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June 21 Q on June 21 🥰

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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

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🚨 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)

🚨 22 June | Saturday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Twin Test under PMLA

• Under section 45 of PMLA
• twin conditions are: Burden of Proving Innocence & Ensuring No Offences While on Bail

Reading Recommendations 🗞

Indian Express

1. In the name of merit
(GS2: Read to understand administrative and judicial scenario of Bihar's reservation policy)

2. Bail in Money Laundering cases, and the 'twin test' under PMLA
(GS2: Polity, Read about twin test, challenges & current position in law)

3. Cereal numbers
(GS3: Economy, Read about India's household consumption)

4. What is Claude 3.5 Sonnet & how is it better than its rival AI models?
(GS3: S&T, Read about Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI LLM)


The Hindu 🗞

1. A progressive Indian policy on Myanmar outlined
(GS2: IR, Read about India - Myanmar diplomacy)

June 22 is special

It was on June 22 2022 when I started UPSC CSE WHY

2 years anniversary today.

When we turn 3, we'd measuring real impact. Good times ahead! 😊

22 is friend of every #UPSC aspirant

How?👇🏻

• Mar 22: World Water Day🌊

• Apr 22: Earth Day🌍

• May 22: Int'l Day for Bio Diversity🌱

• Jun 22: World Rainforest Day🌲

• Sep 22: World Rhino Day🦏

• Dec 22: National Maths Day➕

Friends, I am in Jaipur tomorrow and hosting a small meetup for all aspirants.

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🚨 23 June | Sunday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. Rota Virus

• causes diarrhoeal disease in infants & young children
• transmitted through fecal-oral route & contaminated sources
• no specific treatment; vaccine exists

2. Wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

• species of Great ape
• Native to tropical Africa
• EN status, CITES Appendix 1
• Context: Studies show wild Chimpanzees consume medicinal plants to heal themselves

Reading Recommendations 🗞

The Hindu 🗞

1. What can Railways do to stop accidents?
(GS3, Railways, Read about how Railways can prevent accidents)

2. Where does India stand wrt G7
(GS2, IR, Read about G7 & its importance for India)

3. Are heatwaves Natural disaster?
(GS3, DM, Read about heatwaves)

🚨 24 June | Monday 🚨

Pre Related News 📄

1. 📍Estonia

• in Northern Europe, borders Baltic sea & Gulf of Finland
• Capital: Tallinn
• Context: Estonia - India partnership for cybersecurity infrastructure

2. Revise minerals & locations in India

Reading Recommendations 🗞

Indian Express 🗞

1. Heat tragedy in Mecca & what makes Hajj pilgrims vulnerable
(GS2, Desert Heat, Read about Hajj & Heat tragedy )

2. Oath taking in Lok Sabha
(GS2, Polity, Read about MP, term & oath)

3. Why Russia - North Korea mutual defence Pact is significant for region & world
(GS2, IR, Read about Russia- North Korea relations)


The Hindu 🗞

1. Create the space for governance with a green heart
(GS3, Read about climate change , Vulnerability, Way forward)

2. What are the duties of speaker?
(GS2, Polity, Read about Speaker & Pro Tem Speaker)

3. How is methanol procured & used as liquor?
(GS3, S&T, Read about ethanol & Methanol & their procurement)

4. Nuclear study provides major update on plutonium isotope fission
(GS3, Read about Plutonium isotope & recent study)

🚨 25 June | Tuesday 🚨

Quotes 💭

" The enemy of art is the absence of Limitations " - Orson Welles

Pre Related News

📄

1. Keralam

• earliest mentions in Ashoka's rock edict II, dated 257 BCE
• Keralaputra: Chera dynasty
• Keram/Cheram : KA and Kanyakumari coasts
• KL came into being on 1st November 1956
• Context: Renaming of KL state

2. Revise critical minerals in India

3. Revise Teesta water treaty

Reading Recommendations 🗞

Indian Express 🗞

1. What is Enemy Agents Ordinance, tough law applicable in J&K?
(GS2, Polity, Read about EAO)

2. Law against cheating
(GS2, Polity, Read about public examinations ( Prevention of unfair means )

3. Power markets in India
(GS3, Economy, Read about Indian power markets, working, pros, way forward)


The Hindu 🗞

1. The court spells the way in Himalaya's development
(GS2, Read about Recent SC judgement on climate change , Vulnerability, Way forward)

2. From China tilt to a Balancing with Beijing & Delhi
(GS2, IR, Read about India-China relations)

3. The NITI Aayog's project on Great Nicobar
( Read about Great Nicobar Project )

🚨 26th June | Wednesday 🚨

Quotes 💭

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.
--- George Orwell

Pre-related news

1. Estonia is in news again. Click here to revise the map.

Reading Recommendations 🗞

Indian Express 🗞

1. Security and Ecology
(Read to understand economic and strategic significance of Andaman and Nicobar Islands)

2. Putting Manufacturing on track
(Read to understand the challenges to manufacturing industry and way forward)

3. Click here to understand everything about speaker and Dep. Speaker in India

4. Why India needs to build disaster resilience in its critical infrastructure?
(Read to understand the impact of climate on Indian infrastructure and way forward)


The Hindu 🗞

1. India needs the anchor of National Security Strategy
(Read to understand significance of NSS for India)

2. Analysing Maharashtra’s water crisis
(Read to understand how diff. geographical factors leads to Maharashtra’s water crisis)

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🚨 27th June | Thursday 🚨

Quotes 💭

Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
—Friedrich August Von Hayek

Pre-related news

1. Chandrayan-4 to be sent in parts, assembled in space: ISRO Chief

• It is meant to bring back samples from moon
• Different parts of it would be launched in two launches and would be assembled before it reaches the moon
• Probably the first of its kind mission
• SPADEX: Mission to demonstrate docking capability in space

2. France to enter cohabitation
• COHABITATION: When in a presidential democracy The President and The Prime Minister are from different political parties

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express 🗞

1. Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha: The position, role and responsibilities
(A comprehensive story on Leader of opposition, must read)

2. Safe drinking, not morality
(GS1: Read to understand concerning social issue of liquor and the ad hoc administration around it)

3. Moody’s warning
(GS1: Read to understand the potential impact of water crisis on Indian economy)

4. It is about jobs
(Read to understand the overlooked challenge in becoming an Economic powerhouse)


The Hindu 📰

1. Read the rocks to improve India’s geological literacy
(GS1: Read to understand the geological concerns and administrative issues around it)

2. Opposition’s larger demography, LoP’s big responsibility
(GS2: A good and comprehensive read on Leader of opposition, must read)

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🚨 28th June | Friday 🚨

Quotes 💭

Art has to be disturbing. Art has to ask questions. Art has to predict future.
—Marina Abramovic

Important keywords 📝

1. Matriphagy: matri (mother) and phagy (to consume/eat)

• Consumption of mother by her offspring(s)
• Behaviour seen in Nematodes, Insects, Arachnids, & Caecilian Amphibians

Reading Recommendations 📖

Indian Express 🗞

1. Case for a food buffer policy
(GS2/GS3: Read for facts and to understand the impact of buffer policy on food prices)

2. Big reforms push
(GS3: Read to understand potential economic measures needed to outperform the challenges in economic development)


The Hindu 📰

1. Reasi and the ‘years-old’ issue of cross-border terror
(A good read on history of INDO-PAK relations and security disputes)

2. Economy robust despite global risks
(GS3: Read for facts)

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