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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🚨 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

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🚨 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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election result se detach hokar, padhai par dhyaan do dost.

Ruling party abhi bhi govt banaegi, opposition abhi bhi left me hi baithega

Par Prelims 16 June ko hi hai. ye hi tumhaara satya hai :)

🚨 5th June | Wednesday 🚨

A lot of election politics in paper today; save time

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE

1. The show must go on (Pg 13)
(Get holistic idea of India's socio-economic and judicial challenges, and the way forward)

2. FPI stepped up selling in the run-up to elections (Pg 39)
(Good insights for GS3. But, read to understand nature of markets during elections)


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🚨 6th June | Thursday🚨

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE

1. Special category questions (Pg: 11)
(Read to understand complete story of Special Category Status in the country)


TH

1. The great election over, the view from Washington (Pg: 6)
(GS2: A good read to understand US-India relationship)


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🚨 7th June | Friday🚨

Reading Recommendations🗞

Indian Express

1. How Delhi gets its water (Pg:11)
(Read to understand the water crisis in Delhi)

2. Profile of the 543 (Pg:11)
(Good stats for GS2, also to understand your leaders)

The Hindu

1. Health regulation need a base to top approach (Pg:10)
(Read to understand health of health-care system in India, note down the phrases)

2. Will understanding cancer become a data problem? (Pg: 11)
(A good story on cancer treatment and technological development in the field)

3. Food process likely sped up in May (Pg:15)
(GS3: Read for stats and data)

4. Denmark, Pak, Somalia, Greece and Panama get seats on UNSC (Pg:16)


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🚨 8th June | Saturday 🚨

Mains keywords

1. Economic Nirvana
Highest attainable economic growth

Important terms

1. Hawk: People trying to keep lower inflation rates in economics

2. Doves: People supporting inflation in the short term for monetary gains in economics

3. Sarva panth sambhava - All religions are one

Reading Recommendations🗞

Indian Express

1. High food inflation, RBI retains rate at 6.5%; ups FY25 GDP forecast to 7.2% (Pg:1)
(GS3: Read for macro-economic stats)

2. Plug the leaks (Pg: 10)
(Read to understand the nature, importance and reforms needed regarding standardized exams)

3. Is it the economy, stupid? (Pg:11)
(Read to get a comprehensive understanding of India's economic situation)

3. Sticky inflation : Why is RBI refusing to cut interest rates? (Pg: 15)
(GS3: Read to get a gist of reason behind RBI's latest action, overview the stats)

4. RBI aims for liberalising capital account,...
(Pg:17)
(Read to understand RBI's self-goals and trajectory of Indian economy)


The Hindu

1. The Centre is notional, the States the real entities (Pg:6)
(Avoid the political segment, read to understand problems with federalism in India)

2. Remoulding the global plastic treaty
(Pg: 6)
(A good read on nature and environment)

3. RBI raising GDP view 'augurs well' (Pg:11)
(Skip this if you've read the IE article on RBI's GDP forecast, otherwise overview the stats)


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