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🚨 28 November 2023 | Tuesday 🚨

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Mains Key 🗝

1. Orphan quota introduced in DU (GS2, Social Justice)


Pre-related 📄

1. Teenage Galaxies

• Galaxies w/ unique chemical DNA
• Indicates formation of decent no. of stars but still growing rapidly

2. Transposons (jumping genes)

• Dangerous little pieces of DNA
• Can insert themselves into different regions of genome
• Potential to cell damage & death

3. Article 253

• Legislation to fulfil int’l commitments by parliament


Quote💭

• Democracy is never a thing done, it is always something that a nation must be doing ~ Archibald MacLeish


Stats📈

• ~ 30 lakh workers die every year owing to work related accidents & diseases (ILO)


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. The diplomat's challenge (GS2, IR)
2. Once upon a three-fifth person (Read for awareness)
3. In DBT, D is for dignity (GS2, Policy)
4. Rat-hole mining: risky practice being used in tunnel rescue (GS1, Geography)
5. Growing more from less (GS3, Agriculture)


TH

1. The many grave risks confronting the world today (Essay)
2. It's time to revamp the structure of the Supreme Court (GS2, Polity)
3. Can dollarisation save an economy? (GS3, Economy)
4. Fibre optic cables: its origins, working and different functions (GS3, S&T)


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🚨 29 November 2023 | Wednesday 🚨


Pre-related 📄

1. Risk Management by banks

a) Credit Risk
• Risk entailed by a borrower
• Being unable to meet their obligations/defaulting on commitments

b) Risk Weights
• Essential tools for banks to manage credit risk

2. Mule Bank Accounts
• Typically bought over by fraudsters from their original users
• Often used to deposit money gathered through online scam

3. Imphal

• Latest & technologically most advanced navy warship
• 3rd among 4 Project 15B stealth guided missile destroyers
• Crest has
a) Kangla-Sa: Mythical being from Manipur history, symbolic as protector of its people
b) Kangla Palace: Imp archaeological site of Manipur


Stats 📈

• ~ 4.43 civil & criminal cases pending in courts (National Judicial Data Grid)
• > 1.5 lakh undertrials in central jails (Prison Statistics India, 2021)


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Combating Fraud (GS3, Economy & Cyber Security)
2. A swing in the Maldives (GS2, IR)
3. After 26/11, a new terror (GS3, Internal Security)
4. Who's Milei, what's dollarisation (Focus on understanding the concept)
5. Behind unseasonal rain & lightning strikes in Gujarat (GS1, Geography)
6. Six key climate change terms (Read for quick revision)

TH

1. A non-starter (GS2, Polity)
2. The challenge of maritime security in the Global South (GS2, IR)
3. The need to disclose political donations (GS2, Polity)
4. RBI's latest move to increase risk weights for lending (GS3, Economy)


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3. To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want.

4. Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

5. Manpower without Unity is not a strength.

6. Many will start fast, few will finish strong.

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🚨 30 November 2023 | Thursday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Tropicalisation

• Mass movement of marine life
• Poleward movement of tropical species due to ocean warming
• Tropicalisation Hotspot: Mediterranean Sea

2. Sovereign AI Infrastructure

• AI ecosystem to be developed in India
• Focus on real life use cases in healthcare, agriculture, governance etc


Mains Key 🗝

1. Centre to provide drones to 15,000 women SHGs for use in agriculture (GS3, Agriculture)


Pre-related 📄

1. Halal Certificates

• Halal means "Permissible" , opposed to haram (prohibited) in Islam
• This certificate means product is fit to be consumed by followers of Islam
• Issued by Islamic bodies:
a) Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind's Halal Unit
b) Halal Shariat Islamic Law Board
• Context: Banned by UP Govt within state (not exports)

2. Lantana camara
• An invasive weed, used to made sculptures
• Context: Elephant Sculptures displayed outside Vidhana Soudha, Bengaluru


Stats 📈

• Decrease in Urban unemployment rate (PLFS):
7.2 % (July-Sep 2022) to 6.6% (July-Sep 2023)


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Stepping up, together (By PM Modi)
2. Indja at the climate summit (GS3, Environment)
3. History of UNLF (GS3, Internal Security)

TH

1. Women's political empowerment (GS2, Social Justice)
2. How universities and industry can collaborate (GS2, Education)
3. Understanding rat-hole mining (GS1, Geography)


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🚨 1 December 2023 | Friday 🚨

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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. The leader India needs to be (GS2, IR)

TH
1. Broadcast regulation 3.0, commissions and omissions (GS2, Polity & Policy)
2. Understanding simultaneous elections (GS2, Polity)
3. The spread of AIDS can be stopped with science-backed protocols (World AIDS Day today)


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🚨 2 December 2023 | Saturday 🚨

Mains Key 🗝

1. Nepal becomes 1st South Asian country to institutionalise marriage equality: 1st official same-sex marriage registered (GS1, Society)


Pre-related 📄

1. Loss and Damage Fund

• To provide financial assistance to developing countries
• To handle climate disasters like floods or other extreme weather events
• Announced at COP27, approved at COP28

