Aspirants who find it confusing to remember Apogee and Perigee (the positions of the moon wrt earth)

Here's a trick👇🏻

• 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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🚨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🚨

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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🚨

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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🤯

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🚨September 07 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Global Common

• Parts of planet falling outside sovereignty of any state.
• Typically used to describe supra national & global resources domain
• UN defined global commons:
- high seas
- atmosphere
- Antarctica
- outer space

2. 3 important changes in post pandemic world order

• Shift away from GDP-centric view to human-centric view
• Recognising importance of resilience & reliability in global supply chains
• Collective call for boosting multilateralism through reform of global institutions


Mains Keys 🗝
(Use as examples in GS answers)

1. Japan objects to China’s new map showing territories of neighbours (India included) as its own (GS2 IR)
2. Section 77 of RP Act 1951: Election candidates to keep a/c of expenditure incurred on elections from "date on which he has been nominated" till "date of declaration of result" (GS2 RP Act; read the clipping coming next)


Quote(s)💭

- Interconnected world means our challenges across domains are interlinked Narendra Modi

- Simplicity is ultimate form of sophistication


Reading recommendations🗞

IE
1. Lift off and the law (GS3: Space)
2. This is G20 for we, the people (imp multidimensional article by PM Modi)
3. Our children on brink (GS2: Mental Health policy)

TH
1. Bridging the malnutrition gap, the Bemetara way (Poverty & Malnutrition)
2. For an expanse of blue, with air so clean (note viable solutions)
3. How unemployment is measured? (Comprehensive article)
4. Taking G­20 to the last mile, leaving none behind (same as IE article by PM)


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Representation of People Act 1951 has a unique loophole that is highlighted in the first highlight of this clipping

- Section 77 of RPA 1951 in second highlight

- Law commission recommendation in the third highlight of the above clip

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🚨September 08 2023 | Friday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Proliferation Financing
N. Korea's reliance on arms sale to fund its (nuclear) weapons development

2. G2-A2
• G2: Sino-US rapprochement
• A2: Sino-India deal as part of broader Asia-for-Asian agreement

3. Heat Index aka Apparent temperature

- Measure of how temperature feels to humans after taking into account the relative humidity & air temperature
- High humidity during heatwaves lead to heat stress (i.e.body unable to get rid of heat leading to increased heart rate) & heat related health issues in humans


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in the answers)

1. Lyngdoh Committee recommendations read here


Quote(s)💭

- Language is a vehicle to transfer information, ideas and emotions.
- Dialogue and diplomacy form the only path to resolution


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE

1. Critical for green future (Good conclusion by minister)
2. Without sperm/egg, how scientists grew whole model of human embryo (GS3 SnT)

TH (2 Good articles on Koreans today)

1. Disappearing languages, vanishing voices (V. IMP for GS1 Culture)
2. Finding Seoul in Indo-Pacific (Note how RoK is finding its place in global diplomacy)
3. Impact of RBI's lending guidelines
4. Ukraine war: the issues with Russia’s arms purchases from North Korea
5. Providing support to women dealing with the unbearable pain of vaginismus (Recommended to all women)


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India to open embassy in Dili, Timor Leste; a small country to the east of Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia

A fresh decision taken up as PM was at ASEAN

Thinking of hosting a book club Meetup around Karol Bagh in Delhi.

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🚨September 09 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. India working towards brighter future by:
- Galvanising green initiatives as One Earth
- Promoting inclusive growth as One Family
- Synergising technology for One Future

2. Rip and Replace project (US)
Mandates US companies tear out telecom equipment made by Chinese firms (India already did this with launch of 5G)

3. 4Cs pushing negative sentiments
COVID19, Conflict, Climate Change, Cost of living Crisis

4. Uniform, Unified and zero tolerance approach to terror


Pre related🗒

1. Wagh Nakh
• Tiger claws of Shivaji maharaj used to kill Afzal Khan
• To be brought back from the U.K. by MH Govt.


Quote(s)💭

- Music expresses that which cannot be put into the words Victor Hugo


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Agents of global well being (Health Policy & IR)
2. Takeaways from the thali economics (read for an idea)

TH
Can skip reading today

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🚨September 10 2023 | Sunday🚨

100k+ aspirants have read the G20 story, have you?

Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. Badai Bazaar in Malappuram (GS1)
A 'badai' place for elderly to come and chat with their friends, Badai means bragging or boasting

Quote(s)💭

• "We believe that connectivity is the source not only for fostering trade but also trust" - Narendra Modi


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Page 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 (Run your eyes through the basics for G20, don't lose sleep over it)

TH
1. Page 6, 7, 13 (basic read, don't lose sleep over it)
2. Scientists grow a model of human embryo in lad
3. Southeast Asia’s source of stability (ASEAN)

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