2022-09-13T23:35:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|Tags: The Hindu|
UPSC/STATE PSC The Hindu & Indian Express News 1: ‘India may need up to 28 GW in new coal-fired plants by 2032’ Background: India may need up to 28 gigawatts of new coal-fired power plants by 2032 to meet power demand that is [...]
2022-09-07T07:35:01+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|Tags: The Hindu|
Background : 1) A few days before India celebrated the 75th year of Independence, Union Minister of Education said in reply to a debate in the Lok Sabha that people should let go of the idea that universities must be funded only by the government. 2) His remarks are only [...]
2022-09-03T16:54:06+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: The Hindu|
Background:- The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, notified the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021 on August 12, 2021. In keeping with the spirit of the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, the country is taking steps to curb littered and unmanaged plastic waste pollution. [...]
2022-09-03T16:14:52+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Misc|Tags: The Hindu|
*The article is published as-is from The Hindu and by reading one can gain insight in to the matter. Story So Far : In the Bilkis Bano case, a senior IAS officer, Smita Sabharwal from Telangana, tweeted from her personal account in support of Ms. Bano and questioned the Gujarat government’s [...]
2022-09-03T15:51:50+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|Tags: The Hindu|
What is Glass Ceiling ? Glass ceiling refers to the fact that a qualified person whishing to advance within the hierarchy of his/her organization is stopped at a lower level due to a discrimination most often based on sex or race. The glass ceiling refers thus to vertical discrimination most frequently [...]
2022-03-09T07:22:45+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|Tags: The Hindu|
News: China has accused the U.S. of “stoking geopolitical rivalry” by “forming exclusive clubs”. By “strengthening the Five Eyes intelligence alliance and “peddling the Quad, piecing together AUKUS and tightening bilateral military alliances”, the U.S. was leading what the Chinese called a “five-four-three-two” formation in the region. [...]
2021-12-21T17:09:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|Tags: The Hindu|
Backgound:- The third India-Central Asia Dialogue convened by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Sunday is one in a series of timely connections to the region by New Delhi this year, spurred in some measure by events in Afghanistan. The dialogue has been held a month before leaders of all [...]
2021-11-26T13:24:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|Tags: The Hindu|
Sri Lanka’s decision to ban imports on chemical fertilizers was not backed by scientific evidence […]
2021-11-26T13:11:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Hindu|
The economic ravages of the pandemic have had an uneven impact and taxation policies continue to be regressive Background:- There has been great chatter about a V-shaped recovery for quite a while, ever since the first lockdown following the novel coronavirus pandemic. […]
2021-11-05T11:56:32+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|Tags: The Hindu|
An exclusive internal quota for a single caste group was always fraught with the danger of judicial invalidation. It is no surprise, therefore, that the Madras High Court has struck down the Tamil Nadu law that earmarked 10.5% of seats in educational institutions and jobs for the Vanniyakula Kshatriya community [...]
