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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

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🚨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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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)

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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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Lagrange Points location. Aditya will be at L1

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🚨August 16 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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1. Cauvery issue: revise here

Quotes

• Democracy is eternal and human. It dignifies the human being; it respects humanity - Thomas Mann
• If nature is determined to send a message, policymakers lack the literacy to read that message

Reading Recommendations

IE
- All 5 articles on Page 12

TH
1. Consumption-based poverty estimates have relevance [GS3: Eco]
2. Myanmar junta's empty gestures [GS2: Indian neighborhood]
3. Analysing crisis of democracy in post-colonial countries [IMP for PSIR students, make a page note]
4. Bindeshwar Pathak biography (pg10)
5. SC plans expansion of infra, e courts (pg12)


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🚨August 17 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻
1. e-Bus
Any bus whose propulsion and accessory systems are powered exclusively by zero-emission electricity source

Pre related📝
1. PM e-Bus Sewa
• Cities of 3 lac population to be covered w/ 10 year bus operations support
• 2 sub schemes: City Bus services (169 cities) & Green Urban mobility (181 cities)
• City Bus services: 10k e-buses on PPP model
• Green Urban mobility: Green initiatives in urban mobility with centre offering subsidies and state managing operations
• Priority to cities w/ no organized bus service
• All capital of UTs, NE & hills to be included

2. National Tiger Conservation Authority
• Statutory body u/ MoEFCC w/ HQ at New Delhi
• estd 2005 u/ Wildlife Protection Act 1972 (2006 amendment)
• Managing authority of Project Tiger & India's Tiger Reserves

3. Forest Survey of India
• National org to assess and monitor forest resources of Indian regularly
• estd. 1981 w/ HQ at Dehradun u/ MoEFCC
• Scientific body that primarily deals with forest data

4. Wildlife Crime Control Bureau
• Statutory body u/ MoEFCC w/ HQ at New Delhi
• estd. u/ Wildlife Protection Act 1972
• It is an enforcement authority

5. Central Zoo Authority
• Statutory Body u/ MoEFCC w/ HQ at New Delhi
• estd. 1992 u/ WPA 1972, chaired by Envt Minister
• Purview limited to functioning of the zoos

6. U20
• Estd. 2018 u/ G20
• Aim: To generate discussion among G20 members on urban issues
• First chair: Buenos Aires; current chair: Ahmedabad
• Ahmedabad took over chairmanship from Jakarta

7. Triton Island
• Location: South China Sea
• Disputed between China, Vietnam and Taiwan
• In news for Chinese construction on the disputed island

8. Beach Towel Movement
• A movement in Greece 'reclaiming' the beaches 'acquired' by hospitality industry

Quote(s)💭

• Technology is advancing citizen empowerment and democracy that once drew their strength from constitution - Narendra Modi

Reading Recommendations🗞
IE
1. Why SC handbook on gender stereotypes matters?
2. India's new non-poor [understand basics]
3. IAF role in counter-insurgency: When Mizoram was bombed in 1966 [Know the issue]

TH
1. New bills and a principled course for criminal law reforms
2. Why is Bihar's caste based survey facing legal challenges? [read to learn about issue]


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