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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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🚨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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Timeline for coups in West/Central Africa

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• Apology for being Far [Apogee = Far]

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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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Note: Delay due to curating blog posts summarizing notes on multiple topics today

🚨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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Typhoon in Hong Kong would be a Cyclone in India and Hurricane in America(s)

Develop visual memory with this image.

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🚨September 03 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Atlantification

• Atlantic's warm waters diverted towards Arctic
• Disturbs stratification in Arctic causing heat fluxes leading to melting of sea ice
• Reason for Atlantification: ARCTIC DIOPLE (AD)
- AD associated with anticyclonic winds related to North America & cyclonic winds over Eurasia
- This pattern affects the inflow of water from North Atlantic through Fram strait (image below)

2. Pulikali
• 200+ years old Dance of the leopards
• Practised in Kerala (Thrissur majorly) during Onam celebrations


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. Using AI on X-Rays to to detect more TB cases (use in GS3 SnT)

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE

TH
1. Three-fourths of India’s irrigation sources run on electricity: study (Pg10, GS3 Irrigation)
2. Over half of Sri Lankans vulnerable: UNDP (Pg11)



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Fram strait

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🚨September 04 2023 | Monday🚨

Click on ONOE & Aditya L1 to revise them

Social Audit
• Measuring an organization's social & ethical performance
• Audit helps in narrowing gaps b/w goal/vision & reality between efficiency & effectiveness


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. A climate question for G20 (Read for agri and also for how to develop flow of an essay)
2. Transition without playbook (Imp for green energy transition)
3. ONOE: When a change in constitution need states' nod? (revise)
4. Bumper crops, yet high cereal prices (Read how this happens)
5. NK Singh interview (pg15 MUST READ)

TH
1. Measuring hunger across states (Issues related to hunger)
2. How streaming companies are using Hollywood writers' (read to know the issue, will soon come to India too)
3. The importance of testing menstrual products with human blood (IMP)

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🚨September 05 2023 | Tuesday🚨

Click on Aditya L1 to revise notes

Nothing major in newspaper today. 💪🏻

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. G20, a pathfinder
2. G20 work streams
3. Invasive species
4. Why govt rushed to ready an alternative to laptop licensing scheme?

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🚨September 06 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Keywords for G20
• Indian vision to G20:
Inclusive, Ambitious, Decisive, and Action-oriented

• G20 built on tenets of
Collective action & Inclusive partnerships

• Driver of sustainable growth, jobs and living standards
Global Value Chains (GVC)

2. Ecocide
Extensive loss, damage or destruction of ecosystems such that peaceful enjoyment by inhabitants has been or will be severely diminished


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. North & South, East vs West (IMP)
2. A bridge for the world (GS3 Inclusive growth)
3. What is black sea grain deal- and why is it significant? (read for imp pointers)
4. A short story of nation's name, from Rig Veda to constitution (read for awareness)
5. SEBI to launch one hour settlement of trades: How will benefit investors? (quick valuable read)

TH
1. The implications of the expansion of BRICS (Imp)
2. Laws governing forests of NE (tried compiling some notes from this but realized entire article is imp to be read for comprehensive understanding)
3. The various strategies of vaccine diplomacy (Read in light of Indian efforts & BRICS)
4. Criminalising wilful environmental damage is harder than it sounds (I have found very few articles as imp as this in last 1 year)


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Take a look at the names and location of these 3 ports of Ukraine.🫡

In news due to Black Sea Grain Initiative.

What's the deal? 🤔
Ukraine is one of the biggest exporters of food grains in the world. To tackle the post war food inflation, UN & Turkiye convinced Russia to let exports continue. Russia agreed provided it runs security checks on the cargo for arms, if any.

However, with Russia under sanctions, Putin walked out of the deal.

Kremlin issued a statement claiming that:👾
1. It will not return to the deal since promises made to it under the deal are not met. It is hard for Russia to export owing to payment restrictions, insurance, shipping & other logistics.
2. the Ukraine was exporting high and middle income countries while the deal was to ensure global food security.

To counter this, UN acknowledges that it is true but low poorer countries benefitted from prices cooling down. 😮

Further, Russia is in process to export grains to African countries for FREE🤯