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, the sector [...]
2020-10-02T03:07:39+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: History|
The ancient Indus Valley. […]
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. […]
2018-07-30T15:00:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
What is the scope of an international gas pipeline to India? Is it bright or is it dim? […]
2018-07-28T22:45:57+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Geography|
The 1382 offshore-identified islands of India hold immense unexploited potential for fostering growth and achieving cohesive socio-economic development of the region in particular and also, the nation as a whole. They can significantly contribute to the GDP by leveraging the gains from promoting infrastructure and tourism on a large scale. [...]
2018-07-27T00:18:10+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
This month marks the 100th year of the publication of the ‘Report on Indian constitutional reforms’, commonly known as the Montagu-Chelmsford Report (MCR). Edwin Montagu, then Secretary of State for India, had advocated for increased participation of Indians in the British Indian administration and had begun consultations nearly a year [...]
2018-06-10T13:29:50+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Thomas Lovejoy in 1980 coined the term ‘Biological Diversity’ which was later modified by E. O. Wilson in 1986 who coined the term ‘Biodiversity’ in his report for the first American Forum on Biological Diversity. As a term intimately related to environmental and wildlife conservation, although the popularity of the term has [...]
2018-02-16T12:21:16+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
The NITI Aayog published nutrition charts on 17 January this year. As India recognises nutrition as a national issue and gears up for the National Nutrition Mission (NNM), publishing such data helps a wide variety of persons associated with the healthcare and nutrition ecosystem in our country to get into action mode [...]
