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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Compiled imp. history terms for Pre24 in this doc from NCERT, PYQs & other relevant sources. :)

Pre Note: Get set go for Prelims Mastery Kit

🚨 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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Pre Note: Get June 2023-April 2024 CSEWhy compilation here

🚨 27 May | Monday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Astronomical transient

• any celestial object whose brightness changes in short spans of time.
• Supernovae: any of a class of violently exploding stars whose luminosity after eruption suddenly increases many millions of times its normal level.
• Active Galactic nucleus: active supermassive black holes that emit bright jets and winds, and shape their galaxies.


Quotes 💭

" An ounce of prevention is better than pound of cure. " Benjamin Franklin


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. The ICC's challenge
(GS2, IR, Read about ICC & challenges in its jurisdiction)

2. Adani ports to enter Sensex: How India's major stock indices work
(GS3, Economy, Read about Sensex at BSE, selection of companies, Nifty Vs Sensex)

3. Overlapping territorial claims, Cold war: What led to the Antarctic Treaty
(GS2, IR, Read about Antarctic Treaty & issues)

TH

1. A door to housing scheme, tribals find hard to open
(GS3, Economy, Read about PM JANMAN, issues & way forward)

2. An overview of Europe's AI Convention
(GS3, S&T, Europe's AI Convention, scope, need)

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🚨 28 May | Tuesday 🚨


Pre Related News 📄

1. 📍Papua New Guinea

• SW Pacific country
• Capital: Port Moresby
• Context: 2000 people burried due to Major Landslide

2. CubeSats

• miniature satellite for measuring heat loss from Earth's pole
• Context: PREFIRE mission to help in study of Heat Budget of Earth

3. Eucalyptus

• Evergreen tree
• fast-growing & highly adaptable trees native to Australia.
• Use: timber, pulp, and essential oils. 
• influences local hydrology

4. Electroreception in Catterpillars

• Electroreception: Can sense electric fields around them with setae
• Catterpillars: larval stage of Butterfly/Moth
• voracious feeders & agricultural pests
• Other arthropods: bumblebees, hoverflies, spiders


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Letting in light & air
(GS1, Society, Read about Safe urban spaces & collective responsibility)

2. Day after cyclone Remal
(GS3, DM, Read about Cyclone preparedness, way forward)

3. AI in legal cases: what the Court's have said
(GS3, S&T, Read about AI in judiciary in India & World)

TH

1. Chabahar's Opportunities & Challenges
(GS2, IR, Read about Opportunities & Challenges of Chabahar port for India)

2. Menstrual hygiene in Indian prisons
(GS1 Role of Women)

3. What are colors and how do people understand them?
(Very interesting S&T article, read it all!)

Pre Note: Revise CA with MCQs

🚨 29 May | Wednesday 🚨


Pre Related News📄

1. L'Hoest's monkey (Allochrocebus lhoesti)

• mountainous forests, small female dominated groups
• VU status; Congo basin

2. Revise Solar flares

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. Why an accused in jail can contest, but cannot vote in the election
(GS2, Polity, Read about Statutory rights, exceptions for voting rights)

2. Danger from Landslides
(GS3, DM, Read about Landslides, Vulnerability, preparedness, way forward)

3. How criminals based in SE Asia are trapping Indians online
(GS3, Security, Read about Cybercrime & types)

TH

1. On fire safety regulations in India
(GS1, Society, Read about Fire safety regulations in India, issues & way forward)

2. Why planets are formed in spherical shape
(GS3, S&T, Read about gravity and how its shapes planets)


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Pre Note: Less stuff in the newspaper today. Go back to revising PYQs! :)

🚨 30 May | Thursday 🚨

Nothing much in the paper today. Some international reports;

Revise reports published by International Organisations here

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. End of unipolarity
(GS2, IR, Read about USA & its influence)

2. Not Just Delhi: temperature records are tumbling across the world
(GS3, Env, Read about Delhi's rising temperature & global warming)

