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International Relations & Security Analysis.

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8,680subscribers

-264 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-1001191935052
TypeChannel
Username@upscir
DescriptionAn ISO 9001:2015 certified Not for Profit Organisation working under the aegis of IISPPR Started this channel in 2018. Chief Advisor Professor Sreeram Chaulia www.sreeramchaulia.net
CreatedBetween 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded7 August 2026
Last confirmed live13 November 2026
Measurements held27
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 13 November 2026
On Telegramt.me/upscir

Topic

International news — 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 11 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 99% 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 the other topics.

Growth

8,6808,9448,8127 August 2026 — 8,944 subscribers7 August 2026 — 8,944 subscribers10 August 2026 — 8,933 subscribers13 August 2026 — 8,926 subscribers16 August 2026 — 8,920 subscribers20 August 2026 — 8,913 subscribers23 August 2026 — 8,907 subscribers26 August 2026 — 8,901 subscribers30 August 2026 — 8,888 subscribers2 September 2026 — 8,875 subscribers6 September 2026 — 8,865 subscribers11 September 2026 — 8,856 subscribers14 September 2026 — 8,854 subscribers18 September 2026 — 8,843 subscribers28 September 2026 — 8,813 subscribers6 October 2026 — 8,793 subscribers12 October 2026 — 8,770 subscribers16 October 2026 — 8,761 subscribers18 October 2026 — 8,758 subscribers21 October 2026 — 8,751 subscribers24 October 2026 — 8,740 subscribers27 October 2026 — 8,735 subscribers30 October 2026 — 8,728 subscribers2 November 2026 — 8,717 subscribers5 November 2026 — 8,713 subscribers8 November 2026 — 8,697 subscribers13 November 2026 — 8,680 subscribers7 August 202613 November 2026
27 measurements spanning 98 days, net -264. 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 8,640–8,984 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 27
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
13 Nov 2026, 04:188,680-17
8 Nov 2026, 13:558,697-16
5 Nov 2026, 00:578,713-4
2 Nov 2026, 09:178,717-11
30 Oct 2026, 01:558,728-7
27 Oct 2026, 07:398,735-5
24 Oct 2026, 13:588,740-11
21 Oct 2026, 13:368,751-7
18 Oct 2026, 15:548,758-3
16 Oct 2026, 00:288,761-9
12 Oct 2026, 17:198,770-23
6 Oct 2026, 01:188,793-20
28 Sept 2026, 14:378,813-30
18 Sept 2026, 17:228,843-11
14 Sept 2026, 19:028,854-2
11 Sept 2026, 04:218,856-9
6 Sept 2026, 09:398,865-10
2 Sept 2026, 07:178,875-13
30 Aug 2026, 02:378,888-13
26 Aug 2026, 21:398,901first reading

Engagement

59 posts held, back to 11 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 53 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
6.33%
avg views ÷ 8,680 subscribers
Avg views / post
550
9 posts measured
Reaction rate
—
this channel exposes no reaction counts
Posts in window
9
of 59 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.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 8 November 2026
Posts held59 (11 July 2026 – 8 November 2026)
Views total4,947
Reactions total—
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken14 Nov 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
≈1,250
Videos
≈469
Links
≈1,760

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 14 November 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.

Video runtime
49m 58s
Average length
1m 37s

Measured directly from 31 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.

Recent posts

Telegram’s own ‘edited’ marker: 5 of 9 posts held from the last 30 days (55.6%) carried it when this register last read them. The marker says a post was changed after publishing, not what it said before — this register holds the earlier wording only where an edit fell between two of its own reads (see the edit ledger and how it is measured).

8 Nov 2026, 15:56 UTC≈1,580 viewsread 14 November 2026
Video

Will India become a superpower? Watch the full episode of this TV show to find out. 🔗 https://youtu.be/QrctZKVLXrA?si=XIU8y01-kmbGTiA1

7 Nov 2026, 16:40 UTC288 viewsread 14 November 2026
Photo

How have India’s capabilities in multiple domains grown in the Narendra Modi era? How is India balancing foreign collaboration and indigenous capacity-building in critical technologies? What is the mix between continental self-reliance and maritime collaboration in India’s defence strategy? Why is India’s model of foreign assistance distinct from the Western and Chinese models? Can we see a new tripolar internati…

