Pre note: Revise ports/place in String of Pearls & Necklace of Diamonds here

🚨 1 May | Wednesday 🚨

Pre Related 📄

1. Shenzhou Spaceship-17

• China's spaceflight program spacecraft
• Aim: Conduct extravehicular activities, space science experiments & tech tasks, routine work of platform management & space lecture

2. COVISHIELD debate: Revise types of vaccines here


Quotes 💭

"The greatest deception men suffers is from his opinion." Leonardo da vinci


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Why banks can't seek LOC's to stop debtors from going abroad
(GS3: Economy, read to learn about inability of the banks)

2. Cars that drive themselves
(GS3: S&T, read to learn tech involved))

3. El nino, anti cyclone
(GS1: Geography, learn to form opinion on new heatwaves)

TH

1. Microbes, not fossil fuels, produced most new methane: Study
(GS3: Environment, read to learn methane sources)

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Pre note: Did you revise last month's species in news here?

🚨2 May 2024 | Thursday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Lunisolar Calendar

• both lunar & solar calendar followed
• Ex: Indian Calendar, Japanese, Korean, Babylonian etc.

2. The Supersonic Missile assisted release of torpedo (SMART) system

• by DRDO; to launch lightweight torpedoes can target far away submarines
• canister based Missile comprises 2 stage solid propulsion, precision inertial navigation.

3. 📍Panama Canal

• an artificial waterway b/w Atlantic Ocean & Pacific Ocean
• important maritime trade route
• Context: El Niño caused Panama Canal Drought

4. Antares (brightest red star)

• captured by IIA, Blr while moon passed in front of it
• in scorpion Constellation; binary star system

5. Art 31C

• to establish rules that would give the DPSP precedence over the FR.
• 25th Constitution Amendment Act 1971

6. Quarks (smallest particles)

• Elementary particles that experience all known forces of nature
• Only elementary particles to do so!
• Carry fractional electric charge
• Read more about Quarks here


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. The challenge & necessity of "balance" in use of fertilisers
(GS3, Agriculture, Read about how to use fertilisers efficiently)

2. The question of art 31C
(GS2, Polity, Read about Art 31C timeline & recent judgement)

3. Why is China for important for Tesla than India
(GS3, Economy, Read about reasons of EV supply chain & importance of China )

TH

1. Analysing labor on a warming planet
(GS3, Economy, Learn about link b/w global warming & labour productivity)

2. Particles called quarks hold the key to the final fate of some stars
(GS3, S&T, read to learn about Quarks & stars link)

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Pre note: Make best of your time this weekend, will share calendly link for the mentorship calls! :)

🚨 3 May | Friday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️

1. Vishwa Bandhu Bharat: An India that is world's brother/friend
(GS2, IR, Diplomacy; keyword seen in MEA Jaishankar's article)


Pre Related News 📄

1. Monkey POX Viral disease (MPOX)

• Transmitted through infected animals/humans/materials
• Vaccines available ✅

2. Diplomatic Passport: Revise types of passports here

3. Acacia mearnsii (black wattle)

• Endemic to SE Australia
• exotic species found in Chinnakanal, Idduki, Kerala
• other exotic species: Eucalyptus & West Indian Lantana

4. P vs NP problem

• major unsolved problem in theoretical computer science.
• it asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified can also be quickly solved
• Context: It's Role in Health care

5. Liquid nitrogen

• inert, colorless, odourless, cryogenic fluid
• used for cancer related procedures (cryotherapy)
• In news due to TN's action against use of same in the food

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. The Vishwa Bandhu
(GS2, IR, Read about how India can become developed & leading power)

2. What it means to be Viksit?
(GS3, Economy, Read about features of developed nation & examples)


TH

1. Does PMJAY needs a design change
(GS2, Polity, read to learn suggestions to improve PMJAY)

2. Why are Indian spices facing the heat?
(GS3, Economy, read to learn about Indian spices health concerns, gaps & way forward)

