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🚨 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)

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🚨 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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🚨 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

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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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🚨 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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🚨 16 May | Thursday 🚨


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. More than a million in this election, here's how polling station works
(GS2, Polity, Read about how polling station works, challenges)

TH

1. On Delhi's mounting waste crisis
(GS3, Environment, Read about waste mgmt, challenges, decentralization)

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🚨 17 May | Friday 🚨

Not much in newspaper today!

Mains Keywords✍️

Sick Out: an organized absence from work by workers on the pretext of sickness


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. ED can't make PMLA arrest after cognisance, needs court nod: SC
(GS2, Polity, Read about SC's recent judgement on PMLA )

2. A right to fairness
(GS2, Polity, Read about SC's verdict on newsclick case & due process)

TH

1. Use of AI in drug development
(GS3, S&T, Read about AI's application in drug development, challenges & India)

2. Can parties be de-recognized & de-registered?
(GS 2, Polity, Read about registered & recognized parties, issues & way forward)

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🚨 18 May | Saturday 🚨

Mains Keywords✍️

Hyperpoliticisation refers to the tendency for every aspect of life to be viewed through a political lens.
(GS 2)


Pre Related News 📄

1. Orca (Orcinus orca)

• aka killer whale; largest member of dolphin family
• found in Arctic to Antarctic regions
• CITIES AP II
• highly intelligent & curious mammal

Revise species in news


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Hurdles on path to green
(GS3, Environment, Read about green energy transition challenges & way forward)

2. Rules for political parties to use state Funded media during polls
(GS2, Polity, Read about time allocation, speech content in elections)

TH

1. After the civil war, the stifling impasse in Sri Lanka
(GS2, IR, Read about Sri Lanka's situation, polarisation, future of Tamilians)

2. The burning hills of Uttarakhand
(GS 3, Environment, Read about UK's forest fire, causes & way forward)


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🚨 19 May | Sunday 🚨

Mains Keywords✍

Competitive populism is the idea of framing the policies & campaigns by the political parties that focuses more on the individual problem rather than the country as a whole.
(GS2, Polity)

Sachetisation means financial products & services are made available in smaller, more manageable packets.
(GS3, Economy)


Pre Related News 📄

1. Chir Pine (Pinus roxburghii)

• Native to Himalayas; LC status
• Used for Timber, furniture, resin.


Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH

1. Why is RBI keeping an eye on gold loans?
(GS3, Economy, Read about RBI's gold loan norms & impact)

2.  What are the NIA's allegations against NSCN
(GS 3, Internal Security, Read about main ethnic groupings, NSCN stand)

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