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🚨August 18 2023 | Friday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. P for Policy, Preschool and Potential
• A keyword for NEP related answers

2. Loya Jirga
• Pashto for 'grand council'
• A 'meeting' of elders in Afghanistan from various communities
• Not a permanent body but meets to 'solve' national issues since centuries
• Last convened to free 400+ Taliban fighters
• Decisions are not officially binding but its decisions are 'believed' to be final (nothing official but its will is considered will of people of Afghan)

Mains Keys 🗝
(use these as examples in GS answers)

1. Delhi to gets its first heat action plan (GS3 Disaster Management)
• Painting roofs white 'cool roofs'
• Schools not to function in noon
• Medical mobile vans in high heat risk areas

2. Israeli actor to debut in a Bollywood movie (GS2: India-Israel)
• Example of P2P connect b/w India-Israel
• Tsahi Halevi (Played Naor in Fauda) is the actor

3. Pig kidney works in donated human body (GS3 SnT)
• Use in SnT progress

4. Drones to monitor progress & quality of assets produced at MGNREGA sites
• Use as example in relevant answers

5. India tops AI projects in GitHub
• Use in answers related to demography, SnT and achievements of Indians wrt research

Pre related📝

1. Lakhota Lake: Located in Jamnagar
2. Gaganachukki waterfalls: Located in Mandya district of Karnataka on Cauvery
3. Vindhyagiri
• A warship of Navy
• Last in line of Project 17A

Quote(s)💭

• If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy - Napoleon Bonaparte

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. One addict walks into Srinagar OPD (pg1, read for GS3 Internal Security)
2. In the forest, a transformation
3. Two years of Taliban rule (make a one page note of India's interests)
4. For 15-34 year olds top concern is...... (pg15, read for awareness)

TH
1. No more bulk SIMs (pg1)
2. P for Policy, Preschool and Potential (pg8: IMP)
3. Gaps in Birth and Deaths Registration (Amendment) Act [Hard to find such topics elsewhere, good read]


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🚨August 19 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Prepare, Prevent and Respond
Mantra to prepare for the next health emergency (on lines of COVID)

2. Society 5.0
Japan’s vision sharing goal of tech self reliance and innovation driven growth (similar to Make in India)

3. Jobs Data Product (JDP)
A new term coined to reflect the jobs being produced in an economy with rise of GDP

4. Representative Economic Governance
A term signifying how global economies shall have proportionate ‘representative’ stake in the global economic governance (like at IMF)

5. 3D Printing aka additive manufacturing
A process using computer created designs to make 3D objects layer by layer


Mains Keys 🔑

1. Meghalayan Pineapples come with great taste and quality. Being sold abroad! (Example for GS3: Agri & Export)

2. India 3-D printed a post office in Bengaluru (GS3: SnT)

3. US, Japan and S.Korea to enter security pact for Pacific (GS2: International Relations)


Quote
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice - Henry Gates

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. Incomplete settlement
2. Voice of global south (IMP)
3. How 3D printers work? (IMP)
4. Where prices are hurting? (GS3 Inflation)

TH
1. A ‘fab’ way to conduct India-Japan tech diplomacy


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🚨August 20 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. 4C Mantra to use tech in dealing with challenges of humanity on global level:
Conviction, Commitment, Coordination, and Collaboration

Mains Keys🔑
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. INS Vagir to reach Australia (GS2: IR)
• Maiden deployment of Indian Navy submarine

2. Robotaxi and driverless bus services in San Francisco
• Use in: GS1 Urbanization

Pre related📝

1. White bellied sea eagles
• Resident raptor distributed on sea coast of India from Mumbai to eastern Bangladesh
• Diurnal, monogamous, bird of prey
• IUCN: Least Concerned
• In news for making nests in powerlines in TN

2. Namoh 108
• A variety of Lotus with 108 petals
• Discovered in Manipur; used in making fibre

3. Bhashini: Revise here

Reading Recommendations🗞

TH
1. Wolf-rayet star is expected to produce a magnetar
2. Trial to test new path for preventing Alzheimer's
3. Turmeric supplements
4. Why's BRICS summit important for India?
5. The world of sugar
6. Myanmar's killing machine

