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🚨July 24 2023 | Monday🚨

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Pre-related

1. Cold water trout🐟
- A fish popular from Kashmir; reared for food
- Comes with great export potential to Europe

2. Zero FIR🔍
- Can be filed at any police station
- The case is then transferred to the relevant police station 📝
- Once concerned police station received zero FIR, it has to register a fresh FIR with number to begin investigation
- A creative way to ensure one does not have to run from pillar to post. In practice for long, strengthened by recommendations of Justice Verma committee ✅

Quotes 💬

- If you are not a rule shaper, you are a rule taker (wrt geopolitics)

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. The ethanol impetus [learn what's happening in this industry]
2. Tax as an incentive [use as a solution in GS3 Tax-related answers] 💰
3. South Asia nuclear zero [interesting perspective here] ☢️
4. Japan says it can make clean coal [learn their stance and how coal can be 'clean'] 🇯🇵

TH
1. Dilemmas of India's great power ambitions [read for an opinion] 🇮🇳💪
2. A case for a new pronoun for AI [Unique perspective] 🤖👤
3. On ED's power to arrest & seek custody [Take a look at the case] ⚖️
4. Bedaquiline access [reading gist alone can help] 💊
5. Climate targets are becoming outdated: India needs its own 🌍🎯


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Wrote something directly from heart today 👇🏼


You are an aspirant. You spend days in a closed room. You study. You live isolated.

You think you’ll be there within months. Standing outside Dholpur house. Clicking a picture in Zed-black suit flaunting your new tie. Life will be good. You will soon be on your way to Mussoorie.

But there is a roadblock. Uncertainty. You learn to live with it. Or you try to, at least.

The wait of months become a year. Just the next attempt. You know you can make it. But then, once again. You summon your powers. You go all in! One after the other.

Days became months.
Months became year.
Year became years.

Attempt after attempt, nothing changes

But something does
You become fatter
You start losing hair
You see your parents ageing
You see your friends win
You love them but
But you want to win, too.
But you do not know how!

On such days, look around.
Why did you start?
Why can’t you quit?

Who told you, you are a loser?
It is all in your mind.

You can always bounce back.
Either in next attempt or in other field

Sometimes Zed-black suit picture becomes royal.
Sometime you want to see it never again.

That’s life. It happens!
You win some. You lose some.

How to win more?
Take more shots. Do it, whatever it takes.

WHATEVER IT TAKES. 💪🏻

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🚨July 25 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Infrastructure Resilience 🏗🌪
To enhance resilience to withstand climate and disaster risks

Controlled Human Infection Studies (CHIS) 🧪🦠
- Exposing healthy volunteers to pathogens in a controlled environment
- It is an ethical issue, ICMR is slowly pushing for this

Pre related

1. Advance Chemistry Cell 🔋💡
- Advanced storage tech to store electrical energy either as electrochemical or chemical energy
- It converts both above to electrical energy whenever needed
- Will cut short dependence on the fossils

2. Acequias 💦🇪🇸
- Network of water channels created by Moors
- Community-operated water course used in Spain

3. Revise PM-WANI here

4. Revise Sendai Framework here

Quotes 💬🗣

- "Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest." - Hillary Clinton 🤝

Reading Summary

1. RJ's gig workers' rights bill summarized here 📝

Reading Recommendations 📰

IE
1. The legal dispute in Kashi [special focus on the last heading] ⚖️

TH
1. ASEAN, a persistence with dialogue, on a trodden path [a quick read for opinion] 🌏
2. A big step in reducing the risk of disasters [important for GS3 Disaster Management] 🚨
3. ICMR argues for controlled human infection studies [Ethics GS4, pg 12] 🔬


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🚨July 26 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Mains Keywords ✨🌱

1. Resource efficiency & Circular economy ♻️
- Powerful strategies to minimise dependence on natural resources, curtail waste and encourage sustainable design practices

2. Switch from 'take-make-dispose' to 'reduce-reuse-recycle' 🔄

3. Circular bioeconomy 🌱
Potentially, it will reduce the need for extracting virgin resources offering effective waste disposal solution

Quotes 💭💫

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual." - Albert Einstein

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. Gulf route to Pak [Imp note on Indian neighbor] 🇵🇰
2. Whose internet is it [read for the issue & int'l practices, don't be influenced by opinion] 🤔
3. Safety limits to flying [focus on last para] ✈️
4. Instant settlement of transactions: How will investors benefit? 💹

TH
1. Moving away from the 'take-make-dispose' model [GS3] ♻️
2. Himachal Floods: a man-made disaster? [GS3 Disaster; IMP article, note the reasons and way out] 🌊⛑
3. Full reserve banking [Learn full reserve and fractional reserve differences and working, IMP] 💵🏦


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🚨July 27 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Mains Keywords 🔍

1. Economic Geography
- A geographic unit put together by Economic compulsions
- eg: Delhi-NCR is not a state in itself but an economic geography 🏙

2. Revise No Confidence Motion from M. Laxmikant 📜

Quotes 💬

- "Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate." - Nietzsche
- "Today's borrowing is taxing tomorrow."

