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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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Received this email today from Pratiksha (shared with permission)

What did I tell her?
Shared 6 things I told her in this twitter thread 👇🏻

https://twitter.com/CseWhy/status/1689205014206779395

Note: If you read IE daily, can skip today. nothing significant here

🚨August 10 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Mains Keys
• Revise NSA Programme in detail here
• Revise biofuels in detail here

Pre related

• Google 'Keeladi UPSC' & read things for GS1 Mains and Prelims

Quote

• Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is most shocking and inhuman Martin Luthar King Jr.

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Trends in IT returns (nothing imp, read for general trend)

TH
1. Develop indigenous web browser, grab cash prizes [Imp, note all the authorities mentioned here]
2. Can SMRs help India achieve net zero? [Imp, make a one page note]

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Note these valuable points for UPSC Mains answers on dealing with Mental health issues in India👇🏼

GAIN Approach to counter Mental Health 'pandemic' in India

• Government Push
- Make it an integral part of public health pogram

• Affordable
- Make the services affordable for all

• Infrastructure
- Create strong infrastructure for care & treatment

• Normalize
- Normalize the mental health issues to kill the stigma

Bonus Quote💡👇🏼

"There is no health without mental health"
- Brock Chisholm (1st WHO DG)


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Weight gain and hair loss is not an issue just with Prithvi Shaw

No one can relate to him better than #UPSC aspirants🥲

React 🫡 if you relate! ;)

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🚨August 11 2023 | Friday🚨

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Mains Keywords

1. Conversational AI
The conversation based interaction with AI (related to IoT)

Mains Keys
(Use these as examples in your answers)

• UPI to use conversational AI for voice based transactions (GS3 Digital Public Goods)
• Indian GPS NavIC to be linked to Aadhar enrolment devices (GS2 Tech in Policy)
• Italian Vessel in India after long, progress in tumult marine relations (GS2 IR)
• Influencers to issue disclaimer endorsing health products (GS2 Policy)
• India, Japan exploring ways for trilateral co-op with SL (GS2 IR)

Pre related

1. SuSwagatam
• SC initiative to generate entry passes online
• Tech in Judiciary (GS2)

2. Revise Near Field Communication Technology here

Quote

• True democracy offers four freedoms: Freedom of faith, freedom from fear, freedom of expression, freedom from want
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Most countries have an army, but Pakistan's army has a country

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. More trust, less suspicion (GS2, read for opinion)
2. Sponge cities (read to know concept & limitations)
3. CEC-EC bill, and how it overturns effect of SC order (good explainer on topic)

TH
1. India's Myanmar quandary, its paradoxical policy [GS2: take rough idea]
2. China's deflation; a cause for concern?
3. Will Federal fund hike impact developing country debt
(both above articles are IMP for economy)

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a) Massive overhaul of IPC, CrPC and Evidence Act in India #UPSC

1. IPC
• Old: 511 sections
• New: 356 sections

2. CrPC
• Old: 484 sections
• New: 533 sections

3. Evidence Act
• Old: 167 sections
• New: 170 sections



b) Which bill replaces what & how to remember it?👇🏼

• The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill (न्याय संहिता) replaces Penal Code (IPC)

• The Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita Bill (नागरिक सुरक्षा संहिता) | CrPC

• The Bharatiya Sakshya Bill (साक्ष्य) | Evidences Act

Note: Not much in paper today, skip if you want to!

🚨August 12 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Reading Recommendations

IE
1. The right to treatment
2. Explained page 17 on IPC/CrPC etc. overhaul (read for outline idea, topic too deep to make notes at this point)

TH
1. India needs a new economic policy (GS3)

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I am in my mid 20s.

Last night when I put my phone down after a conversation with my father, I had a realisation that hit me like a truck.

I’m convinced that a person needs their Father more in adulthood than when they are a kid

No one else supports me or stands by me offering comfort like my father does. Conventionally, I have failed multiple times on societal standards.

It’s just because of my parents backing that I am standing stronger than ever before and now building again.

Papa is someone who puts unconditional faith with utmost love in me.

No matter what happens, no matter whosoever changes around you; there’s one rock who is always there! Like a strong man, making you one.

It is the critical time of adulthood,
losing and winning on daily basis,
when you’re learning about the world, when a father eases the thorns in your path, unconditionally.

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🚨August 13 2023 | Sunday🚨

Mains keywords

1. Keystone species

• One that has disproportionately large effect on its environment relative to its abundance
• Impacting many other organisms in an ecosystem
• Determines types & numbers of other species in ecological community

Mains Keys
• Made in India MRI scanner ✔️
(use in answers of GS3 SnT and GS2 health Policy as examples)

Pre related

1. Punnamada Lake
• A lake in Alappuzha
• Hosts Nehru Trophy Boat Race

2. Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Definitive tool provide 3D images of tissues
• Identifies initial tumours

3. Flying fox
• u/ Schedule II of WPA1972
• A vermin that eats fruits & nectar
• Keystone species dispersing seeds
• Spends 7% of its day-roosting time being environmentally vigilant

4. Assam Rifles
• Raised in 1835 as ‘Cacher Levy’ by British
• 1917: renamed Assam Rifles to recognise WW1 contribution
• Operational control u/ MoDefence
• Administrative control u/ MHA

