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Channel
VK IAS by Vikas kanukollu (VK)
@hinduhighlights
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Polls · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
134,899subscribers
+194 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 100,000–316,228.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001221577305 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @hinduhighlights |
| Description | Trying to be the person that my younger self needed🙂. Pls Read the pinned messages and FAQs before texting me Enquiries : @vk_ias Contact - @vikas_kanukollu |
| Created | Between 1 April 2018 and 30 June 2021— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/hinduhighlights |
Topic
Education — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 9 August 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Aug 2026, 12:04 | 134,899 | -64 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 13:38 | 134,963 | +85 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 12:04 | 134,878 | -50 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 12:51 | 134,928 | -26 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 15:48 | 134,954 | +71 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 18:50 | 134,883 | +159 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 17:30 | 134,724 | +19 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 13:32 | 134,705 | first reading |
Engagement
23 posts held, back to 2 July 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 17 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 7.95%
- avg views ÷ 134,899 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 10,700
- 17 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- —
- this channel exposes no reaction counts
- Posts in window
- 17
- of 23 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.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 12 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 23 (2 July 2026 – 12 August 2026) |
| Views total | 182,410 |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 12 Aug 2026, 18:17 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
- ≈8,630
- Videos
- ≈33
- Links
- ≈5,980
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 12 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.
Recent posts
What is your BIGGEST problem with Current Affairs?
- I don’t know what to read24%
- I read but don’t remember43%
- I can’t connect news with static/PYQs30%
- I make too many notes13%
- I can’t revise before the exam31%
The shares total 141%, above 100: this poll accepts more than one answer per voter. No per-option vote count is published, so the number of voters who chose each option is not derivable and is not shown.
https://youtube.com/shorts/b12wdoiWY38?si=2Qisabv04Gwr-OOy
How much time do you spend on Current Affairs daily?
- 30-45 min23%
- 1 hour30%
- 2 hours15%
- I have given up12%
- I have no clue on how to handle CA20%
Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
#Environment ✅Gs-3 : Environment- wetlands ✅Gs-2 : Governance- Environmental Governance- Environmental Jurisprudence ✅Gs-4 : Ethics- Applied Ethics- Environmental ethics 🅾️Supreme court judgement on wetlands- Yet another important news in the theme of Environmental jurisprudence- Judicial protection can supplement, but does not replace, statutory environmental regulation. Read about the following : ⚜️1. Aravalli…
✅Gs-2 : IR- maritime security 🅾️SHANTI initiatitve ⚜️It is completely understandable that these sound like hollow diplomatic alphabet soup! 😅😅Governments love creating catchy acronyms that often blur together and sound like empty buzzwords. But they are NOT! 📌Let me simplify them for you. 🅾️1. SAGAR is the initial idea: We should safeguard Bay of bengal from threats 🅾️2. MAHASAGAR is the expansion: Realising wha…
✅Gs-3 : Science and technology- V.V. IMP news article 📌India previously reduced the cost of three foundational services: 🅾️Aadhaar → Identity 🅾️UPI → Payments 🅾️Account Aggregator/DEPA → Data exchange ❇️Now -The article proposes the next step: AI infrastructure → Affordable access to intelligence- Digital Public Infrastructure means interoperable digital rails built around open standards. It does not require every…
✅Gs-1 : Geography- ken- betwa 🅾️Uneven Rainfall ↓ 🅾️Water Surplus Basin │ ▼ 🅾️River Linking │ ▼ 🅾️Water Deficit Basin ❇️Benefits • Irrigation • Drinking Water • Hydropower ❌Costs • Forest Loss • Wildlife Impact • Tribal Displacement ↓ ⁉️Sustainable Development? 🎖VK IAS subject wise channels - Click here ⚠️Subscribe to VK IAS's YouTube channel : Click here and join the …
✅Gs-3 : Pollution- Methane Pollution 🅾️Paddy fields as source of pollution and ways to adapt 🎖VK IAS subject wise channels - Click here ⚠️Subscribe to VK IAS's YouTube channel : Click here and join the VK IAS channel
✅Gs-2 : IR- USA- Saudi arabia Nuclear deal 🅾️Understand that Whoever controls the nuclear fuel cycle controls regional power.Logic Flow-Physics → Fuel Cycle → Strategic Capability → Nuclear Law → Regional Balance of Power → Middle East Geopolitics 📌Almost every controversy in international nuclear politics revolves around only two stages: ⚜️1. Enrichment- Once a country masters enrichment, the technical barrier to…
✅Gs-2 - Vulnerable sections- Women ➡️ #Casestudy : RWANDA for women empowerment - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to use this in GS and ethics 🛑The idea of women empowerment- Discussed here 🔰TAKE AWAY : TRAGEDY AS A CATALYST for behavioral change- can be used in ethics- What are the Values that a country stands for ? 🛑ALSO READ : An apology is a recognition of human dignity- Click here ⚠️Ethics examples channel …
https://t.me/addlist/MSOVpV7hEOIwNjdl
Showing the 12 most recent of 23 posts we hold for @hinduhighlights. 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 2 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.