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🚨August 21 2023 | Monday🚨

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Mains keywords✍🏻

1. Pre Green revolution, India was a ship to mouth economy (GS3 Economy)
• A reference to how we were importing even the basic food requirements

2. Marchetti Constant
• A metric to claim that most people in our cities have <30 mins commute (GS1 Urbanization)

3. Bottom Trawling
• Fishing practice that herds and captures target species by towing a net along ocean floor (see image in next message)
• Problematic for its negative impacts on ecosystem

Mains Keys
(Use in GS Mains answers)

1. Jugalbandi Chatbot
A ChatGPT powered tool to serve as universal translator in rural India (english -> native languages)

Quote(s)💭

• India executed a new economic recipe that believed there are no poor people, only people in poor places
• What IT is for India, Bt is for Bharat - Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• Foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology - Fareed Zakaria

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. The hunger challenge (Read to form opinion)
2. Two freedoms (Beautiful article, must read)
3. How to heal Manipur (read this and then do use your imagination to come up with more solutions)
4. Jadavpur student's death: What apex court, UGC have said about ragging (Read to learn)
5. GE Mustard: Less pungent more useful (make a single page note in GS3 notes)
6. Why Hurricane Hilary, heading towards California is a rare storm (focus on reason they're rare para)
7. What Luna crash tells us about moon landings (read to acquaint self with history)

TH
1. Irrigation in focus as India moves towards driest ever August
2. The Katchatheevu controversy
3. How AI is used to increase frequency of Acoustic SCAs (V. Imp concept)


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bottom trawling (for reference)

Cheete Ki Chaal, Baaz Ki Nazar
aur Praggnanandhaa ke waar par kabhi sandeh nahi karte

(Look at focus in his eyes. Magical!❤️)

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🚨August 22 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Global Governance
A reference to the multilateral institutions to 'govern' the globe

2. Multiplier effect (in economy)
Every job created and every rupee invested in manufacturing has positive cascading effect on other sectors of economy

3. H100
High end Graphic Processing Unit chips in demand due to processing speed that LLM and Generative AI needs

Pre related📝
• Tagaeri and Taromenani indigenous groups of Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
• Mt. Vesuvius, a volcano of South Italy whose eruption in 79AD is mostly in news due to archaeological importance

Quote(s)💭

• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops - Henry adams
• Once you learn how to die you learn how to live - Morrie

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Holes in financial safety net (read for awareness)
2. Nvidia's GPUs: hottest items in AI boom
3. Why global clothing retailers are exiting Myanmar (GS4 Ethics)
4. The crucial last 15 mins (read for awareness, interview type Qs from here)

TH
1. BRICS test for India's multipolarity rhetoric (Read for multi-dimensional opinion)
2. The Saudi-UAE divide becomes public (Analyze how it'll impact India)
3. Smartphone manufacturing in India (understand the issue)
4. Concerns of drilling in North sea (reading gist alone can help)


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🚨August 23 2023 | Wednesday🚨

Revise Section 8 of Representation of People Act on my blog

Mains Keywords✍🏻

• Spiritual security
Knowing that your family will be there watching you


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. NASA/ESA to support ISRO moon landing (GS2 IR & GS3 SnT)
• Ground stations of NASA, Antennas of ESA
• Deep space network of NASA offering telemetry & tracing coverage during descent

2. On resisting landslides (GS3 Disaster)

• Factors influencing landslides👇🏻
- Slope gradient, hill elevation, rock strength, forest cover, built up area
- Riverine flow, unconsolidated and semi-consolidated sediments

• Adopt these urgently 👇🏻
- Relevant sensor network, real time monitoring/analysis, AI/ML based early warning systems
- Barring heavy construction, proper drainage system, scientific slope cutting, strict building codes

3. Learn about New Car Assessment Programme here


Quote(s)💭

• On Chandrayaan3, It will be a small bounce for the lander, a giant surge for India
• If you are in a bad mood go for a walk, if you are still in a bad mood, go for another walk - Hippocrates


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. On Madras day, story behind city's founding & name (GS1 Culture/History)
2. What report on panel on stalled real estate projects has recommended (GS3 Infra )
3. Not the new NAM (IMP)

