2021-07-17T13:05:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
G-7 leaders finally came around with the proposed Build Back Better World (B3W) to counter China’s rising influence across 100-plus countries through Belt Road Initiative (BRI) projects. The proposal, though at a nascent stage, aims to address the infrastructure investment deficit in developing and lower income countries — the space [...]
2021-07-17T12:59:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Question Before the Supreme Court:- Should people have the right to incite violence against the government? This would be an inevitable question in front of the judiciary while it decides on the fate of the law of sedition (Section 124A, IPC). […]
2021-07-17T05:30:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Ethics|
Structure:- 1) Introduction 2) Concept of Emotional Intelligence (EI) 3) Definition of Emotional Intelligence 4) What Emotional Intelligence ‘is’ and is ‘not’ 5) Historical Development of Emotional Intelligence 6) Components of Emotional Intelligence 7) Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence: Relationship between IQ and EQ 8) Benefits of Emotional Intelligence 9) Conclusion [...]
2021-07-16T15:19:55+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Food insecurity has been on the rise since 2014, and the year 2000 has added equal to the last five years combined. Nearly one in three people in the world ie about 2.7 billion, did not have access to adequate food in 2020. Close to 12 per cent of the [...]
2021-07-16T15:05:43+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Just 25 cities worldwide are responsible for 52 per cent of urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to a recent study. Megacities in Asia such as Tokyo in Japan and Shanghai in China are among the biggest emitters. Cities in the developed world, such as those in Europe, Australia and [...]
2021-07-16T14:52:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, has long been dead. It was struck down as unconstitutional six years ago by the Supreme Court, which found that it “arbitrarily, excessively and disproportionately invades the right of free speech”. And yet, this draconian piece of dead law has had an [...]
2024-11-12T11:32:51+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Context ———————————————– The Indian Constitution may face an unprecedented crisis in 2026 when there will be a dramatic change in the composition of the Lok Sabha. Since 1976, seats in the Lok Sabha have reflected the 1971 census and have not taken into account changes in the population. [...]
2021-07-17T01:25:52+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Ethics|
Note:- Emotional Intelligence can not be understood without understanding emotion. And emotion is a psychological state. Thus, although we are discussing an ethics topic here, we will take help of psychology subject to understand it better. In Part-I, we will be dealing with What is emotion ?, which is an [...]
2021-07-15T13:15:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Context The provisional estimates of annual national income (2020-21), released on May 31 by the National Statistical Office, did not have any surprises, but for one, that is, there is nothing encouraging in the numbers. […]
2021-07-15T12:18:26+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Context:- Recently, the government of Uttar Pradesh released a “Population Policy” in which it stated its intention to bring the gross fertility rate in the State down from the existing 2.7 to 2.1 by 2026. To achieve this, the government says it will consider the enactment of a new piece of [...]
