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🚨 10 November 2023 | Friday 🚨

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Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. CBI

• Independent legal person with a separate legal identity outside the Union of India
(Centre in SC)


Pre-related 📄

1. Centre for Advanced Financial Research & Learning

• An independent body set up by RBI
• Publishes India Finance Report

2. Euclid

• Wide angle telescope launched by European Space Association
• Purpose: Create a 3D map of universe, first of its kind

3. Iwo Jima (Ioto)

• Off its sourthern coast in Japan, unnamed undersea volcano erupted
• Leading to emergence of a new island

4. Psoriasis

• An autoim­mune disease that manifests as rashes usually on the face, elbows, knees and later spreads across the skin


Stats📈

• NITI: Indians escaping Multi-dimensional poverty (2015-2021) 13.5 cr
• WHO: 1/4 of world’s TB patients in India


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Shadows of Risk (GS3, Economy)
2. A fight to the end (GS2, Health)
3. India, US and the AI bridge (GS2, IR)
4. Best of both sides (GS3, Environment)
5. 100,000 galaxies in a single frame: the promise of Euclid (GS3, S&T)
6. UNESCO declares Gwalior 'city of music' (GS1, Art & Culture)

TH
1. Acknowledge India's economic successes too (GS3, Economy)
2. The Agartala-Akhaura rail link (GS2, IR)
3. Why has the govt issued a directive on deepfakes? (GS3, S&T)


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🚨 11 November 2023 | Saturday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Double embodiment

• Refers to women's unwilling umembodiment online
• As they are disproportionately "bodied" i.e. over-identified with their physical characteristics, as compared to men in the offline world
• Similar objectification awaits them online

2. Baler

• A machine for off-site management of farm stubble
• Compresses agricultural residue into manageable and transportable bales


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. A new branch of Mitti Cafe, run by differently abled opened in SC (GS2, Social Justice)


Pre-related📄

1. Ice Sheets

• It is essentially a mass of glacial ice that covers more than 50,000 sq km of land - large enough to blanket entirety of Uttarakhand
• 2 major Ice sheets today: Greenland ice sheet and Antarctica ice sheet
• Together contain about 2/3rd of all freshwater on Earth


Quotes 💭

• Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that ~ Martin Luther King Jr


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Laying Parali to rest (GS3, Environment)
2. The rice of the matter (GS3, Environment)
3. The unequal deepfake risk (GS3, S&T)
4. Rapid melting of ice sheet in west Antarctica now unavoidable (GS3, Environment)
5. Seeding clouds to clean the air (GS3, Environment)

TH
1. Revamping the criminal justice system to fit the bill (GS2, Polity)
2. The US's signal of a huge digital shift (GS2, IR)
3. Unending ordeal (GS2, Education)

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🚨 12 November 2023 | Sunday 🚨

Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Functional Food

• Minimally processed whole foods
• Can be fortified, enriched or enhanced foods
• eg: dry fruits, juice, eggs, cereals, fruits, veggies,

2. Informational Capitalism

Control of information amplified via big tech, an economic logic post-industrialism


Pre related📄

1. Tiau River (see map image)

• Origin: Mizo hills, northern Mizoram
• Forms India-Myanmar international border for a brief length
• Meets Tuipui river in Myanmar


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🚨 14 November 2023 | Tuesday 🚨

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Mains Keys 🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. 84th Amendment 2002 froze the number of Lok Sabha seats until the first Census after 2026 (GS2, Polity)


Pre-related 📄

1. Types of Equity Funds

a) Active Funds: These funds rely on professional fund managers who decide whether to buy, hold, or sell underlying securities and in stock selection

b) Passive Funds: Fund manager has a passive role; buy, hold or sell decisions driven by benchmark/stated index

