Background The steering committee of a global programme to end...

Background: – The information has been obtained from the minutes...

Declining Fertility and Consequence: Global population could grow to around 8.5...

Life expectancy in India has more than doubled since Independence...

Background : 1) A few days before India celebrated the...

What is Glass Ceiling ? Glass ceiling refers to the...

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An exclusive internal quota for a single caste group was...

This year’s Global Hunger Index (GHI) did not go down...

14% of children studying in government schools in villages, and...

Economic price for neglecting mental health of children is $387.2...

The prolonged closure of schools after the sudden and totally unplanned lockdown...

Syllabus Connect :- GS I ( Population and associated issues)...

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Population policy is suddenly in the news in India with...

Food insecurity has been on the rise since 2014, and...

Context:-  The first phase of the 5th round of the...

India was responsible for the largest drop in open defecation since 2015,...

Context :- Estimates suggest that India has doubled the electrified...

An efficient and well-oiled criminal justice system helps a country...

Societies do not differ vastly in their ability to predict...

Birthrates are declining globally – here’s why it matters Birthrates...

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Note:- The datasets and figures can be helpful in your...

Steve Ovett, the famous British middle-distance athlete, won the 800-metres...

India is currently in the throes of a catastrophic second...

On March 31, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released its...

2021 WEF Global Gender Gap report, which confirmed its 2016...

APRIL 14TH was a big day in India. Hindus and Sikhs...

  There are two main reasons why the novel Coronavirushas been...

On March 31, the World Economic Forum released its annual...

India faces a huge burden of malnutrition rooted in its...

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) paints even...

Gender discrimination pervades India’s socio-economic pyramid. At its upper reaches,...

Communities cannot thrive without good health, but sadly, good health...

Most armies of the world follow a version of the...

In the last 50 or 60 years, rigid master plans...

For Women’s History Month, it is important to highlight the...

WE live in a dark phase filled with adversity. As...

The Supreme Court, recently, did the right thing by terming...

There exists a stark difference between the rates of the...

Syllabus Connect :-  General Studies -Paper II (Issues relating to...

In India, even today, many women continue to be engaged...

[ Must Read ] A silent revolution over the last...

Among Indian cities with a population of more than a...

Context:- Indian society’s preoccupation with marriage has gripped its government...

In 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic, female labour force participation...

The key findings from the National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5)...

A temple is just another building. It has all the...

The grandest temples built by almost every royal dynasty in...

A total 114 villages in Odisha have been declared child-marriage...

The NITI Aayog published nutrition charts on 17 January this year. As...

Urbanization is one of the most common global phenomena in...

In February 2002, the Supreme Court of India passed an...

They build our cities and infrastructures yet are invisible to...

The World Bank’s recent flagship World Development Report, 2018 addressed...

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Population is a more serious issue than generally construed. The...

Population is a more serious issue than generally construed. The...

The first of its kind , the National Institute of...

World’s greatest cities were founded on the banks of rivers...

This animated map shows how the world’s largest cities outgrew...

European societies are ageing. In 1950, only 12% of the...

Indian children are on the shorter side when compared with...

The frail nature of rural India’s health systems and the extraordinary...

Popularly known as NCR, the National Capital Region is one...

The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) was established in...

India has a long tradition of bright minds poking holes...

Note – Notwithstanding the cliched nature of the title of this...

About 5,500 of over 76,000 children tested in nine Indian...

Can droughts experienced centuries ago teach us ways to handle...

In a recent article in an American newspaper, the doyen...

Ahmedabad is blazing a trail in preserving our cultural heritage,...

The health policy of India aims at an integrated approach,...

As on yesterday the CJI mentioned that Triple Talaq Is Mentioned...

Ayyappa Masagi has a simple message: “You want water? Call...

Agriculture is now about 10,000 years old, but has been...

This is one of a kind and a must read...

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Indore in Madhya Pradesh has been ranked India’s cleanest city...

A while back, the Supreme Court declared that it would...

Thousands have lived without love, but not one without water....

