2017-11-01T07:44:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
India has jumped up 30 spots in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Report that was released today (31 October). India now finds itself ranked at the hundredth place as opposed to 130 in last year’s report. India stands out this year as one of the 10 economies that [...]
2017-11-01T07:29:03+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Uncategorized|
Richard Thaler, one of the fathers of behavioral economics and a professor at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, has won the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. […]
2017-11-01T07:16:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture, Polity|
Reports of farmers dying from pesticide exposure in Maharashtra’s cotton belt in Yavatmal make it evident that the government’s efforts to regulate toxic chemicals used in agriculture have miserably failed. […]
2017-11-01T06:58:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
A timeline of the conflict which has its roots in the late 19th century. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has its roots in the late 19th century when Jews fleeing anti-Semitism in Russia and central Europe began emigrating to Palestine. […]
2017-11-01T06:53:48+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Geography|
The terms desertification refers to degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities. It does not imply loss of land to desert or through sand-dune movement. […]
2017-11-01T06:45:03+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) in its Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report published in 2015 states that increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions together with other anthropogenic drivers such as aerosols, land cover and solar radiation are extremely likely to have been the dominant cause of the observed warming [...]
