2021-07-03T19:25:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
India was responsible for the largest drop in open defecation since 2015, in terms of absolute numbers, according to a new report by the Wash Institute, a global non-profit organisation July 1, 2021. […]
2021-07-03T19:16:15+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Context :- Estimates suggest that India has doubled the electrified rural households, from 55% in 2010 to 96% in 2020. And despite greater electrification, power supply is often unreliable in rural areas. This, however does not account for connection to public utilities and social infrastructure such as schools, community spaces etc. [...]
2021-07-03T18:12:28+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
India reconnected with the global economy three decades ago. The Indian economy had begun to gather pace around 1980, after at least a decade of stagnation in living standards as economic growth barely kept pace with the rise in population. The growth spurt was accompanied by tentative changes in fiscal, [...]
2021-07-03T18:10:40+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Preamble to a constitution is the window to what is there inside the constitution. The Constitution of India has also got a preamble. It is mentioned in the beginning of the Constitution, before the main part, i.e., the part I. If you read the Preamble, it gives you a glimpse [...]
2021-07-03T17:50:00+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
The Communist Party of China (CPC), which observed the centenary of its founding on July 1 with a very assertive speech by Xi Jinping, has much to celebrate and the world, even a divided one, has to acknowledge its accomplishments. A country which suffered oppression by multiple colonial powers and [...]
2021-07-03T17:38:42+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Limelight|
There was a time, when politics was a vocation that drew the brightest and most idealistic in society, charged with the dream to serve the larger good. Sadly, those days are long gone. Successive generations have also begun to take, understandably but regrettably, a very dim view of religion. There [...]
2021-07-02T00:48:08+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
At the recently concluded Leaders’ Summit on Climate [...]
2021-07-02T00:34:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
The Constitution of India was adopted on 26 November 1949, [...]
2021-07-01T21:32:34+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Sunil Mittal, the chairman of Bharti Airtel, said recently that [...]
2021-07-01T14:43:20+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Policy|
Recently, the Supreme Court did well to set a deadline of July 31 for states to implement the One Nation One Ration Card system. Considering the sheer scale of the migrant crisis that unfolded last year — foodgrains were distributed to a staggering 2.8 crore migrants under the government’s Aatma Nirbhar [...]
