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🚨 8 April 2024 | Monday 🚨


Stats 📈


1. Election Commission Data

• Women's representation in Parliament rose from 4.5% in 1957 to 14.4% in 2019
• Male candidates grew from 1,474 in 1957 to 7,322 in 2019, a fivefold increase, while women's growth was 16-fold


Pre Related News 📄

1. Gaganshakti - Indian Air Force

• High-octane operations, in a realistic environment
• Tarang Shakti: will be the biggest multi-nation air exercise to be conducted on Indian soil

2. Seven Cities of Delhi

• Compiled them in short for a quick revision. Click here

3. Total Solar Eclipse

• Occurs only once in about 400 years
• Umbra: The middle and the darkest part of the lunar shadow
• When the Moon blocks the Sun entirely, the areas in the center of the Moon's shadow at the time witness a total solar eclipse

PS: Revise weekly current affairs on my blog

Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH

1. Shaping India’s path to inclusive health care
(GS2, Health, Universal & Inclusive Healthcare)

2. Gone too soon — the subject of youth suicide in India
(GS, Health, Mental Health, World Health Day)

3. What is the technology behind manufacturing a semiconductor chip?
(GS3, SnT, Semiconductor & Globalization)

IE

1. Artificial Intelligence & Art
(GS3, Negativities of SnT Developments)

2. How PMLA got its Sharp Teeth
(GS3, Money Laundering, Read from a UPSC POV from here)

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🚨 9 April 2024 | Tuesday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Cicada flies

• insects; Hemiptera order (tree bugs)
• Rare occurrence, 1 Trillion to appear in USA
• dual emergence event since 1803
• 2 types: Northern & Southern Illinois brood

Revise species in news here

2. Junk DNA & Alu Gene

• Junk DNA: A non functional DNA
• mostly in psuedogenes & transposons and viruses
• Alu gene: type of jumping gene
• non transposable element, only in primates

Quotes 💭

"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality." Edgar Allan Poe

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Quality of growth
(GS3, Economy, inclusive & sustainable growth)

2. Why VVPAT was brought in
(GS2, Polity, Democracy, elections)

3. The citizen's climate rights
(GS3, Environment, climate rights, SC judgement)


TH

1. Indian aviation, case of air safety at a discount
(GS3, Transportation, Aviation sector challenges and way forward)

2. Marching ahead with technology absorption
(GS3, S&T, Indian army's theme, new conditions & way forward)

3. A freak DNA change 25 MYA is why humans lack tails
(GS3, S&T, Junk DNA, Alu Accident)


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Pre note: Revise weekly CA here on my blog

🚨 10 April 2024 | Wednesday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. DESI experiment

• Dark Energy spectroscopic instrument; Arizona US
• unique 5000 robotic eyes, captures separately the light coming from galaxy

2. 📍Botswana (diamond rich country)

• Largest elephant population, 1.3L
• hunting to keep population in check
• exporting elephants to Germany

3. God particle (Higgs boson)

• elementary particle in standard model of particle physics
• Discovered in 2012 by Large hadron collider, CERN, Switzerland
• Context: Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of Higgs boson dies at 94


Stats📈

1. India has 2nd highest hepatitis cases, 11% of global cases: WHO

Quotes 💭

"Nepotism is the lowest and least imaginative form of corruption" Daniel Alarcon

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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. An elusive grand bargain
(GS2, IR, US-China relations)

2. Laws for a better climate
(GS2, Polity, SC judgement on climate change, pros & cons)

3. New 3D map of universe hints at nature of dark energy
(GS3, S&T, dark energy, new 3D mapping)


TH

1. Climate crisis is not gender neutral
(GS2, Polity, SC judgement on climate change, way forward)

2. The corridor of Kolkata's bypass urbanism
(GS1, Society, Urbanisation in Kolkata)

3. The import restrictions on solar PV cells
(GS3, S&T, Solar PV cell imports, policies, scope)


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Pre note: Revise weekly CA here on my blog

🚨 11 April 2024 | Thursday 🚨

Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Womenomics

Promotion of economic empowerment of women, term by ex-Japanese PM Shinzo Abe


Pre Related News 📄

1. House sparrow (Goraiya)

• Native of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin & Asia
• IUCN Status: Least Concerned

2. Garudan Thookkam

• Ritual art form, KL
• Performed near Sarkara Devi Temple, Thiruvananthapuram


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Nari shakti lessons from Japan
(GS1, Society, Women, Japan model)

