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 [...]
2021-08-05T10:00:36+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Hindu|
Syllabus Connect:- GS III (Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment) What you will learn in this editorial :- The four factors that are essential for growth and must be taken care of by policy intervention. Why India is under going K-Shaped recovery [...]
2021-08-04T22:56:57+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|Tags: The Hindu|
Syllabus:- GS II ( Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections) The case for reservations for women and transgender persons in State jobs [...]
2021-08-04T22:41:44+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Hindu|
Syllabus:- GS I (Poverty and developmental issues); GS II (Issues relating to poverty and hunger) India has not released its Consumption Expenditure Survey (CES) data since 2011-12. Normally a CES is conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSO) every five years. But the CES of 2017-18 (already conducted a [...]
2021-07-29T16:36:03+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Policy, Society|Tags: The Hindu|
Population policy is suddenly in the news in India with States such as Assam and Uttar Pradesh proposing to bring in or bringing in draft legislation aimed at controlling their populations. […]
2021-07-26T15:19:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: General Studies III, IE|
European Union introduced new legislation, Fit for 55, to cut its GHG emissions by 55 per cent by 2030 and to net zero by 2050. This is a welcome step for climate action since it turns the EU’s announcement into law, protecting it from the winds of political change. It [...]
2021-07-26T10:20:49+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Policy|Tags: LM|
This retail outlet sells a lot of products from all sorts of producers. The shopkeeper also buys stuff in a wholesale market and packages it neatly into smaller quantities, making it easier for buyers to shop. It sells its own-label goods a bit cheaper than the branded substitutes on offer. [...]
2021-07-26T07:24:20+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: LM|
Context:- It is now celebrates 30 years since India’s economic liberalization programme began. Massive libraries can be built solely devoted to how the Indian economy and Indian lives have changed since 24 July 1991, but let us swim against the tide and go back several decades before 1991, and look [...]
2021-07-26T06:32:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|Tags: TH|
Context The Great Indian Bustard, a gravely endangered species, with hardly about 200 alive in India today, came under the protective wings of the Supreme Court of India in a recent judgment. […]