Reading Recommendations📰

IE
1. A win-win partnership on AI (good article to read, no note-making needed) 🤝
2. Europe's Carbon burden (focus on 'how shall India respond') ♻️
3. 3rd largest economy in the 3rd Modi term? Anatomy of India's growth (most imp article in IE today) 📈🇮🇳

TH
1. The SCO is a success story that can get better (quick read) 🌟
2. Shedding more light on the debt dilemma (highly technical article, good read)💡
3. The changing contours of Delhi (Most imp. article in the Hindu today)🏙


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🚨July 28 2023 | Friday🚨

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Pre related 😊

1. Bhadohi: carpet city of India

2. Need for Cinematograph bill 🎬
- To harmonise law w/ various executive orders, SC judgements & other legislations
- To improve licensing procedure for films for public exhibition
- To address film industry demand to address piracy
- To expand categorisations for certification

Quotes 💬

- The CCP party is like god. He is everywhere. You just can't see him. - Richard McGregor 🇨🇳
- Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest - James Lovelock🌳

Reading Recommendations 📰

IE
1. Cinematograph bill passed in RS: What are its provisions (make a small note) 🎞
2. Niger army extends support for coup to avoid bloodbath (Pg18) 🇳🇪

TH
1. Weighing in on the NRF bill (read if you are new to NRF till now)🆕
2. Anatomy of Yamuna flood plains (GS1 Urbanization, GS3 Disaster) 🏞
3. Stapled visa issue (page 12) 📌
4. No President can retract climate change promise (Pg14)🚫


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🚨July 29 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Mains Keywords 🔍

1. India's strengths in 3D: Democracy, Demography, and Dividend
2. Small Island States are actually Large Ocean Countries

Pre related
- Int'l Tiger Day: July 29 🐅 (Set in 2010 at St. Petersburg Summit)
- Parakchik glacier: Largest in Suru river valley
- Suru river is part of Zanskar ranges in western Himalayas
- Stapled Visa: Unstamped piece of paper attached by pin to passport; can be torn off at will (China issues it for JnK & Arunachal Pradesh residents)

Quotes 💬
- "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion" - Albert Camus

Ethics Case Study

IE (Pg1): When instant loan apps turn to abuse, morph photos to blackmail

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Ease of doing research [read only if you are new to NRF topic]🔍
2. In a new world, India's moment [imp]🇮🇳
3. Porous border & Manipur Crisis (Read for FMR, GS3 Internal security) 🚧

TH
1. Charting the path for 17th FC [focus on the last para] 📈
2. India, Japan will work to strengthen peacetime cooperation (pg11) 🇮🇳🤝🇯🇵

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🚨July 30 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Mains Keywords 🔍

1. 4-Is to make India developed by 2047 🇮🇳
Infrastructure, Investment, Innovation and Inclusivity

2. Fabless Companies 🎛
- Entities designing semiconductor chips and outsourcing manufacturing

3. Reasonable doctrine ⚖️
- Reasonableness: legal standard used by top courts of diff countries to assess govt decisions
- Israel does not have written constitution, reasonableness is thus a critical judicial check on executive decisions 🇮🇱

Pre-related ℹ️

1. Dengue fever 🦟
- Caused by Dengue virus (DENV)
- DENV: RNA virus, impacts 400mn people globally per year
- No specific antiviral, treatment is in prevention
- Prevention: control mosquito population & raise public awareness

2. Coups in Africa: Mali and Burkina Faso (each in 2020), Niger in 2023

3. Revise TB here

Quote
"Education in mother tongue is a significant step towards social justice" - Narendra Modi 🎓

Reading Recommendations🗞

TH
1. In Bengal village, shrimp farms thrive on mangrove litter (Pg11: read for co-existence example, GS3: Environment) 🍤
2. Scientists' toughest experiment: sourcing quality products from GeM (Pg11: read to reflect on policy negatives) 👩‍🔬🛒
3. Plastic pollution widespread in water bodies across the world [GS3]🚯
4. Mapping India's chip design ecosystem🇮🇳
5. Are human challenge studies effective? [GS4: Ethical issues] 👥🧪
6. Why has Israel plunged into crisis? [understand the issues] 🇮🇱📉


