2nd case study is now live. Solve this and paste your answers in reply to the tweet linked below

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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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- Obsess content not hours
- Have a plan to stick to at least 6 days a week, every week, for next 12-16 months

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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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🚨August 3 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Mains Keywords

1. Superconductivity
State in which material offers zero/near zero resistance to electric current

2. MC Mishra Committee (wrt Joshimath)
- Read inputs of this committee here and here

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. The twain must meet (checkout delimitation 'game')
2. The search for no resistance (Make a one page note)
3. 2 articles on use of tech to solve real world problems
• Pg 9: To prevent suicides, IIT-M to get facial recognition system
• pg12: How Aadhar is seeking to use AI to tackle bank payments fraud

TH
1. Coup in Niger (read for parties involved)
2. Deep tech startups taking brave risks (understand the ecosystem)
3. Jeddah: hope for peace in Ukraine? (read just gist)


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🚨August 4 2023 | Friday🚨

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Mains Keywords

1. Urbanity
• A particular attitude including belief and education in arts of coexistence & fair play
• It is a matter of lifestyle; good keyword for GS1 Urbanization

2. Not of Standard Quality (NSQ)
• Colloquial term for substandard drugs
• A drug that fails standard requirements for a particular product

3. Interstellar
• Located, taking place, traveling among stars

Pre related

1. Vultures: Natural scavengers to keep the environment clean

Efforts for Conservation of Vultures:
• Plan for Vulture Conservation (2006) w/ Drugs Controller General of India banning vet use of dicolfenac
• Vulture Conservation Plan (2020-2023) [u/ MoEFCC]

a) Upscaling Conservation
- To establish additional conservation breeding centres alongside Vulture Conservation Centres
- To implement the Vulture Safe Zone Programme at diff places in the country

b) Drug Control
- Minimize Diclofenac use
- Prevent poisoning of vultures' food

2. Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
• Estd. 1975 at Lagos Treaty, it is a political, regional and economic union of 15 West African countries
• Goal: Achieve "Collective self-sufficiency" by creating a single large trade bloc & single common currency
• Serves as a peacekeeping force in the region
• Member countries in the image below

3. Voyager 1 & 2
• NASA Mission Voyager: To explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
• Launched in 1977, these are identical spacecraft equipped with instruments to carry out experiments
• Come with nuclear reactors, antenna and multiple cameras
• Purpose: Explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune before heading to interstellar
• V1 entered interstellar in 2012 & V2 in 2018
• Discoveries:
- Jupiter's Moon IO is geologically active
- 3 new moons of Jupiter: Thebe, Metis & Adrastea
- Titan was NOT the biggest moon of solar system
- Great Dark Spot: Huge spinning storm in atmosphere of Uranus (V2)

Quote

• As government expands, liberty contracts - Ronald Reagan

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. How Jan Vishwas Bill proposes to deal with substandard drugs

TH
1. 19 MLAs, 10 MPs caught for traffic offences by AI cameras [pg6: Read for eg of tech as equalizer]
2. Nuclear signalling; the need for new guard rails [IMP]
3. India needs evidence based, ethics driven medicine [interesting view point]
4. Coups in Niger; causes and concerns [You won't find good article like this anywhere else, screenshot it and keep in your notes.]
5. Why's Biological Diversity bill facing opposition [Quick read]


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Current Affairs require you to revise Disqualification of lawmakers.

