Society-TB Crisis: a looming threat !!!
About 5,500 of over 76,000 children tested in nine Indian cities have been diagnosed with tuberculosis, 9% of them with multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB), highlighting the silent spread of the disease. […]
2017-07-21T12:50:30+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
About 5,500 of over 76,000 children tested in nine Indian cities have been diagnosed with tuberculosis, 9% of them with multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB), highlighting the silent spread of the disease. […]
2017-07-21T12:21:39+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Can droughts experienced centuries ago teach us ways to handle the present ones? They can if we care to look in the right place — for instance, the walls of temples in Tamil Nadu. […]
2017-07-17T11:04:59+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
In a recent article in an American newspaper, the doyen among police scholars, Prof. David Bayley, expressed his anguish over what he considered to be a crisis in U.S. law enforcement. In his view this was caused mainly by three factors: race, police training and guns. There was an undeniable [...]
2017-07-14T10:07:06+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Ahmedabad is blazing a trail in preserving our cultural heritage, something other Indian cities can emulate to make a mark on the global stage. […]
2017-06-22T00:45:49+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
The health policy of India aims at an integrated approach, which is to provide accessible, affordable and equitable quality health care to the marginalised and vulnerable sections. For a heavily populated country such as India, this is an uphill task. However, the aim of good health and well-being for all [...]
2017-05-21T09:57:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
As on yesterday the CJI mentioned that Triple Talaq Is Mentioned Nowhere In Quran. Here are few critical issues being debated. […]
2017-05-15T11:35:45+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Ayyappa Masagi has a simple message: “You want water? Call me!” Thousands have. And his phone rings dozens of times a day. There appears to be an endless supply of patients for the man nicknamed India’s “Water Doctor”. “I faced a lot of water problems in my childhood,” he said. [...]
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|