2. World Diabetes Day

• Observed on 14 November
• Theme 2023: Access to diabetes care


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Affirming priorities (GS2, IR)
2. For content's sake (GS2, Polity & Policy)
3. A bond of secrecy (GS, Polity)
4. With a little help from the Sun (GS3, Environment)
5. Easing wheat, rising rice (GS3, Agriculture)
6. Tracked while on bail: How GPS anklets work (GS3, Tech)
7. Once upon a time, a plan to join Red Sea with Mediterranean through Israel (GS2 IR, GS3 Trade)

TH
1. Enhancing representation, for a just electoral system (GS2, Polity)
2. Remission of diabetes, desirable, but not essential (GS2, Health)
3. Realism, not machismo, to counter terror (GS3, Terrorism)
4. Community rights and forest conservation (GS3, Environment)


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🚨 15 November 2023 | Wednesday 🚨

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Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Digital Public Infrastructure

• Defined in G20 Framework for Systems of Digital Public Infrastructure
• A set of shared digital systems used to drive development, inclusion, innovation, trust and competition and respect human rights and fundamental freedoms

2. Graded Inequality

• By BR Ambedkar
• Assigning different levels of inequality and privilege to different castes


Stats📈

• National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation: 4 out of 5 organ recipients - men (1995-2021)


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Arms and the Man and AI (GS2, IR; GS3 Tech)
2. Dal-Roti Inflation (GS3, Economy)
3. Nine things to do for clean air (GS3, Environment)
4. Secrecy and no tax - reason why Indians look at Cyprus (GS3, Taxation)

TH
1. Bridge to nowhere (GS2, IR)
2. Search and seizure (GS2, Polity & Policy)
3. A Norwegian perspective of India's digital journey (GS2, IR)
4. The economy of a world without work (GS3, Economy)
5. How does an electric battery work and what are the different types? (GS3, Science)


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Tausif Ali | Story of Shami’s father

A dominant, passionate fast bowler in Amroha, Uttar Pradesh

Hailing from a farmer family, life was tough

Things happened and boom! He has to go back home

Leaving cricket forever, he ‘settles’

The dream dies and Tausif is now farming to raise his family

A few years and 4 sons later, he started training all of them himself

While he did that for almost a decade, one of them was exceptional

Tausif did not want to risk it with this ‘god-gifted’ child!

He packed bags to take him to Badruddin in Moradabad, a local famous coach

Badruddin made the chap bowl and damn! DID HE BALL WELL?

This child was indeed different!

His ups and down life put him to test many a times

But he came back, ALWAYS!
He is Shami. Muhammad Shami. ❤️

This Indian bowler who makes ball dance to his tunes like magic is sweats heavy in practice

Point being?

If you are stuck or feeling stagnant, know that you are not alone

It happens!

But what matters is how you bounce back.

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🚨 16 November 2023 | Thursday 🚨

Mains Keys 🗝

1. IPEF members (including India, US) ink IPEF Supply Chain Resilience Agreement to cut dependence on China (GS2, IR)

2. Worli Koliwada, Mumbai: 4 sq km radius where Hindus, Muslims & Christians have been cohabiting for centuries (GS1, Society)


Pre-related 📄

1. PM Janjati Nyaya Maha Abhiyan

• To ensure last-mile welfare scheme delivery & protection for PVTGs
• Revise PVTGs here

2. Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra

• A nationwide programme to reach out to all villages and include those eligible for various schemes


3. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

• 21-member ("economies"), regional economic forum estbd in 1989
• To leverage growing interdependence of Asia-Pacific for prosperity through regional economic integration
• India NOT a member, formally requested to join in 1991


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. Ease of control (GS2, Polity & Policy)
2. Say Indian cheese (GS1, Culture)
3. The cost of ambivalence (GS2, Policy)
4. To build tunnel, rock must be thoroughly examined (GS3, Infra)

TH
1. Life over death (GS2, Polity)
2. As Gaza war rages, waiting for the other shoe to drop (GS2, IR)
3. The price of persistent federal frictions(GS2,Polity)