What is your BIGGEST problem with Current Affairs?
- I don’t know what to read24%
- I read but don’t remember43%
- I can’t connect news with static/PYQs30%
- I make too many notes13%
- I can’t revise before the exam31%
The shares total 141%, above 100: this poll accepts more than one answer per voter. No per-option vote count is published, so the number of voters who chose each option is not derivable and is not shown.
How much time do you spend on Current Affairs daily?
- 30-45 min23%
- 1 hour30%
- 2 hours15%
- I have given up12%
- I have no clue on how to handle CA20%
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 23 most recent posts we hold, published 2 July 2026 to 12 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.
Citation-graph rank
Citation-graph rank — 4,092 of 1,151,006entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
@Quizhighlights · 19,28610 postsVK IAS - UPSC interviews
@UPSC_Interviews · 12,37410 postsVK IAS- prelims (UPSC highlights)
@upschighlights · 55,6425 postsVK IAS- UPSC Environment by Vikas kanukollu
@ecologyhighlights · 19,8033 postsExplained- Aasan Bhasha- Vikas Kanukollu
@vikaskanukollu · 11,7623 postsUPSC Ethics by VK IAS
@Upsc_ethics_notes · 44,2742 postsVK IAS Geography current Affairs for UPSC
@Geohighlights · 21,3611 postVK IAS - (Science and technology)
@sciencehighlights · 20,5431 postUPSC - International relations by Vikas Kanukollu
@UPSC_PSIR_IR · 17,0091 post
Republishes
Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Mentions
Named by 11 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
@UPSC_Interviews · 12,37443 postsUPSC Economy by VK IAS (Vikas Kanukollu)
@economyhighlights · 20,70931 postsVK IAS- UPSC Environment by Vikas kanukollu
@ecologyhighlights · 19,80320 postsExplained- Aasan Bhasha- Vikas Kanukollu
@vikaskanukollu · 11,76220 postsVK IAS Geography current Affairs for UPSC
@Geohighlights · 21,36118 postsVK IAS- prelims (UPSC highlights)
@upschighlights · 55,64218 postsVK IAS - Prelims Quiz.
@Quizhighlights · 19,28615 postsVK IAS - (Science and technology)
@sciencehighlights · 20,54310 postsUPSC - International relations by Vikas Kanukollu
@UPSC_PSIR_IR · 17,0098 postsVK IAS(UPSC Highlights)- History
@historyhighlights · 21,5365 postsUPSC Ethics by VK IAS
@Upsc_ethics_notes · 44,2744 posts
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
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.
@sunyanotes50 · 193,203
Telegram ranks this channel #24 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 11 August 2026
@mrunalorg · 212,748
Telegram ranks this channel #39 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 11 August 2026
@iaspcspathshala · 189,941
Telegram ranks this channel #43 of 93 here — alongside 92 others — read 11 August 2026
@insightsIAStips · 191,828
Telegram ranks this channel #46 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 11 August 2026
@UPSCprepIAS · 200,556
Telegram ranks this channel #46 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 11 August 2026
@theanonymousupscaspirant · 253,113
Telegram ranks this channel #49 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 10 August 2026
@upsc_geography_mapping_optionals · 151,441
Telegram ranks this channel #56 of 94 here — alongside 93 others — read 12 August 2026
@vajiramandraviofficial · 282,181
Telegram ranks this channel #56 of 77 here — alongside 76 others — read 10 August 2026
@csetopper · 175,417
Telegram ranks this channel #66 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 12 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 12 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“VK IAS by Vikas kanukollu (VK)” (@hinduhighlights), 134,899 subscribers as measured 12 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/hinduhighlights.
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.