2017-02-14T00:32:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Science|
Authored by – Gaurav Aggrawal (2014 IAS Topper) They say Napoleon couldn’t have happened without the French Revolution. They also say that the rise of Napoleon was inevitable in the aftermath of the French Revolution. People and events are mere cogs in the wheel of history. Once there is a [...]
2017-02-14T00:32:21+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP & IR|
When Alexander returned from India, he was misled into marching back to Persia through the Makran desert. This is a narrow coastal plain abutting high mountain ranges. Temperatures rise to 50 C during the summer. […]
2017-02-14T00:31:49+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP & IR|
“In a letter to India’s PM, Mohamed bin Zayed expresses thanks for the kind invitation to attend India’s Republic Day celebrations”, adding, in a second tweet: “Our strong relations are deeply rooted in history; our strategic cooperation has increased, driven by our mutual aspirations to develop it.” [...]
2017-02-14T00:31:30+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
The work in microeconomic theory for which Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström have received this years Nobel Prize goes back to the 1970s and 1980s when the foundations of contract theory were being firmed up. […]
2017-02-14T00:30:52+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Editorials|
Snapshot What Martin Ford predicts in his book, The Rise of the Robots, about the state of jobs in the future is far from bright. Are jobs getting away from us? […]
2016-10-10T01:10:01+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|
Energy Efficiency Scorecard:-23 countries just got energy efficiency report cards- and they’re almost all flunking,published by ACEEE-American Council For Energy Efficient Economy. […]
2017-02-14T00:11:45+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Recently, there was a discussion at the Chennai International Centre on “inclusive music,” the panel consisting of Gopalkrishna Gandhi and T.M. Krishna. The discussion was quite topical because it was for his efforts at making Carnatic music ‘more inclusive’ that Krishna is supposed to have received the Magsaysay Award. [...]
2017-02-14T00:12:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
In 2015, India, like other developed countries, had more number of deaths caused by non-communicable diseases. […]
2017-02-14T00:12:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Environment|
The likelihood of at least 600,000 deaths being caused annually in India by fine particulate matter pollution in the air is cause for worry, even if the data released by the World Health Organisation are only a modelled estimate. […]
2017-02-14T00:12:48+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Editorials|
The Centre’s move to mop up black money from the economy by giving taxpayers amnesty to declare undisclosed past income by paying tax on it at an effective, slightly high rate of 45 per cent has yielded a surprisingly positive dividend. […]
