🚨 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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🚨 9th June | Sunday 🚨

Nothing major in the newspaper today, go with revision on blog.csewhy.com

Reading Recommendations

The Hindu 🗞

1. CCI draft regulations attempt to tighten grip on big tech
(GS3/GS2: Read to get a gist of latest CCI regulations)

2. Why is China probing the far side of the moon? (Pg: 11)
(Read to understand International development in S&T)

3. What is National Health Claim Exchange?
(Pg: 11)
(Read to understand developments in health sector of India)

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🚨 10th June | Monday 🚨

Quotes 💭

1. Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
----- Leo Tolstoy

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express 🗞

1. The message from rural India (Pg: 6)
(Avoid political storyline, read to understand un-fulfilled socio-economic needs of the rural India and the way forward)

2. Moving on from the past (Pg: 7)
(A good read to understand politico-administrative challenges of India, a lot of good phrases to note down)

3. Highway to 'climate hell' (Pg: 9)
(Read to get a comprehensive understanding of global climate change situation)

The Hindu 📰

1. Is it time for proportional representation (Pg: 8)
(GS2: Read to understand diff. b/w various voting systems and way forward for India)


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🚨 11th June | Tuesday 🚨

Quotes 💭

1. What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way about.
----- George Orwell

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express 🗞

1. Drying up (Pg: 12)
(Read to understand administrative issues leading modern day water crisis)

2. Let the children play (Pg: 13)
(Read to understand how you can ease yourself and enhance your efficiency)

3. Powers of the speaker (Pg: 14)
(A very good read to understand constitutional powers of the speakers, a must read)

The Hindu 📰

1. A push for more climate action (Pg: 6)
(Read to understand the latest international development on climate change issue)

2. On special category status for Andhra (Pg: 8)
(Read to understand history and significance of special category status for states in India)

3. Heat: how it animated engines and global warming (Pg: 9)
(A good story on 'heat' in climate change and mechanics)

4. Understand the Indian Ocean and you’ll understand much about earth (pg 22)
(insights into Indian Ocean's impact)

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🚨 12th June | Wednesday 🚨

Mains keywords ✍🏻

1. Sahkaar se samriddhi - Prosperity through cooperation.

2. Oriental despotism - A particular kind of non-democratic rule or society prevalent in eastern countries

Pre related news

1. Optical atomic clocks at sea

• Atomic clock is renowned for its accuracy. Deflects 1 sec in over 300 billion years

• Optical atomic clocks have same working principles, but the resonance frequency is in optical range making it more accurate

• IISER Pune is working on strontium optical atomic clock

• NIST conducted tests in April 2022 on prototypes - PICKLES and EPIC

• The atomic clocks also had 10X lower long-term drift compared to rubidium atomic clocks

Quotes 💭

1. Tourists don't know where they have been, travellers don't know where they are going.
---- Paul Theroux (can become an essay topic)

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express 🗞

1. A reboot at G7 (Pg 9)
(A good read for IRs)

2. Scientists back new Alzheimer's drug: its benefits vs the risks (Pg: 10)
(S&T: Latest development in medical science)

The Hindu 📰

1. India's looming financial crisis (Pg: 6)
(GS3: A good read to understand set of challenges faced by Indian economy)

2. The social sciences, a shelter for the 'excluded' student (pg: 6)
(GS1: Read to understand administrative problems with higher education in India)

PS: Bhai sunn, darr matt. Ab sirf khud ko calm rakhne par focus kar! Sab accha hoga.