2017-07-21T10:20:30+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
The “Malabar” naval exercises in the Bay of Bengal came to an end earlier this week with a close formation drill involving Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, the US flat-top Nimitz, and Japan’s new helicopter carrier, the JS Izumo. […]
2017-07-19T09:02:43+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Drought is a climatic condition, which is characterized by lack of precipitation and dryness. Drought prone areas are identified by a deficit of rainfall received in a particular area. The parameters to identify drought prone areas vary depending on the natural climatic conditions. […]
2017-07-18T10:33:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
The ozone layer is a belt of naturally occurring ozone gas in the stratosphere. It absorbs the harmful ultraviolet radiations emitted from the sun before it reaches the Earth’s atmosphere. Ozone depleting substances (ODS) like CFCs and other organic substances that are used in appliances are responsible for the depletion [...]
2017-07-17T11:04:59+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
In a recent article in an American newspaper, the doyen among police scholars, Prof. David Bayley, expressed his anguish over what he considered to be a crisis in U.S. law enforcement. In his view this was caused mainly by three factors: race, police training and guns. There was an undeniable [...]
2017-07-17T10:38:08+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
Note- Few parts of the article are little scientific in nature and may be little hard to understand, nevertheless for the purpose of simplicity, we have highlighted the important parts and that is what matters from civil service exam standpoint. China has achieved the first successful teleportation of a photon into [...]
2017-07-16T11:03:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography|
The action of surface water and groundwater in the chemical weathering or chemical erosion of soluble carbonate rocks such as magnesium carbonates (dolomites) and calcium carbonates (limestone) produces landforms that are called karst topography. […]
2017-07-15T16:15:22+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|
Agro & social forestry have been traditionally practiced in India. Policy inclusion of agro & social forestry have not however brought in desired results. The article examines how agro & social forestry can be revisited and norms revised to make it more sustainable and meaningful. […]
2017-07-15T14:00:07+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
The biggest foreign policy crisis of the year is India’s chance to comprehensively revamp its China policy. […]
2017-07-15T07:20:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Geography|
The coral bleaching phenomenon:- The beautiful coral reefs surrounded by blue tropical seas are not just coloured rocks but are thriving ecosystems with live corals that attach their skeletons to rocks and live there. The colours indicate the presence of single-celled algae-like zooxanthellae within their tissues that provide them with the essential [...]
2017-07-14T10:49:01+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
One of the toughest environmental and social challenges of our time is managing the mobility of people and goods. By 2030, passenger traffic will exceed 80,000 billion passenger-kilometers—a fifty percent increase—and freight volume will grow by 70 percent globally. […]
