Relevance – Nuclear Energy, India USA Relations Why the role of nuclear energy is declining – Rising cost of nuclear energy (compared to other sources) - Electricity from nuclear reactors has become costlier compared to other new and renewable sources of energy - the cost of nuclear electricity produced is around Rs. 25 per unit … Continue reading Declining role of Nuclear Energy

A National Logistics Policy will be released soon and it will clarify the roles of the Union Government, State Governments and key regulators said Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman. She was presenting the Union Budget 2020-21 in Parliament today. The policy will create a single window e-logistics market and focus on generation of employment, skills and … Continue reading National Logistics Policy will be Released Soon

Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently extolled the Gupta ruler Skandagupta for his administrative virtues and for keeping off the “invasion of the Huns”. Skandagupta’s Bhitari pillar inscription suggests that he restored the Gupta power by defeating his enemies, who may have been rebels or foreign invaders. He repulsed an invasion by the Indo-Hephthalites (known as Hunas in India). He seems … Continue reading PRELIMS’20 CA – 4

UPSC Prelims 2020 is scheduled to be conducted on May 31, 2020. With very less time left for the exam, its time we start consolidating what we have read till now and supplement it with our further preparations. Keeping this in mind, we will be providing a consolidation of our Prelims 2020 notes divided into … Continue reading PRE’20- MODULE 2

The idea of creation of Zonal Councils was mooted by the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru in 1956 when during the course of debate on the report of the States Re-organisation Commission, he suggested that the States proposed to be reorganised may be grouped into four or five zones having an … Continue reading ZONAL COUNCILS.