2017-01-08T13:02:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Uncategorized|
Background :- Recently we published an editorial on Section 123(3) of the Representation of the People Act of 1951 and Supreme Court!!! In interpretation of the particular section there was a debate on the Purposive Interpretation and its meaning. There is certain ambiguity with respect to the meaning of it and this is [...]
2017-01-08T13:42:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
India’s GDP growth expected to be slower at 7.1% in 2016-17: CSO + According to growth projection released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth is expected to grow at a slower pace at 7.1% in 2016-17 as compared to 7.6% in 2015-16. World Bank [...]
2017-01-08T13:43:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
2017 – International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development The United Nations (UN) has declared 2017 as the “International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development” to celebrate and promote the contribution of the tourism sector to building a better world. The International Year aims to support a change in policies, [...]
2017-01-08T10:02:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: MOTIVATIONAL|
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.” [...]
2017-01-31T03:46:47+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Polity|Tags: Polity|
Note :- Representation of the People Act is in the syllabus and this can be a potential question for Mains and Interview.Also remember the section, name of the “Justice” as well as the name of the case as is because last time UPSC asked a section of AFSPA itself. Moreover if you [...]
2017-01-31T03:47:23+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Mosquitoes kill an estimated 700 000 people a year. If infected with viruses that cause diseases like chikungunya, dengue and Zika, mosquitos can transmit them to humans in one bite. Researchers have now pilot-deployed a new technique to control diseases transmitted by mosquitoes by making use of nature. It is [...]
2017-01-31T03:47:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP & IR|Tags: geopolitics|
Note :- This is an editorial written by Brahma Chellaney for Livemint. Publishing it without any editorial oversight.You can discuss your views on this in comments section. Do you think what Mr Chellaney is advocating is the right way forward ? Central governments come and go in New Delhi but India’s instinctive [...]
2017-01-08T13:43:10+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
Ken-Betwa river-linking project faces new hurdle A new hurdle has come in the way of the Ken-Betwa river interlink project in its terms of financing. The NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) has recommended that Madhya Pradesh contribute 40% of the project cost, with the Centre contributing 60%. The [...]
2017-01-05T22:15:10+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Uncategorized|
Dear All, First mains test is live now in your student portal (IASTREE) Note- Few questions are little technical in nature, hence requires research on your part. We urge you do read on them before attempting the answer.(Example- Demographic window, Land degradation neutrality project,Pam Rajput committe report,Globalization and adolescent etc).Once [...]
2017-01-31T03:48:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Editorials|Tags: economy, global|
INDUSTRIAL policy via Twitter is a new development in economics but we may all have to get used to it over the next four (or eight) years. Donald Trump’s tweets on the car industry (and his planned cuts to corporate income tax) may or may not have persuaded Ford to [...]
