2021-11-05T11:56:32+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|Tags: The Hindu|
An exclusive internal quota for a single caste group was always fraught with the danger of judicial invalidation. It is no surprise, therefore, that the Madras High Court has struck down the Tamil Nadu law that earmarked 10.5% of seats in educational institutions and jobs for the Vanniyakula Kshatriya community [...]
2021-11-05T11:49:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: The Hindu|
In a surprise move at COP26 in Glasgow, Prime Minister of India announced that India will commit to ambitious, enhanced climate targets and cuts in carbon emissions in its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). […]
2021-10-18T22:46:07+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|Tags: The Hindu|
This year’s Global Hunger Index (GHI) did not go down well with the government. This was expected given that it ranks India 101 out of 116 countries for which reliable and comparable data exist. To add insult to injury, the GHI puts India far below some of its neighbouring countries. [...]
2021-10-06T21:48:27+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: LM|
The age of oil is far from over, in spite of the global urgency to curb carbon emissions, the ‘plus’ avatar of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC+) has regained unity as a cartel, and, as global crude nears $80 per barrel, it is clearly time for India to [...]
2021-10-06T21:21:45+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|Tags: Hindustan Times|
14% of children studying in government schools in villages, and 20% of those in government schools in urban areas, were deprived of midday meals during the pandemic period. […]
2021-10-06T21:02:34+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|Tags: Hindustan Times|
During the framing of India’s Constitution, multiple models of governance were proposed for the newly independent nation. The framers of the Constitution finally selected the model of “parliamentary democracy”. As the term suggests, there are two equally important constituent elements of this model — Parliament and democracy. [...]
2021-10-06T20:46:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
The official launch of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) started an initiative that will give every citizen a unique digital health ID, linked to a personal health record (PHR). The ID will also be linked to the Aadhaar. […]
2021-10-06T17:29:19+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|Tags: DTE|
Economic price for neglecting mental health of children is $387.2 billion a year: UNICEF More than 13% adolescents aged 10-19 live with a diagnosed mental disorder globally […]
2021-10-06T17:16:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
What are the Pandora Papers? These are 11.9 million leaked files from 14 global corporate services firms which set up about 29,000 off-the-shelf companies and private trusts in not just obscure tax jurisdictions but also countries such as Singapore, New Zealand, and the United States, for clients across the world. [...]
2021-10-06T16:50:00+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|Tags: The Indian Express|
Context:- The Calcutta High Court has given West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee a deadline to pass an order in the defection case involving MLA Mukul Roy. He had contested and won the 2021 Assembly elections on a BJP ticket and then joined the Trinamool Congress. BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari, [...]
