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 and 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 [...]
2022-11-08T15:23:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Background Ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections, Gujarat on October 29 joined the list of BJP-ruled States that have called for implementing the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). […]
2022-11-08T14:38:46+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
News Snippet News 1: Govt.’s SRI Fund commits ₹5,000 cr. to aid MSMEs News 2: Make – II Project News 3: The Harvest of Polluted Air News 4: Governors and their removal Other important news: China’s home-grown Beidou satellite system eyes global footprint SEWA Foreign Exchange Reserve Mathura-Vrindavan aims to [...]
2022-11-08T14:05:33+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
News Snippet News 1: Decline in pre-primary enrolments continued in 2021-22 News 2: Child Welfare Police Officers a must in all police stations News 3: Amur falcons and Nagaland News 4: RISAT-2 satellite makes re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere News 5: Mauna Loa eruption News 6: Poppy cultivation and Afghanistan Other [...]
2022-11-05T15:52:48+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
News Snippet News 1: Centre ‘doubles’ fertilizer subsidy as prices see a surge News 2: Protests in Leh, Kargil for statehood as Ladakh completes 3 years as U.T. News 3: India- USA defence ties News 4: Legislator’s disqualification from Assembly News 5: Panamaram heronry in Kerala set to get a [...]
2022-11-05T13:30:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|
Background The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), India’s apex regulator of genetically modified plants and food products, has approved the environmental release of Dhara Mustard Hybrid-11 (DMH-11), a genetically-engineered variant of mustard. If approved for commercial cultivation it would be the first genetically modified food crop available to Indian farmers. [...]
2022-11-05T13:02:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
News Snippet News 1: Invasive tree spreading in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve News 2: At SCO meet, Jaishankar targets BRI News 3: Poll Freebies – Supreme Court Update News 4: How women subverted traditional roles during the farm law agitations News 5: The C-295 and India’s aircraft industry News 6: E-rupee [...]
