2017-01-31T03:27:07+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture, Editorials|
Our food basket is increasingly being confined to a few select crops and cereals. Yet, our nation is endowed with a huge variety – a rich biodiversity, which provides of a complex stock of animals, plant and micro-organisms at genetic, species and eco-system levels. India needs to look beyond performance [...]
2017-01-31T03:28:06+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Geography|
Islands differ in their geological and geomorphologic settings; and in their physical, biological, climatic, social, political, cultural, and ethnic characteristics. Yet they share a distinct underlying concern that marks their overall vulnerability in the context of sustainable development. […]
2017-01-31T03:29:24+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
It took Haryana twenty long years to bring up the child sex ratio (in the age group of 0 to 6 years) to 900 as per the Civil Registration System, January 2016 though it still remains lower than the generally accepted national norm of 950 girls to 1000 boys. Nevertheless, [...]
2017-01-31T03:30:19+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, History|
Background – Activists of the Rajput Karni Sena wrecked havoc on the sets of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film ‘Padmavati’ recently by attacking the filmmaker and vandalising the crew’s equipment. The group claims that the director is showcasing wrong facts about Rajput queen Padmavati in the film and is keen to protect the [...]
2017-01-31T03:30:23+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Science|
Consider the year 1996. That’s twenty years ago. Multimedia was in its infancy. There was no Google, no social media. Electric vehicles were a dream. Amazon had just started. The Human Genome Project was underway. […]
2017-01-31T03:31:29+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
A lot of dust has been raised, not by the bulls participating in Jallikattu, but by people who speak for and against this ancient sport. Those who speak in favour of the sport are more vociferous than those who support a ban. Rightly or wrongly, the many people in Tamil [...]
2017-01-31T03:31:45+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, History|
Republics of Ancient India This concluding part will examine the political characteristics of ancient republics to see how far it is actually justified to apply the terms ‘republic’/ ‘proto-republic’ to them and what their impact on modern India has been. The word republic today signifies the use of democratic means [...]
2017-01-31T03:32:40+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, History|
India became a modern republic, a sovereign, democratic republic, in 1950 amidst widespread skepticism about the durability of both democracy and the republican form of government in the country. It is now 2017 and the Indian Republic not only survives but thrives. What explains the durability of the form of [...]
2017-01-31T03:35:27+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
The Supreme Court ruling reiterating that private unaided schools in Delhi built on land provided by the government must take permission for fee hike has been met with sharply polarised reactions. On one side are the Delhi government, the community of parents and those who are not in favour of [...]
2017-01-31T03:35:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Polity|
The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests, under the Chairpersonship of Renuka Chowdhury, Member of Parliament presented its Two Hundred and Ninety-third Report on ‘Forest Fires and its Effect on Environment, Forests, Bio-diversity and Wildlife and remedial/preventive measures’ to both the Houses of Parliament on [...]
