemini-2.5-flash as fallback) to summarise official releases into the bulletin and to research and draft Explained articles. Factual claims are tied to the cited source material.
Maps & geographic data
The interactive map combines open datasets with hand-compiled lists, clipped to India and simplified for the web.
- DataMeet maps: India state and union-territory boundaries and the national outline.
- Natural Earth: Rivers, lakes, and populated places (cities). Public domain.
- UNESCO World Heritage Centre: World Heritage Sites in India.
- Hand-curated by iamaware: High Courts and the Supreme Court, nuclear power plants, biosphere reserves, tiger reserves, Ramsar wetland sites and national parks, all compiled from public records.