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 and 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 [...]
2021-03-12T16:30:36+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Syllabus Connect :- General Studies -Paper II (Issues relating to poverty and hunger) Mains Connect:- Discuss the status of hunger and malnutrition post-COVID 19 in India and the suggest measures to improve it. Much attention paid to the pandemic’s harm may have been focused on economic growth, but a far [...]
2021-03-12T16:05:12+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Syllabus Connect :- General Studies -Paper II (Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization, of resources, growth, development and employment) Mains Connect:- Discuss the status of financial inclusion of Indian Women and the suggest measures to improve it in light of Denarau Action Plan. Over the past year, [...]
2021-03-12T14:28:21+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Is ‘flexible inflation targeting’ (FIT) ripe for a coup d’état that topples its almost three-decade grip on the ruling dispensations of central banks the world over? Pioneered by New Zealand as early as 1990, and soon emulated by Canada and the United Kingdom, FIT is now the de jure, or [...]
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 [...]
