2017-08-03T13:47:56+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) was established in 1993 by an Act of Parliament. It is the all-powerful regulatory body for the teacher education system in the country, consisting of the Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs) that run bachelor of education (BEd) and diploma in education (DEd) programmes to [...]
2017-08-02T10:44:45+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Background – It’s akin to expecting someone to climb Mount Everest in a month, Rajan Wadhera says of having to leapfrog to the much stricter Bharat Stage VI (BS VI) emission norms from BS IV in less than three years. […]
2017-08-02T10:30:07+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Humanity will have used up its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all of 2017 by 2 Aug 22017, a report said. […]
2017-08-01T12:18:39+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Geography|
Background:- The tragedy of the monsoons is often floods and landslides — 2017 was no different. The Government of India claims that by July 28, 2017, a period by when the monsoons had made their onset over most of India, about 600 deaths have occurred across the country due to [...]
2017-07-30T21:19:02+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
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2017-07-28T21:34:33+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
India has a long tradition of bright minds poking holes in some distinctly un-bright ideas. And one such mind lived over eight centuries ago in the south, blowing a hole so large through that disastrous institution called caste that a flood of people—about 6.5 million today—escaped the old order, arriving [...]
2017-07-28T21:09:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Although our understanding of the linkages between gender and growth is still evolving, there is mounting evidence that economic crises affect women more than men. Women are often laid off first as men are traditionally considered to be the main breadwinners. […]
2017-07-28T16:13:29+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
A proposal to further extend the already 20-year-long patent term for pharmaceuticals is on the negotiation table of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). As India negotiates the RCEP, a free trade agreement that can change the intellectual property (IP) landscape of its member countries, this week, we need to [...]
2017-07-28T15:58:22+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Article 1 of the UN Convention to combat desertification defines land degradation as a “reduction or loss in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rain-fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, forest and woodlands resulting from land uses or from a [...]
2017-07-28T15:52:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR, Geography|
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is a comprehensive UN legal policy document demarcating areas of the sea under the jurisdiction of member states as well as legal clauses for human maritime activity in a comprehensive manner. […]
