2016-12-21T23:00:44+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|Tags: environment|
The study of coral reefs have had a late beginning. Earlier studies had accounted for only 218 species. Successive surveys made between 2008 and 2013 have reported the occurrence of 519 hard corals in India. […]
2016-12-21T22:55:39+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|
With maximum sustainable yield in capture fisheries achieved, technological innovations to increase yields seem imperative. In a recent breakthrough cages that can withstand turbulent seas have been developed and tested successfully by the NIOT. […]
2016-12-21T21:42:40+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|Tags: agriculture|
The IMD’s agromet services for farmers are proving to be extremely useful to fight the threat of increasingly frequent climate uncertainties, and helping farmers hold out against extreme temperatures that can cause large-scale crop loss. […]
2016-12-21T20:03:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|Tags: society|
The first Indian Census was carried out in 1871 and it had recorded 5.5 million fewer women and girls than men and boys. A century and two decades later, in 1992, Amartya Sen talked about an estimated deficit of 37 million of them drawing attention to the ‘missing women’ of [...]
2016-12-21T19:56:11+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|
*This post is technical in nature, hence better suited if you have geography as optional. Stable oxygen isotopic composition (δ18O) of foraminifera from the sediments of the Northern Indian Ocean has been used to decipher past changes in the intensity of the South Asian Monsoon. The interpretation of planktonic foraminifera [...]
2016-12-21T18:55:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|
Agitations over the distribution of water in the Cauvery river are not new or surprising given the extreme dependence on agricultural and economic activity in the river basin. Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are fighting over water in a drying river, paying little attention to framing long-term solutions. [...]
2016-12-21T18:47:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|
Among the initiatives launched with much fanfare by the government is the one titled “Digital India”, which is slated to use high speed internet as a core utility and provide citizens entitlements, documents and a host of services on the cloud. While digital literacy is crucial for the success of [...]
2016-12-20T15:53:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Uncategorized|
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2016-12-20T15:48:29+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|
Recent growth data for India reveals that there has been a significant slowdown in the industrial growth rate, especially manufacturing, in the first quarter, April-June, 2015. According to the recently released Annual Report (AR) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), gross capital formation has been declining over the years, [...]
2016-12-18T19:07:36+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|Tags: society|
It is a cruel irony of a fast-growing India that there are fewer and fewer girls as a ratio of total births, as a result of complex factors that include parental preference. New data from the Civil Registration System of the Registrar General of India point to the hardening of [...]
