2022-09-16T08:29:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
UPSC/STATE PSC The Hindu & Indian Express News 1: Wholesale inflation slowed to an 11-month low at 12.4% in August Background: Inflation based on the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) eased in August to the slowest pace since last September at 12.4%, from 13.9% [...]
2022-09-16T08:03:49+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Policy, Society|Tags: The Hindu|
Life expectancy in India has more than doubled since Independence — from around 32 years in the late 1940s to 70 years or so today. Many countries have done even better, but this is still a historical achievement. Over the same period, the fertility rate has crashed from about six [...]
2022-09-16T06:04:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
UPSC/STATE PSC The Hindu & Indian Express News 1: GST Council is a fledgling but vibrant institution, says FM Background: The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council is still a fledgling five-year old institution that has yet to become well-settled but acts as [...]
2022-09-14T13:49:43+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: Livemint|
Background: – Urban flooding is a problem long associated with Mumbai. With a steady increase in the occurrence and severity of extreme weather events, Mumbai has lost that relative exclusivity, with Chennai and now Bangalore revealing a propensity to be flooded. […]
2022-09-13T23:47:10+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Hindu|
The story so far: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday, September 2, defended the windfall tax imposed by the Centre on domestic crude oil producers, saying that it was not an ad hoc move but was done after full consultation with the industry. […]
2022-09-13T23:35:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|Tags: The Hindu|
UPSC/STATE PSC The Hindu & Indian Express News 1: ‘India may need up to 28 GW in new coal-fired plants by 2032’ Background: India may need up to 28 gigawatts of new coal-fired power plants by 2032 to meet power demand that is [...]
2022-09-13T07:59:11+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
The Issue: – 1) Britain took control of the area known as Palestine after the ruler of that part of the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, was defeated in World War One.2) The land was inhabited by a Jewish minority and Arab majority. 3) Tensions between the two peoples grew [...]
2022-09-12T14:58:36+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
UPSC/STATE PSC The Hindu & Indian Express News 1: ‘Adopt a TB patient’ drive mitras Background: The Union Health Ministry’s “adopt a TB-patient” (Ni-kshay Mitra) initiative, and it was to fill the critical “community” element into India’s fight towards eliminating TB by 2025 [...]
2022-09-10T13:13:03+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
UPSC/STATE PSC The Hindu & Indian Express News 1: Eurozone to coordinate fiscal, monetary policy on inflation Background: Euro zone finance ministers agreed on Friday to act together to protect households and companies from soaring energy prices, coordinating their support policies with the [...]
2022-09-10T04:46:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
UPSC/STATE PSC The Hindu & Indian Express News 1: Monetary tools alone cannot tame inflation Background: Nirmala Sitharaman in the meet “Taming Inflation”, spoke about the monetary tools role in controlling inflation. She expressed that while an increase in interest rate forms a [...]
