2017-07-28T21:34:33+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
India has a long tradition of bright minds poking holes in some distinctly un-bright ideas. And one such mind lived over eight centuries ago in the south, blowing a hole so large through that disastrous institution called caste that a flood of people—about 6.5 million today—escaped the old order, arriving [...]
2017-07-28T21:09:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Although our understanding of the linkages between gender and growth is still evolving, there is mounting evidence that economic crises affect women more than men. Women are often laid off first as men are traditionally considered to be the main breadwinners. […]
2017-07-28T16:13:29+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
A proposal to further extend the already 20-year-long patent term for pharmaceuticals is on the negotiation table of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). As India negotiates the RCEP, a free trade agreement that can change the intellectual property (IP) landscape of its member countries, this week, we need to [...]
2017-07-28T15:58:22+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Article 1 of the UN Convention to combat desertification defines land degradation as a “reduction or loss in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rain-fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, forest and woodlands resulting from land uses or from a [...]
2017-07-28T15:52:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR, Geography|
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is a comprehensive UN legal policy document demarcating areas of the sea under the jurisdiction of member states as well as legal clauses for human maritime activity in a comprehensive manner. […]
2017-07-28T15:43:50+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
When we talk about pollution, thermal pollution rarely comes to our minds. However, with the innumerable thermal power plants and industries mushrooming everywhere, thermal pollution is a real and persistent problem of current times. […]
2017-07-28T15:33:24+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
To avoid data colonisation and allow for genuine empowerment, people must control the data they generate. […]
2017-07-24T08:05:26+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Geography|
Why landslide mitigation is important? The monsoons may bring life and prosperity to our agrarian societies, but it also has harmful consequences, especially for hilly regions. […]
2017-07-24T08:03:03+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Content:- Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India (1978)-Beginning of a golden era of human rights jurisprudence in India. Article 21 and the Due Process of Law. Gopalan Vs State of Madras ; Satwant Singh and his Passport. Maneka Gandhi's Passport, Surya and a Scandal. Breathing Life into Article 21 Small [...]
2017-07-24T05:39:42+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Limelight|
Why bureaucracy is incapable of emotion and providing care, in short bureaucracy is incapable of empathy..but Why? (Weber has the ANSWER) Gandhi is a Führer and so is Mandela. Really ? Weber informs us that- Nine out of ten politicians are nothing but vain windbags...but Why ? In this part, [...]
