🚨 29th June | Saturday 🚨

Reading Recommendations

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🚨 30th June | Sunday🚨

Reading Recommendations 📖

The Hindu 📰

1. India lacks diagnostic tests for emerging infectious diseases
(GS1/Snt: Read to understand a crucial social problem in Indian medical space)

2. Why NTA Fails to deliver?
(GS2: Bodies)

3. What is holding up the Teesta treaty?
(Read to understand everything about the recent Teesta river consensus between India and Bangladesh)

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🚨 1st July | Monday 🚨

Keywords ✍🏼

1. Meningoencephalitis (aka brain-eating amoeba)

• 2 killed in KL due to this
• cause: Unhygienic & stagnant water
• Amoebic enters through nose & travels to nose

2. Prosopagnosia or face blindness

• Visual agnosia: inability to identify everyday items just by looking at them

Reading Recommendations 📖

Indian Express 🗞

1. Gandhi & Martin Luther King

2. Boosting a special bond
(GS2: IR India-Nepal ties)

2. India’s new criminal laws
(A very good read on new criminal laws and potential future implications)

The Hindu 📰

1. New criminal laws in force; Cr.PC, IPC applicable only for old cases
(GS2: Read to understand the executive challenge in new criminal laws, Avoid political storyline)

2. Court on climate right and how India can enforce it
(Environment policy: Read to understand judicial game around climate change)

3. On Tamil Nadu’s financial distress
(Read to understand financial challenges in CMRL)

4. Should education be brought back to the State list?
(GS2: A good read on how policies affect academic outcomings)

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🚨 2nd July | Tuesday🚨

Prelims related news

1. Project Nexus

• Multilateral int'l initiative for instant cross border retail payments
• Links domestic Fast Payment Systems (FPS)
• UPI + FPS = Project Nexus
• India founding member; joined by Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore & Thailand
• Idea by: Innovation hub of the Bank for International Settlements

2. Totaliser Concept

• A concept of counting votes of 14 polling booths together
• Why? Prevents voter harassment by candidates
• Already used in 2007 as a pilot & 2009 UP/Meghalaya

3. IMAX

• It's a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and theaters.

• First introduced in 1970 and developed by Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr, and William C. Shaw in Canada

• Provides immersive movie-watching experience with large screens upto 38.8 m by 21 m in size.

• It uses 70 mm film that runs horizontally through the projector, allowing for images 8.3 times larger than regular 35 mm film and 3.4 times larger than regular 70 mm film.

Reading recommendations

Indian Express 🗞

1. Floods and urbanization in Delhi
(Read to understand the urban problem behind NCR water crisis)

2. How the world’s first brain implant to control epileptic seizures works
(Read to understand the latest development for SnT)

The Hindu 📰

1. Sense of uncertainty
(Read to understand the challenges in execution of new criminal laws)

2. What is on the agenda for the 16th Finance Commission?
(GS3: A good read on India’s rural-urban economic divide and how other countries manage it)

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🚨 3rd July | Wednesday 🚨

Pre related facts

1. Abhaya Mudra

• A raised open palm gesture resembling freedom from fear
• Mudra in Sanskrit: Seal, Mark, Sign or Currency
• Mudra in Buddhist context : Hand and arm gestures in rituals
• Seen in depictions of Lord Ganesh, Lord Shiva, Lord Vishnu and Buddha (Gandhara School)

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express🗞

1. Delhi & A new London (editorial)
(GS2: A good read on IR)


The Hindu 📰

1. Digital jurisprudence in India, in an AI era (editorial)
(Read to understand AI and patent issues)

2. France: India’s steady partner in green growth (editorial)
(GS2: IR, Add to your India-France notes)

3. On improving rural mobile connectivity (text & context page)
(GS1/GS3: Read latest S&T dev to solve India's connectivity problem)

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🚨 4th July | Thursday 🚨

Quotes

Our constitution is our lighthouse. It guides us throughout our journey. — PM Narendra Modi

Reading recommendations

Indian Express 🗞

1. The unexpected bounty (Editorial)
(GS3: Read to understand deficit problem of India)

2. Answer is a question bank (Editorial)
(GS2: Read to understand an overlooked human resource crisis in India)

3. Nine internal security challenges (The ideas page)
(GS3: A good read on issues with internal security and way forward)

The Hindu 📰

1. Trials, medical ethics and the orbit of power (Editorial)
(GS1/Ethics: A good read on social issues and ethics)

2. Factory accidents, a pointer to rusty inspection reform (Editorial)
(A good read to understand the administrative challenges leading to deaths)

3. An overview of the French elections
(GS2: IR)

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🚨 5th July | Friday 🚨

Important keywords

1. Radiation Biodemistry

• Measures biological response for estimating absorbed radiation dose in humans
• It measures biological response, not a direct real-time reading of dose
• Units: Gray (rad), Sievert (rem), Committed Effective Dose Equivalent (CEDE), and Total Effective Dose Equivalent (TEDE)

Pre-related news

1. SCO

• Shanghai Cooperation organization
• India joined in 2017
• main goals are to promote cooperation in politics, security, economics, and culture.
• permanent secretariat in Beijing, China.
• affiliated organisations: RATS & SCO Business council

2. Read about PMs Museum

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express

1. Too-much milk powder (Explained page)
(GS1: Social issues)

The Hindu 📰

1. Computer literacy in India needs a reboot (Editorial)
(GS2: Education policy)

2. Learn about Polio

3. The shape of a five-year climate agenda for India (Editorial)
(GS3: India and her climate goals)

4. What went wrong with the Hajj pilgrimage this year? (Text n Context)
(Read for awareness)


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🚨 6th July | Saturday 🚨

Important keywords

1. Aphelion
• Longest distance b/w sun and object
• For earth, Aphelion is at 152.1 million kms
• Earth reaches this point every July; this year it did on 5th July

2. Perihelion
• Shortest distance b/w sun and object
• For earth, Perihelion is at 1147.1 million kms
• This year earth reached this point on Jan 3rd

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express 🗞

1. How Agniveer's compensation differs from regular soldier's (Explained page)
(GS2: Policies and Impacts)

2. Balance of payments (Explained page)
(GS3: A good read to understand India's economic deficit)

3. Why China wants to build a rail network to Singapore (Explained page)

4. Their false gods (Editorial)
(GS2: A good read on philosophy and politics) (i dont think its necessary)

5. Not an open and shut case ( The ideas page)
(GS2: New criminal laws)

The Hindu 📰

1. Spiritual orientation, religious practices and courts (Editorial)
(GS2: P. Navin Kumar(2024) case explained)

2. At ₹1.27 lakh crore, defence production registered a new high in 2023-24, says Centre (Pg: 10)
(GS3: Defence and economy)

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