Economy-Dairy Sector !!!
Asia has witnessed remarkable growth in its production and consumption of milk and dairy products in recent years and this trend is almost certain to continue. […]
Geopolitics- Bhutan’s exit from the ‘BBIN’ agreement !!!
Bhutan’s announcement that it is unable to proceed with the Motor Vehicles Agreement with Bangladesh, India and Nepal is a road block, and not a dead end, for the regional sub-grouping India had planned for ease of access among the four countries. […]
Science-IIT Roorkee scientists create low-cost solar cells using Jamun !!!
IIT Roorkee researchers used naturally occurring pigment found in jamun as an inexpensive photosensitizer for Dye Sensitised Solar Cells or Gratzel cells. […]
#Swachh Society-Indore India’s cleanest city, Gonda dirtiest !!!
Indore in Madhya Pradesh has been ranked India’s cleanest city in the Swachh Survekshan survey released by the government recently. The urban development minister calls the states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as the movers and shakers of the cleanliness drive. […]
Economy-Why India should tax agricultural income !!!
Note- In our last years Mains test series, we gave a question related to taxing agricultural income, although the question was not asked by UPSC last year, still it is one of the most debated topic in policy circles. The below article gives reasons on why it should be taxed. [...]
Economy-The Madhya Pradesh Agriculture Revolution !!!
This drastic change in one sector – agriculture – is propelling the entire economy of the state.Here are some key drivers of agricultural growth in Madhya Pradesh and the lessons that the state holds for other large ones of India. […]
Environment-The decline of Arctic sea ice
The Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2040, 30 years earlier than previously suggested […]
Environment-Plant and Animal Adaptations in Hot Deserts !!!
Intense solar radiation, lashing winds, and little moisture i.e. less than 10 inches (25 cm) of rainfall create some of the harshest living condition in the biosphere called hot desert. In hot desert ecosystem generally with cloudless skies, the sun quickly heats the desert by day, producing the highest air [...]
Science-Jeremy Bentham’s Age of the Panopticon – We are living in it !!!
It would not do for people to find out all of a sudden that their bank accounts have been cleaned out, or that your BHIM and Aadhaar data are available for sale on the Internet. […]
Society-Caesaropapism and Judiciopapism !!!
A while back, the Supreme Court declared that it would hear a public interest litigation (PIL) on whether women of menstrual age can be denied the right to enter the Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala, Kerala. The bench, in its observation to the Kerala government and the temple authorities, remarked that [...]