2017-12-30T02:52:42+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
In February 2002, the Supreme Court of India passed an order prohibiting state governments and also tribals and other traditional forest dwellers from removing dead, dying trees and grasses and trees felled by winds. […]
2017-11-18T19:11:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
They build our cities and infrastructures yet are invisible to us while hiding in plain sight. […]
2017-11-18T18:59:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
The World Bank’s recent flagship World Development Report, 2018 addressed some immediate challenges of quality education. One of the ways that it broke new ground was on the issue of provision for private education. Growing private school enrolment is a global trend and the phenomenon must be taken seriously and [...]
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. […]
