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🚨 29 December 2023 | Friday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Zionism & Anti-Semetism

• Zionism (occupation): Movement to establish a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel
• Anti-Semetism: Negative perception/hatred towards Jews

2. Zero-click exploit

• Malicious software that allows spyware installation on a device without owner's consent or any actions


Pre-related 📄

1. Mudiyettu

• Kerala's traditional temple ritual theatre
• Offshoot of Bhadrakali cult
• Based on tale of battle b/w Goddess Kali & demon Darika

2. Danube

• 2nd longest river in Europe
• Context: flood in Budapest


Reading Recommendations 🗞️

IE

1. Not zero sum (GS2, IR)
2. When real gets the power of artificial (GS3, AI)

TH

1. Despair in distress (read for awareness)
2. Old and strong (GS2, IR)
3. Decriminalising medical negligence (GS2, Policy)
4. Happy hours in Gurugram (GS1, Society)


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🚨 30 December 2023 | Saturday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Dummy Firm

• Entity created to serve as a front/cover for 1 or more companies
• Not capable of functioning independently
• Just to hide identities of real corporations

2. Choke Points

• Narrow passages that constrict shipping traffic
• Vulnerable to interdiction by states and pirates/terrorists
• Examples: Malacca Strait, Bab al Mandab Strait

3. Flag State

• State chosen by merchant ships to be registered in
• Has primary responsibility for maintenance of security & law enforcement on ships in int'l waters


Mains Key 🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

• Delhi Govt's Streetscaping Project: Redesigning Delhi roads to boost them to European standards (GS1, Urbanization)


Pre-related 📄

1. XPoSAT

• X-ray Polarimeter Satellite
• To be launched in ISRO's PSLV-C58 Mission
• ISRO's 1st dedicated scientific satellite for research in space based polarization measurements of X-ray emission from celestial sources
• 2 payloads: POLIX & XSPECT

2. Places in News: Varuna

• Village in Mysuru
• Context: Three 11th century Jain sculptures discovered


Reading Recommendations 🗞️

IE

1. First, don't panic (GS3, S&T)
2. Order at sea (GS2, IR & Maritime Policy)
3. A patchy climate report (GS3, Environment)
4. ULFA peace accord (GS3, Internal Security)

TH

1. A call for disability inclusion that must be heeded (GS2, Health policy)
2. Rift over relief (GS3, Disaster Management)


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🚨 31 December 2023 | Sunday 🚨

Mains Keyword ✍️🏼

1. Volcano Tourism

• Niche segment attracting 'lava chasers' to sites from Mexico & Guatemala, to Sicily, Indonesia & New Zealand
• To witness lava flows beneath molten red skies

2. Sin tax

• Imposed on goods & services which are perceived as harmful to society


Pre-related 📄

1. Magnificent 7 Group

• Indian women who have won individual Olympic medals
• Wrestler: Sakshi Malik
• Shutlers: Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu
• Boxers: MC May Kom, Lovlina Borgohain
• Weightlifters: K. Malleswari, S. Mirabai Chanu

2. Sec35 of UAPA

• Union Home Ministry can designate an "individual terrorist"

3. Places in News: Serbia

• A european nation
• Context: Political instability

4. INS Imphal

• Revise here


Quote 💭

• Jalmev Yasya, Balmev Tasya: One who controls the sea is all powerful


Reading Recommendations 🗞️

TH

1. Levy 20-30% health tax on food high in sugar, salt, fat (GS2, Health Policy)
2. What is the global fallout of two warfronts? (GS2, IR)
3. What may 2024 hold for the economy? (GS3, Economy)
4. Textile sector faces ESG challenges (Pg13)


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🚨 1 January 2024 | Monday 🚨

Pre-related 📄

1. Wolves

• Act as biocontrol agents
• Keep population of wild herbivores (nilgai, wild boars, etc) under control
• Context: Captive-bred wolves to be released into wild in Gujarat


Reading Recommendations 🗞️

IE

1. How two choke points could turn into a perfect storm for global trade (Pg 10)
2. On the Moon, and exploring new frontiers (GS3, Space)

TH

1. Floods and a 'preventive measure' that needs review (GS3, Disaster)
2. The government's OTT oversight (GS2, Regulatory Policy)


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🚨 2 January 2024 | Tuesday 🚨

Pre-related 📄

1. Pulsars

• Exotic stars, with Sun-like mass
• Often shine in X-rays, very high magnetic field


Quote 💭

• I acknowledge no other God, but the one God of truth & righteousness ~ Mahatma Gandhi


Reading Recommendations 🗞️

IE

1. XPoSat launch: what is ISRO's 1st mission of this yr (GS3, Space)
2. Why many US Allies have not joined its red sea security op (GS2, IR)
3. How the Northeast was 'invented' 52 years ago (GS1, History)

TH

1. Reigniting the flame of India-Korea defence cooperation (GS2, IR)
2. India's 1991 crisis & RBI Governer's role (GS3, Economy)
3. How radiocarbon dating revolutionised science (GS3, S&T)


