2021-08-13T17:28:11+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
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|
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|
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|
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 and IR|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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. […]
