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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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🚨 7 December 2023 | Thursday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Types of Impact accounting

a) Production-based Accounting
• Measures impacts in the place where products are produced

b) Consumption-based Accounting
• Accounts at the point of consumption
• Attributes all impact to final products & consumers


Mains Key 🗝

1. Kajoli Early Childhood Education Model: based on play & peer learning, being experimented at grassroots in Bangladesh (GS2, Education)


Pre-related 📄

1. Pompe Disease

• Rare genetic disorder
• Due to deficiency of enzyme acid alpha-glucosidase (GAA)
• Causes glycogen- accumulation in cells, esp muscles
• Symptoms: Muscle weakness, respiratory & heart issues etc

2. Dhanvantri

• Considered God of Ayurveda & Medicine
• Context: Present in LOGO of National Medical Commission

3. Garba

• Gujarat's popular folk dance form
• Gets UNESCO tag of 'Intangible Cutlural Heritage'


Quotes 💭

• Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness, destroys liberty, and makes some virtues impracticable, & others extremely difficult ~ Samuel Johnson

• The health of a nation's democracy depends on the quality of its governance ~ Kofi Annan


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Bigger & Better (GS3, Economy)
2. Partners in uncertain times (GS2, IR)
3. Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module retraces steps to Earth orbit: why it matters (GS3, S&T)

TH

1. Navigating the US-China relationship (GS2, IR)
2. The role of special inquiry committees of Parliament (GS2, Polity)
3. Who is responsible for farming's impact on the environment? (GS3, Agri & Environment)


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🚨 8 December 2023 | Friday 🚨

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Pre related📄

1. Article 99 of UN Charter

• SecGen can bring any matter threatening int'l peace & security to Security Council

Quote💭

• You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure Margaret Thatcher

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. CoP & the new abnormal (GS3 Envt)
2. Google Gemini (GS3 S&T)
3. Melody in India-Italian ties (GS2 IR)
4. Mining for critical minerals: what's auction process, why's it important? (GS2 Policy)

TH
1. India’s growing neighbourhood dilemmas (GS2 IR)
2. Regulating deepfakes and AI in India (GS2 Policy)
3. Improved drug regimens for TB likely to reduce treatment time (GS2 Health policy)

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🚨 9 December 2023 | Saturday 🚨

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Pre-related 📄

1. Dodo

• Tubby flightless birds
• Extinct from Mauritius since 17th century
• Were hunted by Dutch sailors & dogs/cats etc that came long
• Context: Efforts to reintroduce underway

2. GNoME

• Graph Networks for Materials Exploration
• AI tool to predict structures of materials
• Application: Semiconductor designing, battery research etc

3. Lyfgenia & Casgevy

• Gene therapies for sickle cell disease
• Approved by US FDA
• Casgevy: 1st treatment based on CRISPR gene editing tech


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. State of geopolitics: signals from Putin visit to Saudi, UAE (GS2, IR)
2. How Google DeepMind's AI breakthrough could revolutionise chip, battery development (GS3, S&T)
3. Her choice (GS1, Society)

TH

1. India’s alarming ‘fixed dose combination’ problem (GS2, Health)
2. Bridge this deficit between India & Sri Lanka (GS2, IR)
3. An icy warning (GS3, Environment)


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