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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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Friends, I found mismatch in available material summarizing Supreme Court Cases for UPSC GS2

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• Established popular cases
• Current Affairs cases for UPSC 2024

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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 🚨

Read about Mahua Moitra's Expulsion Case from UPSC perspective here

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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🚨 10 December 2023 | Sunday 🚨

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Pre-related 📄

1. Visceral Leishmaniasis (aka Kala Azar)

• Parasitic infection transmitted by sandflies
• Causes fever, weight loss, spleen & liver enlargement
• Left untreated, fatal in 95% of cases
• Context: India set to achieve its elimination target this year
(Bangladesh became 1st country to do so in October 2023)


2. Siberian Tigers in Indian Zoos

• 2 brought from Cyprus
• As part of exchange programme
(2 Red Pandas sent from India)
• To Darjeeling's Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park
(Largest high-altitude zoo in India)
• Last such Siberian Tiger died in 2011 at Nainital Zoo


3. Green Turtles

• Found in Mediterranean Sea
• Sex of offspring dependent on incubation temperature
• Context: Increase in their nesting range due to global warming


4. Electroporation

• A gene delivery technique
• Genetic recombination in organsims due to electric discharge by certain animals
• Example: Electric eels in Amazon River


5. Honeyguide

• Small African bird
• Lead humans to wild bees' nests
• Rare example of human-wild animals cooperation


Stats 📈

• > 2.4 lakh POCSO cases pending trial in Fast Track Special Courts (India Child Protection Fund)


Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH

1. What does a special package mean for PVTGs? (GS2, Social Justice)
2. Why did Michaung bring so much rain? (Focus on understanding cyclone intensification)
3. Are crimes against women on the rise? (GS1, Society; GS2, Social Justice)


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With 370 abrogation certified by Supreme Court,

I have written a detailed blog on life post 370, challenges, progress, way forward etc. (all from UPSC perspective)

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Note: Revise PM Vishwakarma Scheme from UPSC perspective here

🚨 11 December 2023 | Monday 🚨

Pre-related 📄

1. ELIZA Effect

• When people think computer programs/systems are capable of human emotions/functions due to way they respond to user input
• Example: Meaningful interaction with ChatGPT comparable to human conversation


2. Fractals

• Ones which exhibit self-similarity
• Irregular, complex patterns at all scales & in all views, near or far
• Example: Design of human fingerprints, stumps of tress, shells of snails, human veins etc


3. Pinna Nobilis (Noble Pen Shell)

• Huge Clams that filter sea water, allowing other organisms to flourish
• Context: Surge in numbers in Adriatic waters near Croatia (earlier was on verge of extinction)


4. Prayers at monuments

• ASI Rules: Allowed at protected sites only if they were "functioning places of worship" at time of taking charge
• Example: Namaz at Taj Mahal every Friday


5. Operation Storm Makers II

• Interpol exercise a/g fraud schemes fuelled by victims of human trafficking


Stats 📈

• 39/50 Most polluted cities in the world are Indian (World Air Quality Report 2022)


Quotes 💭

• The basic structure of our Constitution, like a north star, guides & gives a certain direction to interpreters & implementers of the Constitution when the path ahead is convoluted
• Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act ~ Albert Einstein


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. A new judicial imagination (GS2, Polity)
2. What is Universal Declaration of Human Rights (GS2, Polity & Social Justice)
3. 'Historic' deal by EU (GS3, S&T)

TH

1. Calibrating a strategy for India's future growth (GS3, Economy)


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Note: Read about Article 370 from UPSC perspective here

🚨 12 December 2023 | Tuesday 🚨

Revise important reports of global agencies here

Mains Key 🗝

1. Pakadwa Vivah

• Social evil a/g law, in Bihar
• Marriage of groom by abduction
• Eligible bachelors, mostly in 20s, can 'command' dowry upto ₹25 lakh


Pre-related 📄

1. Multi-function Crypto-asset intermediaries

• Individual firms/group of affiliated firms
• Offer crypto based services, products, functions
• Primarily revolve around operating of trading platform
• Example: Binance, Bitfinex, Coinbase


Quotes 💭

• The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity ~ Aristotle


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. All that can be saved (GS3, Environment)
2. Constitutional integration (By PM Modi)

TH

1. Can Bihar increase its reservation pool? (GS2, Polity)


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🚨 13 December 2023 | Wednesday 🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Anarcho-capitalism
• Political philosophy calling for abolition of state
• Law & order to be controlled by pvt companies in free market

2. AI canvasser
• An AI robot kinda figure capable of real time conversations with people
• Knows 20+ languages, analyzes data faster & quicker decision making
• Used in American elections; classis Generative AI example

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Eyes on Kashmir (GS2 IR)
2. The go-to nation (GS2 IR)
3. Kidney transplants in India (GS1 Society, GS2 Policy)
4. Advocates Act (GS2 Acts)
5. Food vs fuel: case of sugar (read for awareness)
6. Pompe disease (read symptoms for awareness)

TH
1. Patent exclusions: Madras HC shows the way (GS3 IPR)
2. India's extreme rainfall corridor (GS3 Disaster)

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Note: Revise top news from CoP28 from UPSC perspective here

🚨 14 December 2023 | Thursday 🚨

Mains Keyword ✍️🏼

1. Consultocracy

• Permeation of consultants into very heart of government
• Diminshes traditional role, functions & capabilities of public servants


Pre-related 📄

1. Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS)

• Tech to capture CO2 at a source of emissions before it is released into atmosphere
• Sources like fossil fuel industry, industrial processes (steel, cement production)


2. CO2 Removal (CDR) Technologies

• Direct air capture: machines mimic trees & absorb CO2 to store it underground
• Enhanced rock weathering: Chemical breakdown of rocks


3. Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI)

• 29 member group largely led by democratic world
• To adopt a global risk-based approach to AI
• Includes India, US, UK etc
• Adopted New Delhi Declaration


4. International Tennis Hall of Fame

• Leandar Paes: Player category
• Vijay Amritraj: Contributor category
• First 2 Indians to get the honour


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. The Consultocracy (GS2, Polity & Policy)
2. Power play in Ladakh (GS2, Polity)
3. How 2 men leapt into LS, what the House security rules say (GS3, Internal Security)
4. Revised criminal reform Bills in Parliament (GS2, Polity)
5. COP28: Much done, but still not enough (GS3, Environment)

TH

1. End the uncertainty (GS2, IR)
2. Indians vulnerable to climate change-induced health issues (GS3, Environment)
3. How Islam got tangled in the web of global warfare (Read for awareness)
4. The limitations of CCS and CDR and their grip on future climate (GS3, Environment)


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