2017-05-15T09:48:16+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture, Editorials, Society|
Agriculture is now about 10,000 years old, but has been constantly improved to make it more productive and easier through human intervention. So agriculture is a hundred per cent human-created enterprise and there is nothing natural about it. If agriculture had not developed the way it has, the human race [...]
2017-05-11T09:34:32+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Editorials, Society|
This is one of a kind and a must read for every one. Culture is not always about doling out grants, holding mega-festivals, or just about sob stories around lack of preservation. If the economics of culture is understood, it can bring in prosperity and boost soft power. But, how [...]
2017-05-11T08:48:47+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
2017-05-04T21:47:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Environment, Society|
Indore in Madhya Pradesh has been ranked India’s cleanest city in the Swachh Survekshan survey released by the government recently. The urban development minister calls the states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as the movers and shakers of the cleanliness drive. […]
2017-04-25T19:12:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
A while back, the Supreme Court declared that it would hear a public interest litigation (PIL) on whether women of menstrual age can be denied the right to enter the Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala, Kerala. The bench, in its observation to the Kerala government and the temple authorities, remarked that [...]
2017-04-24T05:28:34+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Thousands have lived without love, but not one without water. Facts About Water & Sanitation […]
2017-04-23T23:55:04+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Spain has, once again, topped the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) list on travel and tourism competitiveness. […]
2017-04-23T23:47:46+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Persistently high rates of income or wealth inequality are bad for social cohesion, political inclusion and crime. The evidence for this is overwhelming. Often, stubbornly high income inequality partly reflects deep historical injustice. Fortunately, history also provides some clues to how we might tackle it. […]
2017-04-23T23:31:22+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Note-This editorial can be of great help if used properly. You may use the story of London and link it with current issues of urbanization. Urbanization issue related questions are norm for UPSC and this editorial can be used as a case study to accentuate your answer. [...]
2017-04-23T23:10:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
The passage of the Mental Healthcare Bill in the Lok Sabha, putting it on course to become law and repealing the Mental Health Act of 1987, will potentially help India catch up with the advances made in the field by other countries. […]
