2017-11-08T00:37:33+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
In 1878, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, the viceroy of India, was convinced that the Afghan amir Sher Ali Khan was getting too close to the Russians. A team of British diplomats sent to meet Khan was turned away at the Khyber Pass. The result was the Second Anglo-Afghan War and the signing [...]
2017-11-08T00:25:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Last week, the Supreme Court asked the government about the status of criminal cases pending against elected ministers, underlining the importance of breaking from the history of law-breakers becoming law-makers. The court recommended setting up fast-track courts to deal with the cases, but that is unlikely to be an effective [...]
2017-11-08T00:08:46+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Not being residentially inhabited by human populations and instead being a place where largely scientific research is the mainstay, one would expect Antarctic biodiversity to be more protected than biodiversity in other, more populated regions of the world. However, this may not be the case for Antarctic biodiversity. [...]
2017-11-06T04:58:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Just when the Panama Papers are about to rest, thus emerges the “Paradise Papers” – The Paradise Papers – Secrets Of The Global Elite […]
2017-11-01T07:44:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
India has jumped up 30 spots in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Report that was released today (31 October). India now finds itself ranked at the hundredth place as opposed to 130 in last year’s report. India stands out this year as one of the 10 economies that [...]
2017-11-01T07:16:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture, Polity|
Reports of farmers dying from pesticide exposure in Maharashtra’s cotton belt in Yavatmal make it evident that the government’s efforts to regulate toxic chemicals used in agriculture have miserably failed. […]
2017-11-01T06:58:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
A timeline of the conflict which has its roots in the late 19th century. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has its roots in the late 19th century when Jews fleeing anti-Semitism in Russia and central Europe began emigrating to Palestine. […]
2017-11-01T06:53:48+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Geography|
The terms desertification refers to degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities. It does not imply loss of land to desert or through sand-dune movement. […]
2017-11-01T06:45:03+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) in its Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report published in 2015 states that increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions together with other anthropogenic drivers such as aerosols, land cover and solar radiation are extremely likely to have been the dominant cause of the observed warming [...]
2017-10-17T00:08:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Geography|
Why landslide mitigation is important:- […]
