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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🚨 12 May | Sunday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Aurora Borealis

• Learn in detail in this CSEWhy Post

2. Gold-billed magpie (Urocissa flavirostris)

• Bird species found in Northern Indian Subcontinent
• LC status; Corvidae family

Revise species in news here


Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH

1. How is India streamlining Pharma sector
(GS3, Economy, Read about India's Pharma sector, challenges & way forward)

2. The Karnataka HC ruling on EPF benefits
(GS3, Social security, Read about KA HC's judgment on EPF & its implications)


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🚨 13 May | Monday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍

Digital native: a person who grew up with the presence of digital technology or in the information age
(GS3, S&T, GS1, Society)

Negative bias: tendency to pay more attention to negative information than to positive information
(GS4, Ethics, Psychology optional)


Pre Related News 📄

1. Oleander flowers (Nerium oleander)

• temperate & subtropical; LC status
• poisonous plant
• Drought tolerant
• Context: Banned in KL temples

2. Caenorhabditis elegans (soil worm)

• free living nematode
• disease causing strain of bacteria
• 1st multicellular organism to have full genome sequenced & neural wiring mapped
• has progeny with "knowledge" that exists for 4 generations


Quotes 💭

" The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation." Bertrand Russell

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Make it farmer friendly
(GS3, Agriculture, Read about India's export policy, bias & way forward)

TH

1. Investment lessons from the India-EFTA trade deal
(GS3, Economy, Read about India-EFTA trade deal & importance)

2. What is DigiLocker & does it keep your data & documents safe?
(GS3, S&T, Digilocker , pros & cons)


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🚨 14 May | Tuesday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍

1. Xenotransplantation: Transplantation of nonhuman tissues or organs into human recipients.
(GS3, S&T)


Pre Related News 📄

1. 55 Cancri e

• exoplanet orbiting sun like Cancri 55 A
• carbon planet; extremely hot
• 41 light years away
• Context: Atmosphere found around 55 Cancri e

2.📍Chabahar port, Iran

Read more about this here

3. Semal tree (Bombax ceiba)

• Tropical tree; LC Status

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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Real, Fake, or really fake
(GS3, S&T, Read about deepfakes, issues & way forward)

2. India's stakes in Chabahar
(GS2, IR, Read about Importance of Chabahar port & INSTC)

3. Xenotransplantation
(GS3, S&T, Read about Xenotransplantation, issues & need)

TH

1. Stabilising India Nepal ties in changing times
(GS2, IR, Read about Nepal ties, importance, China’s influence)

2. An overview of smart city missions
(GS3, Economy, Smart City mission, status & challenges)

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Pre Note: Revise CA on my blog here

🚨 15 May | Wednesday 🚨


Pre Related News 📄

1. Solar flares

• intense burst of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy linked with sunspots
• seen as bright areas of sun; ranging from minutes to hours
• affect satellite communications, disrupt radio signals, geomagnetic storms, auroras
• Context: Solar flares captured by Chandrayan 2 orbiter & Aditya L1

Read about Aurora here


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Heatwaves & Climate change
(GS1, Geography, Read about Heatwaves, Climate change, impact & way forward)

TH

1. On the importance of regulatory sandboxes in artificial intelligence
(GS3, S&T, Read about Regulating sandboxes, pros, Indian approach)

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