Quotes 💭

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be"- Abraham Lincoln

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Small Scale LNG, A big Idea
(GS3, S&T, LNG, pros & cons)

2. The incentive to diversify
(GS3, Economy, MSP for various crops)

3. A border runs through it
(GS3, Internal security, Free Movt regime)

TH

1. India's voters deserve a bond- of probity
(GS2, Polity, Electoral bonds issues & way forward)

2. Eliminating diseases, one region at a time
(GS3, Heath, disease eliminination focus, need for surveillance, measures )

3. Right whales may never breed after run-ins with fishing gear
(GS3, Environment, CE Whales, fishing gears)

4. On the mass kidnappings of Nigeria
(GS2, IR, Nigeria's mass kidnappings)

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🚨 22 March 2024 | Friday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Twin stars

• Stars that appear close together in the sky from Earth's perspective.
• they are not actually gravitationally bound.
• Evidence of planetary ingestion

2. 1st GM Pig-to-Human kidney transplant

• in USA; GM some pig genes to human genes

3. Great Indian bustard

• Ardeotis nigriceps
• CR Status; under WPA 1972
• India & Pakistan; arid & semi arid grasslands


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. From Gwadar a warning
(GS2, IR, Gwadar port, CPEC)

2. In the same boat
(GS2, IR, India & UAE, water scarcity issue)

3. Why SC has stayed Govt's ' fact checking unit ' for now
(GS2, Polity, Fact checking Unit, amendment & SC stay)

TH

1. Water, an instrument to build world peace
(GS3, Environment, World Water day, challenges & way forward)

2. Navigating the global waterspace, its challenges
(GS3, Environment, World Water day, Transboundary challenges & way forward)

3. Nuclear energy, fixing the finance
(GS3, S&T, Nuclear energy financing, cooperative model, India)

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🚨 23 March 2024 | Saturday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Order of Druk Gyalpo

• Highest Honour of Bhutan; awarded to PM Modi

2. Pushpak

• Reusable launch vehicle by ISRO; RLV LEX-02.

3. Gulaal Gota

• Small bag made of Lac, filled with Gulaal (20 gms), these balls are thrown at people.
• made by Muslim lac makers, Manihars only in Jaipur
• Lac from Chhattisgarh & Jharkhand


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Pakistan's Taliban Problem, on either side of the Afghanistan border
(GS2, IR, Pakistan & Afghanistan issue)

TH

1. Two wars, the consequences for America's standing
(GS2, IR, USA's stand on Russia Ukraine war & Israel Gaza war, Trump card)

2. The CAA, muslim exclusion & lens of the right
(GS2, Polity, CAA ,Views & way forward)

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Pre Related News 📄

1. Fusobacterium nucleatum

• Fusobacterium nucleatum subtype linked to growth in ~50% of colorectal cancers.
• subtype travels from mouth to gut, promotes tumor growth & worsens prognosis.
• Potential for new treatments & screening methods targeting this bacteria.

2. Azadirachtin content

• AI tool predicts neem fruit's azadirachtin (biopesticide) content (high/low) from images.
• Eliminates expensive lab equipment (HPLC) and allows field testing by anyone.
• Easier, faster way to assess neem fruit quality.

4. Heliconius butterfly

• Study links gene regucalcin1 to visual mate preference in Heliconius butterflies.
• H. melpomene & H. timareta (red wing pattern preference) vs. H. cydno (white wing preference).
• Discovery offers insights into genetic basis of visually guided behaviors.


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH

1. Dispersal out of Africa may have occured during arid period
(GS1, Geography, Migration, Africa)

2. Who may vote from home in LS elections?
(GS2, Polity, vote from home eligibility)

3. How bad is humanitarian crisis in Gaza
(GS2, IR, Gaza humanitarian crisis, challenges, way forward)

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🚨 25 March 2024 | Monday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍🏻

1. De-Judicialisation: When countries weaken International courts to take back decision making powers.
(GS2, IR)


Pre Related News 📄

1. Shinfa Metema 1 site

• 📍Western Ethiopia
• Findings: bones, ostrich eggshells around 74,000 years ago
• Volcano Toba (Indonesia) was active that time

2. Basmati varieties

• Traditional: Taraori (HBC-19), Dehraduni (type 3), CSR 30, Basmati 370
• IARI Variety: PB series
• PB1121 cultivated in Pakistan illegally

3. Station Shiv Shakti point

• Approved by International Astronomical Union
• Landing site of Chandrayaan-3, third lunar mission of ISRO

4. Mumps disease

• MMR vaccine
• Epidemic parotitis
• cause: Mumps virus; acute viral infection

5. MTBVAC Vaccine

• live attenuated strain of M. tuberculosis
• developed in Spain; more efficient than BCG

6. Abel Prize

• Abel Prize 2024 awarded to Michel Talagrand (French mathematician) for work in probability theory and its applications.
• King of Norway awards annually since 2003
• aka Nobel Prize of Mathematics


