2017-10-17T00:00:33+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography, Society|
Population is a more serious issue than generally construed. The managing of populations can become a serious inflection point as can be seen building up in the recent Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. Frequently, discrimination against communities have been placed in religious and ethnic terms, which can be site-specific. [...]
2017-10-16T23:58:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography, Society|
Population is a more serious issue than generally construed. The managing of populations can become a serious inflection point as can be seen building up in the recent Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. Frequently, discrimination against communities have been placed in religious and ethnic terms, which can be site-specific. However, Saskia [...]
2017-09-08T00:16:12+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
The first of its kind , the National Institute of Nutrition has publised Nutrition Atlas of India and the datasets are extremely important for MAINS. […]
2017-09-05T15:07:19+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
World’s greatest cities were founded on the banks of rivers (or other water sources such as lakes) to provide for not only drinking water but other basic amenities such as sanitation and transportation. What worked as a boon for our first urban dwellers has become a bane for our present [...]
2017-08-27T22:00:00+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
This animated map shows how the world’s largest cities outgrew each other over time. […]
2017-08-27T21:50:11+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
European societies are ageing. In 1950, only 12% of the European population was over age 65. Today the share has already doubled, and projections show that in 2050 over 36% of Europe’s population will be 65-plus years old. […]
2017-08-25T03:11:33+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Indian children are on the shorter side when compared with children of other similar countries. […]
2017-08-18T11:26:24+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
The frail nature of rural India’s health systems and the extraordinary patient load on a few referral hospitals have become even more evident from the crisis at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur. […]
2017-08-08T22:40:59+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Popularly known as NCR, the National Capital Region is one of a kind in the world. It not only has the largest spatial extent but also brings together under one planning jurisdiction 13 districts of Haryana, seven districts of Uttar Pradesh and two districts of Rajasthan, which covers the entire [...]
2017-08-03T13:47:56+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) was established in 1993 by an Act of Parliament. It is the all-powerful regulatory body for the teacher education system in the country, consisting of the Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs) that run bachelor of education (BEd) and diploma in education (DEd) programmes to [...]