2. Field Marshal Sam

• Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw
• Parsi Major (at the time of partition) who decided to stay in India
• Served in 16th Punjab Regiment and 5th Gorkha Rifles
• Led important military missions like 1971 war against Pakistan

3. Lalit Kala Akademi

• Autonomous & democratic organization
• Under aegis of Ministry of Culture
• Established in New Delhi
• Regional centres & sub-centres througout India

4. Interpol

• 100th anniversary this year
• Revise it here


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. New India, new diplomacy (GS2, IR)
2. The GDP growth surprise (GS3, Economy)
3. Loss and damage fund approved at COP28 (GS3, Environment)

TH

1. Finding funds (GS3, Environment)
2. Improving the capability of the Indian State (GS2, Role of Civil Services)


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🚨 3 December 2023 | Sunday 🚨

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Mains Keys 🗝

1. Dilli Gramodaya Abhiyan: to develop urban villages with upgraded infra, landscape & civic services (GS1, Urbanization)

2. Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN)'s 4th phase approved, ropes in eminent scholars from across the world to teach at Indian universities (GS2, Education)

3. Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka extend visa free entry to Indian tourists (GS2, IR)


Pre-related 📄

1. Global Renewables Energy Efficiency Pledge

• Signed during COP28
• To triple worldwide installed renewable energy generation capacity to at least 11,000 GW
• To double the global average annual rate of energy efficiency improvements by >4% by 2030
• India, China NOT part of it

2. Angiogenesis

• Development of new blood vessels
• Important during tissue development
• To restore blood flow to injured tissues
• Limited by restraining size of endothelial cells

3. Sub-Neptunes

• Planets with radii b/w that of the Earth & Neptune
• Found in close-in orbits around more than half of all Sun-like stars
• Composition, formation, evolution not well understood yet


Quote 💭

• The majority will have its way, but minority must have its say : CJI


Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH

1. Why is COP28 summit focusing on health? (GS3, Environment)


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🚨 4 December 2023 | Monday 🚨

Mains Key 🗝

1. Bucket Filters
• Easy-to-use water filters
• Being used in Kenya
• Short-term solution in areas with scarce & polluted water
(GS3, Environment)


Pre-related 📄

1. Grandmaster

• Chess title awarded by FIDE since 1950
• To those with performance rating > 2600 in a FIDE tournament
• Valid for life, unless stripped for a proven offence like cheating

2. Global Warming Potential

• Measure of warming caused by a substance relative to that due to same mass of CO2
• GWP100 (measures over a century at a time) :
CO2 < Methane < Nitrous Oxide < Sulphur hexafluoride

3. Marapi Volcano

• In Indonesia's West Sumatra
• Erupted on Sunday

4. Michaung

• Cyclone in Bay of Bengal


Stats 📈

1. NCRB : Capital Crimes (2022)

• Max no of crimes a/g women among 19 metros for 3rd consecutive year
• At least 3 rape cases registered every day


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Chouhan showed, BJP reaped (GS2 Policy, GS3 Agriculture)
2. What is All India Judicial Service, why it has failed to become a reality (GS2, Polity)
3. Mizoram: how are polls schedules decided? (GS2, Polity)

TH

1. India, disability inclusion and the power of 'by' (GS2, Social Justice)
2. On re-criminalising adultery (GS2, Polity & Policy)


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🚨 5 December 2023 | Tuesday 🚨

Mains Key 🗝

1. AIIMS Delhi to open a Centre of Excellence for transgender healthcare (GS2, Social Justice)


Pre-related 📄

1. Places in News

a) Essequibo
• Vast, oil rich region in Guyana
• Disputed by Venezuela

b) Lorraine
• Former coal mining region near French-German border
• Potential mammoth cache of White-Hydrogen

2. Pilatus PC-7 MK II

• Low-wing, turbo-prop aircraft
• In operation since 1970s
• Tandem seating (cadet in front, instructor behind)
• Used as ab initio trainer by over 20+ air forces in world


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. The fossil fuel question (GS3, Environment)
2. Why is Cyclone Michaung, headed to Andhra coast, an unusual storm? (GS3, Disaster Management)
3. Centres of Inclusion (GS2, Social Justice)

TH

1. The need to transform agri-food systems (GS3, Agriculture)
2. Mapping the socio-economic changes in lower Cauvery delta (GS1, Society; GS3 Economy)


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🚨 6 December 2023 | Wednesday 🚨

Mains Key 🗝
(Use as examples in your Answers)

1. India provides $250mn line of credit to Kenya in agri sector (GS2, IR)


Pre-related 📄

1. Kiwi

• Chocolate-coloured nocturnal bird
• Native to New Zealand
• Now mostly found in remote parks or islands
• Context: After decades of decline, bred again in wild in Wellington

2. Sensex

• Index of 30 most traded company stocks at the Bombay Stock Exchange


Stats 📈

• 1/3rd of India's coastline is vulnerable to erosion (National Centre for Coastal Research)


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Vows for the planet (GS2, IR; GS3, Environment)
2. Win-win, provider to consumer (GS2, Policy)
3. This flood, that flood: Deluge in Chennai & memories of 2015 (GS3, Disaster Management)

TH

1. Understanding how the GPS works (GS3, S&T)


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