Elucidate the technical and ethical issues around Gene Therapy, Stem Cell Therapy and Synthetic Biology.

Gene Therapy Gene therapy is a technique that involves insertion of genes into an individual’s cells and tissues to treat or prevent disease. Technical and ethical issues Immune responses to viral vectors pose one of the major technical concerns to gene ..

"While Green Revolution has made India self-sufficient in food grains, it has also led to many unintended ecological and socioeconomic repercussions in the country". Do you agree? Discuss with the help of examples.

Green revolution has always been considered as one of the biggest achievement in the field of food production. It is referred as a situation wherein there is quantum jump in production of food grain with the use of high yielding ..

If the Earth's axis were tilted at 40° to the plane of the ecliptic instead of 23½°, what would be the effects of this change on (1) global climate and seasons (2) seasons and climate of India?

Seasons and length of day and night on earth are determined by tilt of earth’s axis wrt ecliptic plane, rotation around the axis and revolution on an elliptical path around sun. If Earth’s axis is tilted at 40o the impact ..

The educational changes in 19th century seem to be more effective in setting the pace and direction of political changes in India than what one would expect from economic and technological change. Discuss critically.

British during its ninety-year of direct rule in India had brought some visible pro-India changes only in sphere of education as economic exploitation of India by the Raj is a well-established history. Technology-borne development was in its infancy barring some ..

The third pole of the earth not only important for geographical reasons but also for economic and civilizational aspects of the Indian Subcontinent. Explaining the importance of the region, examine the consequences of its changing features.

The Inner Himalayan region, along with Trans Himalayas and Hindukush mountains is often described as the third pole of the world owing to its crucial role in climate regulation and vast source of fresh water in form of glaciers. It ..

Throw some light on the contribution of world food programme (WFP) in India’s efforts of addressing issue of hunger & malnutrition.

The UNDP’s SDG 2 enjoins the world to ensure that by 2030, no hunger would persist in the world. In sync with this ideology, the World Food Program was established to ensure better food availability. Functioning of WFP: Promote a ..

What is Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism? Throw light on concerns and challenges in its adoption.

The Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism is a proposed treaty which intends to criminalize all forms of international terrorism and deny terrorists, their financiers and supporters access to funds, arms, and safe havens. The negotiations for this treaty are currently under way has been under negotiation ..

The Economic Survey 2017-18 discusses about the so called "son meta-preference"prevailing among Indian parents. Throw light on the positive and negative implications of such phenomenon on demography.

The Economic Survey 2017-18 refers to tendencies among Indian parents who are opting to continue having children until they have a son or desired number of son. This so called “son meta preference”. Positive Implications Gender ratio: The survey finds ..

Importance of Implicit attitude in Civil Services

Implicit attitude consists of thoughts or feelings that are generated outside the persons conscious. It measures positive and negative thoughts, which are generated unintentionally and are uncontrollable. The seven principles of the civil service are accountability, honesty, integrity, selflessness, leadership, ..

Critically discuss the divergent views on liberalizing the defence sector in India.

Liberalisation brought in the new era for the process of Industrialisation by aiding in enhancing domestic and global competitiveness. Due to the strategic reasons the defence sector was not liberalized. Now a strong case has been made for liberalisation of ..