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Created
Between 1 February 2017 and 31 March 2019— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
11 measurements spanning 10 days, net +30. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 29,454–29,499 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
17 Aug 2026, 12:44
29,494
+7
16 Aug 2026, 02:17
29,487
-6
14 Aug 2026, 08:48
29,493
+1
13 Aug 2026, 02:33
29,492
+8
11 Aug 2026, 23:42
29,484
+4
10 Aug 2026, 22:47
29,480
-7
9 Aug 2026, 20:31
29,487
+15
8 Aug 2026, 18:16
29,472
+13
7 Aug 2026, 20:52
29,459
-5
7 Aug 2026, 13:15
29,464
no change
7 Aug 2026, 13:05
29,464
first reading
Engagement
110 posts held, back to 7 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 25 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
1.83%
avg views ÷ 29,494 subscribers
Avg views / post
538
110 posts measured
Reaction rate
0.276%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
110
of 110 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 42 of 110 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
What these figures were computed from
Window
Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 17 August 2026
Posts held
110 (7 August 2026 – 17 August 2026)
Views total
59,225
Reactions total
74
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
18 Aug 2026, 01:27 UTC
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
What this channel posts
Photos
≈22,700
Videos
≈50
Links
≈21,300
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 18 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Reaction mix
74 reactions across 38 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 85.1% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
❤
63
85.1%
🔥
9
12.2%
👎
1
1.35%
😁
1
1.35%
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 42 of the 110 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 74reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 110 most recent posts we hold, published 7 August 2026 to 17 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.
Places in News | 17 August 2026
Today’s Topic – Kuril Islands
The Kuril Islands are a strategically important island chain in the North Pacific, stretching between Japan’s Hokkaido and Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The southern Kuril Islands remain disputed between Russia and Japan, making the region significant from the perspectives of geopolitics, territorial disputes, maritime security, and international relation…
Prelims Facts | 17 August 2026
Today’s Topic – Charter Act of 1813
The Charter Act of 1813 marked an important turning point in the evolution of British rule in India. It ended the East India Company’s trade monopoly in India (except for tea and trade with China), allowed Christian missionaries to enter India, and introduced an important provision for promoting education.
#PrelimsFacts #UPSC #UPSCPrelims #ModernH…
Knolls of the Day | 17 August 2026
Today’s Topic – Southern African Customs Union (SACU)
The Southern African Customs Union (SACU), comprising South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia, is one of the world’s oldest customs unions. A relevant topic for understanding regional economic integration, trade cooperation and Africa’s economic landscape.
#ForumIAS #KnollsOfTheDay #SACU #SouthernAfricanCustomsUni…
Cut the Crap | AI in Healthcare in India
Today’s topic: India’s shift from AI pilots to clinical-scale adoption in healthcare.
AI is increasingly being used for diagnostics, clinical decision-making and hospital operations. For India to scale these applications responsibly, key gaps around AI-ready data, regulation, procurement and reimbursement need to be addressed.
#ForumIAS #CutTheCrap #UPSC #UPSCPrelims #UPSCMa…
News of the Day | 17 August 2026
✍🏻Today's Highlights-
• AI in healthcare
• Cash transfers and public spending
• Air India and aviation safety
• Bees, agriculture and sustainability
• E10, older vehicles and the food-vs-fuel debate
#ForumIAS #NewsOfTheDay #TheHindu #IndianExpress #UPSC #UPSCPrelims #UPSCMains #CurrentAffairs #DailyCurrentAffairs #UPSC2027 #CivilServices #UPSCPreparation
Q10. Consider the following statements regarding the PM Vishwakarma Scheme:
1. It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme.
2. The scheme covers 18 trades and offers collateral-free loans up to Rs. 3 lakh.
3. It has no provision of providing stipend during training.
Q9. Consider the following statements regarding the Chips to Start-up (C2S) Programme:
1. The Programme is an initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
(MeitY).
2. It is aimed at strengthening India’s semiconductor and chip design ecosystem.
3. Under the C2S Programme, the Government of India directly establishes semiconductor
fabrication (fab) units for large-scale commercial chip manufact…
Q8. Consider the following statements regarding the Revamped India Code Portal:
1. It is launched by the Ministry of Law and Justice.
2. The portal seeks to provide AI-assisted multilingual access to laws in all 22 languages included in
the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.
Showing the 12 most recent of 110 posts we hold for @forumiasofficial. 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.
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.
ECONOMY by VIVEK SINGH @VivekSingh_Economy · 132,837 Telegram ranks this channel #29 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 13 August 2026
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Vision IAS (Official) @VisionIAS_UPSC · 400,112 Telegram ranks this channel #49 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 10 August 2026
InsightsIAS (official) Guidance - Tips for Success @insightsIAStips · 191,711 Telegram ranks this channel #63 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 11 August 2026
This channel appears in 5 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 17 August 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“ForumIASOfficial” (@forumiasofficial), 29,494 subscribers as measured 17 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/forumiasofficial.
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.