2021-01-20T23:30:11+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: editorials, Science|
India is home to abundant natural mineral resource and is one of the top ten producers of several minerals (Fig. 1). With a contribution of 1.53 per cent of gross domestic product in 2017-18, mining is an important sector for the Indian economy. […]
2021-01-20T22:54:39+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: editorials, environment|
The state of Uttarakhand has got its first Ramsar Site—a wetland of international importance. The Asan Conservation Reserve, located on the banks of River Yamuna in Garhwal region in Dehradun district, was designated as the Ramsar Site. The nearest town or population centre of this Conservation [...]
2021-01-09T22:46:19+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
A total 114 villages in Odisha have been declared child-marriage free as of January 7 2020 and many more are in line. But this story of change began in a village named Rugudipali in west Odisha's Subarnapur district with support from the courageous Gitanjali Rana, an anganwadi worker in the area. Action Aid, a non-profit that works on child and women’s rights, has been spearheading the campaign against child marriage with the support of UNICEF in 15 districts of Odisha with a high burden of child marriage as indicated by the previous National Family Health Survey. Gitanjali participated in some of [...]
2021-01-09T18:38:12+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: editorials, Science|
Innovation and crisis: The six factors that spark radical innovation in turbulent times A crisis forces people to see the world in a different way because it ruptures the assumptions on which everyday life proceeds and so creates a doorway into a different kind of world, one in which [...]
2021-01-09T18:31:50+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: editorials, Science|
The COVID-19 pandemic is widely seen as a potential turning point after which almost everything could be different. Margaret MacMillan, the eminent historian, has compared this crisis to the French and Russian revolutions – points at which the river of history changed course. […]
2020-12-14T19:59:10+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science, Uncategorized|
It is not surprising that India has a booming healthcare sector, considering that a population of 1.35 billion in 2018 is likely to exhibit myriad morbidities (World Bank, 2018). With a three-fold increase in the healthcare market and governmental projections pushing a 372 billion USD mark in 2022, [...]
2018-12-02T14:35:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: environment|
Ecotourism in India:- Ecotourism as a term first emerged during the late 1980s with growing global concern for sustainable practices with regard to ecologies extending towards minimizing the degenerative results of tourism on the environment. Ecotourism thus essentially has come to imply responsible travel practices when exploring natural conditions such [...]
2018-07-30T15:15:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: economy, environment|
The Brundtland Commission in its report titled Our Common Future in 1987 defined the concept of sustainable development as development addressed towards the needs of the future as well as towards the needs of the present policy architecture. […]
