Daily MCQS -4
UPSCTREE2016-05-07T10:51:17+05:30Daily MCQS :- The MCQS are mostly informative in nature and checks your grasp on current events. […]
Daily Debate – 3 (You debate , We compile)
UPSCTREE2016-05-07T09:54:45+05:30Topic for today – 3)Should India demilitarize Siachen ? Provide your inputs in the comment section below. […]
Daily Current Events – 05 May 2016
UPSCTREE2016-05-07T08:35:34+05:30Loss of vultures damaging for humans, ecosystem: study Decline in vulture populations in some parts of the world, including India, may have serious consequences for ecosystems and humans alike, according to a new study that suggests poisoning is the greatest extinction risk facing the scavengers.Poisoning is the greatest extinction risk facing vultures, and impacts 88 per cent of threatened vulture species. […]
Society Watch-India’s path from poverty to empowerment !!!
UPSCTREE2017-02-13T22:06:50+05:30India has made encouraging progress by halving its official poverty rate, from 45 percent of the population in 1994 to 22 percent in 2012. This is an achievement to be celebrated—yet it also gives the nation an opportunity to set higher aspirations. While the official poverty line counts only those living in the most abject conditions, even a cursory scan of India’s human-development indicators suggests more widespread deprivation. Above and beyond the goal of eradicating extreme poverty, India can address these issues and create a new national vision for helping more than half a billion people attain a more economically empowered [...]
Daily Current Events – 04 May 2016
UPSCTREE2017-02-13T22:04:27+05:30Patent of Ayurvedic system of medicine Under the Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) to which India is committed, every country is required to accord to the nationals of other members, treatment which is no less favourable than it accords to its own nationals with regard to the protection of intellectual property. The Government has taken measures to safeguard the national interest in respect of grant of patents based on indigenous medicinal / herbal products / plants, besides exclusions provided for in the Patents Act 1970. These exclusions and measures are outlined below: • Patents cannot be [...]