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. The Bhutan Model
(GS2, IR, Indian Bhutan relations & Chinese influence)

2. WTO's Existential crisis
(GS3, Economy, WTO, Trade multilateralism challenges & way forward)

3. Pak's Basmati seed "piracy"
(GS3, Economy, illegal produce of IARI Basmati variety in Pakistan)

4. 1.29 By 2050
(GS1, Society, Women TFR decline, impact)


TH

1.TB control in India; Actionable Ideas for TB control
(GS3, Health, TB, Way forward)

2. Digital financial frauds in India
(GS3, S&T, Digital financial frauds, prevention & way forward)

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🚨 26 March 2024 | Tuesday 🚨

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🚨 27 March 2024 | Wednesday 🚨


Pre Related News 📄

1. Sri Kannakama Ammavaru Temple

• 📍Vishakapatnam
• In news: Jatharas (fairs) before Ugadi festival

Stats 📈

1. IHD- ILO report

• unemployed youth with secondary/higher secondary education almost doubled from 2000
• 83% of unemployed workforce is youth

Quotes 💭

"Capitalism can not survive without working class, while the working class can flourish without Capitalism"- Terry Eagleton


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Prince who became a diplomat
(GS2, IR, Pakistan former foreign secretary Sahryar Khan)

2. ICCC: Farm data Dashboard for customised solutions
(GS3, Agriculture, Digitalisation)

3. Footing thr climate action bill
(GS3, Environment, Imp bills, NCQC,)

4. ASI will delist some lost monuments
(GS1, A&C, delist & lost meaning & process)


TH

1. A cry for help, a call for reflection & action
(GS3, Health, Mental health, Kota suicide cases, Education system)

2. Set the wheels in motion for a cyclists manifesto
(GS1, Society, Urbanisation, cycling, challenges & way forward)

3. The need to curb black carbon emissions
(GS3, Environment, black carbon, challenges, way forward, global practices)

Pre note: Revise 8 decisions of Modi Govt challenged in SC

🚨 28 March 2024 | Thursday 🚨


Pre Related 📄

1. Epilepsy

• chronic non communicable brain disease
• Read more here

2. National Intelligence Agency

• u/ NIA Act 2008 governed by MHA
• specialised counter-terrorism law enforcement agency 
• Aim: to investigate and prosecute offences related to terrorism

3. Mushk Budji

• Indigenous rice variety from Kashmir
• Rich aroma but fears extinction due to rice blast disease
• Low yield & Poor RoI as a result!


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Experiments with water
(GS1, Society, Urbanisation, Water supply challenges and solutions)

2. Holes in social security
(GS3, Economy, Social security schemesand issues)

3. India Pak Question of trade
(GS3, Economy, India Pak bilateral trade)

4. State of unemployment in India
(GS3, Economy, New Report on unemployment)


TH

1. The politics of humanitarian aid
(GS2, IR, Humanitarian aid in gaza)

2. WTO's investment facilitation negotiations are not illegal
(GS3, Economy, WTO, MC13, Outcomes and way forward)

3. On sustainable building materials
(GS3, Environment, sustainable construction & way forward)

4. Why are Rohingya refugees risking their lives at sea?
(GS2, IR, Rohingya refugees, sea journey)

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🚨 29 March 2024 | Friday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Core Sectors

• 6.7% growth recorded in February
• Office of Economic Advisor, DIPP, Commerce Ministry
• 8 Core sectors: RESCCNCF (in order of contribution from most to least)
Refinery products, Electricity, Steel, Coal, Crude oil, Natural gas, Cement, Fertilisers

2. Vikram-1 launch vehicle

• India's 1st pvt orbital rocket launch
• High strength Carbon composite rocket motor
• Test fire by Skyroot aerospace in Sriharikota
• Uses solid fuel & high performance thermal protection system

3. Polio virus

• poliomyelitis; 3 subtypes
• composed of RNA genome & protein Capsid
• 1st isolated in 1909 by Karl Landsteiner & Erwin Popper
• 2 types of vaccines: inactivated & live attenuated
• India- polio free nation

4. H5N1 strain

• Avian influenza A virus subtype H5N1; highly pathogenic
• Symptoms that include fever, cough, sore throat, muscle aches, conjunctivitis, etc.


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. The deflator problem
(GS3, Economy, double deflation method, NSO data on GDP)

2. Why Nov- Dec temperatures may decide the Rabi output
(GS3, Agriculture, temperature rise, issues)

3. Governor's assent to state laws
(GS2, Polity, Governor's Role, KL issues)


TH

1. The countdown to a pandemic treaty
(GS3, Health, WHO's pandemic treaty, features, concerns & way forward)

2. Understanding India's coal imports
(GS3, Economy, coal imports, issues, locations)

3. Measuring internet freedom in India in the last 10 years
(GS2, Polity, internet shutdowns, colonial laws & global trends)

4. A living will
(GS2, Social issues, dying with dignity, guidelines)


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