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🚨 17 November 2023 | Friday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Hallucinate

• Novel usage in context of AI
• "When an artificial intelligence hallucinates, it produces false information"
• Why? AIs can learn from factually inaccurate sources or produce inaccuracies while processing

2. Gesture Politics
• Political actions or positions taken mainly to influence public opinion, typically requiring little effort or having no significant impact


Pre-related 📄

1. Chikangunya's 1st vaccine

• A disease characterised by severe joint pain and impaired mobility, plus fever
• Viral infection, transmitted by Aedes aegypti & Aedes albopictus
• Ixchiq: 1st vaccine approved by US's FDA


Quote(s) 💭

• When people throw stones at you, you turn them into milestones ~ Sachin Tendulkar


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. When Xi met Biden (GS2, IR)
2. Her knock on closed doors (GS2, Social Justice)
3. India and the US-China truce (GS2, IR)
4. Crime of 'adultery': What SC ruled and why (GS2, Policy)

TH
1. Widening divide (GS3, Internal Security)
2. Challenging the Electoral Bond Scheme (GS2, Polity)
3. Branded, generic and missing ingredient of quality (GS2, Health)
4. Should elections be funded? (GS2, Polity)
5. On the sub-categorisation within castes (GS2, Polity & Policy)


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13 Articles related to Constitutional Bodies

Find Mains PYQs in end to know how to use 'em


• A 76: AG

• A 148: CAG

• A 165: Advocate General (for states)

• A 243K: State EC

• A 263
Inter state council

• A 279A
GST Council (via 101 Amendment Act)

• A 280
Finance Commission

• A 315-323
UPSC/State PSC

• A 324: ECI

• A 338: NCSC

• A 338A: NCST

• A 338B: NCBC (via 102nd Amendment Act)

• Article 350B
Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities


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a) "The Attorney-General is the chief legal adviser and lawyer of the GoI. Discuss" (UPSC CSE Mains 2019)

Mention the Article 76 Attorney General in Intro to score brownie points!

b) Discuss the role of the NCBC in wake of its transformation from a statutory body to a constitutional body. (UPSC CSE Mains 2022) (8/8)

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🚨 18 November 2023 | Saturday 🚨

Pre-related 📄

1. Global South Summit

• Second edition being held in India
• Theme: "Together, for Everyone's Growth, with Everyone's Trust"
• To share key outcomes from G20 meetings in India


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. High and Low (GS2, Polity)
2. A stake in stability (GS2, IR)
3. COP28 in Dubai: What to expect from climate meeting (GS3, Environment)
4. The new flare-up in Myanmar (GS2, IR; focus on impact on India)
5. Proposed India-UK FTA (GS2, IR)

TH
1. Building the floor (GS2, IR)
2. The geopolitical fallout of the Israel Hamas war (GS2, IR)
3. State of economy - temper the euphoria (GS3, Economy)


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🚨 19 November 2023 | Sunday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Neuropeptides

• Signalling molecules in brain that regulate many physiological functions, including digestion, metabolism and sleep


Mains Keys🗝

1. AI-powered chemist makes oxygen from Martian meteorites and AI-powered (better, faster & more accessible) weather forecasting performed from Google (GS3, S&T; Applications of AI)


Pre-related 📄

1. Kadalundi Mudflat Ecosystem

• Located in Kozhikode, in estuary of Kadalundipuzha river
• Under threat: Shrinking and hence depriving prey to thousands of migrant shorebirds
• Kadalundi-Vallikunnu Community Reserve: Being popularised for ecotourism by widening expanse of mangroves


Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH
1. Why has the China-Pakistan corridor stalled? (GS2, IR)
2. Why are people fleeing Myanmar for Mizoram? (GS3, Internal Security; focus on implications on NE India)
3. Limited peace, unlimited tensions (GS2, IR; GS3, Border Management)


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