Spain has, once again, topped the World Economic Forum‘s (WEF)...

Persistently high rates of income or wealth inequality are bad...

Note-This editorial can be of great help if used properly....

The passage of the Mental Healthcare Bill in the Lok...

This can be helpful for prelims and can be quoted...

Dave Donaldson’s ‘Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of...

India cannot be car country like the US. When you...

The Report- A report—True cost of sanitation—was published jointly by...

Tribal Development Policy of GOI – A comprehensive UPSCTREE analysis...

Health policy of India aims at integrated approach, to provide...

Look no further- This single and comprehensive editorial is all...

*Disclaimer-This editorial is written from a business perspective, however it...

The 2016-17 Economic Survey of India puts the crux of...

The Silk Road was an ancient, storied network of roads,...

Some call it world hunger. 

Affordable and good health care – wherever it comes from...

*Disclaimer-This is another AS-IS editorial without any modification by UPSCTREE...

Ranked alphabetically, here is a list of eight notable women...

Background – Excerpts of speech delivered by the President on the...

Barely noticed and mostly ignored by the chatterati, a silent...

Birender Sangwan’s parents wanted him to be a doctor. For...

Over the last century, India’s landscape has urbanized considerably: the...

Gurmit Kaur from Punjab got the shock of her life...

Globalization is the buzzword in the contemporary world. Broadly speaking,...

Diabetes A SILENT KILLER One in every 11 adults has...

Scientists say a month of concentrated efforts is all it...

A latest report by the World Health Organization (WHO) says...

Poverty and Destitution:- There is a difference between poverty and...

Inclusive Development :-The quintile income and the poverty line Background:-...

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Note – Excerpts from the speech of Vice-President.Contains good statements...

Background:- After the infamous 2012 gang rape of a student...

The growth of the internet in India has been quite...

Born in socialist times, a generation of Indians lived the...

There is much discussion about religious communities and their population...

It took Haryana twenty long years to bring up the...

A lot of dust has been raised, not by the...

The Supreme Court ruling reiterating that private unaided schools in...

Since the late 1970s, the term ‘empowerment’ has been liberally...

Women have had a long history of being discriminated against...

‘Udta Punjab’ by Anurag Kashyap has brought the crisis of...

As per the ‘State of the World‘s Children 2015’ report...

For all of us in the 21st century, Bastar is a...

“Education is not solely an academic pursuit; it is a...

In a seminal paper, ‘Complexities of 21st Century Policing’, published...

Note:- UPSC has asked an essay a while back on...

Mosquitoes kill an estimated 700 000 people a year. If...

Note :- This book review might be less helpful as...

The concept of ‘Inclusive Growth’ finds place more frequently in...

Note :- The question was given as part of our...

Important data sets that can be helpful for mains helpful...

Controlling population is considered to be one of the major...

Outgoing American President Barack Obama has dwelt at length on...

The work in microeconomic theory for which Oliver Hart and...

Recently, there was a discussion at the Chennai International Centre...

In 2015, India, like other developed countries, had more number...

The revival of the HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Control)...

Fast Facts – Urbanization in India Most Urbanized States: Tamil...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Roads carry almost 85 percent of the country’s...

Imagine if a city of almost four million people disappeared...

As the United Nations General Assembly begins a new session,...

The egregious practice that many Muslim men employ to divorce...

The National Health Accounts data for 2013-14 present fresh evidence...

Background :- Child Labor is a paradox in itself.While the...

Medellin (Country -Colombia) once a city ruled by crime, drug...

The latest Global Peace Index report, released recently, finds that...

Road accidents in India kill more people than some epidemics,...

Background :- “Udta Punjab” is a bollywood movie which was...

Background :-  Traditional medicine is something that every Indian must...

India has made encouraging progress by halving its official poverty...

Shyam Benegal Committee  report on Cinematograph Act/ Rules :- Background:-...

Geographical Indication and India :- What is GI :- “Darjeeling”,...

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Background:- Surrogacy has been a major debate across India ,...