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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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🚨 7th July | Sunday 🚨

Keywords explained

1. Hepatitis A

• Contagious liver infection caused by the hepatitis A virus that spreads through contaminated food/water

• A self-limited disease that resolves on its own without treatment

• It is endemic in India

• Hepatitis A vaccine is the best way to prevent the disease

Reading Recommendations

The Hindu 📰

1. AI comes to the rescue of elephants (Science page)
(Environment/SnT: AI development solving environmental issues)

2. How to manage ‘brain-eating amoeba’ cases (FAQ page)
(SnT: PAM Treatment issue in Kerala)

3. Can the uber-rich worldwide be taxed better? (FAQ page)
(GS3: on wealth proportionality)

4. What does Karnataka Bill promise gig workers? ( FAQ page)
(GS2: Policy and its impact)

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🚨 8th July | Monday 🚨

Pre-realted news

1. Digital Bharat Nidhi (DBN)

• Replaces erstwhile Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) to increase telecom connectivity in rural areas

• USOF funded w/ 5% charge on the AGR of telecom operators

• Funds to be used for R&D in telecom & improving connectivity

2. Graphene

• Carbon allotrope (like diamond & graphite)

• Single layer of C atoms in a honeycomb pattern

• Stronger than diamond, more conductive than silver, more elastic than rubber, lighter than aluminium

3. Italy's volcanoes

• Mt. Etna & Mt. Stromboli in news

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express 🗞

1. What an NSA does? (Editorial)
(GS2: Bodies)

2. A bend in the river (Editorial)
(GS2: A good read on Indus water treaty and IR)

3. Food for a rainy day (Editorial)
(On food security and climate-resilient agriculture)

4. A trust deficit with farmers (The ideas page)
(GS2: On policy making)

5. Hoping for a miracle at COP29 (The ideas page)
(GS2: Climate change and IR)

6. Why Arctic wildfires are bad news for world (Explained page)
(GS3: Climate change and its impact in arctic)

7. The vital importance of Putin (Explained page)
(GS2: IR)

The Hindu 📰

1. A law around low-carbon climate resilient development (Editorial)
(GS3: Climate change)

2. The ANRF plan has got off on the wrong foot (Editorial)
(GS2: Challenges for India's national research policy)

3.On expunction powers in Parliament (Text & Context)
(GS2: Constitution)

4. What is the Internet Archive and why is it facing backlash from book publishers? (Text & Context)
(GS2: IA vs Publishers)

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🚨 9th July | Tuesday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍🏼

1. Navu Manujaru

• Kannada for 'We are human beings'

• State Govt. effort, 2 hour weekly classes to discuss & debate values like tolerance

• Aim: Sow seeds of social harmony at school/college level

Pre-related facts

1. Cognitive test:

• Tests brain's functioning like thinking or memory

• In news wrt Biden's on stage inabilities

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Reading Recommendations

Indian Express 🗞

1. Trade policy needs a reset (Editorial page)
(GS3: WTO and India's economic policy)

2. Why NEET does not work (The Ideas Page)
(Administrative issues with NEET)

3. Behind Russia's high income (Explained page)
(GS3: How sanctions fail)

4. How climate change fueled Hurricane Beryl's record early intensification (Explained page)
(GS3: A good read on Hurricanes)

The Hindu 📰

1. Indigenous HPV vaccine, the rhetoric and the reality (Editorial page)
(GS3: SnT)

2. What are new provisions for police officers? (Text&Context)
(GS2: New criminal codes)

3. What are the laws preventing tree felling in Delhi? (Text&Context)
(GS2/GS3: Deforestation and related laws)

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🚨 10th July | Wednesday🚨

Pre-related facts

1. Russia conferred order St. Andrew the Apostle upon PM Modi

• Highest civilian award in Russia
• 2019: Announced for strengthening Russia-India ties
• St. Andrew was 1 of the 12 Apostles i.e original followers of Jesus

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express 🗞

1. The desperate neighbour (Editorial)
(GS2/GS3: Security and IR)

2. Budgeting for science (The ideas page)
(GS3: Tech. development and economic challenges)

3. The High Seas Treaty (Explained page)
(GS2/GS3: IR and Environment)

4. Defamation case against WikiPedia and ‘Safe harbour’ protection clause (Explained page)
(GS2: Laws and acts)

The Hindu 📰

1. The innate limitations in executing iCET (Opinion)
(GS2/GS3: IND-USA iCET deal)

2. What is the draft Digital Competition Bill? (Text&Context)
(GS2: Bills and policies)

3. ‘Outstanding work’: IIT-M team makes mineral nanoparticles with water (Science page)
(GS3: Snt)

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🚨 11th July | Thursday 🚨

Pre-related facts

1. World population day:

• Started: 1989 by UNDP
• Reason: Inspired coz public interest in "Five Billion Day" on July 11, 1987, the approximate date on which the world's population reached five billion people

