Inter-Ministerial Briefing on Recent Developments in West Asia

• Inter-Ministerial Briefings (IMBs) are coordinated press engagements at the National Media Centre, New Delhi, where senior officers of multiple Union ministries jointly brief media on India's preparedness during a cross-cutting crisis.
• Triggered by the 2025-26 West Asia escalation (Israel-Iran hostilities, Gulf shipping risk), IMBs covered energy security, MSME credit, food/fertiliser stocks, evacuation, and maritime safety.
• For UPSC: a live case of whole-of-government crisis response intersecting GS-II (foreign policy, diaspora) and GS-III (energy, internal economy, supply-chain resilience).