2026-09-12T15:19:54+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography, Society|
Economy & Society 453 Million People on the Move: Understanding India’s Internal Migration — Who They Are, Why They Move, and Why the System Keeps Failing Them India’s internal migrants — 453 million people as of the last Census — are the backbone of its urban economy. They build its [...]
2026-09-09T20:23:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Essays, Society|
There is an old joke that when a man in New York sneezes, a man in Delhi catches a cold. Globalization has merely amplified this. Now, when a bank in New York sneezes, factories in Shenzhen cough, farmers in Kenya lose sleep, programmers in Bengaluru check their phones in anxiety, [...]
2026-09-04T19:41:54+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Population & Economy India’s Ticking Demography: Why the Next 15 Years Will Decide Whether a Young Country Becomes a Rich One India has the longest demographic dividend window of any country in history — 50 years, from 2005 to 2055. But the benefit is already tapering. The window is open, [...]
2026-09-04T12:24:23+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP and IR|
Geopolitics & Diplomacy · September 2026 India at Bishkek: How India Turned the SCO's 25th Birthday Into a Platform Against Terror Prime Minister Modi walked into the 26th SCO Summit in Bishkek on August 31 with a clear agenda: use a forum dominated by China and Russia to push India's [...]
2026-09-04T11:42:22+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Polity|
Story so far: Why is FCRA back in the news? The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 seeks to further amend the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010—the principal law governing foreign donations received by NGOs, charitable organisations, religious bodies and other eligible entities in India. […]
2026-08-28T18:01:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Geography|
A massive flood and landslide disaster along the Nepal–Tibet border has killed hundreds of people and left many more missing. Roads, bridges, buildings and settlements have been swept away, while rescue teams are still searching for survivors. The disaster struck a mountainous region close to the Nepal-China border, an area [...]
2026-04-16T18:12:42+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
A high-stakes three-day special sitting of the Indian Parliament is currently underway, running from April 16 to April 18, 2026. The government has introduced three major bills during this session: Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026: Aims to implement 33% reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies starting [...]
2026-05-23T20:23:20+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: History|
History & Ideas The Forgotten Superpower: How Ancient India Shaped the World — and Why We Were Made to Forget The numbers we use to do every calculation on every computer in the world were invented in India. The religion practiced by over half of Asia spread from India. The [...]
2026-04-11T13:07:51+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Technology & Policy · Banning Isn’t the Answer. But What Is? The Case for Holding Platforms Accountable for What They Build India’s state governments — from Karnataka to Punjab — are reaching for social media bans to protect children. The impulse is understandable. The solution is insufficient. The real conversation [...]
2026-04-09T14:32:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
The Last Choice: Should Every Indian Have the Right to Dignified Death? A man lay still in a Delhi hospital bed for 12 years. His parents sat beside him, waiting for a system that didn't quite know what to do with them. Harish Rana was 32 years old when he [...]
