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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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🚨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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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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🚨August 31 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in the Mains Answers)

1. Hotels to present Millets Menu to G20 guests in New Delhi (GS2: Soft Power)


Pre related🗒

1. Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMCs)
• Autonomous Chennai based national institution for fundamental research
• Supported by Dept. of Atomic Energy of GoI
• Set up by Alladi Ramakrishnan in 1962

2. Red Sand Boa
• IUCN: Near Threatened
• Found across almost entire India
• In news due to rising illegal trade to be kept as pet or in black magic

3. Sanchaar Saathi
Citizen centric portal to
• Check connections registered against their names
• Block mobile stolen/lost mobile phones
• Report fraudulent/unrequired connections
• Verify genuineness of device (before purchasing) using IMEI

4. Apogee and Perigee
• Perigee : Apogee :: Near : Far
• How to remember?
- Apologee for being far (Remember this and perigee itself sorted)


Quote(s)💭
• Law and morality are synonymous in the Eastern world


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Coup in Gabon (Page 1)
2. Meaning of Ramaswamy
3. GDP Growth trends, outlook

TH
1. Need for Indian system to regulate AI (Imp)
2. Controlling women's sexual autonomy
3. Understanding curbs on rice exports


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🚨September 01 2023 | Friday🚨

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Mains Keywords 🔑

1. Narco Terror Network
Narcotics as a terror tool by one stakeholder against other. (Eg: Pak actions in Punjab)


Pre related📝

1. Van Gujjar Tribe
2. World Sanskrit day
• First in 1969
• Celebrated on last Poornima of Shravan month
3. Revise Kokborok language here


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Not counting in
2. Managing conflict, cherishing diversity, nurturing oneness (interesting read from LS Speaker)
3. Australian schools lead revival of fading indigenous languages
4. Haryana’s Parivar Pehchaan Patra (read about the scheme)
5. A bigger BRICS

TH
1. A progressive UCC must protect the child’s best interests
2. Infrastructure shortfalls, low budgets worsen mental health issues in India


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🚨September 02 2023 | Saturday🚨

3 imp. posts today with notes on Blog👇🏻

• Why L1 picked for AdityaL1 (and imp notes) here
• One Nation One Election from 1952 to 2023 notes here
• Competition Commission of India clears Vistara-Air India merger


Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Fungi
• Nourish the soil, create carbon sinks, and sustains creatures
• Crucial as clean up committee of the nature
• Declared as one of 3 trinity of earth: Flora, Fauna and Funga


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. Tharman Shanmugaratnam (of Indian origin) is set to be new President of Singapore (GS2: Diaspora)


Pre related🗒

1. Typhoon Saola: Developing in Hong Kong

2. Cabinet Committee on Parliament Affairs | Parliament sessions
• 10 ministers, Law Minister & MEA are special invitees
• Decides date & duration of the parliament
• 6 months must not elapse b/w 2 sessions; adopted from GoI Act 1935
• National Commission to Review Working of Constitution recommended min 100 days


Quotes💭

- Indian Election Commission delivers cheapest election in the world; one dollar spent per vote


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. The good and sobering (imp. for contextual learning)
2. Missing in G20- the road safety (read for GS2 answers on What more could be done in G20)
3. Special session of the parliament (notes summarized above, can skip reading)

TH
1. China's economic slowdown, its ripple effect (Imp read for GS3)
2. Seven years on, mission to clean Ganga remains a work in progress


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