2. A time Standard for moon's surface
(GS3, S&T, Moon & Earth's standard time)

TH

1. Katchatheevu demands thinking out of the box
(GS2, IR, Katchatheevu issue & way forward)

2. The advent of a holistic approach to 'one health'
(GS3, Health, NOHM)

Pre Note: Download all my tweets compiled monthly here for your revision

🚨 12 April 2024 | Friday 🚨

Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Section 5 of PMLA 2002

• Gives for Adjudicating authority
• It can attach property suspected to be acquired with crime proceeds in a scheduled offence

Pre Related News 📄

1. Palme d'Or

• highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival, France.
• Context: Payal Kapadia's All we imagine as light nominated; 1st Indian film after 30 years

2. Angara A5

• 1st post-Soviet Russian space rocket
• launched from Vostochny Cosmodrome in far-east Russia

3.📍Sulthan Bathery, Wayanad, KL

• Vijaynagara style jain temple; aka Ganapathyvattam
• destroyed by Tipu sultan

4. ISRO's POEM 3

• PSLV Orbital Experimental Module 3
• Inexpensive space platform by VSSC
• Powered by solar panels, 4th stage Li ion battery, NGC system, telecommand system

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. A maritime bastion
(GS2, IR, strategic locations & Indo Pacific)

2. Like chital in Andamans: how invasive species threaten natural ecosystems
(GS3, Environment, Invasive species)

TH

1. A battle to save Ladakh, and all of humanity
(GS3, Ladakh's development, challenges & review)

2. ISRO's 'zero orbital debris' milestone
(GS3, S&T, ISRO projects)

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🚨 13 April 2024 | Saturday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. CDP SURAKSHA

• Cluster Development Programme- System for Unified Resource Allocation, Knowledge, and Secure Horticulture Assistance
• instant disbursal of subsidies to farmers ; by utilising the e-RUPI voucher from the NPCI.
• Read more here

2. Volcanic vortex rings

• rare phenomenon that is generated by the combination of rapid gas release and the vent shape
• in Mt Etna volcano, Italy (largest in Europe)

3. Hydrogel

• by IISc Blr, removes microplastics from water
• binds with contaminants & degrades them with using UV light

Quotes 💭

"Money takes wings. The only thing that endured is character". - OJ Simpson

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Job number one
(GS3, Economy, Unemployment crisis & way forward)

2. How a new platform will instantly disburse subsidies to farmers
(GS3, Agriculture, Subsidies, CDP SURAKSHA)

TH

1. Data for better education, a brighter future for students
(GS3, ASER report, technology use)

2. The blurry lines b/w wildlife 'capture' & 'rescue'
(GS3, Environment, Indian laws, KA example)

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🚨 14 April 2024 | Sunday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Muria tribe (AP)

• In news for custom of father weaving a bamboo basket (Vookada) for new born to sleep

2. Gerozyme & Gerascience

• Enzyme related to old age
• Speaks of ageing science

3. Hepatitis (types: A,B,C,D,E)

• Liver inflammation caused by viral infection, alcohol & other conditions.
• Hepatitis B can be prevented through vaccination & hepatitis C with medicines

Stats 📈

1. 11.6% global cases of hepatitis are from India: WHO report
• 2nd leading infectious cause of death after TB.

Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH

1. Geroscience: Science related to aging
(GS3, Health, Geriatric care)

2. Why is there a WHO Alert on viral hepatitis
(GS3, Health, hepatitis)


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🚨 15 April 2024 | Monday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Dragon's egg Nebula

• triple star system; 4-6 Million years ago
• gravitationally bound

2. Doxxing

• act of revealing personal information about someone online
Read more about doxxing here

3. Cryogenics

• Science of materials at temperatures below negative 153 degrees Celsius.
• He & N as cryogenic fluid
• Used in MRI, ISRO's LVM 3 rocket

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Food for reform
(GS3, Economy, Food Security, way forward)

2. India’s hepatitis headache
(GS 3, Health, Hepatitis in India)


TH

1. Decoding the judgement on Jim Corbett
(GS2, Polity, SC Judgement on Jim corbett)

2. What is doxxing & measures to take if it happens to you
(GS3, S&T, Doxxing)

PS: Revise weekly CA here on my blog

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🚨 16 April 2024 | Tuesday 🚨

Quotes 💭

Guarantee is precarity, welfare is self-care

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Tamil nadu's decentralized industrialisation model
(GS3, Economy, TN model)

2. A&N islands through strategic lens
(GS 3, Internal security, A&N Islands)

TH

1. Guarantee is precarity, welfare is self care
(GS2, Polity, Welfare model India, examples)

2. India’s Arctic imperative
(GS2, IR, India-Arctic relations)

3. How does hydrocarbon extraction happen?
(GS3, S&T, HC extraction)

PS: Revise foreign travellers of medieval India here