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🚨July 31 2023 | Monday🚨

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Cryptobiosis 🧬
A condition of inactive metabolic activity when environmental conditions are adverse leading to inactivation of reproduction, development, and repair

Pre related
- Yakkara river 🌊
A Kerala river near Palakkad district

Quote 💬
Social media is the new opium of the masses🤳

Reading Recommendations📰

IE
1. Monsoon and food inflation (take rough idea)🌧
2. Bill to amend FCA: provisions, concerns (read to learn the issue)🤔
3. Pathways for digital inclusion (comprehensive view of all DPIs of GoI)🛣
4. Data beyond surveys (understand the issue)📈
5. Smart ideas for big cities (note 4-5 solutions to counter floods)🏙

TH
1. Bitter truths in MH's sugar fields (read to learn the issues of stakeholders of MH sugarcane industry)🚜
2. A crisis of academic ethics in India (GS4 Ethics)🎓
3. State's lax response to lynching (no notes needed, just read)🚫
4. Sam Altman's biometric project (think of dimensions to it: ethical, social, political, technical, etc)👤


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🚨August 1 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Mains Keywords

1. Friendshoring
Manufacturing/Sourcing from geopolitical allies

2. Autoimmune diseases
The diseases in which the body's immune system attacks specific cells

3. Cell free DNA
- Some fragments of DNA released from containers to be present in the body fluids
- Learn about them in detail on my blog here


Pre related

1. Niger
- Former French colony w/ capital Niamey
- Houses 7th largest reserves of Uranium
- See Sahel region in the image below

2. Horripilation
- Scientific name for goosebumps
- Small bumps developing on skin under the follicles
- Caused due to cold weather, intense emotions,

3. Space Liability Convention 1972
- Launching state to be 'absolutely liable' to pay compensation to the state that incurs damages from former's space debris
- Only once has it led to monetary compensation when Russia paid Canada 3 million Canadian Dollars in compensation in 1978

4. Akira ransomware
- Targets both window and linux devices, steals data to encrypt and claims ransom for decryption
- Learn more about Ransomwares on my blog here


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. What the data hides & tells
2. Because culture unites all
3. The employment picture

TH
1. Chip tactics
2. Recalibrating India's clean cooking strategy [good pointers on making it sustainable via business]
3. The hybrid EV imperative [Just understand the issue]


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🚨August 2 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Mains Keywords

1. Economic Geography
Study of how businesses are located, how people trave, trade and what resources are available in diff areas

2. Geoeconomics
The combination of economic and geographic factors relating to international trade

3. Equitable distribution
Self explanatory vis-a-vis reservation

4. MPOWER Measures against tobacco by WHO
- Monitor tobacco use & prevention policies
- Protect people from tobacco smoke
- Offer help to quit tobacco
- Warn about dangers of tobacco
- Enforce bans on tobacco advertising
- Raise taxes on tobacco products

Pre related

1. Carbon Capture and Storage
- Two forms:

a) Point source carbon capture & storage
• Captures CO2 produced at source

b) Direct air capture
• Removes CO2 released in the atmosphere

2. 7 new GI Tags

a) UP
- Jalesar Dhatu Shilp (A decorative metal craft from Etah)

b) Goa
- Goa Mankurad Mango (named so by Portugese due to its poor color)
- Goan Bebinca (A Indo-Portugese pudding aka Queen of Goan desserts)

c) Rajasthan
- Udaipur Koftgari metal craft (Ancient art used in ornamental weaponry)
- Bikaner Kashidakari craft (Art done on objects related to marriage)
- Jodhpur Bandhej craft (Art of tying and dyeing)
- Bikaner Usta Kala (Gold nakashi)

Quote

- The way you do one thing is the way you do everything - Alison Wu
- The heart has its reasons which reason knows not - Blaise Pascal

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Sharp skew in national cat map: 20% of tiger area has less than 1% population (take a rough idea)
2. South Asia is open for business (beautiful article, must read for better opinion)
3. Sub-categorisation of OBCs (Imp)
4. WHO report on tobacco control: key findings, how India fares (Focus on MPOWER, India and experts opinion)
5. In LS, bill on IIMs, concerns it raises over their autonomy (better than TH article)
6. What's carbon capture and storage, can it cut emissions?

TH
1. Bus ride to equality, wheels of change in KA (read to understand positive side of scheme)
2. IIM Bill is a bold move (IE article explains this issue better)


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