OBC Central Rules

Highlighted all main pointers

• Grade A before/after 40 age
• Salary & agri income

Read it and present it to your local tehsil officers if the need be :)

🚨 26 February 2024 | Monday 🚨

Pre related 📄

1. Attukal Pongala

• 10-day religious festival celebrated at the Attukal Bhagavathy Temple
• in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
• aka Women's Sabrimala

2. Chalukyan Temple Architecture

• 6th-12th centuries
• Founder- Pulakeshin I
• Key features - Vesara Style, tall Vimana above inner Sanctum , Stellate plan.
• Context: Discovery of temples in Telangana shows spread of Chalukya reign

3. Language ATLAS

• by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
• autonomous body under the Union Culture Ministry.
• 22 Scheduled languages spoken by 97% Population
• 99 non-scheduled languages spoken by 37.8 Million people

4. Blanets

• It is member of a hypothetical class of exoplanets that directly orbit black holes.

Note : Revise temples in news for Pre 2024


Stats📈

Gross Enrolment Ratio by AISHE 2020-21 : (below National avg - 27.3%)
1. Women- 24.9%
2. SC- 23.1%
3. ST- 18.9%

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Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH

1.  Rediscovering Palestinian statehood (GS 2- IR - 2 state solution, Afghan Model)

2. A chilling effect on the freedom to love (GS 2 - UCC , FR)

3. Can the IMEC address the Red Sea crisis? (GS 2- IR- important trading route)

4. Ahead of Gaganyaan, ISRO’s CE-20 engine already has a notable legacy (GS3 - S&T - Important ISRO projects)

IE

1. Changes in Electricity Rules: Boost to rooftop solar power (GS3- Government schemes - Renewable Energy )

2. Consumption Survey: 5 Questions (GS 3- Economy- Important Reports)

3. In Poll year, a data Question (GS 2 - Elections, Data Protection, Right to Privacy)

🚨 27 February 2024 | Tuesday 🚨

Pre related 📄

1. ISRO projects

a) Trisonic Wind Tunnel at VSSC

b) Integration facilities for PSLV
• at Sriharikota
• produces controlled uniform airflow
• Mach number range of 0.2 to 4

c) Semicryogenic Integrated Engine and Stage Test Facility (SIET)
• at Mahendragiri
• capability to test the SCE-2000 semi-cryogenic engine
• which uses refined kerosene and liquid oxygen as propellants and the rocket stage

2. GARBH-Ini Programme

• The Garbhini-GA2 is the first late-trimester GA estimation model
• developed by IIT Madras & Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad
• Department of Biotechnology initiative

3. Baleen whales

• use a larynx, anatomically modified to enable underwater vocalisation
• Similar to Humans.

4. Theyyam

• Popular ritual form of dance worship
• annual temple festival, Kerala

5. Singlet Fission

• Photoconversion process that generates a doubly excited, maximally spin entangled pair state

6. Chromophore (aka colour molecules)

• Organic molecule/part of larger molecule that absorbs light of some specific colour
• Hence responsible for colouration of objects

7. Bitcoin halving

• 50% reduction in reward paid to Bitcoin miners
• as they process others' cryptocurrency transactions so that they can be added to blockchain

Note: Revise Species in news for Pre2024


Stats📈

• UNCTAD report: Suez Canal - 12-15% global trade (2023). 82% drop post Houthis Attacks


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. EU - India FTA talks are sending a signal to world in support of rules based trade system (Pg 9)
(GS3 Economy, FTA, India- EU relations, Important sectors & roadmap)

2. It starts with a district (Pg 11)
(GS 3, Social issues, Reports and policy making, way forward)

3. Gyanvapi case: Why HC called govt order restraining puja in cellar "illegal" (Pg 13)
(GS 2, Important SC judgments, Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991)

4. Why Maharashtra is exempting some pvt schools from RTE Quota (Pg 13)
(GS 2, RTE Act)

TH

1.  An expansive land management policy is overdue
(GS 1, Geo, GS3, Env, Land Degradation, Indian Challenges and Way forward)

2. What is Bitcoin halving and what does it mean for the crypto community?
(GS 3, S&T, important terms and cryptocurrency)

3. Grant permanent commission to women: SC to Coast Guard. (GS1, Society, GS3, Defence, Important judgements, gender equality , ICG)

4. Will ‘colour molecules’ make quantum computers accessible? (GS 3, S&T, Quantum Technology and keywords)

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🚨 28 February 2024 | Wednesday 🚨

Pre related 📄

1. Gaganyaan

• 4 IAF pilots selected as Vyomanauts.
• programme is designed to demonstrate indigenous capability to undertake human space flight mission to Low Earth Orbit.
• Read more

2. Genome Project

• to create a reference database of whole-genome sequences out of India.
• '10,000 Genome' project completed
• Dept of Biotechnology
• Read more

3. Obelisks

• circular bits of genetic material
• contain one or two genes and rod-like shape.
• whole new class of infectious agent.
• Context: Newfound ‘obelisks’ join viruses, viroids as third unusual life form


Places in News:

1. Senegal

• West African nation
• Context: Political instability

2. Manapullikavu Bhagavathy Temple

• Ancient Hindu Temple in Palakkad, Kerala
• Site of Manapullikavu Vela, annual festival (February/March)


Note: Revise Mapping for Pre2024

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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Our burdened children
(Pg 11) (GS2, Education: Indian education system & Yash pal report)

