2021-01-22T18:33:40+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: History, Society|
A temple is just another building. It has all the structural elements of a building — floor, walls, pillars, windows, sunshades, roof. But in different forms, shapes and functions; and an aesthetic that evolved over centuries. […]
2021-01-20T23:47:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, History, Society|
The grandest temples built by almost every royal dynasty in India is in their capital city — Except the Rashtrakutas. Their capital was Manyakheta; their grandest temple is in Ellora. […]
2021-01-20T23:30:11+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Science|
India is home to abundant natural mineral resource and is one of the top ten producers of several minerals (Fig. 1). With a contribution of 1.53 per cent of gross domestic product in 2017-18, mining is an important sector for the Indian economy. […]
2021-01-20T22:54:39+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Environment|
The state of Uttarakhand has got its first Ramsar Site—a wetland of international importance. The Asan Conservation Reserve, located on the banks of River Yamuna in Garhwal region in Dehradun district, was designated as the Ramsar Site. The nearest town or population centre of this Conservation Reserve about 8 kms [...]
2021-01-09T22:46:19+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
A total 114 villages in Odisha have been declared child-marriage free as of January 7 2020 and many more are in line. But this story of change began in a village named Rugudipali in west Odisha's Subarnapur district with support from the courageous Gitanjali Rana, an anganwadi worker in the [...]
2021-01-09T18:38:12+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Science|
Innovation and crisis: The six factors that spark radical innovation in turbulent times A crisis forces people to see the world in a different way because it ruptures the assumptions on which everyday life proceeds and so creates a doorway into a different kind of world, one in which people [...]
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 [...]
