2022-09-16T08:03:49+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Policy, Society|Tags: The Hindu|
Life expectancy in India has more than doubled since Independence — from around 32 years in the late 1940s to 70 years or so today. Many countries have done even better, but this is still a historical achievement. Over the same period, the fertility rate has crashed from about six [...]
2022-09-14T13:49:43+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: Livemint|
Background: – Urban flooding is a problem long associated with Mumbai. With a steady increase in the occurrence and severity of extreme weather events, Mumbai has lost that relative exclusivity, with Chennai and now Bangalore revealing a propensity to be flooded. […]
2022-09-13T23:47:10+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Hindu|
The story so far: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday, September 2, defended the windfall tax imposed by the Centre on domestic crude oil producers, saying that it was not an ad hoc move but was done after full consultation with the industry. […]
2022-09-13T07:59:11+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
The Issue: – 1) Britain took control of the area known as Palestine after the ruler of that part of the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, was defeated in World War One.2) The land was inhabited by a Jewish minority and Arab majority. 3) Tensions between the two peoples grew [...]
2022-09-07T07:55:36+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
Background : Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev passed away recently at the age of 91 after suffering from a long and protracted illness. About : Mikhail Gorbachev was a voice of sanity in a crazy cold war world, and his death marks the end of a particular era in [...]
2022-09-07T07:35:01+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|Tags: The Hindu|
Background : 1) A few days before India celebrated the 75th year of Independence, Union Minister of Education said in reply to a debate in the Lok Sabha that people should let go of the idea that universities must be funded only by the government. 2) His remarks are only [...]
2022-09-06T02:16:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Background: A petition was filed in January in the Supreme Court, which sought judicial intervention to direct the Election Commission to derecognise political parties who use freebies to lure voters to vote in favour of these parties. This issue has invited clamor and debates from various sections of society after [...]
2022-09-03T20:39:04+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Culture|
Background:- West Bengal's Durga Puja was inscribed as an Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2022 UNESCO Intangible Heritage List of India :- Durga Puja — celebrated predominantly by Bengali communities in India and abroad — is [...]
2022-09-03T16:54:06+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: The Hindu|
Background:- The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, notified the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021 on August 12, 2021. In keeping with the spirit of the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, the country is taking steps to curb littered and unmanaged plastic waste pollution. [...]
2022-09-03T16:14:52+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Misc|Tags: The Hindu|
*The article is published as-is from The Hindu and by reading one can gain insight in to the matter. Story So Far : In the Bilkis Bano case, a senior IAS officer, Smita Sabharwal from Telangana, tweeted from her personal account in support of Ms. Bano and questioned the Gujarat government’s [...]