4 Nov 2026, 07:36 UTC378 viewsread 14 November 2026
Video

With the USA aggressively intervening in Venezuela and actively pushing regime change in Cuba, will all Latin American countries be forced to cave in to the ‘Donroe Doctrine’? The former Chilean minister and diplomat Jorge Heine says they have options and need not succumb. Watch the full episode of this TV show to learn more. 🔗 https://youtu.be/hGzFDEfGiKM?si=UeHaruF3mWXvtKbW

2 Nov 2026, 01:47 UTC396 viewsread 14 November 2026
Video

Watch the full episode of this TV show to understand the politics, geopolitics and foreign policies driving Latin America today. 🔗 https://youtu.be/hGzFDEfGiKM?si=UeHaruF3mWXvtKbW

1 Nov 2026, 02:15 UTC412 viewsread 14 November 2026
Photo

What explains the swings of the pendulum between Right-wing and Left-wing political waves in Latin America? Do opposing ideological blocs shape relations among Latin American countries? How do Right-wing and Left-wing regimes in Latin America approach the USA and China? Is non-alignment or strategic autonomy of smaller countries of the region viable amid the ‘Donroe Doctrine’ of the USA? Why is India crucial for …

29 Oct 2026, 13:47 UTC392 viewsread 14 November 2026
Video

Although the US has temporarily waived 100 percent trade tariffs on India, the former uses threats of fresh tariffs as bargaining chips. The US signed trade agreements with the EU, Japan and South Korea, but it has again imposed tariffs on them. So, nothing is final or guaranteed in the economic war, says Ajay Srivastava of the Global Trade Research Initiative. Watch the full episode of this TV show to learn more. 🔗…

26 Oct 2026, 01:46 UTC416 viewsread 14 November 2026
Video

Watch the full episode of this TV show to understand the history, politics and geopolitics of American sanctions and tariffs, and how India is handling them. 📺 https://youtu.be/vlpcRwJap04?si=CpW3VJFKvemIMRwF

24 Oct 2026, 15:46 UTC498 viewsread 14 November 2026
Photo

Why is the USA uniquely equipped to use sanctions and tariffs as weapons of economic warfare? How have profiles of countries targeted by the USA with sanctions and tariffs changed over time? What are the means and strategies by which targeted nations have survived American sanctions? Is the Graham Act or the Sanctions on Russia and Iran Act (SRIA) a bargaining chip against India in trade negotiations? How did Ind…

15 Oct 2026, 09:21 UTC587 viewsread 14 November 2026
Video

Despite suffering heavy losses and facing intense pressure from the USA under President Donald Trump, Ukraine has not caved in to Russia. This is because Ukraine and the Europeans want credible security guarantees for the future, which Russia is unwilling to give. Watch the full episode of this TV show to learn more about the ‘forever war’. 🔗 https://youtu.be/n76qgaR3ay4?si=oP_NoSeLVdXU2Av3

13 Oct 2026, 11:32 UTC618 viewsread 14 November 2026
Video

India can be a credible mediator or peace facilitator in the Russia-Ukraine war due to its status in the world and because it is not a party to the conflict, says Dr. Sonia Lucarelli of the University of Bologna. Watch the full episode of this TV show for more. 🔗 https://youtu.be/n76qgaR3ay4?si=oP_NoSeLVdXU2Av3

12 Oct 2026, 14:21 UTC588 viewsread 14 November 2026
Video

Is the Russia-Ukraine war destined to go on forever? What role can peacemakers like India play in bringing about a resolution to this endless conflict? Watch the full episode of this TV show to know. 🔗 https://youtu.be/n76qgaR3ay4?si=oP_NoSeLVdXU2Av3

11 Oct 2026, 02:19 UTC597 viewsread 14 November 2026
Photo

Why has the Russia-Ukraine war dragged on endlessly? Did the world underestimate Russia’s will to keep on fighting despite the Western pushback? Why has Ukraine not caved in in spite of severe losses and waning support from the USA? Is the rearming of Europe likely to deter future wars and stabilise the continent or trigger an arms race? What makes India’s efforts as a peacemaker or mediator credible, and what ar…

Showing the 12 most recent of 59 posts we hold for @upscir. 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.

Posts edited after publishing

@upscir edited 1 post after it first published — the same permalink now carries different wording than the one this register originally read, caught because our own crawl held a copy of the earlier text.

An edit is not deception. Typo fixes, price updates and corrections look exactly like this too — this register can tell you the wording changed and when, not why. How this is measured.

First edit seen
9 August 2026
Most recent edit
9 August 2026

Forward network

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Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.

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.

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.

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This channel appears in 7 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 13 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“International Relations & Security Analysis.” (@upscir), 8,680 subscribers as measured 13 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/upscir.

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.