2023-01-13T17:29:14+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Reports & Data|
The world faces a set of risks that feel both wholly new and eerily familiar. The Global Risks Report 2023 explores some of the most severe risks we may face over the next decade. As we stand on the edge of a low-growth and low-cooperation era, tougher trade-offs risk eroding climate action, [...]
2022-12-03T13:37:08+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
News Snippet News 1: Assam celebrates Barak, Bangla relations News 2: Protect glacial-period coastal red sand dunes of Vizag News 3: Connecting India’s East with the Indo-Pacific News 4: NPCI extends UPI market cap deadline by 2 years News 5: Important Places in News […]
2022-12-03T13:53:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
News Snippet News 1: India’s jobless rate rose to 3-month high of 8% in November News 2: Digi Yatra initiative News 3: Centre to cut funds if land is not allotted for housing scheme News 4: How will global layoffs impact India? News 5: How the e-rupee will work? News [...]
2022-12-03T14:00:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
News Snippet News 1: Panel moots gas pricing freedom from 2026 News 2: New digital lending norms kick in today News 3: India’s core sector growth braked to 0.1% in October News 4: 160-200 mn Indians could be exposed to lethal heat waves annually – World Bank Report News 5: [...]
2022-11-20T20:21:12+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: History|
On October 26, 1947, Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir signed the Instrument of Accession with India, thereby ending the intense angling for that princely state by rival players India and Pakistan. The prelude to it was an intricate maze of bureaucratic jostling, uncertainty, simulation of friendship by vested [...]
2022-11-18T11:10:20+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
News Snippet News 1: Supreme Court Judgement on EWS reservation News 2: NPR needs to be updated again to incorporate changes due to birth, death, migration News 3: Census, NPR sites declared ‘protected system’ News 4: FCRA changes aim to stop unproductive NGO spending News 5: The Black Sea Grain [...]
2024-02-20T14:39:33+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Background A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, in a 3:2 majority decision, upheld the validity of the 103rd Constitutional Amendment, which provides 10% reservation in government jobs and educational institutions to the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) of society but excludes the “poorest of poor” among Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled [...]
2022-11-18T10:29:46+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
Global and regional food security have been deliberated upon as one of the priority agendas of the G20 for many years now. The situation has worsened with growing conflicts, and spiralling climate crises marked by droughts, floods, cyclones, and economic downturns in the past few years. In this context, India’s [...]
2022-11-14T12:04:30+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
News Snippet News 1: COP-27 puts climate compensation on agenda for first time News 2: Camera traps renew hope for snow leopard in Kashmir News 3: Indian black honeybee is a Western Ghats discovery News 4: What is the status of remote voting for NRIs? News 5: A third of [...]
2022-11-11T14:29:57+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Background The steering committee of a global programme to end child marriage is on a visit to India to witness state interventions which have helped reduce the prevalence of child marriage. The visit by the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage team is in view of an estimated increase [...]