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. IPCs is history: In 1837, how Macaulay cracked the code

TH
1. North India more affected by El Nino (GS3 Env)
2. Low coral activity helps corals despite warm ocean (note how it helps for GS3 Env)
3. Why has govt called for PC import curbs? (GS2 Policy(
4. What’s the debate around 370? (GS2 Constitution)
5. Can improved nutrition help prevent TB? (Health)
6. The scramble to save the planet’s lungs (GS3 Env)


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🚨August 14 2023 | Monday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Rule by Law
• Use of law as an instrument of suppression, oppression, and social control
• All of it done in course of implementing a political agenda

2. Ethnic Cleansing
• Purposeful policy designed by one ethnic/religious group to remove by violent & terror inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic/religious group from certain geographic areas
• Arbitrary arrest, property demolition, forced removal, displacement etc. are methods

3. Ground penetrating Radar (GPR)
• A tech used to produce 3D model of buried archaeological features
• Used in ASI surveys

4. Urea Gold fertiliser
• Urea 'fortified' with Sulphur; developed by Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd.
• Aim:
- Deliver S along with N (needed in oilseeds)
- Improve N use efficiency as S coating ensures gradual release of N


Mains Keys🗝
• AI cameras, anti-drone systems in place for I-day security (Use as example of tech in GS3 Security answers)


Pre related📝

1. Limestone Calcines Clay Cement (LC3)
• Climate friendly alternative to conventional cement
• 30-40% less carbon-intensive to make tangible impact in reducing global carbon footprint
• Developed as a result of a collaboration b/w Indian-Swiss scientists

2. Malaiyali Tribe
• Malai: Hill and Yali: People (hill people of norther TN)
• Foragers who cultivated table peak for food


Stats📈
• 65% of Nitrogen given to plants is lost via release in atmosphere or leaching in ground


Quote💭

• The purpose of the law is to prevent the strong always having their way - Ovid
• There is a social contract between the government and the governed - John Locke
• Justice must never take the form of revenge - Justice Bobde
• When state tends to persecute on basis of religion, constitution suffers a breakdown


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Erasing Macaulay's mark (make 1 page noting 5 pro-points)
2. A time tested friendship (GS2: IR)
3. Delhi & Taipei, just friends (GS2: IR)
4. Making urea deliver more (GS3: IMP)
5. What's Parliament's Privileges Committee, how it works (GS2: Legislature)

TH
1. A scientific survey at Gyanvyapi, its limits (GS1: Culture + GS3: SnT)
2. Is US-Iran hostage swap finally materialising? (GS2: IR)
3. Maya OS (pg11: Imp, read & make a small note)


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Found PM-USHA in news today. Did not get much info, picked this intro for an idea on the scheme from 50 page govt document.

Read once just to get acquainted :)

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Fav thing I read today 😄

दिन बनाने में रात लगती है।
तुम्हें आसान ये बात लगती है?

Independence is an expensive affair. It costs a fortune to keep ourselves ‘free’ while striving towards greatness, as a country. 😄

Cherish this gift from our previous generations and be grateful as we enter next year of freedom ❤️

Happy Independence Day, friends. Jai Hind 🇮🇳

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🚨August 15 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Sangacchadwam
An expression to reflect moving forward together, a Sanskrit expression

2. Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas, Sabka Prayas
An expression by GoI to take a collaborative approach incorporating all sections of the society

3. Lagrange Points
Referred to be parking spots in space because gravitational pull of celestial objects equals force required to keep it in an orbit

Mains Keys🗝
(Use in answers as examples)

1. Democracy in ancient India (examples)

• Rig Veda mentions Gramini, a village head employed by king for civil & military purposes
• Atharva Veda mentions sabha, samiti, babhapati and sabkasad
• Buddhists had sanghas and Vinay Pitaka had references to democratic procedures regulating meetings of monks
• Gana Sanghas, as described by Greeks in India, had an elected raja who reported to the assembly
• Arthashastra offers comprehensive account of village admin
• Evidences of Village panchayats seen in Chola and Mauryan rule


Pre related📝

1. Aditya L1
• First space based Indian Observatory to study sun
• Won't actually go to sun but create space observatory at a point from where sun can be observed even during eclipses
• L1 suffix reflects the Lagrange point that Aditya will be sitting at!
• It is in collab with multiple educational and research institutes across the country
• AIM:
- To study solar corona, solar emissions, solar winds & flares, Coronal Mass Ejections (CMS)
- To carry out solar imagine round the clock

(Note: Closest man made object to sun was Parker Probe from NASA)

2. IITs' campuses abroad, click here for details in an old CSEWhy Message


Quote(s)💭

• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious than to be able to decide - Napoleon Bonaparte
• What the west considered our Achilles heel, i.e. our diversity, has proven to be India's greatest strength


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Judges will instil confidence when their actions..... (pg1, by CJI)
2. Take our campuses to world (IMP article by a Dean of IIT-M)
3. Why doctors are protesting rule to prescribe generic drugs (learn the issue)
4. Wildfires in Hawaii kill 96: What's happening (note diff impacts of wildlife fires)
5. Behind TN vs Centre over NEET, a larger equity & federalism battle (learn the issue)

TH
1. The new bills to overhaul criminal laws


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