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express 🗞

1. The food prices constraint (Editorial)
(GS3: Budget and inflation)

2. Leader and teacher (Editorial)
(Ethics/Essay)

3. A plan for national well-being (The ideas page)
(GS2: Population control and policy)

4. CrPc & personal law: Muslim women’s right to alimony (Explained page)
(GS2: Laws & Acts)

5. Mega dam, protest in Arunachal (Explained page)
(Challenges with the upper Siang project)

6. Indian refiners likely saved $10.5 billion by buying discounted Russian oil (Economy page)
(GS2/GS3: IR and economics)

The Hindu 📰

1. India’s demographic journey of hits and misses (Editorial)
(GS1: Social issues)

2. A case of people versus population (Editorial)
(GS1: Social issues)

3. Even the odd jobs (Editorial)
(GS1/GS2: Social issues and policies)

4. ‘MSMEs need outlays for technology upgrades, to aid in green transition’ (The Hindu business)
(GS3: Economy and development)

5. Why is India drilling a 6-km deep hole in Maharashtra? (The science page)
(GS3: Snt)

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🚨 12th July | Friday 🚨

Pre-related facts

1. Heat domes

• weather phenomenon in which a high pressure weather atmosphere traps warm air
• Jet streams get elongated in summers and hence can become stationary, that leads to its trapping
• Climate change's impact on heat domes is under study

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express

1. Righting the wrong (Editorial)
(GS2: Supreme court judgements)

2. Note to Krishi Bhawan (The ideas page)
(GS1/GS2: Social issues and policies)

3. India and Austria (Explained page)
(GS2: IR)

4. Chasing asteroids: why ISRO wants to venture into planetary defense (Explained page)
(GS3: SnT)

The Hindu 📰

1. Reading the tea leaves ahead of China’s Third Plenum (Editorial)
(GS2: IR)

2. Should States get special packages outside Finance Commission allocations? (Opinion)
(GS2: Policies)

3. Breaking the taboo around men’s reproductive health
(GS2: Health Policy discussions)

4. Future investments in India’s EV space (Text&Context)
(GS2/GS3: Policies and Economy)

5. Why are dengue cases on the rise worldwide? (Text&Context)
(GS1: Social issues)

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🚨 13th July | Saturday 🚨

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express 🗞

1. In Kejriwal bail, lens on EDs power to arrest (Explained page)
(GS2: Laws and acts)

2. Deregulating non-subsidized fertilizer (Explained page)
(GS3: Agricultural economy)

3. Why the centres' proposed system for Delhi's urban land record matters (Explained page)
(GS2: Policies)

4. Farm as factory (Editorial page)
(GS3: Agricultural economy)

5. KL, UK tops NITI Aayog's SDG India index; Bihar worst performer (Economy page)
(GS1/GS3: Social issues and sustainable development)

The Hindu 📰

1. A wobbly walk (Editorial page)
(GS2: IR)

2. The PDS impact on household expenditure (Editorial page)
(GS1/GS3: Social issues and economics)

3. Boost financing for green projects (Business page)
(GS3: Sustainable economic development)

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🚨 14th July | Sunday 🚨

Reading Recommendations📰

1. Nipah monoclonal antibody trials may begin in India in 2025 (Science page)
(GS3: SnT)

2. Experiment reveals barley’s climate-driven adaptation (Science - Snapshots)

3. The SC ruling on portrayal of disability in films (Editorial)
(GS1/GS2: Social issues and Policies)

4. Why is militancy on the rise in Jammu?(Editorial)
(GS3: Internal security)

5. How is India’s hunt for critical minerals going? (Editorial)

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🚨 15th July | Monday 🚨

Mains keywords

1. Peter Diamandis: ‘AI will become mechanism to dematerialize, demonetize & democratize health, education’
(GS3/Essays: Use the keywords in SnT and related Essay topics)

Pre -related facts

1. Parchment & Palimpsest

• Parchment: Writing material made from untanned animal skin
• Palimpsest: Reused parchment is called Palimpsest
• Parchment was reused by washing it using milk and oat barn
• Palimpsest (Astronomy): Eroded craters on planetary bodies
• Palimpsest (Geology): Feature created by natural structure forming at same place and time

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express 🗞

1. Pictured with dignity (Editorial)
(GS1/GS2: Social issues and Policies)

2. Reaffirming a right (The ideas page)
(GS2: Laws and judgements)

3. ‘Unlawful activity, in Maharashtra Bill to curb ‘Urban Naxalism’ (Explained page)
(GS2: Laws and Acts)

4. ‘AI will become mechanism to dematerialize, demonetize, democratize health, education’ (Economy page)

The Hindu 📰

1. There is only some good electoral news (Editorial)
(GS2:Elections)

2. The problem with the Karnataka gig workers Bill (Editorial)
(GS2: Policies)

3. On the jurisdiction of the CBI (Text&Context)
(GS2: Bodies)

4. The Union government’s rein on financial transfers to different States (Text&Context)
(GS3: Economy in a federal structutre)

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