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‘प्रज्ञान’ का विश्वास, हिंद की आस
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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🚨

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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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20+ news articles on Space missions compiled in one place to India in Arctic; busy week for India!

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🚨August 27 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Picoflare jets
Small scale jets supplying energy and plasma to solar wind

2. Patient safety
Freedom for a patient from unnecessary harm or potential harm associated with provision of healthcare

3. Methalox Propellant
Methane + Liquid Oxygen (efficient & safer rocket fuel underdevelopment at ISRO)


Maine Keys🗝
(Use as examples in GS answers)

• Climate change and health centre in Delhi by GoI in partnership with Asian Development Bank (GS2 IR, GS3 Envt)
• Safeguards for patients:
- Hippocratic Oath
- Consumer Protection Act: Medical negligence & services deficiency
- Clinical Establishment Act: Legal rights
- National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority & Drugs Controller General of India: Mechanisms to 'see that patients' rights in terms of medication & devices are protected and that they are not overcharged

Quote(s)💭

• Aging isn’t decay, it’s growth
• Each night when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn
• Tangible heritage not only had material value but was also the history and identity of a nation - Narendra Modi


Reading Recommendations🗞

TH
• What Terai tigers eat & what it tells about habitat (GS3 Envt)
• Why was a 40% duty imposed on onion exports? (GS3 Trade)
• What's care protocol for babies in India? (GS2 Policy)
• Golden generation of Indian Chess (beautiful story)


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India in Sports in Aug | #UPSC

1. Chess
• 4/8 Quarter Finalists at WC were🇮🇳

2. Football
• Wins 9th SAFF Championship

3. World Athletics Championship
• 4x400m new Asian Record (men)
• #NeerajChopra First Indian to win🥇here

4. World Blind Cricket
• Women🥇
• Men🥈

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🚨August 28 2023 | Monday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Triple Helix Model
A model taken up by UAE to involve the govt, pvt and academia together to achieve space mission objectives

2. R2Repair
Govt legislation to allow consumers repair/modify devices by self while otherwise manufacturer require consumer to use their 'after-service'

3. Somatic Gene Mutation
Error in DNA during birth during development, occurrence driven by 'copy-pasting' of genome

4. Echolocation
• Animals emitted waves are beyond human range
• Animal/device emitting sound waves to listen to reflections for developing understanding of the environment
• Bats use to hunt and navigate, dolphins to locate objects, whales and birds for similar objectives
• SONAR (Sound Navigation & Ranging) and RADAR (Radio Detection & Ranging) like devices based on this technique
• Recently, its used to develop software apps to create map of the rooms to help visually impaired navigate environment better


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

• Maps, tourist spots: 110 languages info on new police website for G20 (GS2 IR)
• Indigenous methods preventing forest fires in Canada (GS3)


Pre related🗒

• March 15: World Consumer Rights Day


Quote(s)💭
• Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest - Hillary Clinton


Reading recommendations 🗞

IE
1. BRICS2.0 (imp, GS2)
2. Let's debate basic structure (Imp GS2)
3. Finding Nessie: The monster (read for awareness)
4. Dengue vaccines in India
5. El Nino in election season (IMP)

TH
1. The importance of states in space missions (GS2)
2. Himalayan blunders that are ravaging the Himalayas (focus on last para for way forward, GS3)
3. State of scholarship for minorities (GS2)
4. Somatic Mutations (GS3 SnT)


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🚨August 29 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. IFS Geetika Srivastava to be first woman to head Indian mission in Pak (GS1 Women, GS2 IR)


Pre related🗒

1. Census Act 1948
• Census is a statutory process
• Census u/ Union List entry 69
• Only Union can conduct census (under sec 3 of act)

2. International Astronomical Unit
• Association of scientists, scientific organizations & member nations
• Arbiter of planetary and satellite nomenclature since its inception in 1919
• India is a party to IAU w/ HQ at Paris, France


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE

1. BRICS in perspective (compile this w/ y'day article of Rajiv Malhotra for 1 page note)
2. A force to reckon with (read to know role of air power)
3. Case for MEP for rice, w/o basmati (GS3)
4. Shiv shakti, tiranga, jawahar sthal (read for awareness)
5. Just understand Lagrange Points from the image below

TH
1. At Delhi summit, demonstrate climate leadership (note 3 paras as 3 points)
2. News media v/s OpenAI's ChatGPT
3. WFI suspended by United World Wrestling, why? (read the gist)

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Mnemonic to remember BRICS+ countries

AEI(O)U

• Argentina🇦🇷
• Egypt🇪🇬 & Ethiopia🇪🇹
• Iran🇮🇷
• S(o)udi Arabia🇸🇦
• UAE🇦🇪

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🚨August 30 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Adaptation & Mitigation
2 components to climate finance; most money (93%) currently going to mitigation

2. Self respect marriage
A marriage without priests or Agni among 2 Hindus. The oath is taken among friends and family in a language that both party understand

3. Revise El Niño here


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in answers)

1. Google Velammal Vidyalaya, nursery of 15/83 Indian GMs (Use in policy/infra for sports)
2. Hoolock gibbons (revise here)
3. Capillary action and real life use cases here
4. National Security Guard (NSG)
• Specialized counter terrorism force estd 1984 u/ MHA
• HQ: Delhi, has dual command structure lying with centre and state
• Personnel selected from various armed forces & paramilitary

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Climate finance, hard fact (most rational article, must read for GS3)
2. With strings attached (unique problem in governance)
3. When food is a vaccine (very imp point made here, use for health policy answers in GS2)

TH
1. Gig workers bill: Reading between the lines
2. Dissecting Pakistan’s cypher saga (focus on last para, implications for 🇮🇳)
3. Scientists finally finish sequencing ‘weird’ male Y chromosome (not relevant for UPSC, read if you‘ve interest in science or if your optional is anthropology)


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