2. Google’s AI 'Genie'
(Pg 20) (GS 3, S&T: AI Genie Use and importance)

TH

1.  Stop the dithering and encourage green elections in India
(GS 2, Elections, GS3, Env: Sustainable elections, Best practices and Way forward)

2. Why science needs sustainable funding
(GS 3, S&T: Sustainable funding, measures and way forward)

3. Why is the Reddit licensing deal important for Google’s AI plan?
(GS3, S&T: AI, Data access for expansion of Google's AI programme)

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🚨 29 February 2024 | Thursday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍🏼

1. Economic dualism

• Coexistence of 2 or more economic systems
• Example: Coexistence of subsistence agriculture & cash production of industrial goods in Indian economy
(GS3, Economy)

2. LAWS (aka killer robots)

• Lethal Autonomous weapons systems
• Has capability to select & engage targets without any human intervention
• Ethical concerns: Risk of unintended escalation in military conflicts
(GS3, S&T; GS4, Ethics)

3. Premiumisation

• Reflects a growing willingness in consumers to buy more expensive (higher quality) products
• On rise in Indian middle class
• Indication of upward mobility
(GS 3, economy)

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Pre related 📄

1. Cannabis plant

• Cannabis sativa
• most widely used illicit drug
• annual herbaceous flowering plant
• 1st classified by Carl Linnaeus in 1753
• Main psychoactive constituent: tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
• Context: Under research for medicinal use

2. Jacaranda trees

• Sub tropical trees
• IUCN Status: Vulnerable
• Blooms during Spring in Mexico
• Context: Its early bloom sparks climate debate

3. Pancheshwar Multipurpose Project

• bi-national hydropower project
• to be developed in Mahakali River bordering Nepal and India
• Mahakali Treaty 1996: recognizes the Mahakali River as a boundary river b/w the two countries

4. Belgian Malinois

• Medium sized-canine breed w/ 4 varieties
• Preferred breed of best forces in world
• Context: NSG to deploy these in place of Labradors

5. Hydrogen Fuel cell ferry

• 1st Indian indigenous HFC ferry
• 24m catamaran, built at Cochin Shipyard


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. The Sarkari naukri Syndrome
(GS3, Ecomomy: Trends in Employment, Job security, Self employment)

2. AI and Asimov's warning
(GS 3, S&T; GS4, Ethics: Read to understand various risks posed by AI)

3. The importance of creating India's genetic map
(GS3, S&T: Read to know about Genome India Project & its importance)

• Learn all you need to know about Dwarka from UPSC perspective here


TH

1. Vignettes of a Janus-faced economy
(GS 3, Economy: Read to know various growth indicators of Indian economy & policy measures)

2. The economic case for investing in India’s children
(GS 3, Economy; GS 2, Society: Child education, Anganwadis, measures and way forward)

3. India’s fight against rare diseases (GS3, S&T, Rare diseases in India and way forward)

4. Practice and law: debating aspects of the Muslim personal law
(GS 2, Policy: Muslim Personal law, Concepts and rights explained)

History PYQs 1981-1986

Today’s classes 👇🏼

1. Class 2 (1981-1984)
https://youtu.be/5O1pVSnSYb0

2. Class 3 (1984-1986)
https://youtu.be/9k-fW7meeE0

Routine bana lo, theek se padho.

Abki baar, 110 paar!!!! 💪🏻💪🏻

🚨 1 March 2024 | Friday 🚨

Pre related 📄

1. Melanochlamys droupadi

• New head-shield sea slug species with ruby red spot
• Discovered from West Bengal and Odisha coast
• Endemic to India
• Melanochlamys genus
• short, blunt, cylindrical body
• Small invertebrate & a smooth dorsal surface
• Context: ZSI names a newly discovered sea slug after President Murmu

2. Semiconductor chips

• 1st Indian SC fabrication plant in Dholera, GJ
• Collab b/w Tata and Taiwan
• SC chip is an electric circuit with many components and wiring formed on a SC wafer
• They are used in various electronic devices
• Read more

3. Krishnaraja Sagar reservoir

• On Kaveri River, Karnataka
• by Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV.
• Context: Depleting water levels due to rise in temperature.
• Read more about reservoirs

Note: Read all about Genome Project from UPSC perspective here

Stats 📈

1. India's leopard population (Forest Survey)
• ~13.8k, highest in MP
• 8% rise from 2018

2. India ranks 174th in world's 1 billion obese population (Lancet)


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. How to reduce cheating
(GS2, Polity, Bill and way forward)

2. Mauritius, Maldives and India
(GS 2, IR, Indian ocean region, foreign policy and strategy)

3. Cars now more software than hardware
(GS3, S&T, Software importance, rising demand)


TH

1. On cross-voting in Rajya Sabha elections
(GS 2, Polity, RS elections, Cross voting, 10th Schedule, Way forward)

2. Should Minimum Support Price be legalised?
(GS 3, Economy, legalising MSP, way forward)

3. Understanding the world of the informal waste picker
(GS3, Env, informal sector of, waste management, Plastic treaty and way forward)

4. E-evidence, new criminal law, its implementation
(GS 2, New criminal law and e- records explained, measures)

History PYQs 1986-1991

Today’s classes 👇🏼

1. Class 4 (1986-1988)
https://youtu.be/lPacsHdIBzM

2. Class 5 (1989-1991)
https://youtu.be/Vcsp_RtX4_o

Routine bana lo, theek se padho.

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Note: today’s 6th class of History. All PYQs from 1979-1995 will be completed.