2017-07-03T16:54:40+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
By standing firm with Bhutan and helping it militarily, India has displayed its resolve. Now it’s time to get down to some deft diplomacy. As the military standoff over Doka La (or Doklam plateau) between India and China spills over into its second month, it is important to understand both [...]
2017-07-02T16:48:39+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Polity|
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2017-07-01T10:41:14+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
MANUFACTURING advances often take time to catch on. Only later does their real significance become apparent. The flying shuttle, invented in 1733 by John Kay, a British weaver, allowed the production of wider pieces of cloth. Because its movement could be mechanised, the shuttle later became one of the [...]
2017-07-01T09:43:55+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
What is GST? Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a value-added tax at each stage of the supply of goods and services precisely on the amount of value addition achieved. It seeks to eliminate inefficiencies in the tax system that result in ‘tax on tax’, known as cascading of taxes. [...]
2017-06-28T07:27:06+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography|
According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), an international agreement in force since 1994 regarding international activity in the world’s oceans, Article 55 of the document defines the legal regime of the Exclusive Economic Zone. […]
2017-06-28T07:00:19+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
Launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 2009, the Kepler telescope, named after the astronomer Johannes Kepler, is a telescope aboard a space observatory in a heliocentric orbit trailing Earth. With a much higher field of vision than the Hubble telescope, the telescope is designed to survey [...]
2017-06-22T01:27:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography|
Located in the area marked under the fabled ‘Bermuda Triangle’, the Sargasso Sea located within the North Atlantic Ocean is the only sea in the world that does not have a land boundary. Unlike other seas, its location is defined using ocean currents. It lies within a large system of [...]
2017-06-22T01:21:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography|
For people living in coastal areas rivers and lakes are not ubiquitously available. They thus depend on groundwater for their needs, which leads to probabilities of saline water ingression. Groundwater close to the coast can be easily laden with salt, especially when the equilibrium between coastal aquifers and sea water [...]
2017-06-22T01:06:28+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Geography|
Water retention in soil can be understood as the water retained by the soil after it runs through the soil pores to join water bodies such as groundwater or surface streams. Pores in the soil can be defined as the air-spaces that exist in between soil particles. [...]
2017-06-22T00:58:39+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Waste water is produced in almost every home and industry, which somehow has been finding its way into our fresh water bodies, thus adding another concern to our long list of things that ail the planet. Our constant development has come at the cost of generation of large quantities of [...]
