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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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🚨 20 May | Monday 🚨


Pre Related News 📄

1. Green Credit Programme

• market-based mechanism - to incentivize voluntary environmental actions across diverse sectors
• part of LiFE initiative

Read more here

2. 📍Sariska Tiger Reserve, RJ

• arid, dry deciduous forests; Aravalli range
• 1st reserve in the world with successfully relocated tigers

Revise Tiger reserves here

3. 📍Mt Ibu, Indonesia

• Crater volcano erupts
• part of Pacific "Ring of fire"

4. Nucleosynthesis

• Process by which stars forge elements inside their cores.
• Hydrogen doesn't form.
• High pressure & temperature of core
• Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen cycle forms different elements


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Consistent, coordinated: Evolution & essentials of India's climate policy
(GS3, Environment, Read about India's climate policy)

2. Illegal mining in Sarsika
(GS3, Environment, Read about Illegal mining in Sariska TR)

TH

1. A minor girl victim support scheme that loses it's way
(GS2, Polity, Read about scheme for care & support for victims of POCSO)

2. Why is the EU probing FB & Instagram?
(GS 3, Security, Read about
DSA mandate, Meta regulations for child safety, general practices)

3. Why was Purkayastha’s arrest invalidated?
(GS2: Polity; read for the related court case & arrest & detention related articles)

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🚨 21 May | Tuesday 🚨

Mains Keywords✍️

Radical Democracy advocates the radical extension of equality & liberty.
(GS2, Polity)


Pre Related News 📄

1. Antarctic Treaty

• signed in 1959 & enforced in 1961
• to establish Antarctica as a region dedicated to peaceful purposes, scientific cooperation, & environmental protection.
• 12 Countries; India is consultative party since 1983

2. 📍Humboldt Glacier, Venezuala

• One of the Largest glacier in Northern Greenland
•Context: Last glacier in Venezuela due to Glacier melting

3. Baobab (Adansonia)

• long-lived deciduous, small to large trees from 20 to 100 ft tall with broad trunks and compact tops.
• aka upside-down tree.
• 9 species of baobab tree; 2  - mainland Africa, 6 - Madagascar, & 1 - Australia. 
• aka tree of life because stores large amount of fresh water in trunks


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Antarctic Parliament meets in Kochi
(GS2, IR, Read about Antarctic Treaty, Agenda, Indian context)

2. How Venezuala lost its last glacier & why this matters
(GS3, Environment, Read about Glacier melting & concerns)

TH

1. Radical democracy: why is it relevant today?
(GS2, Polity, Read about Radical democracy & relevance)

2. An overlooked molecule could solve the Venus water mystery
(GS 3, S&T, Read about
Venus water mystery, key findings, future missions)

Pre Note: Garmi behadd hai, stay hydrated! :P

🚨 22 May | Wednesday 🚨

Terms 📄

1. Turbulence

• disruption of air flow over the wings of an airplane, causing irregular vertical motion.
• 7 types; different intensities


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1.  EU's Copernicus Emergency service, called in to locate Raisi's chopper.
(GS2, IR, Read about Copernicus programme, rapid mapping)


TH

1. Analysing local environmental footprints
(GS3, Environment, Read about household environmental footprints, factors, impacts)

2.  Spotlighting Pre eclampsia,  ensuring safe motherhood
(GS 3, Health, Read about
Collective responsibility, Data & way forward)

3. X chromosome revival in older women, increases risk of autoimmune diseases
(GS3, S&T,  inactivation of X chromosome,  autoimmune diseases,  X & Alzheimer disease)


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Pre Note: Revise CA on my blog

🚨 23 May | Thursday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍

Space tourism provides tourists with the opportunity to become astronauts and experience space travel for recreational, leisure, or business purposes.
(GS3, S&T)


Pre Related News 📄

1. Rangelands

• They are natural & semi natural ecosystems that are grazed by domestic livestock or wild animals.
• covers half of the Earth's Terrestrial surface; India- 1.21 Million sq km.
• act as carbon sinks
• 16% of global food production & 70% of feed for domesticated herbivores
• Context: 50% of world's rangelands are degraded


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. A new moral compass
(GS4, Ethics, Read about Kant ethics in today's context)

2. Gopi Thotakura becomes 1st Indian Space tourist: what is space tourism?
(GS3, S&T, Read about space tourism, private players, expenses)

3. Kejriwal & Soren: Two bail pleas in SC, two different outcomes
(GS2, Polity, Read about Kejriwal & Soren's case)

4. The India- Iran reconnect
(GS2, IR, India - Iran relations)


TH

1. On concerns over voter turnout data
(GS2, Polity, Read about form 17C, petition for ECI to upload voter turnout data on website within 2 days)

2. A 'no limit' bromance that is not just a bilateral matter
(GS 2, IR, Read about Russia - China ties and impact on India)


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🚨 24 May | Friday 🚨


Pre Related News 📄

1. Personality Rights

• Right of a person to protect his/her personality under the right to privacy or property
• Eg: celebrities getting their names, photographs or voices etc.
• In context of Jackie Shroff getting some of words reserved!

2. Brain eating amoeba (Naegleria fowleri) aka Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM)

• Free living amoeba found in warm freshwater bodies; for short period
• Enters olfactory nerve tissue through nose, causes swelling up of brain tissue
• No effective treatment; antifungal drug amphotericin B used

3. Windfall Tax

• unearned, unanticipated gain in income through no additional effort or expense
• Read more about Windfall Tax here


Quotes 💭

"Every Right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an Obligation; Every possession, A duty." John D Rockfeller


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Integrated theatre commands
(GS3, Security, Read about ITC, Integrated services, headquarters & leadership)

2. Why "Stone age" could be called "Wood age": Evidence from Study
(GS1, History, Read about study related to Stone age)

TH

1. Should Doctors be kept out of Consumer protection act?
(GS2, Polity, Read about Consumer protection act, challenges & way forward)

2. A visit to preserve China’s interests in Europe
(GS 2, IR, Read about Europe - China ties and focus on Hungary)

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🚨 25 May | Saturday 🚨


Pre Related News 📄

1. Surrogate Advertisement

• marketing technique used by companies to indirectly promote their products or services, which are prohibited or restricted from advertising directly.
• commonly used in industries such as alcohol, tobacco, & gambling

2. Cyclone Remal

• Originating in the central Bay of Bengal
• As per IMD, it is very likely to cross Bangladesh & adjoining West Bengal coasts around May 26 midnight as a severe cyclonic storm.
• name by Oman which means Sand.

Revise cyclone & anti cyclone here


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Power play in the sea
(GS2, IR, Read about China’s military excercise around Taiwan)

2. What are AI Agents & how are they different from LLMs?
(GS3, S&T, Read about AI Agents & LLMs, Uses, challenges)

TH

1. The missing links in IMEC, as shown by the Gaza War
(GS2, IR, Read about IMEC, impact of Gaza War, Oman & Egypt)


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Pre Note: Make your happiness a choice you make everyday :)

🚨 26 May | Sunday 🚨


Pre Related News 📄

1. Orangutan

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

Revise species in news here


Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH

1. How will Iran's Prez death impact the region?
(GS2, IR, Read about impact of Raisi's death on Iran & India)

2. Why COVID vaccine safety needs scrutiny
(GS3, S&T, Read about COVID vaccine, BHU study, fallout)

3. Warming climate intensifies flash droughts worldwide
(GS3, Environment, Read about severe dry spells, impacts & Measures)


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