2017-02-13T23:12:49+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Environment|
If governments paid serious attention to the economic geography of India’s cities, they would be doing a lot more to prepare for annual weather events like the monsoon. UN Habitat estimates that by 2030 India will have 14 major clusters of cities accounting for 40 per cent of its GDP. [...]
2017-02-13T23:13:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Road accidents in India kill more people than some epidemics, but the Central and the State governments refuse to see it for what it is — a national crisis. The antiquated traffic management and transportation system resulted in 1,50,000 deaths and left more than half a million injured last year, [...]
2017-02-13T23:13:55+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Polity|
1957 was an eventful year in Reserve Bank of India’s history. Sir Benegal Rama Rau was the fourth Reserve Bank governor, and till date remains the longest serving head of the institution from 1949 to 1957. […]
2017-02-13T23:14:39+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Background :- “Udta Punjab” is a bollywood movie which was a topic of debate for the past week across media and social media.It was fighting against the censor board for certification.The reason behind the conflict was that it supposedly “maligns the image of an Indian state” . [...]
2017-02-13T23:15:18+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP & IR|
Mexico, Italy back India’s NSG bid:- As the extraordinary two-day plenary of the Nuclear Suppliers Group began in Vienna on recently to discuss membership applications, India’s chances received a boost from Mexico, considered a “non-proliferation hardliner” thus far. […]
2017-02-13T23:16:08+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, History|
The green of the coconut grove was a soothing sight in the fierce noon sun that had started frying Keeladi, near Madurai. The Harappan connection reported in the press but it was a misunderstanding.It is a misunderstanding.The size of the site can be compared to some Harappan sites but there [...]
2017-02-13T23:08:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Polity|
Challenge for the modern world is to accept diversity as an existential reality and to configure attitudes and methodologies for dealing with it:- Background :- Vice President’s address at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco . The Vice president delves deeper in to what constitutes Islam , then he asks [...]
2017-02-13T23:07:00+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, History|
Background :- History is such a tender subject and it is usually raised upon a fragile plinth.Think of History as a House of Cards and think of the dates/chronology in history as the very foundation of the House of cards.Dating the history is a pure matter of science whether it is [...]
2017-02-13T23:06:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Polity|
The right to intervene:- Sitting in his presidential palace in 1991, Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein and his Culture Minister Hamad Hammadi drafted a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.). Hussein and Hammadi hoped that the U.S.S.R. would help save Iraq from the West’s [...]
2017-02-13T23:05:43+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Editorials|
Renewable Energy Employs 8.1 Million People Worldwide More than 8.1 million people worldwide are now employed by the renewable energy industry – a five percent increase from last year – according to a report released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) at its 11th Council meeting. The report, [...]
