2021-08-17T10:47:10+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: The Hindu|
Context The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), titled ‘Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis’, is the first of four that the Panel will issue over the next one and a half years. [...]
2021-08-17T10:13:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: The Hindu|
Context:- The Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules notified by the Centre on August 12 acknowledge the gravity of pollution caused by plastic articles of everyday use, particularly those that have no utility beyond a few minutes or hours. […]
2021-08-13T19:29:34+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: DTE|
The resurgent Taliban is on the victory march to Kabul. It has already taken provincial capitals as well as Afghanistan’s third-largest city of Herat. As the Taliban appear at the gates of Kabul again after two decades, fears have grown about what their conduct will be towards life and livelihood, [...]
2021-08-13T17:28:11+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: The Indian Express|
Context Earlier this week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported on climate science, warning against the folly of a business-as-usual development model. Past assessments have been disregarded as sensationalist. For attention to shift from a day of front-page news to a more strategic conversation, we must understand what [...]
2021-08-12T07:44:04+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|Tags: The Indian Express|
Syllabus Connect :- GS I ( Population and associated issues) Context Recently, population control measures are being discussed by the states of Assam and Uttar Pradesh. Many other states like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Karnataka and Odisha have been following a two-child norm [...]
2021-08-12T07:18:47+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Indian Express|
Syllabus Connect:- GS III ( Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways, etc.) On July 1, 2020, the Indian Railways launched the formal process of inviting private parties to run trains on the Indian railway system. Bids were finally opened last month. Hopes of a large participation were belied as there [...]
2021-08-06T23:41:56+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: History|Tags: The Diplomat|
Afghanistan is a notoriously difficult country to govern. Empire after empire, nation after nation have failed to pacify what is today the modern territory of Afghanistan, giving the region the nickname “Graveyard of Empires, ” even if sometimes those empires won some initial battles and made inroads into the region. [...]
2021-08-05T09:57:50+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|Tags: Frontline|
Syllabus Connect :- GS III (Security challenges and their management in border areas; linkages of organized crime with terrorism) Context:- The withdrawal of United States troops from the Bagram military base, its biggest military base in Afghanistan, by stealth at night in early July without keeping the Afghan authorities in the [...]
2021-08-05T09:15:32+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: IAEA|
Syllabus Connect:- GS III (Energy) Context:- At the beginning of the new millennium, amid growing awareness of the link between energy-related greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, the notion of a ‘nuclear renaissance’ became popular. Scientists and policy makers identified low carbon nuclear power as a potential protagonist in the [...]
