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🚨October 2 2023 | Monday🚨


Mains keywords✍🏼

1. Spyware
• A malicious software designed to enter a device, gather sensitive data and forward it to a third party without user's consent
• Categorized as trojan, spyware, adware, tracking cookie and system monitors

2. Anticline
A ridge or fold of stratified rock in which the strata slope downwards from the crest


Pre related📄

1. Karman Line
• Line 100km above sea level
• Imaginary line demarcating earth's atmosphere from space
• An individual crossing this line is considered an astronaut
• Line demarcated in 1960s to regulate the airspace

2. Dept of Currency Management (RBI)
• The department responsible for design of rupee note


Quotes💭

• If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law - Winston Churchill


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. How Gandhi's image appeared on the Indian currency notes (read to know what all have been on INR notes)
2. Alarm over conocarpus, echo of faulty policies on invasive exotics (read for awareness on issue)
3. Protecting protected monuments (New way to look at heritage monuments underway)

TH
1. India's statistical performance on the global stage (read for awareness)
2. An ageing India needs age-responsive TB care (add to TB notes)
3. The largest climate action lawsuit against 32 countries (read the goals to know what EU faulted on)
4. Have household savings reduced? (start with reading the gist and see if you need to read whole based on your awareness)


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🚨October 3 2023 | Tuesday🚨

Pointers sharing implications of Bihar Caste Census on Indian Polity on the CSEWhy blog here

Pre related📄

1. Gandhi & Music
• Fav songs:
- Lead Kindly Light & Abide with me

• Hindi/Gujarati Bhajans
- Vaishnava jana toh taine kahie - Narsinh Mehta
- Ramdhun - Tulsidas's famed
- Ishawr allah tero naam composed by Pt. Vishnu Paluskar of Gwalior Gharana


Quote(s)💭

• To know music is to transfer it to life - Gandhi
• There can be no swaraj where there is no harmony, no music - Gandhi


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Canada's hollow moralpolitik (Read positive history of Ind-Can relations, GS2 IR)
2. A plan for the winter crop (read for awareness, GS3 Agri)
3. The helped protect the world from the coronavirus (read to revise types of vaccines, GS3 SnT)
4. 4 takeaways from Bihar survey (focus on 3rd point, GS2 Polity)

TH
1. Capturing the rains (read for an idea, GS3 Irrigation)
2. Building BRICS for the future (5 points for awareness, can also note, GS2 IR)
3. Counting deaths in prison (Something new, one seldom thinks about but imp)
4. Lagrange Points (science section, read for basic awareness; GS3 SnT)


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🚨 October 4, 2023 | Wednesday 🚨

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Mains Keywords✍️

1. Circular Migration

Form of migration wherein people move to another place (destination country) and back (country of migration) as per employment availability


Mains Keys🗝
(Use these as examples in Mains answers)

1. Mandatory oath against child labour in private and govt schools in Beed, Maharashtra - initiative by IAS (GS1 Society; GS2 Role of Civil Services)

2. Nanoparticles causing acute illnesses (GS3, S&T)


Pre-related📄

1. UMMEED
• Guidelines by MoE for suicide prevention
• Plan of action for schools

2. Revise UAPA here


Stats📈

• 107 MPs & MLAs have hate speech cases against them as in 2023: ADR (GS2, Polity)


Quote(s)💭

• All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life - Thomas Mann
• One good teacher is worth a thousand priests. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
• Courage is not the absence of fear, but its overcoming


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Stakes in Male (focus on para2, for (GS1, IR))
2. Historic with a small 'h' (GS1, Society)
3. Demand for jobs is falling, employment rate lower than in 2017 (Note the terms like LFPR, UER, ER (GS3, Economy)

TH
1. Using AI for audit techniques (Read to learn use of ethics AI in auditing (GS2, Polity))
2. The shutdown of the Afghan embassy (quick recap on India-Taliban relations, (GS2, IR))


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🚨 October 5 2023 | Thursday 🚨

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Mains Keywords✍

1. Climate 'polycrisis'
• Term by Adam Tooze
• Interconnected and compounding crises related to climate change that are affecting the planet not just in a few sectors but across several sectors and domains

2. Glacial Lakes
• Large bodies of water that sit in front of, on top of, or beneath a melting glacier
• Read about GLOF here

3. Carbon Accounting
• A way for companies to keep track of carbon they are producing, removing, storing and offsetting


Pre-related📄

1. Places in News
Lhonak Lake: North Sikkim

2. Revise ED here


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. A fraught border crossing (GS2, Diaspora)
2. Drawing lines in Cauvery waters (GS2, Polity)
3. Disaster in Sikkim: How do glacial lake outburst floods happen? (GS3, Disaster Management)

TH
1. Retribution for the south, accolade for the north (GS2, Polity)
2. Keeping tabs on carbon with an accounting system (GS3, Environment)
3. Women's quota, panchayats to Parliament (GS2, Polity, focus on impact of reservation)


