Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. The Thin Fat Indian
(GS3, Health, Obesity, Diabetes, Adolescent girls health, Way forward)

2. An Assessment Paradigm shift
(GS1, Society, Education, NEP, NCrF)

3. Ladakh, Article 371, The 6th Schedule of the constitution
(GS2, Polity, A371, 6th Schedule, protections)

4. Why India is building 2nd rocket launch port in TN
(GS3, S&T, ISRO projects, Importance and status)

TH

1.The tale of ‘have money, buy miracle drug’
(GS3, S&T, weight loss treatment, trials, concerns)

2. What makes ASML’s chip-making machine a scientific marvel?
(GS3,S&T, Semiconductors, Rayleigh scattering criterion, EUV light)

3. The Italian top court’s ruling on sea migrants from Libya
(GS2, IR, Libya issue, legalities of sea rescue, importance of ruling)

4. Remembering the forgotten women of science in India
(GS3, S&T, Women in science, Matilda effect)

Correction window opens today till March 13

Here’s my open letter to everyone who’s serious about cracking the exam in 2024! 😁💪🏻

1979-1994 Geography PYQs

6 Classes to help you revise them all!

1. 1979-1980: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfeZm8fYO18

2. 1981-1983: https://youtu.be/g7SZ537mRXw?si=AWlZ8sXYssz0k0I6

3. 1984-1988: https://youtu.be/v6gDsTV1htw?si=uE0qbIG2X5CcDFT9

4. 1989-1990: https://youtu.be/vttNhfzEIjg?si=9mBeo6EY3Zv07JYt

5. 1991-1992: https://youtu.be/Y4ctMW2er-g?si=nEm3csM6hw3CLj1X

6. 1993-1994: https://youtu.be/fqVp_0kddAk?si=o5IwPKUb9m97PhNd

Make it a habit to watch these videos at 1.5x-2x on lunch/dinner, at evening walk, in the gym etc.

Download PDF of Q Papers of 1979-1994 PYQs here

🚨 8 March 2024 | Friday 🚨

Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Sinicisation
• Process of making something more Chinese in character
(GS1, Society)

2. Caste Ferocity
• Caste based violent actions
(GS1, Society)


Pre Related 📄

1. CSpace

• KL launched govt owned OTT platform
• managed by KL state film development corporation

2. V-SAT

• ISRO's pilot project to provide Internet in 80 tribal Remote villages
• V-SAT is very small aperture terminal
• in JHK, MP, OD, MH

3. INS Kolkata

• Its a Kolkata class destroyer
• constructed by Mazgoan dock ship builders
• Context: It assisted hit vessels in Gulf of Aden

4. Penicillin G

• It is active pharmaceutical ingredient used in antibiotics
• Mainly used in Antibiotics
• Founder: Alexander Fleming


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. India to manufacture Penicillin G again
(GS3, S&T, Penicillin, reasons of pause )

2. The Work of Pritzker laureate Yamamoto: a mission to defeat isolation
(GS1, Society, Housing, his works and speciality)

3. Banking for net zero
(GS3, Environment, Economy, green transition)

4. Opening doors
(GS3, Economy, job migration, Issues and way forward )

TH

1. A bold step towards a cervical cancer free future
(GS3, Health, Cervical cancer, 90-70-90 targets, challenges, Sikkim model)

Note: Read more about Cervical cancer here from UPSC perspective

2. The determinant in "more women in the job market"
(GS3, Economy, Women LFPR, Factors, challenges & way forward)

3. For India’s homeless women, TB care is shaped by gender norms and economic precarity
(GS3, Health, TB and Women status, challenges, way forward)

4. Bridging the gender gap in Health research
(GS3, Health, Women's Health challenges and way forward)

Note: Revise Mapping for Pre2024 here

🚨 9 March 2024 | Saturday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. EFTA bloc

• The European Free Trade Association.
• It is the intergovernmental organisation.
• Set up in 1960 by 7 member states
• Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland are members
• Aim: Promotion of free trade and economic integration between its members.
• Context: India to sign Agreement with EFTA bloc

