2021-12-21T17:09:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP and IR|
Backgound:- The third India-Central Asia Dialogue convened by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Sunday is one in a series of timely connections to the region by New Delhi this year, spurred in some measure by events in Afghanistan. The dialogue has been held a month before leaders of all [...]
2021-11-26T14:05:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
Intuitively, one tends to think that a more powerful technology consumes proportionately more energy. However, it’s not so with 5G. Efficiency can be best described as a typically quantifiable amount of work that can be performed with a given set of resources. […]
2021-11-26T13:44:16+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP and IR|
The United States may have just started another war that it cannot win. This time it is in the oil market, the foe is the powerful OPEC+ cartel and the prize is lower oil prices. […]
2021-11-26T13:24:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|
Sri Lanka’s decision to ban imports on chemical fertilizers was not backed by scientific evidence […]
2021-11-26T13:11:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
The economic ravages of the pandemic have had an uneven impact and taxation policies continue to be regressive Background:- There has been great chatter about a V-shaped recovery for quite a while, ever since the first lockdown following the novel coronavirus pandemic. […]
2021-11-05T11:56:32+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
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|
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|
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|
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 [...]
