2021-03-19T08:43:22+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
The Supreme Court, recently, did the right thing by terming as serious the allegation by a petitioner that three crore ration cards were cancelled for not being linked with the Aadhaar database and that these were connected to reported starvation deaths in some States. […]
2021-03-18T00:31:08+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
In the spring of 1905, a young man began the journey from obscurity to scientific stardom. Within a decade, he would be hailed as a genius who towered over his contemporaries, even in an era that had no dearth of brilliant minds in science. […]
2021-03-18T00:10:42+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: History|
Syllabus Connect :- General Studies -Paper I (The Freedom Struggle — its various stages and important contributors/contributions from different parts of the country) Mains Connect:- Discuss the influence of Russian revolution and its impact on shaping Indian national movement through Bhagat Singh. BHAGAT SINGH and his comrades – like all [...]
2021-03-16T01:53:55+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
A chapter in the October 2020 edition of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) biannual publication, Fiscal Monitor, argues that as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and to support the recovery as COVID-19 induced lockdowns are relaxed and the world moves to a post-pandemic phase, enhancing public expenditure is crucial. So, governments, [...]
2021-03-14T00:07:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
The ‘Forest Man of India’, Jadav Payeng, is sharing his expertise in the North American country. […]
2021-03-13T22:57:50+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
There exists a stark difference between the rates of the biological and socio-cultural evolution of humans. Scientists believe that we are still evolving and adapting, but not any serious breakthrough has occurred for a long time. On the other hand, our socio-cultural evolution has gone faster over time. [...]
2021-03-12T16:29:33+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Ethics|
The Views of Mill and Spencer:- This dream of social reform and the building of a more ideal society was basic to the thinking of JOHN STUART MILL also. He believed that the phenomena of social living conformed to fixed laws just as other phenomena do. However, he recognized that [...]
2021-03-12T17:37:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Written by:- Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog Syllabus Connect :- General Studies -Paper II (Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization, of resources, growth, development and employment) Mains Connect:- Discuss the sunrise sectors of Indian economy in a post pandemic world. The COVID-19 pandemic has been extensively disruptive in [...]
2021-03-13T22:01:33+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
With the launch of Brazil’s Amazonia-1 satellite last week from Sriharikota, a new chapter has begun in India’s space history. The satellite, a 637-kilogram entity, was the first dedicated commercial mission of NewSpace India Limited, a two-year-old commercial arm of the Department of Space. […]
2021-03-12T13:43:14+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
NEW DELHI : In October last year, India’s foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla and Army chief Manoj Mukund Naravane teamed up for a visit to a crucial neighbour—Myanmar—that raised eyebrows due to its rarity. The uncommonness of the visit underlined the state of politics in Myanmar—where the military and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and her [...]
