2017-07-23T07:37:01+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Note – Notwithstanding the cliched nature of the title of this post, this article does not have the objective to be lost in our “glorious past” but gives more than 50 ways to make India a better country. You may ask why this title then, well, there is a simple answer [...]
2017-07-22T15:05:43+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Limelight|
We often hear people say that they are very disciplined and we give them credit for it. But Weber tells us that the one who is disciplined is a- "narrow specialists without mind, pleasure-seekers without heart. And why does he says so ? Weber gives us answer to why does [...]
2017-07-22T02:03:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
Understanding Radioactive Waste […]
2017-07-22T07:36:07+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Limelight|
Part -1: Max Weber’s in the Twenty-first Century Note:- The civil service examination will be incomplete without understanding certain individuals - be it Gandhi or Max Weber. Understanding Gandhi is central to understand India, its values, its ethos, its ethics and its contradiction. Same can be said for Max Weber, [...]
2017-07-21T12:50:30+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
About 5,500 of over 76,000 children tested in nine Indian cities have been diagnosed with tuberculosis, 9% of them with multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB), highlighting the silent spread of the disease. […]
2017-07-21T12:42:49+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Why it was incorporated? […]
2017-07-21T12:21:39+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Can droughts experienced centuries ago teach us ways to handle the present ones? They can if we care to look in the right place — for instance, the walls of temples in Tamil Nadu. […]
2017-07-21T12:07:03+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Hyperglobalisation has been used to describe the dramatic increase in international trade witnessed for about a decade and a half from the early 1990s up to the global financial crisis of 2008. The imagery intended is one of an increasing connectedness among nations leading to a virtuous cycle of economic [...]
2017-07-21T10:20:30+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
The “Malabar” naval exercises in the Bay of Bengal came to an end earlier this week with a close formation drill involving Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, the US flat-top Nimitz, and Japan’s new helicopter carrier, the JS Izumo. […]
2017-07-19T09:02:43+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Drought is a climatic condition, which is characterized by lack of precipitation and dryness. Drought prone areas are identified by a deficit of rainfall received in a particular area. The parameters to identify drought prone areas vary depending on the natural climatic conditions. […]
