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🚨 17 April 2024 | Wednesday 🚨

Mains keywords ✍

1. Space Tourism: A form of space travel which is for recreational/business purposes.
• 2 types: sub orbital & orbital

2. Imported Inflation: The rise in the prices of goods & services in a country due to rise in price of imports in the country.


Pre Related News 📄

1. Israel weapons

• Arrow system: long range anti ballistic missile ; collab with US
• David's sling (stunner): medium range air defence system; 300 kms range
• Iron dome: Indigenous short range air defense system
• Spyder: Family of multirange mobile air defence system

2. Madigas

• Telugu SCs; historically associated with leatherwork, handicrafts.
• 59.52% of the SC population in Telangana
• Context: Rivalry b/w Madigas & Malas

3. New fish species

• found in Laccadive sea
• Jansen's wrasse (Thalassoma jansenii) , Checkerboard wrasse (Halichoeres hortulanus) & Moon wrasse (Thalassoma lunare) 
• uses live/dead coral structures as anvils to break hard shells of sea urchins for the food.

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4. Eclipses frequency

• Solar eclipses: 2 to 5 times in a year
• Lunar eclipses: 0 to 3 times in a year
• 2206 will have 5 solar eclipses

5. 📍Great barrier reef

• world's largest; near Australia
• Lizard island
• facing severe coral bleaching


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Moving past bonds
(GS2, Polity, Electoral bonds & way forward)

2. The Vibhishan moment
(GS 4, Ethics & Essay)

3. An alternative path
(GS3, Clean energy & digital solutions)


TH

1. Navigating life with consumer disabilities
(GS2, Polity, Consumer rights, legal reforms & way forward)

2.  Reforms needed in voting process
(GS2, Polity, Voting reforms)

3. Why has India allowed FIIs to invest in its green bonds.
(GS3, Economy,  Green bonds & FII)

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🚨 18 April 2024 | Thursday 🚨

Mains keywords ✍️

Vigilantism

An act of enforcing law or encouraging others for it without any legal authorization


Pre Related News 📄

1. Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR)

• Number of maternal deaths during given time per 100,000 live births
• ICMR has found links b/w MMR & Heart diseases
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2. Fiat justitia ruat caelum principle
(Context: SC's Verdict on Delhi metro case)

• let justice be done even though the heavens fall
• belief that justice must be realized regardless of consequences
• fundamental basis of the administration of justice by courts

3. Tiny leaf litter frog

• Haddadus binotatus; Brazil Atlantic rainforest
• silent screams of frequency 20 kHZ to 44 kHZ (not in human ear range)


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Why China Economy grew faster than expected, what lies ahead
(GS3, Economy, China's Economy model)

2. Surya Tilak & Science behind it on CSEWhy blog (GS3, S&T)

TH

1. The Great Indian Bustard & climate action verdict
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2.  On India's heat action plan
(GS1, Geography, Heat waves)

3. How can small scale farmers be benefitted from trees on farms
(GS3, Agriculture, Agroforestry pros)

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🚨 19 April 2024 | Friday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. 📍Mt Ruang, Indonesia

• erupts in Sanguine Islands
• part of Ring of fire

2. Itisaar.ai, an anti-deepfake tool in collab with IIT Jodhpur

3. Voice swap technology: Process of using an AI algorithm to either alter or mimic an individual's voice

4. Infectious respiratory particles (IPRs): Pathogens transmitted through the air


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Clash of aspirations
(GS3, Economy, Demographic dividend)

2. India's 4P Model
(GS 3, Economy, Delhi Declaration & its 4P Model)


TH

1. India's nuanced approach in the South China Sea
(GS2, IR, India & South China sea; ASEAN)

2. What is Bhojshala-Kamal maula complex dispute?
(GS2, Polity, Recent disputes, ASI's scientific survey)


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🚨 20 April 2024 | Saturday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Thrissur Pooram, KL

• symbolic meeting of deities of 10 temples
• Kudamattam: colorful parasols on top of caparisoned elephants

2. Vasuki Indicus

• Giant extinct snake from middle Ecocene period
• 50 ft long; largest madtsoiidae snake
• Found in Panandharo lignite mine, Kutch

3. Shompen tribe

• PVTGs; Great Nicobar Island
• Context: 1st time voted in elections
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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. A bitter sweet
(GS3, Health, added sugar in baby food)

2. Musk set to arrive
(GS 3, Economy, FDI, EV Sector challenges & new policy)


TH

1. Israel, a 2 state solution, some recent perceptions
(GS2, IR, Israel & 2 state solution)

2. Scientists & a wish list for incoming government
(GS3, S&T, Scientists demands)


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🚨 21 April 2024 | Sunday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Acacia mearnsii (invasive species)

• commonly known as black wattle
• Native to SE Australia & Tasmania

2. Olive ridley sea turtles (Vulnerable)

• Lepidochelys olivacea
• smallest & most abundant of all sea turtles; Carnivores
• unique mass nesting, Arribada
• warm waters of Pacific, Atlantic & India
• Odisha’s Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary: Largest rookery


Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH

1. What are new GCP rules
(GS3, Environment, Green credit program rules)

2. What is the outlook on global economy
(GS3, Economy, IMF's global financial stability report)


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🚨 22 April 2024 | Monday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️

Voter apathy: lack of interest in participating in elections by certain groups of voters.
(Use in GS2 & PSIR as a reason for poorer voting)


Pre Related News 📄

1. Indelible Ink

• made up of 20% conc. Silver Nitrate; colorless & gets color from UV exposure
• mfg by KA govt owned Mysore paints & varnish Ltd, since 1962

2. Antihistamines

• drugs to treat short lived allergic reactions
• They target histamine receptors, proteins that bind to histamine (ethylamine + imidazole ring).
• Histamine has 4 main functions depending on location and receptor type (H1, H2, H3, H4).


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. How climate change is fuelling litigation in India & the world.
(GS3, Environment, Climate change litigation)

2. 4th global mass Coral bleaching triggered
(GS3, Environment, GMCB)

3. Health insurance for seniors
(GS3, Health, Senior citizen & Health insurance, Ayushman Bharat)

TH

1. Preparing India for water stress, climate resilience
(GS3, Environment, Earth day, water security)

2. The challenges of renewable energy
(GS3, Environment, renewable energy challenges & way forward)

3. MPOX virus uses a 'genomic accordian' to evolve & infect humans
(GS3, S&T, MPOX & studies)

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🚨 23 April 2024 | Tuesday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️

• Spiritual Tourism:
Form of cultural tourism focusing on satisfying human needs via cultural and spiritual elements
(GS3, Economy)

• De-bottlenecking:
Process of pinpointing specific areas in workflow and removing those to ensure smooth flow of the product
(GS3, Economy)


Pre Related News 📄

1. Schengen Visa

• official document mandatory for some non-Europeans to travel to all the 27 countries of the Schengen area.
• Schengen Zone: Group of 27 European nations that have abolished their internal borders
• Context: EU eases norms to offer Indians longer Visas

2. Ethylene oxide (C2H4O)

• Cyclic ether & simplest epoxide
• colorless gas form; used in Textile, Pharma, food industry etc.
• Context: Singapore Food Agency recalled MDH Masala due to presence of carcinogenic Ethylene oxide.

3. Llama 3 by Meta

• Large Language Model; available on all Meta products
• more prompts from users & more content as a response

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4. COTPA Law

• Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products Act 2003 (COTPA 2003)
• prohibition of advertisement and regulation of trade and commerce, production, supply and distribution
• Context: HC uphelds KA's hookah ban


Quotes 💭

" That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part." Thomas Jefferson

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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Health insurance for all ages
(GS3, Economy, health Insurance issues & way forward)

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2. Plastic treaty talks
(GS3, Environment, Plastic treaty)

3. Why HC upheld KA's hookah ban
(GS2, Polity, A19 (1)(g), 47, COTPA law)


TH

1. Restoring Earth's right to "good health"
(GS3, Environment, Earth's challenges, SDGs, way forward)

2. The tools helping scientists up the rate at which they find new drugs
(GS3, S&T, drug Discovery, challenges, AI, Way forward)

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🚨 24 April 2024 | Wednesday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. PM Awas Yojana- Urban

• "housing for all" scheme under MoHUA since 2015
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2. Siegfried Samuel Marcus

• German inventor of 1st petrol vehicle, 1864

3. PS receptor

• Phosphatidyl serine protein
• expressed by dying cells in the body, as a signal to the immune cells to destroy them
• PS coated vesicles for immunity


Stats 📈

1. India 4th largest military spender in 2023: SIPRI
•Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

2. Asia worst hit by disasters in 2023: World Meteorological Organisation report
• 79 extreme weather events killed over 2k
• Asia warmed faster than global avg
• 60% due to flooding, 15% by storms


Quotes 💭

" Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. " Mark Twain

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Vietnam's paddy farmers reduce methane emissions through innovations
(GS3, Environment, Paddy Methane emissions & new methods)

TH

1. Toss out the junk food, bring back the healthy food
(GS3, Health, SC's concern, Health subsidies)

2. Reversing the global democratic recession
(GS3, Economy, Surveys, Challenges & Way forward)

3. How India is planning to boost EV production?
(GS3, S&T, EV market issues & way forward)

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🚨 25 April 2024 | Thursday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Articles in news

• Art 39(b): states to frame policies towards securing material resources of the community so that they are distributed to serve the 'common good'; DPSP

• Art 244(A): Formation of an autonomous State comprising certain tribal areas in Assam and creation of local Legislature or Council of Ministers or both

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2. Banded Krait (Bungarus fasciatus)

• Large species of elapid snakes found in India
• highly neurotoxic venom ; LC status


Quotes 💭

" Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail " - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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