2017-05-21T00:14:28+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Science|
To measure the level of a civilization’s advancement, the Kardashev scale focuses on the amount of energy that a civilization is able to utilize. Notably, the amount of power available to a civilization is fundamentally linked to how widespread the civilization is (you obviously can’t harness the power of a [...]
2017-05-19T01:38:56+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP & IR|
China’s just-completed conference touting its Belt and Road initiative certainly looked like a triumph, with Russian President Vladimir Putin playing the piano and Chinese leaders announcing a string of potential deals and massive financial pledges. […]
2017-05-19T01:26:30+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Science|
Signaling its intent to fast-track India’s domestic nuclear power programme, the government on Wednesday approved a proposal to construct 10 indigenous units of pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs), each with the capacity of generating 700 Mega Watt (MW) of electricity, in a fully home grown initiative. […]
2017-05-18T21:22:57+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Science|
The history of science is replete with thousands of examples of the way modern or empirical science was opposed by well-entrenched forces in society at any given time. Some of the oldest cultures have also resisted scientific ideas based on their own interpretation of the physical world. [...]
2017-05-15T13:05:32+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture, Editorials|
Disclaimer-This is a compilation of agriculture news from the HINDU newspaper. We will keep updating this post as and when we come across new initiatives/concepts related to agriculture until Prelims 2017. […]
2017-05-15T11:35:45+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Ayyappa Masagi has a simple message: “You want water? Call me!” Thousands have. And his phone rings dozens of times a day. There appears to be an endless supply of patients for the man nicknamed India’s “Water Doctor”. “I faced a lot of water problems in my childhood,” he said. [...]
2017-05-15T09:56:26+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture, Editorials|
It saved many nations like India from famine. […]
2017-05-15T09:48:16+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture, Editorials, Society|
Agriculture is now about 10,000 years old, but has been constantly improved to make it more productive and easier through human intervention. So agriculture is a hundred per cent human-created enterprise and there is nothing natural about it. If agriculture had not developed the way it has, the human race [...]
2017-05-13T08:24:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Environment|
An image that has gone viral- A fish has been pictured swimming inside a jellyfish off Australia’s east coast in a remarkable and rare image, apparently the fish controls the direction of movement. Back to Prelims- This is a compilation of all environmental news published by Times of India newspaper [...]
2017-05-11T09:34:32+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Editorials, Society|
This is one of a kind and a must read for every one. Culture is not always about doling out grants, holding mega-festivals, or just about sob stories around lack of preservation. If the economics of culture is understood, it can bring in prosperity and boost soft power. But, how [...]