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First weekend of May, practice MCQs on this week's Current Affairs here👇🏻

1. International Relations

a) G20 | Practice MCQs here

b) BRICS | Learn through MCQs here

c) ASEAN | Easy topic? test your knowledge here


2. Environment

a) Environmental Pollution | Practice MCQs here

b) Water Pollution | Can you answer all these Qs here?

c) Climate Change | Answer all these CA MCQs here

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🚨 4 May | Saturday 🚨


Pre Related News 📄

1. Oxytocin hormone

• natural hormone; involved in childbirth, lactation, Social interactions
• used as medication for postpartum haemorrhage, uterine involution & lactation insufficiency
• Context: Banned Oxytocin still used in Delhi Dairies.

2. Vaccine-induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia
(VITT)

• catastrophic and life-threatening reaction to COVID 19 vaccine response
• symptoms like blood clotting & low platelet count after 4 to 42 days of vaccination

3. 'Eta Aquariid' meteor shower

• annual meteor shower in May
• comprises burning space debris moving at 66 km/second in Earth's atmosphere
• Location: Indonesia, Australia
• Comet: celestial objects primarily composed of ice, dust, and rocky material.

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Weather proofing polls
(GS3, Environment, Read about how India can ensure maximum voter turnout)

TH

1. The Paradox of India's global rise,its regional decline
(GS2, IR, read about India in global & regional arena, factors & suggestions )

2. This is the year to get the SDG goals back on track
(GS3, Economy, Read about reasons of slow progress of SDG goals & way forward)


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🚨 5 May | Sunday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. TacticAI

• by Google's DeepMind
• AI system for football tactics & strategies, especially corner kicks

2. Delonix regia (Gulmohar)

• Native to Madagascar; ornamental tree
• LC status

3. Gond Kalam/ Jangarh Kalam

• new school of painting
• theme: mythical tales from gond culture

4. 📍Koller lake, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh

• one of the Largest freshwater lake
• dry & barren due to intense summers

5. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1

• Influenza A virus subtype H5N1
• enzootic; SE Asia
• Context: Spread in Cattles in US

6. Koothadanvar festival, TN

• 18 days festival; Transgender women marry to Lord Koothandavar


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH

1. Can the new organelle help engineer plants to fix nitrogen?
(GS3, Environment, Read about how Nitrogen fixing organelle can change Agriculture)

2. Will R&AW overseas operations affect ties?
(GS2, IR, read about India & foreign relations, impact of R&AW operations)

3. Leprosy spread between red squirrels & people: Study
(GS3, Health, Read about link b/w leprosy & red squirrels study)

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🚨 6 May | Monday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Goldene

• 1st free standing 2D metal
• Sheet of gold that is only one atom thick
• Future applications: Hydrogen generating catalysis, Carbon dioxide conversion, water purification etc.

2. Catatumbo lightning

• Continuous natural phenomenon over Catatumbo River, Venezuela


Quotes 💭

"There maybe times when we are powerless to prevent injustice , but there must never be a time when we fail to protest" - Elie Wiesel

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Jobs picture in perspective
(GS3, Economy, Read about The India Employment report 2024, challenges & way forward)

2. What is Artificial general intelligence & why are people worried about it?
(GS3, S&T, Read about AGI, scope & challenges)

TH

1. An overview of Sudan's civil war
(GS2, IR, Read to know about places in conflict, note the names)

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🚨 7 May | Tuesday 🚨


Pre Related News 📄

1. Boeing's starliner (CST-100)

• partially reusable crew capsule
• CST 100: Crew Space Transportation

2. Orangutan

• large primates; exclusively arboreal; CE status
• low reproductive rates; lives up to 50 years
• 3 species: Bornean, Sumatran, Tapanuli
• Context: uses plant to treat wounds

Revise Species in News here

3. Carbon farming

• helps the land store more carbon & reduce the amount of GHGs.
• implementation of rotational grazing

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. The "Muslim Quota" Question
(GS2, Polity, Read about religion based reservation, issues & Sachar, Misra Panels)

TH

1. What is Carbon farming
(GS3, Environment, Read about Carbon farming, challenges, global models, scope in India)

2. Understanding the science behind MRI
(GS3, S&T, Read MRI, working, pros & cons)

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Pre Note: Practice MCQs on World Rivers here

🚨 8 May | Wednesday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️

Virtual touch: Involves cyberspace safe behaviour & make children aware of potential risks.

