Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code is 192 page doc

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🚨 8 February 2024 | Thursday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Deep Tech

• Advanced & disruptive technologies
• Many still u/ development
• Includes nanotech, biotech, AI etc
• Potential to trigger transformative change & provide solutions
• to complex global challenges like climate change, hunger, mobility etc

2. Right to disconnect

• Workers' right to ignore call/messages from bosses,
• Outside of work hours, without any penalty
• Context: u/consideration in Australia


Pre-related 📄

1. Moore's Law

• Computing power constantly increases at lower cost


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Why Budget plans for deep tech & research funding matter (GS3, S&T)
2. Picking Election Commissioners (GS2, Polity)
3. Taking cancer on (GS2, Health)
4. Measuring Vikas (read for awareness)


TH
1. Road map for fiscal consolidation (GS3, Economy)


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🚨 9 February 2024 | Friday 🚨

Mains Keyword ✍️🏼

1. Goldilocks Phase

• Ideal state of economy
• With steady growth, full employment & moderate inflation

2. Techno nationalist model

• Focused on building interconnectedness among universities, research institutes, companies & governments
• Adopted by Japan, South Korea


Mains Key 🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. Ex-PM Manmohan Singh despite his ill health, came to cast his vote as MP, even on a wheelchair (GS4, Ethics)


Pre-related 📄

1. Kyasanur Forest Disease

• Also called Monkey Fever, as monkeys also get infected
• Viral infection named after Kysanur Forest, Shivamogga, Karnataka, where it was 1st noticed
• Caused by bite of an infective tick
• Peaks b/w Dec & March
• No specific treatment

2. Stockholm Syndrome

• Condition in which victim empathizes with their captor/ abuser


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. A Goldilocks phase (GS3, Economy)
2. An ethical minefield (GS3, S&T; GS4, Ethics)
3. How ride hailing cabs charge you, what Karnataka order can change (read for awareness)
4. Court reserves verdict: debate around subcategorisation within SC quota (GS2, Polity)


TH
1. R&D spend - golden intervention or smoke and mirrors (GS3, Economy)
2. Towards uniformity (GS2, Polity & Policy)
3. The Paytm Payments Bank debacle (GS3, Economy)
4. Charting a path for population committee (GS1, Population)


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🚨 10 February 2024 | Saturday 🚨

Pre-related 📄

1. High Altitude Pseudo Satellite

• Solar powered UAV
• Can fly 18-20 kms high, remain in air for months
• Context: Successful completion of first test by National Aerospace Lab, Bengaluru

2. Indian Ocean Conference

• Organised annually by India Foundation
• 7th edition held in Australia for 1st time
• Theme: “Towards a Stable and Sustainable Indian Ocean”

3. Sada Tanseeq

• Maiden India-Saudi Arabia joint military exercise
• concluded in Jaipur


Quote 💭

• Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly ~ Martin Luther King Jr


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. BITs in Pieces (GS3, Economy)
2. He who rules the sea (GS2, IR)
3. If the sun doesn't shine (GS3, Environment)
4. Polygamy in India (GS1, Society)

TH
1. Mandal, Mandir and now market


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About UCC of UK, I have already curated blog here and it is updated already based on The Hindu article

Rest other pointers will be covered in the coming week! :)

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Read this whenever you are down :)

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अभी तो जवानी भारी है
अभी कहाँ जवानी हारी है?

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हम फिर आएँगे
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🚨 12 February 2024 | Monday 🚨

Mains Keyword ✍🏼

1. Ahalan Modi

• Ahalan = Hello in Arabic
• PM Modi's event planned in UAE for diaspora

2. Nazool Land

• State owned land leased to an entity for 15-99 years
• Origin in Independence history; these were lands of kingships
• Jurisdiction u/ Nazool Lands (Transfer) Rules 1956


Pre related

1. Brumation

• Period of dormancy or slowed activity in reptiles during colder months
• Aim: conserve energy & survive adverse environmental conditions
• eg: Box turtles, Painted turtles, snakes, lizards etc.


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. Classroom vs coaching
2. Securing the sea lanes

TH
1. Revise India-UAE relations here
2. Brief revision of notes from White Paper here
3. The patterns of global warming are more important than its levels

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🚨 13 February 2024 | Tuesday 🚨

Pre related📄

1. SWATI: Science for Women: A Technology & Innovation portal


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE

1. Snapshots of turbulence
2. Jail & Bail under UAPA

TH
1. A global alliance to bridge gender equity gap
2. Earth wide telescope confirms black hole's shadow is 'real'


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Happy Valentine’s Day

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🚨 14 February 2024 | Wednesday 🚨

Pre-related 📄

1. World Government Summit 2024

• Major annual conference in Dubai
• Attracts govt leaders, heads of int'l org, industry captains
• Theme for 11th edition: “Shaping Future Governments”
• PM Modi to address as guest of honour

3. Stem cells

• Rare, self-renewing cells in human body
• Some of these can give rise to different tissues
• Highly valued for treatment of damaged tissues, cancer, etc


Quote 💭

• Discipline acts like a lens: it filters out certain phenomena to be able to focus exclusively on others


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. MSP issue: what govt committee setup in 2022 has done so far (GS3, Agriculture)
2. High in sky, a new gen eye (GS3, S&T)
3. An Arabian Valentine (GS2, IR)

TH

1. Old-fashioned trust & credibility bind India-UAE ties (GS2, IR)
2. Homeward bound (GS2, IR)
3. Why India needs deep industrialization (GS3, Economy)
4. On the rights of forest-dwellers (GS3, Environment)
5. Untapped potential of stem cells in menstrual blood (GS3, S&T)
6. Role of X chromosome in autoimmune diseases (GS3, S&T)


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🚨 15 February 2024 | Thursday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Types of State

a) Ethnic State
• A state whose territory is occupied by a particular ethnicity that has become a nationality

b) Absolute State
• State with absolute authority
• Ruling power is not subject to any regularized challenge or check by any other agency

c) Opaque State
• Characterised by controlling media, suppressing dissent etc


Mains Key 🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

• Fatehpur Sikri has been made 95% wheelchair accessible: tangible eg of potential of inclusion (GS2, Social Justice)


Pre-related 📄

1. American Horseshoe Crab (aka "living fossil")

• Spine-tailed sea creatures, marine arthropods
• Among oldest living creatures on earth
• Context: U/ threat due to commercial harvests, biomedical use, habitat loss


Reading Recommendations 🗞

Revision

1. Read about policies on Menstrual Leave around the world here

IE

1. The blurring lines b/w makers of GenAI software, hardware (GS3, S&T)
2. Story of consumer sentiments (GS3, Economy)
3. BAPS temple inaugurated by PM Modi in Abu Dhabi (GS1, Culture)

TH

1. Rescuing grace from disgrace (GS2, Polity)
2. Does updating COVID19 vaccines frequently have any benefits? (GS3, S&T)


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