2017-04-22T23:58:01+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Dave Donaldson’s ‘Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure’ shows that the arrival of railways caused real GDP in India’s agriculture to increase by around 17%. […]
2017-04-22T22:35:48+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Editorials|
Disclaimer- This is essentially a case study and can be quoted as example in Mains answers/interview if remedial measured are asked of you in any of the platform. […]
2017-04-22T22:11:43+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Polity|
Recently, Brazilian society celebrated three years of the enactment of the Internet Bill of Rights (Marco Civil da Internet). It is the first ever national law to “establish principles, guarantees, rights and obligations for the use of the Internet” and has been praised internationally for its progressive nature. Among many reasons [...]
2017-04-19T23:45:55+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
India cannot be car country like the US. When you have four times the population living in a third of the land area, you cannot be. […]
2017-04-19T23:05:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Essays|
Dear Students, The Essay strategy is now available in student portal (http://www.iastree.com) Ethics essays are tricky. The reason being, everyone knows what to write but due to lack of examples or a proper framework,most of the time it leads to certain common errors in this type of essay. The generic [...]
2017-04-16T13:27:45+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Environment|
The key environmental challenges that the country faces relate to the nexus of environmental degradation with poverty in its many dimensions, and economic growth. These challenges are intrinsically connected with the state of environmental resources, such as land, water, air and their flora and fauna. […]
2017-04-16T13:18:59+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography, Uncategorized|
Life itself arose from the oceans. The ocean is vast, covering 140 million square miles, some 72 per cent of the earth’s surface. Not only has the oceans always been a prime source of nourishment for the life it helped generate, but from earliest recorded history it has served for [...]
2017-04-13T23:25:12+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
The Report- A report—True cost of sanitation—was published jointly by the LIXIL Group Corporation, Water Aid and Oxford Economics recently. Oxford Economics mainly works on economic forecasting and modelling. […]
2017-04-11T22:27:32+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Geography|
Exciting discoveries have come from an international drilling project, the Deep Sea Drilling Project. Since 1968, a drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, has drilled nearly a thousand holes into the deep ocean basins, taking samples of deep-sea sediment and crust. One early discovery suggests that the Mediterranean dried up completely [...]
2017-04-11T22:20:24+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Environment|
Congress grass scientifically known as Parthenium Hysterophorus, a native of West Indies and Tropical America, has established itself all over India. […]