Pre Related News 📄

1. Revise Bail here for the exam

2. Sarna code

• nature worshippers; doesn't follow Hindu religion
• Jal, Jungle, Zameen
• OD, JHK, BH, WB, AS

3. West Nile fever (no human vaccine)

• caused by Virus; spread by mosquitoes
• Context: Man dies in KL due to WNF

4. Hypothalamus

• 3 regions: Anterior, Middle, Posterior
• minute region in Human brain near pituitary gland
• Function: Hormone production, maintains homeostasis, emotions, sleep cycles etc.


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Will higher default limit for pesticides in spices impact health?
(GS3, S&T, Read about pesticides in spices, issues & impacts)

TH

1. What hight temperature maps get wrong about heatwaves
(GS3, Environment, Read about Heatwaves, Global warming & anomaly maps in India)

2. A dignified peaceful passing is everyone's right
(GS1, Society, Read about palliative care, living will, ICU routinisation)

Practice MCQs on today's Current Affairs here

Pre Note: Master PYQs with 15 years PYQ Course here

🚨 9 May | Thursday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Non market economies(NMEs)

• trading countries can impose trade regulations such as anti-dumping duties, import tariffs.
• Context: Vietnam's demand to change its NME Status

2. 📍Ritacuba Blanco glacier, Columbia

• highest peak in Cordillera Oriental, Andes Mt.
• Context: El Niño impacting glacier melt

3. Widal Test

•  procedure to diagnose typhoid fever or enteric fever.
• developed in 1896 by Georges Fernand Widal
• takes 7 to 14 days for diagnosis
• based on Seropositivity (immune agglutination reaction to specific infectious agent)


Quotes ✍️

" The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. " Plato

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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. The India Nepal border issue
(GS2, IR, Read about India- Nepal border issues, talks, current status)

2. From home to workplace
(GS3, Economy, Read about way forward for Gender parity policies)

TH

1. The socio ecological effects of LPG price hikes
(GS3, Economy, Read about alternatives to LPG & way forward)

2. The delay in Nagaland civic body polls
(GS2, Constitution, read for women reservation & local body polls)

2023 Pre Paper marked with right answer as per UPSC Official Answer Key :)

Pre Note: Revise from 15 year PYQ Analysis notes [2009-2023] here

🚨 10 May | Friday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Revise Interpol notices here

Quotes ✍️

"I am trying to think, don't confuse me with the facts" Plato

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Meeting nutrition challenge
(GS3, Health, Read about new guidelines on food, challenges, way forward)

2. Export import in agri sector
(GS3, Economy, Read about drivers of imports & exports, Policy takeaways)

TH

1. An AI infused world needs matching cybersecurity
(GS3, S&T, Read about AI threats, Bletchely declaration, way forward)

2. Reservation within constitutional bounds
(GS2, Polity, Read about affirmative action, ongoing debate, way forward)


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Pre Note: Revise CA on my blog here

🚨 11 May | Saturday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), 1982

• International agreement for legal framework for marine & maritime activities
• 5 main zones - Internal Waters, Territorial Sea, Contiguous Zone, Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the High Seas.

2. Section 354 IPC

• Deals with sexual harassment
• assaults woman & intent to outrage her modesty- 1 to 5 years imprisonment & fine


Quotes ✍

"The principle of give & take is the principle of diplomacy - Give one & take ten. " Mark Twain


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Israel, Saudi Arabia & churn in the Middle East
(GS2, IR, Read about India's relations with Israel, Saudi Arabia & challenges & way forward)


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