2. Cacao

• Theobroma cacao
• Evergreen tree in family Malvaceae
• widely in SE Mexico to the Amazon basin
• Its bean like seeds are used to make chocolate, cocoa butter etc
• Context: In ceramics from south, central America, a cocoa origin story


Stats 📈

1. Over half of Ayushman beneficiaries opt for private hospitals: RTI data
• 53% of them from Southern states


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Change in the valley
(GS3, Internal security, J&K, development)

2. Everyone gets a voice
(GS2, Polity, LS Elections campaign, Mera pehla vote desh ke liye)

3. Filling in the diet chart
(GS3, Economy, HCES survey, Nutrition literacy)

4. India's AI Mission
(GS3, S&T, AI, proposals, regulations)

5. Aadhar and Voter ID: Why EC wants to amend election laws
(GS2, Polity, Elections, ECI, aadhar linking )

TH

1. India’s Suboptimal use of its labour power
(GS3, Economy, PLFS, Demographic dividend)

2. Gender equality as the plank of sustainable development
(GS3, Economy, Gender gap, challenges, way forward)

History & Geography PYQs from 1979-1994 👇🏼

Revise them here & download the Questions papers from the quoted message

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnwddqxjRXfg9TkfWiN4cA5B1l1iInMwZ&si=fNzJGLm-uGQZEspv

We start with Science & Tech classes tomorrow 💪🏻

🚨 10 March 2024 | Sunday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Grape Vines

• Vitis vinifera
• Native to Mediterranean region, Central Europe & SW Asia
• Context: Global drop in wine consumption leads to destroying of vines in Australia

2. UNNATI Scheme

• Uttar Poorva Transformative Industrialization Scheme
• 10 year Central sector scheme
• Aim: foster industrial development & employment generation in NE region

3. 1st Cooperative museum

• in Kozhikode, KL
• By N.K. Abdurahiman. Chairperson of Karassey Bank

4. Ex Bharat Shakti

• on 12th March; in Pokhran
• to show the prowess of indigenously manufactured defence equipment of tri services.


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH

1. Why India urgently needs a legal framework for genomics
(GS3, S&T, Genomics, scope and policy)

Read about Genome India project here from UPSC Perspective

2. Can Resveratrol-copper be used to prevent Metastasis
(GS3, S&T, Health, Cancer treatment & Research)

3. What are the hurdles of fair global trade
(GS3, Economy, World trade challenges, WTO Conference and way forward)

4. Why has government issued AI advisory
(GS3, S&T, AI, proposals, regulations)

🚨 11 March 2024 | Monday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Golden Langur

• Trachypithecus geei
• Habitat: (Manas NP) AS
• 2 major sub populations: Northern & Southern
• EN status
• more than 7k in India; increase from 2008

2. Pi

• Pi stands for Personal Intelligence
• by Inflection AI
• Empathetic, helpful & safe chatbot
• Inflection 2.5: Upgraded model like Gemini, GPT4

3. AMCA

• Advanced medium combat aircraft
• India's indigenous 5th Gen Fighter jet
• Under DRDO; Mfgd by HAL
• 25 T twin engine, 6.5 T capacity fuel tank, Internal weapons bay

4. Parthogenesis

• Process of reproduction from Ovum without fertilisation
• type of asexual reproduction
• Virgin birth is a type of parthogenesis

5. Connectome

• It is a Comprehensive map of connections b/w neurons in the brain.
• To study brain related diseases like ADHD, Alzheimer.


Stats 📈

1. Pulmonary disease related deaths, highest in last 7 years: RTI
• Cause: long term exposure to Pollution


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Standing up for the voter
(GS2, Polity, Electoral bonds, FR)

2. Harnessing the value of Dung
(GS3, Environment, Dung, Uses, best practices)

3. A dialogue among healers
(GS3, S&T, AYUSH & Allopathy, challenges, way forward)

4. Why safari parks maybe double edged swords for big cats
(GS3, Environment, big cats, challenges and way forward)

TH

1. We need limits on election campaign spending
(GS2, Polity, Elections, Funds)

2. A possible solution for Bengaluru's water crisis
(GS1, Society, Urbanisation issues and way forward)

3. Introducing a new toll collection system
(GS3, Economy, Toll tax, challenges, FASTag, way forward)

4. What are the factors pushing Bitcoins all time high
(GS3, Economy, Bitcoin, Factors, market conditions)

5. Scientists genetically modify 'sexual' fruit fly to reproduce asexually
(GS3, S&T, Genetic modification, Drosophila family)

🚨 12 March 2024 | Tuesday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. MIRV

• Multiple Independently Targetable Re entry Vehicle
• Test firing with Agni 5 Ballistic Missile
• by DRDO
• Single Missile can carry multiple warheads for different locations.

