2021-07-01T14:43:20+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Policy|
Recently, the Supreme Court did well to set a deadline of July 31 for states to implement the One Nation One Ration Card system. Considering the sheer scale of the migrant crisis that unfolded last year — foodgrains were distributed to a staggering 2.8 crore migrants under the government’s Aatma Nirbhar [...]
2021-07-01T14:29:39+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: History|
Since most of the early scholars, researchers and historians were [...]
2021-07-01T13:02:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
An efficient and well-oiled criminal justice system helps a country politically, socially and economically. The economic cost of the failed criminal justice system is reflected in the reluctance of foreign companies to set up manufacturing and commercial ventures in India for want of quick settlement of criminal, labour and civil [...]
2021-06-25T19:24:57+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
The idea of setting up a bad bank to resolve the growing problem of non-performing assets (NPAs), or loans on which borrowers have defaulted, is back on the table. With commercial banks set to witness a spike in NPAs, or bad loans, in the wake of the contraction in the economy as [...]
2021-06-25T19:02:08+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
“Three decades ago, I created something which, with the subsequent help of a huge number of collaborators across the world, has been a powerful tool for humanity. For me, the best bit about the Web has been the spirit of collaboration. While I do not make predictions about the future, [...]
2021-06-23T23:55:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
The son of a corn merchant-turned sociologist, Charles Booth had little patience for Charles Dickens and others in his time, who used lyrical prose to describe the desperation of the poor in working class London. Booth was also angry, in 1885, over the claims made by F.D. Hyndman, the leader [...]
2021-06-23T20:36:19+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Conservation in India found its roots when the killing of animals were strictly prohibited in and around the Ashramas (hermitages) allotted to Brahmanas. […]
2021-06-22T20:11:19+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
The announcement by the United Nations terming 2021-30 as the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration could not have come at a more appropriate time. […]
2021-06-22T19:55:54+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Forest rights in India reflect correlative duties of tribal communities to preserve wildlife and it is in consonance to the fundamental duty under Article 51 A(g) […]
2021-06-22T19:41:52+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Charles Darwin was a careful scientist. In the middle of the 19th century, while he was collecting evidence for his theory that species evolve by natural selection, he noticed it didn’t explain the fancy tails of male peacocks, the antlers paraded by male deer, or why some the males of [...]
