Appendix

How iamaware works

A short guide to the product — what each part is for, the features that aren’t obvious at first glance, how to use them, and what the icons and colours mean.

What’s inside iamaware

Three ways to follow Indian current affairs, plus the page that explains the why. Each links straight to that part of the site.

Daily Bulletin

Today’s current-affairs items, grouped by topic, with the source credited on every line. Start here for a fast read of what matters today.

Explained

In-depth articles that unpack the policies, events and ideas behind the headlines — each with a sidebar of key takeaways. Read this when you want the why.

Interactive Map

A map of India with thematic layers — states, rivers, courts, heritage and conservation sites and more — that you can switch on and explore.

Use Case

A short page on the problem iamaware solves: cutting scattered, noisy feeds into one clean, reliable read.

Features you might miss

The capabilities that aren’t signposted at first glance — worth knowing they’re there.

On the Daily Bulletin

Browse past days — A calendar button beside the filters opens earlier bulletins. Only days with a published edition are selectable — the rest are greyed out.
Filter by category, with live counts — Each category shows how many items it holds for the date you’re viewing, so the numbers shift as you change dates.
The market strip is today-only — The Sensex / Nifty / Gold / Silver / USD-INR / Crude Oil strip appears only on today’s date. If it’s missing on today, the day’s figures simply weren’t available.
Your place is remembered — The date and category you pick survive a page refresh, within the same browser tab.
A quiet link to the Use Case page — Its only entry point is “See Use Case →” at the very bottom of the home page.

On Explained

There’s a full Archive — Every article ever published, in chronological order — reach it via “Archive →” on the Explained page or “View Previous Explained” at the foot of an article.
Filter the archive by topic — With a per-category count; your choice sticks across a refresh.
Load in batches — “Load Older Archives” appends older articles a page at a time.
Articles are structured long-reads — Expect section headings, hairline rules, blockquotes and lists — not one block of prose.
An edition can hold several articles — When it does, a row of title tabs appears above the article to switch between them.
Every article has a shareable link — With a proper title and link-preview card when shared.

On the Map

Most layers start switched off — Only States is on by default; the other ten are hidden until you turn them on in the control panel.
Click a state to zoom in — Clicking a state (or picking one in the Focus tab) frames it and dims the rest. Click again, or click empty space, to return to all-India.
Search across everything — Type to find a feature by name; matching sections expand and others hide. The same box doubles as the state search on the Focus tab.
Labels appear only when zoomed in — In the full-India view you’ll see dots but no names — labels appear once you focus a state.
Rivers animate in — The first time you switch the Rivers layer on, they draw in across the map.

Across the site

Light / dark theme — Follows your system setting on first visit, then keeps whatever you choose with the sun / moon toggle in the header.

How to use it

Short walkthroughs for each part of the product.

Read today’s Daily Bulletin

Open the home page — it is the Daily Bulletin, loading today’s edition (or the latest published if today’s isn’t up yet).
Read the centered header: the “Daily Bulletin” title, the date, and an “N items” count.
Scan the market strip (today only): Sensex and Nifty carry a trend arrow; Gold, Silver, USD/INR and Crude Oil are point-in-time values.
Leave the filter on “All” to read everything grouped by topic, or click a category to focus it.
Tap an italic source name to open the original in a new tab.

Browse a past day’s bulletin

Click the calendar button beside the filters.
Pick an enabled date — greyed-out days have no bulletin.
Read it exactly like today’s.

Note — Changing the date resets the category to “All,” and the market strip won’t show on past dates.

Read an Explained article

Click “Explained” in the header — this opens the latest edition. Here, “Today” means most recently published, not the literal date.
If there’s more than one article, use the title tabs to switch.
Read the article (serif body, drop cap, “N min read”, category). In-article links open in new tabs.
Skim the key-points sidebar on the right — it drops below the article on narrow screens.
Use “Archive →” or “View Previous Explained” to browse older pieces.

Find an older article

Go to the Explained Archive.
Optionally filter by category — your choice persists across a refresh.
Scan the chronological list; each row is a link.
Click “Load Older Archives” to reveal more.
Open any row for the full article, with “Back to Archive” links at the top and bottom.

Explore the Map(best on a screen ~700px wide or larger)

Click “Map” in the header; it auto-frames all of India.
In the “View” tab, expand a layer and tick its checkbox to switch it on (only States is on to begin with).
Hover any non-state feature for a tooltip (name, colour, category). States don’t hover — they click to focus.
Click a state, or use the “Focus” tab, to zoom in; click again to reset.
Use search to jump to a specific feature.

Note — You can’t freely pan or zoom — the camera moves only when you focus a state, and feature names appear as labels once you’ve zoomed in.

Decode the signals

What every icon, arrow and colour around the site stands for.

Source tags · on bulletin items

🏛️OFFICIAL — The source is a government or official institution.
📡AGENCY — The source is a news agency or wire service (e.g. PTI, ANI, Reuters).
No icon — Any other source.
PTIItalic source name — Links to the original report; opens in a new tab.

Market strip

▲Up — The figure rose since the previous close.
▼Down — The figure fell since the previous close.
—No arrow — No change, or no trend is tracked for that figure.
–“–” — The figure wasn’t available — “no data,” not zero.

Only Sensex and Nifty show a trend arrow; Gold, Silver, USD/INR and Crude Oil show a value only.

Explained · key-points sidebar

Takeaways are grouped under fixed headings, always in this order:

Key Provisions
Clauses, rules or provisions (e.g. of a law or policy).
By The Numbers
Numeric or data takeaways.
Glossary
Expansions of acronyms and key term definitions.
Key Facts
Notable factual takeaways.
Notes
Anything that doesn’t fit the groups above.

Map legend

Also shown at the foot of the map’s control panel. A swatch’s shape tells you the layer type; its colour follows the active light or dark theme.

Filled square — an area layer: States, Lakes.
Line — Rivers.
Dot — a point layer (the eight below).

States — Indian states and union territories.
Rivers — Major rivers.
Lakes — Lakes and waterbodies.
Cities — Populated cities.
High Courts — India’s High Courts and the Supreme Court.
UNESCO Heritage — UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
National Parks — National parks.
Tiger Reserves — Project Tiger reserves.
Ramsar Sites — Ramsar wetlands of international importance.
Biosphere Reserves — Biosphere reserves.
Nuclear Plants — Nuclear power plants.

About iamaware & site behaviours

A few things worth knowing about iamaware itself.

What it is — iamaware brings curated current affairs from reliable Indian sources into a clean, distraction-free read: the Daily Bulletin for the day’s items, Explained for depth, and the Map for geographic context.
Theme — A sun / moon toggle in the header switches between the warm light “paper” theme and a dark theme. It follows your system setting on first visit, then keeps your manual choice.
A note on copying — We discourage copying of our content; you can still freely highlight and read.