2. Rhodamine B

• A harmful coloring agent used in food
• Banned due to harmful side effects

3. Phani Yerava

• Tribe from KA
• area falls under Makuta Aranya Valaya- Kerti reserved forest

Note:Revise important Tribes in News here

4. Modi Script

• Used to write Marathi language
• contemporary of Devanagari script
• Abugida Script


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Justice delayed, Empathy denied
(GS2, Polity, Judicial conscience, Saibaba Case)

2. A new Assam
(GS3, Economy, Developmental projects)

3. CAA: Issues in the legal challenge to the Citizenship law
(GS2, Polity, CAA, issues & way forward)

4. One Missile, many weapons
(GS3, S&T, Defence, MIRV technology & pros)

TH

1. Central transfers & the issue of shares of some States
(GS3, Economy, State funds, 16th FC, tax devolution issues & solutions)

2. Time to prohibit judges from joining politics
(GS2, Polity, Judges in Politics, issues and way forward)

3. Why did the top court reject SBI's plea
(GS2, Polity, Electoral bonds, SC judgement)

4. Understanding the basic principles of AI
(GS3, S&T, AI, Machine learning, Nvidia)

5. Curious case of a man who recieved 217 COVID shots
(GS3, S&T, COVID vaccination, cons)

🚨 13 March 2024 | Wednesday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Majuli Masks

• from Assam; Neo Vaishnavite tradition by Srimanta Sankardeva
• depicts characters in Bhaonas
• Size: only face (Mukh mukha) to whole body (Cho mukha)
• Got GI Tag, in use since 15th-16th century

2. Silver filigree work

• Rupa tarkashi from Cuttack
• Got GI Tag, in use since 12th Century

3. KIRTI

• Khelo India Rising Talent Identification
• Aim: to encourage school children to take up sports
• Under Sports Ministry


Stats📈

1. India was top arms importer in 2019-23: SIPRI


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1.The CAA rules, unpacked
(GS2, Polity, CAA, requirements)

Note: Read about CAA from UPSC perspective here

2. Fighting Warming: When gases are contraband
(GS3, Environment, GHG Emissions, Banned refrigerants, Montreal protocol, US law on HFCs, HCFCs)

3. Welcome All
(GS2, Polity, CAA, Geneva convention)

4. Aerospace Industry
(Pg18, GS3, S&T, Indian Space sector, challenges, goals & way forward)

TH

1. Intra-group caste Variances, Equality & the Court's gaze
(GS2, Polity, SC judgement, sub classification in SC & ST)

2. A new sense of Urbanisation that is dominating
(GS1, Society, Urbanisation, investments, State's role)

3. How is nuclear waste generated
(GS3, S&T, Nuclear waste management, India's plan)

🚨 14 March 2024 | Thursday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. INS Agray & INS Akshay

• New warships of Indian Navy
• Built by Garden reach shipbuilders & engineers Ltd, Kolkata

2. World's 1st AI Law

• AI Act by EU
• Aim: for consumer safety

3. Core Loading

• Process of placing nuclear fuel assemblies inside the core of a nuclear Reactor.

4. Devin

• 1st Autonomous AI software engineer
• by Cognition lab, US

5. One horned Rhinoceros

• Rhinoceros unicornis
• Native to Indian subcontinent
• VU status; CITES Appendix I
• Largest population in Pobitora WS

6. Shockley Queisser limit

• Theoretical concept that defines the maximum capacity of a solar cell to produce electricity.
• named after US Physicist William Shockley & German physicist HJ Queisser


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