Today’s Key News from The Hindu for UPSC Preparation -20 August 2026

Channel
EKAM IAS ACADEMY - (Official)
@ekamiasacademyhyderabad
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Polls · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
7,364subscribers
+24 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001767090801 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @ekamiasacademyhyderabad |
| Created | Between 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 26 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 14 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 26 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/ekamiasacademyhyderabad |
Topic
Education — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 12 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Sept 2026, 01:01 | 7,364 | +24 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 22:59 | 7,340 | -6 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 08:56 | 7,346 | +21 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 11:40 | 7,325 | -7 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 19:03 | 7,332 | -1 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 23:05 | 7,333 | +5 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 09:02 | 7,328 | +2 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 15:43 | 7,326 | -8 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 00:46 | 7,334 | +3 |
| 18 Aug 2026, 11:02 | 7,331 | +2 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 19:52 | 7,329 | -10 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 00:42 | 7,339 | -4 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 17:42 | 7,343 | +3 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 17:48 | 7,340 | first reading |
Engagement
73 posts held, back to 6 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 13 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 73 posts for this entry, the most recent from 20 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
14 reactions across 10 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 71.4% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 10 | 71.4% | |
| 👍 | 4 | 28.6% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 13 of the 73 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 14 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 73 most recent posts we hold, published 6 August 2026 to 20 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
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Select the correct answer
- Option A17%
- Option B14%
- Option C39%
- Option D29%
Shares as published, totalling 99%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
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Today’s Key News from The Hindu for UPSC Preparation -19 August 2026
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Select the correct answer
- Option A11%
- Option B15%
- Option C71%
- Option D3%
Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
Photo, posted without a caption
Showing the 12 most recent of 73 posts we hold for @ekamiasacademyhyderabad. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Polls
The 6 most recent of 10 polls we hold for this entry, as Telegram rendered them when we read the post. A poll’s figures keep moving after that, so each one is dated.
Select the correct answer
- Option A17%
- Option B14%
- Option C39%
- Option D29%
Shares as published, totalling 99%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
Select the correct answer
- Option A11%
- Option B15%
- Option C71%
- Option D3%
Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- A) Only 148%
- B) Only 213%
- C) Both 1 and 240%
- D) Neither 1 nor 20%
Shares as published, totalling 101%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
Select the correct answer
- Option A12%
- Option B21%
- Option C19%
- Option D48%
Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
Select the correct answer
- Option A38%
- Option B32%
- Option C27%
- Option D3%
Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
Select the correct answer
- Option A29%
- Option B44%
- Option C20%
- Option D7%
Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
Percentages only — there are no per-option vote counts here, because Telegram publishes none. The public post preview gives each option’s share and a single voter total, and nothing else. Multiplying one by the other would produce a per-option tally that looks measured and is not: the shares are rounded to whole numbers before we ever see them. We print what was published and leave the column that does not exist empty.
The shares need not add up to 100. Rounding alone puts many polls at 99 or 101. A poll that allows more than one answer per voter runs well past 100 by design, and several here do. The bars are drawn against a fixed 100% track at each option’s own percentage rather than normalised to the total, so a poll that exceeds it shows that it does instead of being quietly rescaled.
Read from the 73 most recent posts we hold, published 6 August 2026 to 20 August 2026. Telegram labels each poll by kind — an anonymous poll, a quiz, a closed set of final results — and that label is reproduced rather than paraphrased.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@Balalathascsbiasacademy · 46,338
Telegram ranks this channel #9 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 27 August 2026
@UPSC_Polity_PSIR_Notes · 34,145
Telegram ranks this channel #11 of 57 here — alongside 56 others — read 3 September 2026
@gyankoshcurrentaffairs · 29,027
Telegram ranks this channel #18 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 8 September 2026
@statichub · 93,880
Telegram ranks this channel #21 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 16 August 2026
@topicalepaper · 29,621
Telegram ranks this channel #27 of 53 here — alongside 52 others — read 7 September 2026
@upsc_sci_tech_mcq · 40,724
Telegram ranks this channel #27 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 29 August 2026
@art_and_culture_notes_upsc · 36,673
Telegram ranks this channel #31 of 64 here — alongside 63 others — read 1 September 2026
@manalaexmanakosam · 28,460
Telegram ranks this channel #36 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 9 September 2026
@environment_mindmap · 39,457
Telegram ranks this channel #56 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 30 August 2026
This channel appears in 9 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 26 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“EKAM IAS ACADEMY - (Official)” (@ekamiasacademyhyderabad), 7,364 subscribers as measured 26 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/ekamiasacademyhyderabad.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.