2021-03-12T16:30:36+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Syllabus Connect :- General Studies -Paper II (Issues relating to poverty and hunger) Mains Connect:- Discuss the status of hunger and malnutrition post-COVID 19 in India and the suggest measures to improve it. Much attention paid to the pandemic’s harm may have been focused on economic growth, but a far [...]
2021-03-10T01:52:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
In India, even today, many women continue to be engaged in one of the most inhuman and undignified forms of manual scavenging, which involves cleaning of insanitary dry latrines with bare hands, carrying the basket or bucket containing the human faeces on their head, and disposing of it, on a [...]
2021-03-10T01:56:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
[ Must Read ] A silent revolution over the last decade has had significant implications on fertility rates and the economy. As more women are turning towards higher education and correspondingly better employment opportunities, they are delaying childbirth and having fewer children. With Indian women pursuing higher education in larger [...]
2021-03-05T02:59:32+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Among Indian cities with a population of more than a million, Bengaluru has emerged as the best city on ease of living parameters among 49 million-plus cities in 2020. […]
2021-02-12T19:30:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Context:- Indian society’s preoccupation with marriage has gripped its government of late. On Independence Day, Prime Minister announced that his government was contemplating raising the minimum age of marriage for girls from 18 to 21 years. Currently, it is 18 for girls and 21 for boys. In order to circumvent [...]
2021-01-22T23:07:04+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Editorials, Society|
In 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic, female labour force participation in India and South Asia was 20.5% and 23.5%, respectively (ILO estimates, World Bank database). Comparable estimates for males were 76% and 77%, respectively. The Middle East and North Africa are the only regions with lower female participation than South [...]
2021-01-24T23:15:28+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
The key findings from the National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5) of selected states have reminded us that India is facing a crisis of poor nutrition outcomes. […]
2021-01-22T18:33:40+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: History, Society|
A temple is just another building. It has all the structural elements of a building — floor, walls, pillars, windows, sunshades, roof. But in different forms, shapes and functions; and an aesthetic that evolved over centuries. […]
2021-01-20T23:47:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, History, Society|
The grandest temples built by almost every royal dynasty in India is in their capital city — Except the Rashtrakutas. Their capital was Manyakheta; their grandest temple is in Ellora. […]
2021-01-09T22:46:19+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
A total 114 villages in Odisha have been declared child-marriage free as of January 7 2020 and many more are in line. But this story of change began in a village named Rugudipali in west Odisha's Subarnapur district with support from the courageous Gitanjali Rana, an anganwadi worker in the [...]
