2021-11-05T11:49:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: The Hindu|
In a surprise move at COP26 in Glasgow, Prime Minister of India announced that India will commit to ambitious, enhanced climate targets and cuts in carbon emissions in its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). […]
2021-10-18T22:46:07+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|Tags: The Hindu|
This year’s Global Hunger Index (GHI) did not go down well with the government. This was expected given that it ranks India 101 out of 116 countries for which reliable and comparable data exist. To add insult to injury, the GHI puts India far below some of its neighbouring countries. [...]
2021-10-06T15:31:35+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|Tags: The Hindu|
A realistic assessment of the circumstances in which it has to operate should have induced the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to follow a moderate course. Instead, it has sent out unmistakable signs of a preference for extremism. A peculiar state of mind is almost certainly in play, but to ascribe [...]
2021-10-05T14:07:46+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|Tags: The Hindu|
Context:- The first and historic United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) 2021 which was held in September this year, concluded after an intense ‘bottom-up’ process conceived in 2019 by UN Secretary General António Guterres to find solutions and ‘catalyse momentum’ to transform the way the world produces, consumes, and thinks [...]
2021-09-26T21:51:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Hindu|
OUR THOUGHTS:- For long and particularly since 1991 reforms, FDIs were held as “gold” in the new emerging economics. However, FDIs do come with their fair share of opportunities and issues. Our leaders have chased FDIs through various means but the era of FDIs as the beacon of sunshine on [...]
2021-08-17T10:47:10+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: The Hindu|
Context The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), titled ‘Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis’, is the first of four that the Panel will issue over the next one and a half years. [...]
2021-08-17T10:13:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: The Hindu|
Context:- The Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules notified by the Centre on August 12 acknowledge the gravity of pollution caused by plastic articles of everyday use, particularly those that have no utility beyond a few minutes or hours. […]
2021-08-05T10:00:36+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|Tags: The Hindu|
Syllabus Connect:- GS III (Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment) What you will learn in this editorial :- The four factors that are essential for growth and must be taken care of by policy intervention. Why India is under going K-Shaped recovery [...]
2021-08-04T22:56:57+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|Tags: The Hindu|
Syllabus:- GS II ( Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections) The case for reservations for women and transgender persons in State jobs [...]