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🚨 October 6 2023 | Friday 🚨

GS2 Notes on impact of Bihar caste survey here

Mains Keywords✍️

1. Green Drought

• Vegetation health & growth affected due to soil moisture stress
• May not lead to immediate visual sign of stress


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. Delhi Police to install variable message signboards for live traffic data (tech based solution)


Pre-related📄

1. Tiangong
• China's self-built space station

2. Sammakka Saralamma Jatara
• Biennial festival in Melugu, Telangana
• Among the leargest gatherings of tribal people in world


Quote(s)💭

• India’s national unity can be viewed as a three-dimensional construct - of castes, religions and regions
• It is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years - Abraham Lincoln
• Opposition is not necessarily enmity - Sigmund Freud


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Sikkim Warning (GS3, Disaster Management)
2. Value of their work (GS1, Society)
3. A bank for the future (GS2, Regulatory Bodies)
4. Nagorno-Karabakh confict and India (GS2, IR)
5. Delhi Liquor Case: ED charges against AAP leaders (GS2, Polity & Bodies)

TH
1. National unity, a three-dimensional view (GS1, Society)
2. Defusing the ticking time bomb called diabetes (GS2, Health)
3. Preparing for the grey, Page 11 (GS1, Society)


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🚨 October 7 2023 | Saturday 🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Can Do Spirit
• Reflected in Green Revolution by India


Mains Keys 🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. HCs to ensure hybrid mode hearings & be tech friendly (GS2, Judiciary & tech)


Pre-related📄

1. Second Thomas Shoal
• Located in South China Sea
• Disputed between China & Phillipines

2. Revise GRAP here


Quote(s)💭

• If India has a billion challenges, India also has a billion minds with the flame of innovation to overcome those challenges
• Farmers act as the pin that holds the world together


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. He was a true 'Kisan Vigyanik'... , Page 7 (By PM Modi for MS Swaminathan)
2. What women need (GS1, Society)
3. The art of letting it be (GS3, Economy)
4. Status quo on key rate: What happens now? (GS3, Economy)
5. TRAI cannot regulate OTT, says Tribunal (GS2, Regulatory Bodies)

TH
1. Aligning higher education with UN SDGs (GS2, Education)
2. Two out of five amphibians facing extinction threat due to climate change, Page 10 (GS3, Environment)


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🚨 October 8 2023 | Sunday 🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Xenotransplantation
• Transplantation of animal organs into humans

2. Attosecond
• One Quintillionth of a second (10^-18 seconds)
• Used in understanding mechanisms governed by electrons

3. Quantum Dots
• A small assembly of atoms
• aka Artificial Atoms since the dot behaves like an atom in some circumstances
• The electrons in these atoms are tightly bound with little space to move around, thus displaying quirky effects of quantum mechanics


Pre-related📄

1.National Wildlife Week
• Celebrated from October 2-8

2. R21/MatrixM
• Malaria vaccine
• Developed by University of Oxford and Serum Institute of India
• Approved by WHO

3. Ganges River Dolphin
• National Aquatic Animal
• IUCN: Endangered
• Schedule 1, WPA 1972


Reading Recommendations🗞

TH
1. Bhutan-China border demarcation talks inching to completion (GS2, IR)
2. How plastics affect our daily life (GS3, Environment)
3. Signifiicance of quantum dots in nanotechnology (GS3, S&T)
4. Why did Hamas launch a surprise attack on Israel?, Page 13 (GS2, IR)


PS: Nobel Prize concepts detailed in today’s TH, read as per your discretion & awareness levels

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🚨 9 October 2023 | Monday 🚨

Revise India-Israel relations here on my blog

Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Symbolic Capital
• By sociologist Pierre Bourdieu
• Capacity to shape the the perception of social reality

2. Sympatric
• Animal, plant species and populations within the same or overlapping geographical areas

3. Trajectory Correction Maneuvers
• By ISRO in case of trajectory errors after orbit-raising manoeuvre
• Done for Aditya L1; also done thrice during MOM
• Not new, part of mission plans since Chandrayan-1

4. Phonotaxis
• Movement by an animal in response to a sound
• Mostly among crickets, moths, frogs, etc


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. Agriculture and rural development banks to be computerised (GS3, Agriculture & tech)

2. Sensors powered by solar panel to monitor air pollution in Bihar (GS3, Environment)


Pre-related📄

1. Dhole/Asiatic Wild Dog
• Only Endangered wild pack-living canid in tropical Indian forests

2. UN International Day of Nonviolence
• October 2, Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary

3. Yom Kippur
• Fought between Egypt-Syria and Israel
• In 1973, Israel was caught unaware
• Day of Atonement, holiest day in Judaism


Quotes 💭

• Men, their natures not altering overnight, seek in every new order a continuance of the old ~ Marcel Proust
• Only the dead have seen the end of the war ~ George Santayana


