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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Happy Holi, friends ❤️

Praying for a colors of strong career in your life this year on Holi

Pre note: Did you download Free compilation of my February Tweets here?

🚨 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 🚨

No newspaper today. Revise notes at blog.csewhy.com :)

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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)

PS: Revise Places of Worship Act here

Pre note: Revise Bhakti Saints with mnemonics & mapping here

🚨 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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🚨 30 March 2024 | Saturday 🚨

Quotes 💭
" I think the Music reflects the state of that society is in...poets & musicians.. reflect that age" - John Lennon


Mains Keywords ✍🏻

Cyber slavery: It is emerging as a form of organized crime of unprecedented severity and scale.
(GS3, security)


Pre Related News 📄

1. INS Sumedha & Trishul

•INS Sumedha (P58) is the 3rd Saryu-class patrol vessel of the Indian Navy, by Goa Shipyard Ltd
•INS Trishul (F43) (Trident) is the 2nd frigate of the Talwar class of the Indian Navy.
• intercepted & free hijacked Iranian vessel Al Kambar
• Near Socotra island, Yemen

2. Surrogate Ads

•A marketing technique used by companies to indirectly promote their products or services, which are prohibited or restricted from advertising directly.


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Power threat to bustards
(GS3, Environment, Great indian bustards threats & way forward)

2. Why US allowed UNSC resolution on Gaza ceasefire to pass
(GS2, IR, UNSC & Gaza)

3. Africa at the centre
(GS2, IR, Global South strategy, Africa)

4. From special to equal
(GS2, Polity, A370 abrogation, wayforward)

TH

1. Bonds, big money, & an imperfect democracy
(GS2, Polity, Electoral bonds, cronyism)

Pre note: Revise 6th schedule & Article 371 here

🚨 31 March 2024 | Sunday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Bohag Bihu:

• Marks the beginning of the Assamese New Year
• Revise North-East Festivals asked in UPSC Prelims from here

2. Otoliths:

• Bio-mineralised ear stones that help fish hear
• Used to identify the species, size, age, growth rate, and season of death of an individual fish

3. Bail

• Governed by Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (CrPC, 73)
• Regular Bail, Interim Bail, Anticipatory Bill. Revise from Here

4. Diabetes

• Pancreatic endocrine disorder due to insufficient insulin secretion.
• Type 1 diabetes: autoimmune reaction that stops your body from making insulin.
• Type 2 diabetes: does not use insulin well & can’t keep blood sugar at normal levels.
• Gestational diabetes: Insulin-blocking hormones that are produced during pregnancy


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH

1. Why is unemployment high among the youth?
(GS3, Growth & Development)

2. Will global forest expansion hit tribals?
(GS3, Environment, Biodiversity, PESA)

3. Tropical cyclones of higher intensity demands a new category
(GS1, Geography, Cyclones & Climate Change)

4. Many countries yet to fully implement steps to prevent misuse of virtual assets, says FATF
(GS3, Internal Security, Money Laundering & Intl Cooperation)

IE

1. 1920 The Start of India's Election Journey
(GS1, History, Montague Chelmsford Reforms )

2. India & Philippines @75: A Relationship Resurgent
(GS2, IR: South-South Cooperation, Act-East Policy)


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