2021-03-12T05:26:34+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Have you ever wondered why cricket matches are getting shorter – from test matches to one-day matches to T20 and now T10? There are two possible reasons – either people can’t stand so much cricket, or it’s not cricket’s fault. Perhaps, people can’t stand anything for that long. [...]
2021-03-10T03:29:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture, Editorials|
It is no news to anyone that India fares poorly in giving economic freedom to its citizens and business firms. Two key indexes in this regard establish the poor standing of India. […]
2021-03-10T01:52:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
In India, even today, many women continue to be engaged in one of the most inhuman and undignified forms of manual scavenging, which involves cleaning of insanitary dry latrines with bare hands, carrying the basket or bucket containing the human faeces on their head, and disposing of it, on a [...]
2021-03-10T15:51:15+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Ethics|
The Views of Spinoza, Locke, and Adam Smith :- The belief that the state is in some way a result of a social contract among men is also seen in the teachings of SPINOZA. In the natural state, he held, might makes right, and man has the right to do [...]
2021-03-05T03:15:20+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Editorials|
The United States Congress approved an emergency bailout package of $700 billion during that fateful week in September 2008. This was just days after the spectacular crash of Lehman Brothers. […]
2021-03-10T05:36:55+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
After nearly three-decades of the Indra Sawhney judgment, the Supreme Court on Monday said the 50 per cent cap on reservation laid down by a 9-judge bench in 1992, could be re-examined in view of subsequent constitutional amendments and the socio-economic changes that has followed. […]
2021-03-05T02:52:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Science|
Life on earth has always been about species struggling to secure their odds of survival. A little known story, though, is the complex role that viruses have played in our evolution. Today, these microscopic bugs are among our biggest threats, especially the zoonotic kind like the novel coronavirus. We must [...]
2021-03-10T01:56:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
[ Must Read ] A silent revolution over the last decade has had significant implications on fertility rates and the economy. As more women are turning towards higher education and correspondingly better employment opportunities, they are delaying childbirth and having fewer children. With Indian women pursuing higher education in larger [...]
2021-03-05T02:33:21+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Ethics|
The State as Viewed by the Forerunners of the Renaissance:- It was at this time that man began to assert his own freedom and to challenge the power of rulers who held key positions in the state. The democratic spirit was afoot in the land, and absolute rule was being [...]
2021-03-05T04:18:03+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP & IR|
Indian Prime Ministerand Chinese Presidentmight have had a successful Sino-Indian summit at Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu during 11-12 October. […]
