2021-07-25T20:36:57+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: History|
Context In yet another landmark achievement, India’s nomination of Rudreswara Temple, (also known as the Ramappa Temple) at Palampet, Mulugu district, near Warangal in the state of Telangana has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list. […]
2021-07-24T21:15:01+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
The Ganga might have stood witness to many stages of India’s civilisation, as Mahatma Gandhi once noted, but in recent decades it has become a conduit for sewage, solid waste, industrial effluents and other pollutants. […]
2021-07-24T08:48:38+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: D2E|
Important Points 1. According to South Asia lightning Report ,2020 by Earth Networks, a global weather intelligence agency -West Bengal received the highest number of lightning strikes per square kilometer in 2020, followed by Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh,Tamil Nadu. […]
2021-07-24T08:13:02+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: D2E|
Context The Uttarakhand government recently announced it will initiate valuation of its natural resources in the form of ‘Gross Environment Product’ (GEP), said to be along the lines of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). […]
2021-07-23T14:12:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
The British organised a conference in Shimla in 1914, which the representatives of China and Tibet attended. The conference’s objective was to negotiate a treaty that would demarcate the border between Tibet and British-ruled India. The British plan was to put pressure on the weak Chinese central government to grant [...]
2021-07-23T02:09:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: History|
After the fall of Tipu Sultan (1799), the East India Company government restored the Mysore kingdom to the Wodeyar dynasty. It decided to pay a stipend to Tipu’s sons and intern them in two palaces, Hyder Mahal and Tipu Mahal, specially constructed for them in the Vellore Fort. Along with [...]
2021-07-21T21:37:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
In a major boost for federalism, the Supreme Court recently struck down parts of a Constitution amendment which shrank the exclusive authority of States over its cooperative societies. […]
2021-07-21T21:22:00+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
THE occurrence of two cyclones in consecutive seasons—Cyclone Nisarga in 2020 and cyclone Tauktae in 2021—is highly unusual for the west coast of India but fits in with the warnings of experts. […]
2021-07-21T20:25:16+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Policy|
Context The Arctic region has recently assumed considerable strategic significance as it has been underlined by the policies enunciated by major powers. The interests and concerns of the Arctic states are vast and varied. India, being an observer in the Arctic Council, has legitimate interests in the region and has, [...]
2021-07-21T19:36:03+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Highlights of the Bill 1) The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 states that adoption of a child is final on the issuance of an adoption order by the civil court. The Bill provides that instead of the court, the district magistrate (including additional district magistrate) [...]
