Reading Recommendations 🗞

Indian Express 📰

1. Bharat's way in the world
(GS2: Read to understand India-China relations in regards to India’s role as a global mediator)

2. DSR cultivation needs less water, labour, why is still not popular in PJ
(GS3: Read about DSR technique, benefits & way forward)


The Hindu 🗞

1. The last continent must remain a pristine wilderness
(GS1: Read to understand an emerging social issue, can be a good topic for Essay)

2. The Vulnerabilities of India's elderly
(GS1: Society, Read about status of senior citizen in India & way forward)

3. Laws on mercenaries in war zones
(GS2: Read to understand mercenaries, global regulations and way forward)

4. A "Universal" equation predicts how often bird, bat, insect wings beat
(GS3: S&T, Read about maths b/h flying of birds & insects)

If you’ve given 2024 Prelims and my Telegram, Twitter, Blog or videos have helped you:

Please drop me an email at whycse@gmail.com with details on which topics helped you.

🚨 19 June | Wednesday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Pro Tem Speaker

• A senior Lok Sabha MP who is temporarily appointed Speaker & administers oath to new members
• post mentioned in "Handbook on working of Ministry of Parliamentary affairs"

2. Sensorineural deafness

• Rare sensory neural nerve hearing loss due to viral infection

3. Supermassive black hole

• the largest type of black holes, with masses ranging from millions to billions of solar masses.
• found at centre of galaxies including your own Milky Way Galaxy

4. Revise Clouds & its types here

Reading Recommendations 🗞

Indian Express

1. Where is the monsoon?
(GS1, Geo, Read about Indian Monsoon )

2. Strategic imperative & Environment concern in Great Nicobar project
(GS3, Env, Read about Impact of Great Nicobar Project)


The Hindu

1. Does H5N1 pose a threat for humans?
(GS3, SnT, Read about H5N1 flu & its impact)

2. How can Himachal Pradesh fight against forest fires?
(GS3, DM, Read about Forest fires & way forward)

3. Why Clouds go grey before they rain
(GS1, Geo, Read about Grey Rain clouds )

As promised, here's the reliable answer key.

UPSC Pre24 | @CSEWhy Answer Key

Further, anyone 87+ (General Category) shall now start preparing for Mains.

Need any help for 2024 or 2025? Write to me at whycse@gmail.com

Need Mentorship for 2025? Apply here

Friends, I have compiled 28+ Qs that you could solve via CSEWhy tweets, blog, Telegram, Maps, PYQ Notes

Find them all here with details & Qs from Pre24

https://x.com/CseWhy/status/1803417269499826350

Position of power doesn’t make up for lack of character

If you’re a coward as an aspirant, you’ll just be a powerful coward when you clear #UPSC

Some things are never taught, you learn them (by virtue of your existence)

Based on communication received till now, 🤭

750+ students of PWHYQ course are clearing Pre24🎉💪🏻
(reaching out to everyone who enrolled, number will increase)

Big W for someone like me who started randomly on the internet and now impacting lives🤗

Grateful! 🙏🏼

Pre note: Apply for mentorship for UPSC 2025 here

🚨 20 June | Thursday 🚨

Quotes 💭

"Its fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure"- Bill Gates

Pre Related News 📄

1. Warm Nights

• when maximum temperature remains 40 degree C or more.
• minimum temperature departure is 4.5 degree C to 6.4 degree C

2. Pobitara WS

• on southern bank of Brahmaputra river in Assam
• grassland & wetland habitat
• Largest One horned Rhino population in India
• Other Animals: Leopard, Leopard cat, Fishing cat, Jungle cat, Feral Buffalo, Wild pigs, Chinese pangolins, etc.

3. Revise CRISPR-Cas9 (Context: New gene therapy to treat sickle cell Anaemia )

Revise African Elephants Vs Asian Elephants

Stats 📈

1. Air pollution killed over 8 Million globally, over 2 Million in India in 2021: State of Global Air report

Reading Recommendations 🗞

Indian Express 🗞

1. Don't wait for KAVACH
(GS3, Railways & Technology, Read about KAVACH, issues & way forward )

2. Read about New Nalanda University here

3. Highest minimum temperature, why Delhi's warm nights are cause of worry
(GS1, Geo, Warm Nights, concerns & way forward)


The Hindu 🗞

1. On the Hindu Kush Himalayas snow update
(GS3, Env, Read about snow persistence, impact in Indian context)

2. How will AI that predicts protein structures change life sciences?
(GS3, SnT, Read about AI & its application in Life sciences)

https://youtu.be/Ol6dXuU8Eug

Friends, I have made this short video explaining:

• Weightage of subjects in 2024 Pre
• PYQs & CSEWhy Tweets resource
• Mentorship '25 details
• Cutoff Prediction

Watch it to make the most of your time for both Mains 2024 & 2025.

June 21 Q on June 21 🥰

React ❤️ for option A
React 👏🏼 for option B
React 🔥 for option C
React 👍 for option D

10th International Yoga Day 2024🧘🏻‍♀️🇮🇳
(1st IYD: 2015)

• Theme: "Yoga for Self & Society"

• Aim: Promote physical, mental & spiritual benefits of Yoga

• Why June 21?

"Longest day of year in Northern Hemisphere = perfect day to celebrate yoga" - Modi at UNGA on 21/6/14

Mains Pointers👇🏻

• Celebration of India's rich cultural heritage & contribution to the world

• Fosters cultural exchange & enhances global image (soft power)

• Eventual branding helps India attract tourists and thus, generate US Dollar

A look at subject weightage in last 6 years for #UPSC Prelims :)

🚨 21 June | Friday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Hooch

• It is poor quality alcohol, derived from Hoochinoo, a native Alaskan tribe known to produce very strong liquor
• produced using fermentation & distillation
• contains methanol, an industrial alcohol highly toxic for human beings
• The treatment for hooch poisoning involves intravenously administering Fomepizole and ethanol, but fomepizole can be expensive and unavailable in many parts of India. In such cases, doctors administer a mixture of ethanol and water (1:1 ratio)

2. Striped Caecilian (Ichthyophis spp)

• limbless amphibian found in Kaziranga for 1st time
• mostly buried under soil

PS: Today is 10th International Day of Yoga with the theme “Yoga for Self and Society"

Reading Recommendations 🗞

Indian Express 🗞

1. Engaging China in Modi 3.0
(GS2: IR, Read about strategy & diplomacy with China)

2. Bihar Quota struck down: what is the 50% ceiling that court relief upon?
(GS2: Polity, Read about Indra Swahney ruling & reservation)

3. Security, In black and white
(GS2: Read to understand political challenges in forming NSS and why we need NSS)


The Hindu 🗞

1. How dangerous is Methanol poisoning?
(GS3: Health, Read about Methanol poisoning & treatment)

2. The U.S.-Saudi agreement, from st-bump to embrace
(GS2: Read to understand changing political scenario in Middle-East)

3. Sickle Cell patients need urgent access to modern medication
(GS3: Health, Read about SCD, burden, treatment, R&D)