‘Environment’ being one of the favourite areas for UPSC, it is necessary to analyse the details of recent hot topics or controversies. Gadgil report and Kasturirangan report related with the Western Ghats hence deserves much attention for UPSC Prelims, Mains and Interview. This post is longer than most of our previous articles but read till […]
Archives for January 2014
Capital Punishment, Mercy Pleas and the Supreme Court
Capital punishment remains and will remain a hot topic across the world. It is not easy to reach a consensus on the question ” Should the death penalty be abolished?”. There are countries which abolished it. There are countries which did not. India is one among the countries where the death penalty exists, but now […]
Procedure Established by Law vs Due Process of Law
In this post, we shall see the meaning of two important terms often cited in Supreme Court Judgments ie. Procedure Established by Law and Due Process of Law. The former is Indian constitutional doctrine and the latter is American, but now the boundaries are very narrow. Let’s start our discussion with Article 21 of the […]
Rupee Devaluation or Depreciation: How does it affect Export and Import?
You might have seen news headlines like “Indian rupee falling” or “Rupee falls to Rs.70 against US dollar”. Have you ever wondered why rupee is falling? Who fixes the value of the Indian rupee as Rs.70 per 1 US dollar? Let’s us discuss in this post a few confusing concepts in economics related to the […]
Corporate Governance
What exactly is Corporate governance? Before going deep into the topic, let’s first understand the structure of a company or corporation. There are a few entities which revolve around most companies and those include owners (shareholders), the board of directors, management and the stakeholders such as employees, suppliers, customers as well as the public at […]
Food Processing and Related Industries in India
Food processing is the transformation of raw ingredients into food, or of food into other forms (ie. food processing may denote direct manufacturing of food or value addition on existing food). Food processing typically takes harvested crops or butchered animal products and uses these to produce long shelf-life food products. Food processing dates back to […]
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