Society-India Has Nearly As Many Vehicles As Households !!!
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. […]
Essay Strategy-Ability can take you to the top, Character will keep you there !!!
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 [...]
Environment-Key Environmental Challenges: Causes and Impact !!!
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. […]
Geography-Oceans and the Law of the Sea !!!
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 [...]
Society-Poor sanitation cost India 5.2% of its GDP !!!
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. […]
Geography Watch-Beneath the Ocean Floor: Discovery of Ocean Ridge !!!
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 [...]
Environment Watch-Congress Grass: Biological Invader of Non Cropped Areas !!!
Congress grass scientifically known as Parthenium Hysterophorus, a native of West Indies and Tropical America, has established itself all over India. […]
#Yojana Nector-Water(July 2016) !!!
Water has been a key planning and policy issue and recently the issue only got exacerbated. UPSC, often times have asked about water related questions and essay. In this regard, it is an important topic. Through this edition of Yojana Nector we are trying to give it a holistic understanding [...]
Society Watch-Tribal Development Policy of GOI – A comprehensive UPSCTREE analysis !!!
Tribal Development Policy of GOI - A comprehensive UPSCTREE analysis !!! It covers the tribal policy since the days of British, various committees, reports and their suggestion etc. Click here to read Thank You UPSCTREE
Policy Watch-National Policy for Skills Development and Entrepreneurship !!!
Excerpts from the speech of President. […]