2022-10-24T07:42:19+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Hindu|
Modern state is a welfare state, but if borrowing for spending could make countries rich, then no country would be poor. State governments must sustainably create high-paying jobs by raising the productivity of five places — three are of them are not geographic. […]
2022-10-13T16:05:55+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Hindu|
Background: The impossible trinity, or the trilemma, refers to the idea that an economy cannot pursue independent monetary policy, maintain a fixed exchange rate, and allow the free flow of capital across its borders at the same time. According to economists, any economy can choose to pursue only two out [...]
2022-10-13T15:44:55+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Background The Supreme Court of India has sought the most recent position of the Union government on a batch of petitions challenging the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order of 1950, which allows only members of Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist religions to be recognised as SCs. […]
2022-10-13T15:25:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
The story so far Moonlighting — or employees working for remuneration with entities other than their employers — has been a hot topic in recent months. During the pandemic, those with desk jobs had more time on their hands and thus it was easier to take on a few projects [...]
2022-10-04T17:48:51+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Background India’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.43% in September due to an increase in labour participation in the rural and urban areas according to data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) In August, unemployment had surged to a one-year high of 8.3% as employment sequentially fell by 2 [...]
2022-10-02T21:26:21+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Background India adds 11 more wetlands to the list of Ramsar sites to make total 75 Ramsar sites in the 75th year of Independence. List of Sites
2022-10-01T18:13:24+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
The draft Telecommunication Bill, 2022 Background The Ministry of Communications released a draft of the Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022 last week for public comments. Since then, the draft has generated a significant amount of discussion on various changes that it proposes to make to the current telecom regulatory framework. [...]
2022-09-27T23:44:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Loktak lake, located in Moirang town, some 45 km south of the State capital, Imphal (Manipur) provides livelihood to many. In a symbiotic relationship, the fisherfolk also look after the ecosystem on which they thrive: their beliefs and folklore make it imperative to worship the waters and to take from [...]
2022-09-26T14:45:56+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Background: – The information has been obtained from the minutes of the meetings of the Project Approval Board (PAB) under the Ministry of Education on the ‘Samagra Shiksha’ programme for 2022-23. […]
2022-09-18T18:47:10+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Declining Fertility and Consequence: Global population could grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030 Average global fertility has been consistently declining over the past 70 years. The average number of children per woman in the reproductive age group has declined from an average of five children per woman in 1951 to 2.4 children in 2020 (World Population Prospects [...]
