🚨 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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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. The suitable citizen
(GS2, Polity, CAA, NRC impacts )

2. A fact sheet, a sheet anchor
(GS3, Economy, HCES, Methodology & conclusions)

3. The Court's trajectory
(GS2, Polity, ADL, Electoral bonds, SC judgement)

4. FBR & Energy Security
(GS3, S&T, Nuclear reactor, stages & way forward)

TH

1.India's R&D funding, breaking down the numbers
(GS3, S&T, R&D funding, initiatives & its impacts)

2. The Karnataka civil engineers Bill, its pathway
(GS2, Polity, Imp Bill, global practices)

3. Higher engagement, better learning
(GS1, Society, Education, NEP, better learning techniques, Way forward)

4. Russian dominance in India's arms imports decline
(GS3, S&T, Defence arms imports)

5. How did Indians end up in the Russian Ukraine war?
(GS2, IR, Russia-Ukraine war, Indian's in war)

6. AlphaGeometry & the threat of AI's takeover of mathematics
(GS3, S&T, AI, deductive database, auxiliary constructions, significance)

🚨 15 March 2024 | Friday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Sambar Deer

• Rusa unicolor
• Native to Indian subcontinent, South China, SE Asia
• VU status
• Context: Smuggling in MH


Stats 📈

1. Global Human Development Index: UNDP

• India ranks 134th
• 'Breaking the gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarised world' title.

2. TN tops illegal trade in Shark body parts: TRAFFIC & WWF India report

• Trade Records Analysis of Flora and Fauna in Commerce (TRAFFIC)


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. No going back to square one
(GS2, Polity, Electoral bonds, issues & way forward )

2. Classroom is ready to change; Open minds before open books
(GS1, Education, Open book system,
Issues, way forward)

3. Lead acid batteries most successful example for circular economies
(Pg 21, GS3, S&T, Economy, circular Economy, Lead acid battery)

TH

1. The long bumpy roads to "drone didis" to "lakhpati didis"
(GS3, Economy, Govt schemes, Challenges, Way forward)

2. Has poverty really dropped to 5% in India?
(GS3, Economy, Poverty rate, Data and its cons)

3. What are the causes of the flare up in the eastern Congo
(GS2, IR, Eastern Congo conflict, M23 rebels)

🚨 16 March 2024 | Saturday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Atmospheric Research Testbed

• It is an open field, focused observational & analytical research programme.
• Aim: Conduct ground based observations of weather parameters & observations
• developed by Ministry of Earth sciences; IITM Pune is I/C


Stats 📈

1. 16k types of chemicals in plastics; Quarter of which are hazardous: European scientists


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Quotes 💭

"Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll." - Plato


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. The name is Electoral bond
(GS2, Polity, Electoral bonds, issues & way forward )

2. One election, Many problems
(GS2, Polity, ONOE, Issues, way forward)

3. A penal code for AI
(GS3, S&T, AI, EU AI Act, scope)

4. AI, Elections, disinformation
(GS3, S&T, AI in elections, issues & way forward)

5. Why Gaganyaan matters
(GS3, S&T, Gaganyaan importance, new projects)

TH

1. Looking to the future on St Patrick's day
(GS2, IR, 75 years of India & Ireland relations, Way forward)

2. It's 'Ra-Ra-Ras-Putin' in the Russian election
(GS2, IR, Russian Elections & political culture)

A new weapon under test in bio-warfare

A mosquito like injection! :)

Note: Read about MCC from UPSC Perspective here

🚨 17 March 2024 | Sunday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Thenmala Kullan

• dwarf cow found in KL; indigenous breed
• Reared by tribes: Arippa & Thenmala

2. Manganese Pollution

• Near defunct site of Union Carbide India Ltd, Bhopal
• Report by CGWA to NGT
• BIS Permissible limits: 0.3 mg/L
• high levels of Strontium found

3. 1st Indigenous Sickle Cell anaemia drug

• By Akmus Drugs & Pharma Ltd
• Sickle cell Anaemia: Genetic disorder in which RBCs contort into Sickle shape & die early.

4. Starlet Sea Anemone

• Found along East coast of North America
• Secretes specific neurotoxin in venom which acts as defence against predator (grass shrimp)

5. Places in News

Azhagar Siddhar Temple, TN
• 300 years old
• dedicated to miracle performing stranger
• dolls as offerings


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH

1. Indian team uses repurposed drug to treat oral cancer subtype
(GS3, Health, New treatments in oral cancer)

2. How women in India have fared
(GS1, Society, Women in STEM & Related fields)

3. With Agni V Test, India makes the MIRV Leap
(GS3, S&T, Defence technology, MIRV)

🚨 18 March 2024 | Monday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Mt Hagafell

• Active volcano erupted for the 4th time since Dec 2023; in Iceland

2. SIMA

• Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent
• Google Deepmind's new AI gaming agent
• generalist AI

3. Lisu & Singpho communities

• in Assam & Arunachal Pradesh
• Children named as per their order of birth, using numbers

4. IceCube

• It is a Neutrino observatory( a device at earth's South Pole )
• Neutrinos are light particles that rarely interact with matter; aka Ghost particles


Stats 📈

1. 10.13 Cr Diabetics in India, 17% of World: Study
• 13.6 Cr Pre diabetic
• Over 35% suffer from hypertension
• 40% from abdominal obesity



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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Diversify the basket
(GS3, Eco, agricultural practices, issues & way forward )

2. Myths about Simultaneous elections
(GS2, Polity, Simultaneous elections, myths)

3. How US Plans to deliver Gaza aid
(GS2, IR, Gaza Aid by US, JLOTS project, floating dock)


TH

1. The Myanmar conflict is regional problem
(GS2, IR, Myanmar conflict, ASEAN role)

2. The problem of Equity in IPCC Reports
(GS3, Environment, IPCC report, issues)

3. What is HbA1C test & why it is used to check Diabetes?
(GS3, Health, Diabetes & HbA1C test working, results, pros & cons)

4. Scientists build a camera to 'show' how animals see moving things
(GS3, S&T, new Camera tech, challenges, animal vision)

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🚨 19 March 2024 | Tuesday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. SAKHI App

• The Space borne assistant & knowledge hub for crew interaction
• To assist Gaganyaan crew by ISRO

2. Captive Elephant (transfer or transport) Rules, 2024

• Conditions: When owner can't maintain elephant
• Chief Wildlife warden approves/rejects transfer
• For outside state, Genetic profile is registered with MoEFCC
• Veterinarian checkup & Deputy conservator of forests checks new habitat


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Oceans have a fever, here's why
(GS1, Geography, Ocean warming, Factors, consequences, way forward)

2. Heat, aridity, clear skies: Why forests are already ablaze in the Nilgiris
(GS3, Environment, Forest fires, reasons)

3. A bank account of her own
(GS3, Economy, financial inclusion, NFHS data )


TH

1. Violence, hopelessness & women's mental health
(GS1, Society, Women's mental health, issued & way forward)

2. The MIRV leap that fires up India's nuclear detterence
(GS3, S&T, Defence, MIRV, Upcoming projects)

3. On FTAs with European countries
(GS3, Economy, FTA, features)

4. Geologist can't agree when the Anthropocene began, but it did
(GS1, Geography, Anthropocene, Epoch, post industrial era significance)