TH
1. On protecting biodiversity of NE (Checkout 'negative list' concept)
2. Understanding Luna25 failure (read gist)


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Win, lose or tie
Full support to ISRO till I die!💪🏻

निकल धरती से आसमान के पार
‘प्रज्ञान’ का विश्वास, हिंद की आस
मिल आये है आज हम दक्षिणी चाँद से

दुनिया से कह दो, भारतीय आये है
ले प्रण चाँद का आज हम
‘विक्रमी’ तिरंगा साथ लाये है।

JAI HO 🇮🇳

PM Modi making BRICS leaders wait for meeting in South Africa with a polite message 😂

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🚨August 24 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Alive with opportunity (GS2 IR)
• UK campaign to to showcase tremendous bond between India-UK
• Aims to build on continuous exchange of people, ideas & culture

2. Moral Disengagement
A social psychology concept where one convinces self that ethical standards to not apply to oneself

3. Sample Return Mission
A mission where the spacecraft collects samples from, say Moon, and return to earth


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in GS answers)

1. Kant's ethical philosophy emphasizes on Autonomy, Rationality and Moral duty of Individuals (GS4 ethics)


Stats (on Africa)📈
• 2050 Population projection: 1.7bn
• 33/46 of world's Least Developed Countries here
• Holds 30% of mineral reserves, 12% of oil, 8% of natural gas of the world
• Needs $26bn annually to sustain healthcare expenditure in the continent


Quote(s)💭

• Programming a computer to be ethical is much more difficult than programming a computer to play world champion chess
• The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars - Arthur Clarke
• Digital and Physical Connectivity are arteries of a healthy economy - Sunil Bharti Mittal


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. How moonshot clears way for big & bold (pg1: make 1 page note of 5 pointers)
2. Legendary statistical scientist CR Rao dies (pg 10, note his contribution)
3. A worker by another name (Social security GS2)
4. In a higher orbit (GS2 IR: Read to understand geopolitical implications of the mission)
5. A time for Africa (note 5 point way forward for Africa)
6. After landing, experiments: lunar quakes and water-ice on moon (Imp.)

TH
1. The UK-Ind relationship is alive with opportunity (GS2 IR)
2. Needed, a well crafted social security net for all (GS2 Policy, focus on Steps for India para)
3. Can AI be ethical and moral? (GS4 Ethics)
4. Implementing car safety programme (read once for awareness on topic)
5. Pak Army Act amended (read just the gist)


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🚨August 25 2023 | Friday🚨

Northern Sea Route in news, click here to find detailed notes on my blog

Mains Key🗝
(Use as examples in Mains Answers)

1. New entrants to BRICS: Saudi Arabia, Iran, UAE, Egypt, Ethiopia & Argentina (GS2 IR)
2. 8 multi storey buildings collapse in Kullu (GS3 Disaster Management)
3. 7MW solar power plant makes Pune's College of Military Engineering as India's first carbon negative garrison (GS3 Environment)
4. Japan releasing Fukushima water into pacific, its seafood banned in China (GS3: Envt, GS2: Int'l relations)


Stats📈
• Tier-II cities have potential to generate 70% of country's new jobs over next 2 decades


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. K. Kasturirangan interview (pg15)
2. Russian militia boss death viewed with suspicion (pg15)

TH
1. India's G20 oppo for African Renaissance (Read how India can contribute)
2. Real purpose of medical college (read to understand issue)
3. Blow to honey industry (pic with caption on pg 9, read caption)


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🚨August 26 2023 | Saturday 🚨

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Quote(s)
• User experience and user privacy are two sides of a coin - Minister R. Chandrashekhar
• You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win - Jose Raul Capablanca

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. State of birds (pg11, take a quick read for an idea)
2. Revise NCF: how school education should change (make 1 page note)
3. Why's Japan releasing Fukushima water- and is it safe? (learn about Tritium)
4. At G20, agreeing to agree
5. Man of stats & science (on Prof CR Rao)
6. A hidden adversary

TH
1. Cleantech, for an inclusive green future in India (imp)
2. Rethink dynamics of India's fiscal federalism


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