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🚨 3 January 2024 | Wednesday 🚨

Mains Keyword ✍️🏼

1. NATO Dating

• Not Attached To Outcome Dating culture
• Popularised among GenZ to live memorable experiences


Pre-related 📄

1. Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO)

• Array of 1000s of antennas
• To be installed in remote radio-quiet locations in South Africa & Australia
• To operate as world's largest radio telescope
• Estbld as intergovtal org in 2021
• India involved since inception, participation in project approved by GoI


2. Volcanoes

a) Iceland
• Reykjavik Volcano
• Fagradalsfjall Volcano

b) Indonesia
• Mt Lewotobi Laki-Laki
• Mt Marabi

3. Places in News: Ishikawa

• Earthquake in Japan
• On the main island of Honshu


Reading Recommendations 🗞️

IE

1. Why the West endures (GS2, IR)
2. Designated Terrorist (GS3, Terrorism)
3. America's climate failures (GS3, Climate Change)

TH

1. The global nuclear order is under strain (GS2, IR)
2. Raj Bhavan needs radical reforms (GS2, Polity)
3. Transforming narratives: unravelling India's transition in slum definitions (GS1, Urbanization)


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🚨 4 January 2024 | Thursday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Cyber Kidnapping

• Crime where 'kidnappers' convince victim to hide & then contact loved ones for ransom
• 'Kidnappers' monitor the victim online through video call platforms


Pre-related 📄

1. Short Selling

• Sale of borrowed securities w/ hope of repurchasing later w/ lower price
• Attempts to profit from anticipated price decline of securities


2. Places in News:

a) Kerman
• Iranian city
• 100+ killed in explosion

b) Refugee camps in Gaza
• Al-Nusseirat
• Al-Maghazi

c) Belgorod
• Russian city
• U/ attack by Ukraine


Reading Recommendations 🗞️

IE

1. Reset the growth priority (GS3, Economy)
2. Don't neglect the force (GS3, Internal Security)
3. How (and why) DBT works (GS3, Economy)
4. Why has the 110-yr-old Indian Science Congress been postponed? (GS3, S&T)

TH

1. The blood management system needs a fresh infusion (GS2, Health)
2. To dispute on India's debt burden (GS3, Economy)
3. Understanding the peace pact with ULFA (GS3, Internal Security)
4. Why is upskilling necessary for the rural youth? (GS3, Employment)


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🚨 5 January 2024 | Friday 🚨

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Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Cowboy Legislation

• Legislate first, discuss later


Pre-related 📄

1. Haji Malang Dargah

• Located on lowest plateau of Malanggad, hill fort on Matheran ranges, Maharashtra
• Revered by both Hindus & Muslims
• Site of communal strife


Quote 💭

• Assarva dharma sama bhava: Equal respect for all religions


Reading Recommendations 🗞️

IE

1. Reshaped by AI (GS3, S&T)
2. The right support (GS3, Agri)
3. Kejriwal, Soren refuse ED summonses (Focus on understanding ED's powers)

TH

1. Terror in Iran (GS2, IR)
2. Breaking new ground the Kerala way (GS1, Urbanization)


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🚨 6 January 2024 | Saturday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍🏼

1. Naked Short Selling

• Selling short shares w/o determining their existence or securing the ownership
• Diff from short selling where one first borrows shares before selling them!
• SEBI has banned Naked short selling post-Hindenburg fiasco


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. The revival of the tiger (read carefully)
2. Bangladesh elections & India (pg 15)

TH
1. The need to examine examination system (GS2Policy, make 1 pager note)
2. Bringing back faith in India's politics (GS2 Polity)

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🚨 7 January 2024 | Sunday 🚨

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Reading Recommendations

TH
1. Child marriage in MH Sugarcane belt (pg4, GS1 Society)
2. How has Red Sea trouble impacted India? (GS2 IR)
3. Why did Islamic state attack Iran? (GS2 Int'l Relations)
4. Why have truck drivers called for a strike? (GS2 Policy)

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🚨 8 January 2024 | Monday 🚨

Mains Keyword ✍️🏼

1. Structured Negotiation

• Collaborative & solution driven resolution technique
• Involves impressing benefits of complying with social welfare legislations to default service provider

2. Panspermia

• Hypothesis on origin of life
• 1st posited by Greek philosopher Anaxagoras
• Claims that planets were seeded across space with life brought in by interstellar bodies


Quote 💭

• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement ~ Hellen Keller


Reading Recommendations 🗞️

IE

1. How AI is being harnessed in the treatment of cancer (GS2, Health; GS3, S&T)
2. Supreme Court Legal Services Committee (GS2, Polity)
3. What the GDP data show (GS3, Economy)

TH

1. Structured negotiation as a boost for disability rights (GS2, Social Justice)
2. Rise in child marriages in West Bengal (GS1, Society)


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