TH

1. India, liberalism & its Crisis of legitimacy
(GS2, Polity, Read about Liberalism in India)

2. An Overview of AMRUT scheme
(GS3, Economy, Read about AMRUT scheme, pros & cons)

3. New light based tool could cut cost of spotting viral infections
(GS3, S&T, Viral infection detection & application)

Pre Note: Revise CA with MCQs

🚨 31 May | Friday 🚨


Pre Related News 📄

1. Spl Marriage Act, 1954

• civil Marriage provision for Indians & foreigners, irrelevant of religion/ faith they follow.
• Marriages solemnized under Special Marriage Act are not governed by personal laws.
• Personal law is the set of rules that govern a person's family matters, like marriage, divorce, and inheritance.

2. Revise Landforms for exam here

3. Agnibaan SubOrbital Technological Demonstrator (SOrTeD)

• a single-stage launch vehicle powered by AgniKul’s patented Agnilet engine.
• entirely 3D-printed, single-piece, 6 kilonewton (kN) semi-cryogenic engine.
• world’s first single piece 3D printed semi-cryogenic rocket engine.

4. Revise Bails for exam


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Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE

1. When a Holkar Queen ruled
(GS2, Governance, Read about Ahilya Bai's reign & blueprint to modern Ram Rajya)

2. Vivekanand Connection: Why PM Modi chose to meditate in Kanyakumari
(GS1, Culture, Read about Kanyakumari- ancient temple town, Vivekanand's meditation & as role model)

3. Heatwave and the worker
(GS3, Disaster Management, Read about challenges & measures for Heat wave)

TH

1. The Tobacco Epidemic in India
(GS3, Health, Read about Tobacco use, Awareness, Measures)

2. India & the "managed care" promise
(GS3, Economy, Read about Health insurance History, current Stats & NITI aayog's report)

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Got a few emails seeking discounts on PYQs notes & video course

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🚨 01 June | Saturday 🚨

Driest newspaper in a year. Nothing of great value

Put your time in revision for Pre!

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02 June

In today's newspaper, only these 3 articles are worth your time.

In place of listing them, sharing them directly here :)

Pay special attention to coal article

Pre Note: Something coming up for those preparing for 2025 soon. stay tuned! :)

🚨 03 June | Monday 🚨

Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Reform, Perform & Transform

Vision to make a Viksit Bharat

2. Speed, Scale, Scope & Standards

4S for excellence in Viksit Bharat


Quote💭

1. "Every nation has a message to deliver, a mission to fulfill, a destiny to reach"

- Swami Vivekananda

2. "Bharat has been a cradle of ideas for thousands of years"

- Narendra Modi


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE

1. We need to dream new dreams
(Read to note phrases, opinion and keywords)

2. Consumption & Voting
(Read for stats & awareness)

TH

1. The message from AP bifurcation
(Read for clarity on state of the 2 states)

2. Does inequality lead to growth?
(GS3: V. Imp article)

3. Tonga volcano could cause unusual weather for rest of decade
GS3: Climate issues

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🚨 4th June | Tuesday🚨

Less to add here, more to read

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE

1. Next steps in agriculture
(Read to get a holistic understanding of health of agriculture)

2. The state we need
(Get an overview and note down important schemes and missions of the govt.)

3. As chip makers start to talk TOPs, on device GenAI gets competitive.
(Latest S&T development)

4. Manufacturing sector growth eases in May
(Read for stats)

5. From 8A.M today: How votes will be counted
(GS2: Very good for comprehensive understanding of vote counting)

6. Elections and Agri issues
(Read it as economical post and ignore the political tone)


TH

1. The delicate balancing of health-care costs
(Read for an often overlooked perspective of economics in health-care sector)

2. Property is real and so should be the compensation
(GS2: Compilation of facts in a form of story for Kesavananda Bharati case, MUST READ)

3. Missing in Manifestos: children's issues
(GS1 / GS2: Read for socio-political understanding of 30% of India's population)

4. Telangana's firm, first step after formation
(Read for Socio-political and legal insights of the two state solution)

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