I could not find a single resource and thus wrote a blog post compiling all 3 ways of disqualification

1. 10th schedule for defection
2. u/A 102(1) for MPs & 191(1) for MLAs
3. u/ Representation of The People Act (RPA) 1951

Learn below 👇🏻

https://blog.csewhy.com/p/101-disqualification-of-law-makers

मैंने देखें है बंद कमरों में खुले सपने।
मैंने देखें है पराए होते वो अपने।

मैंने समझी है माँ बाबा कि लाचारी
मैंने किताबों में सीखी है दुनियादारी

मेरा दिन लक्ष्मीकान्त से शुरू
और शाम लक्ष्मी के अभाव में निकलती है।

मेरी रात में अशोक, अकबर और पुरु
और दोपहर विश्वास में सम्भलती है।

मेरा परिचय है किताबों का वो कोना
गुमनाम पहचान, सड़क पर मेरा ना होना।

शाहजहाँ की कहानी से शाहजहाँ रोड का सफ़र करूँगा मैं
UPSC भवन से India Gate तक असर करूँगा मैं।

मेरा नाम आज गुमनाम है, कल दुनिया जानेगी
मैं कलाम का अनुयायी, दुनिया जल्द मानेगी।

मैं जहाँ से आया हूँ और जहाँ मुझे जाना है,
अकेला हूँ और शिखर जल्द कमाऊँगा
मैं भारतीय हूँ, जय हिन्द हर पल गाऊँगा॥ 🇮🇳


(Wrote it this morning immediately after waking up. React ❤️ if you relate?😄)

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🚨August 5 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Mains Keywords🔍

1. Morality, Rationality, Proportionality (MRP)
- Keyword(s) for ethical counter to use of Nuclear weapons

2. Education, Globalization and Digitalization
- The 3 elements that make today's younger ones smarter

Pre-related💡

1. Kalbelia dance 💃
• Related to Kalbelia community
• In list of UNESCO Intangible heritage since 2010
• Performed only by women, men participate as instruments' players
• Kalbelias were once the snake handlers, their art today reflects the same in music and dance🐍

2. Amrit Bharat Stations Scheme 🚉
• Developing stations on a continuous basis with a long-term vision
• Large focus is on improving the design, readying stations for the Amrit Kaal

Quote(s)💬
• Political competence comes with age - Plato
• The internet gave us access to everything but it also gave everything access to us - James Veitch

Reading Recommendations🗞

- Lowering the age of fighting elections in both IE & TH🗳

IE
1. The Cheetah's return [GS3: IMP] 🐆
2. J&K, like other states [Read to learn the flow of essays]
3. Changing views on privacy: the journey of India's data protection Bill
[GS3, will make a proper blog compiling all the articles related to this topic]


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Friends, I am experimenting with AI these days and came across an AI tool meant only for UPSC aspirants: Shaktimaan

Here are some of many things it does:
• Answer Evaluation within 60 seconds
• Daily discipline to keep you accountable
• Practice MCQs on any subject everyday
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🚨August 6 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Pre related

1. Owls
• Nocturnal birds who lays eggs in caves/burrows
• Don't build their own nests
• 36 species found in India, all are protected under WPA 1972
• Group of owls is called Parliament (Greeks considered owls wise, thus the name)

2. Clouded Leopard (Meghalaya State animal)
• WPA 1972: Schedule 1, IUCN: Vulnerable
• Named due to 'clouded' pattern on its skin
• Found in: Himalayas of Nepal, NE India, SE Asia, China etc.
• In woods: Mostly in tropical evergreen forests. Also seen in dry forests & mangroves

3. Revise TB in point 3 of Pre related here

4. Revise Bharat Net here

Reading Recommendations

TH
1. Organ shortage continues to cost lives [GS3]
2. Why are Rohini panel's findings important? [IE had better article. Skip if you read it on Aug 2]

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चलो, एक शर्त लगाते है

आज से हर दिन 3 चीज़ों पर ध्यान देंगे।
एक शरीर, दूसरी पढ़ाई, तीसरी कमाई
दिन में समय बाँट लो।
थोड़ा थोड़ा तीनों में

आज से ठीक 6 महीने बाद
शरीर का ‘बल’ बेहतर होगा
कमाई ‘बुद्धि’ से करेंगे
और पढ़ाई ‘विद्या’ में मज़बूत होंगे

ख़ुद से वादा करते हो आज तो ♥️ react करके बताओ।

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The rush of reading newspaper first thing in the day is depriving #UPSC aspirants of much needed momentum.

