🚨 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)

Pre note: Get 15 year PYQ analysis notes here

🚨 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)

[Confirmed] 🫡

#UPSC Prelims 2024 postponed to June 16 2024 😮

Gives you extra 3 weeks 🥰