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. The rise of services (GS3, Economy)
2. A Tragic Return (GS2, IR, more focus on last para)
3. Israel's moment of reckoning (GS2, IR)
4. The story of Vasily Arkhipov (add as a story for how to develop stories in essays)

TH
1. Toofan Al-Aqsa jolts West Asian geostrategic architecture (GS2, IR)
2. What caused the flood in Sikkim? (GS3, Disaster Management)
3. How the Digital India Act will shape the future of the country's cyber landscape (GS3, Science & Tech)


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🚨 10 October 2023 | Tuesday 🚨

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Mains Keywords✍️🏼

1. Intifada
• Arabic word, means to "shake of"
• Popular usage in Dec 1987
• Palestinians using it to describe their uprising against Israeli presence in West Bank and Gaza

2. Multimodal AI
• Users can engage with AI in several ways like images, sounds, videos, texts etc
• AI image generators like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney are examples
• Applications: automatic image caption generation, hateful meme detection, speech translation, etc


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. Kudumbashree: Kerala's "back to school" programme training enrolled women on weekends (GS2, Social Justice)

2. Sewa Mitra: Domestic services available on UP govt app (GS2, Governance)


Pre-related📄

1. Vilayati Kikar
• Native to Mexico
• Brought to Delhi by British in 1920s when national capital was built

2. Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK)
• GoI policy, deals exclusively with adolescent health
• Under purview of National Health Mission, State Govts responsible for implementation
• Setup of 'Adolescent Friendly Health Clinics'

3. Nobel Economics
• Nothing called Nobel in economics, it is Sveriges Riksbank Prize
• 3 women awarded: Claudia Goldin (2023), Esther Duflo (2019), Elinor Ostrom (2009)


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Gaza, a history of war (GS2, IR)
2. A straw in the whirlwind (GS2, IR)
3. Face the Climate (GS3, Environment)
4. Place the child at the centre (GS1, Society)
5. The shield J&K needs (GS3, Internal Security)

TH
1. Mental Health and the floundering informal worker (GS3, Economy)
2. India needs youth mental health focus to strike demographic gold (GS1, Society; 3 points of solution for your Mains answers)

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🚨 11 October 2023 | Wednesday 🚨

Revise the reports of imp global agencies here on CSEWhy blog

Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Cyclogenesis
• Indicator that denotes the chance of a cyclone forming


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. Prada collab with NASA to design spacesuits (GS1, Society & Globalization)


Pre-related📄

1. WACE Pattern
• Pattern of warm surface temperature over the Arctic and a large blob of cold surface temperatures over Eurasia
• Associated with upper level circulation changes that reach Indian Ocean

2. Rainbows

a) Formation
• Due to reflection & refraction of sun's rays by raindrops
• If sun is higher than 40 degrees, no rainbow
• When sun near horizon, whole circle of rainbow may be seen from high mountain

b) Double rainbows
• formed when sunlight is reflected twice within a raindrop
• with violet light that reaches the observers eye coming from higher raindrops & red light from lower raindrops


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. New Delhi, New Tel Aviv (GS2, IR)
2. War in Gaza, Page 15 (GS2, IR; read for awareness discretion)

TH
1. The Maldives, the evolution of a democracy (GS2, IR; focus on last para)
2. Women in the house (GS2, Polity; read/note at your discretion)
3. The impact of Claudia Goldin's work (GS1, Role of women)


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🚨 12 October 2023 | Thursday 🚨

Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Guardian Minister
• Polity innovation in Maharashtra
• Chosen from State Cabinet to represent a particular district
• De facto or "mini CM" of the district
• Ex-officio chairperson of District Planning Committee
• Responsible for controlling development funds, officer postings etc
(Valuable inputs from Kalam)

2. Unviable debt
• In context of Sri Lanka
• MEA Jaishankar's reflection on how debt shall be seen from sustainable service
• Alternatively, sustainable debt

3. Niobium
• Silvery metal with layer of oxide on its surface, resistant to corrosion
• Alloys containing niobium used in jet engines, beams, girders for buildings, oil & gas pipelines
• Main source: Columbite; found in Canada, Brazil, Australia, Nigeria etc

4. Eusociality
It is a remarkable level of social organization where individuals within a colony exhibit distinct roles and responsibilities such as:
• Division of labour
• Cooperative care of off-springs
• Overlapping generations


Pre-related📄

1. Operation Ajay
• Launched by India to bring home citizens from Israel-Hamas warzone
• Revise all such operations since 2014 in this post here

2. Marrakech Roundtable
• Discussion on "IMF policy priorities"
• Hosted by US


Quote(s)💭

• The best way to predict the future is to design it ~ Abraham Lincoln


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. The cost of cheap drugs (GS3, S&T)
2. Going nuclear (GS3, Environment)
3. It's not just lifestyle (GS2, Health)
4. War in Gaza (GS2, IR; read as per your awareness discretion)

TH
1. Concerns about govt's fact check unit (Read gist)


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