Instead, I shifted newspaper reading to last thing of day

Day starts without screen and oh boy! How much has my day improved because of this

10/10 will recommend 💯

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🚨August 7 2023 | Monday🚨

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Mains Keywords

1. Techlash
Similar to backlash but wrt big tech

Quote

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there's also love of humanity - Hippocrates

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. The growth check-list [Imp]
2. Revised manufacturing norms for drug firms: what changes, why [Imp]

TH
1. Why did Meta block Canada's access to news reports? [fight b/w policy and tech giants]
2. Is India's sugar surplus leading to a crisis? [Imp to read differences]
3. Musk's starlink: Why the new sovereign of low-earth orbit is bad news? [Interesting take on space privatization]
4. MP strategy for tigers can help cheetahs too [quick read]

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🚨August 8 2023 | Tuesday🚨

3 articles in The Hindu today about Superconductors. Find all about superconductors for Pre and Mains on this CSEWhy blog post

Mains Keywords

1. White gold
A reference for Lithium looking at its utility in EVs

Pre Related

1. Democratic Republic of Congo sees 70% of world Cobalt mined. China holds majority ownership in this mining

2. Havana Syndrome
• hearing uncertain sounds w/o any in real
• believed to be a ‘sonic attack’ in Cuba on US citizens

3. Perks of an MP

Salaries and allowance of MPs Act 1954 prescribes range of benefits for an MP

• ₹1,00,000 pm salary
• ₹2,000 per day additional when parliament is in the session
• Travel allowance (fee transit by railways)
• Medical facilities for MP & family, housing, telephone, water bills

Reading Recommendations

IE

1. In remote MH, justice delivery comes a step closer [eg for GS2]
2. What data protection bills says on privacy, Centre’s powers, right to info [GS2]
3. The hardening trade stance
4. Rahul Gandhi’s MP status restored, what does this mean [Read to know what MP’s get]

TH

1. China’s worldview, its postulates and a reality check
2. India’s mining policy shift (long article but worth the read. Note global scenario, learn Indian policy and good & bad of new bill)


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🚨August 9 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Mains Keys💡
(Use these examples in your Answers)

1. RJ to refuse govt jobs for those accused of Sex crimes (GS1 Women)❌
2. Climate friendly cows bred to belch less methane (GS3 Agri & SnT)🐄🌱

Pre related 🌐

1. Interpol Global Academy Network 🌍👮‍♀️

• Established 3 years ago
• Aim: To support Interpol in global law enforcement training
• CBI (of India) is its 10th member

2. Select Committee 📋

• Made to examine a particular bill; house-specific
• An ad-hoc committee disbanded after report submission

3. Joint Committee 🤝

• Similar to the Select committee but w/ members from both houses
• RS to LS membership at 1:2; chair appointed by RS Chairman
• Member proposing the bill is made a member

4. Chips2Startups Program (A MeitY program implemented by C-DAC)🎯

• To scale up workforce expansion by supporting existing quality training programs
• Aim: train 85k qualified engineers in Chip Integration and System design
• Involves various institutes like IITs, IISCs, etc., and startups

4. Revise ECOWAS here
5. Summarized Jan Vishwas Bill on CSEWhy Blog here
6. Learn about Indian Semiconductor Mission here

Quote

- When the going gets tough, the tough get going
- One man with courage is a majority

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Improved nutrition, early weight gain can cut TB cases (pg1, GS2)🩺
2. Gen Munir's Pak💂‍♂️🇵🇰
3. Five years of caring (Read to note counter measures against loopholes)🔍
4. Aiming for the moon (focus on images in this article)🚀

TH
1. Learning from CHIPS act of the US [Imp]
2. Climate events and an umbrella for urban health [Read to diversify opinion]🏙
3. Fitch's downgrade (read just the Gist)📉


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