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🚨 23rd August | Friday 🚨

Mains keywords

1. Glass ceiling

• Unofficial/Undue barriers on women to stop them from reaching certain heights on the corporate ladder

2. Predator Pricing

• Illegal strategy where a company sets prices below cost to eliminate competition, aiming to create a monopoly

3. Rotten tail kids

• New demographic in China, primarily graduates struggling to find employment

Pre-Facts

1. Aug 23: India's National Space Day

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express 🗞️

1. Europe push, India's agency: why Modi visit to Kyiv is significant (Explained page)
(GS2: IR)

2. Chandrayan-3: The first findings (Explained page)
(GS3: SnT)

3. When Modi meets Zelensky (The ideas page)
(GS2: IR)

The Hindu 📰

1. Building on favorable change in the 2024 waqf bill (Editorial)
(GS2: Policies)

2. A look at ongoing space missions (Text&Context)
(GS3: SnT)

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🚨 24th August | Saturday 🚨

Pre Facts

1. Space sector contributed Rs. 20,000 CR to Indian GDP in last decade

Pre notes

1. Rail Force One

• Luxury train service used by world leaders to travel to Kyiv, Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion

Mains notes

1. Jackson Hole Symposium

• Annual conference organized by the Fed Reserve Bank of Kansas City since 1978, held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming since 1981

• It brings together central bankers, finance ministers, academics, and financial market participants from around the world to discuss important economic issues

• Symposium focuses on a specific economic theme each year.

--> Impact of tech giants on the economy (2018)

--> Financial stability after the global recession (2016), and

--> Structural shifts in the global economy (2023)

Reading recommendations

Indian Express 📰

1. Don’t control the Rupee (Editorial)
(GS3: Economics)

2. Inflation will gradually glide down to 4% but this…..(Economy page)
(GS3: Economics)

3. Heavy rain in Tripura but no role of Dam in Bangla flood (Explained page)
(GS3: Climate and Infra)

4. Keeping an empire alive (Big picture)
(GS1: History & Culture)

The Hindu 🗞️

1. The annual accusation of board marks inflation (Editorial)
(GS2: Social issues)

2. The road to 2047 for Indian agriculture (Editorial)
(GS3: Agricultural economy)

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🚨 25th August | Sunday 🚨

Pre notes

1. Sanction against prosecution of Civil Servants

• Needed to protect them from undue charges

Reading recommendations

The Hindu 🗞️

1. Assured pensions returns govt. Backtracks on NPS (Front page)
(GS2: Policies)

2. Transition in plants (Question corner)
(GS3: SnT)

3. Why is sanction against prosecution needed? (Editorial)
(GS2: Policies)

4. Why is lateral entry policy under a scrutiny? (Editorial)
(GS2: Policies)

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🚨 26th August | Monday 🚨

Mains Keywords

1. Sonoluminescence

• A phenomenon where small gas bubbles of liquid emit short bursts of light when subjected to intense sound waves

• Occurs in water/liquids on collapse of a bubble producing flash of light

• Brief light emission (lasts for picoseconds; trillionths of a second)

Pre notes

1. Salt Flat Sinking

• Atacama salt flat sinking 1-2 cm/year due to Lithium extraction

• Li mining needs a large amounts of water → water shortage & contamination, env harm

• Flamingo population impacted!

2. Ramsar sites

• Ramsar Convention since 1971 from Ramsar, Iran

New Ramsar sites in India

1. Nanjarayan Bird Sanctuary
2. Kazhuveli Sanctuary
3. Tawa Reservoir

3. Sundhnúkagígar

• Volcanic eruption in Reykjanes, Iceland (6th eruption since Dec 21)

Mains notes

1. Understand everything about NPS

Reading recommendations

Indian Express 📰

1. On an upward arc (Editorial)
(GS2: IR)

2. One election, Manny question (The ideas page)
(GS2: Policies)


The Hindu 🗞

1. New age gateway devices, the latest health threat (Editorial)
(GS2: Social issues)

2. Tackling the frictions in cross-border payments: a call for innovative solutions (Text&Context)
(GS3: Economics & SnT)

3. Frequent mass wasting in Tibet a cause for worry in India (Science page)
(GS3: Climate)

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🚨 27th August | Tuesday 🚨

Mains keywords

1. Magma ocean

• Vast fields of molten rock that existed on planets and moons during their early formation

Pre note

1. Polaris Dawn

• First such mission by a private company
• SpaceX mission to conduct first commercial spacewalk
• To reach 700km approx bypassing NASA's Gemini 11 record of 1966

Mains notes

1. The Unified Lending Interface (ULI) by RBI

• To streamline & accelerate lending for rural and small borrowers

Key features:

• Digital Info: It enables access to digital info, like land records, speeding up credit appraisal

• Consent-Based Architecture: Operates on a consent basis, ensuring borrower data privacy

• Plug-and-Play Design: Uses standardized APIs for easy integration, reducing lending process complexity

• Target Sectors: Focuses on credit needs of agriculture and MSMEs with faster loan processing

2. Vaccine-Derived Polio

• A rare strain mutated from the oral polio vaccine (OPV) strain

• OPV contains a weakened live virus that replicates in the intestine, building immunity

• The excreted virus can spread in under-immunized populations with poor sanitation

• Genetic changes may revert it to a paralysis-causing form similar to wild poliovirus

3. Creation of New Districts in India

• Authority: Creation of new districts in India is the prerogative of state governments

• Methods: Executed via executive order or Legislation. Most states prefer issuing notifications in official gazette

• Central Government Role: Minimal involvement only in NoC from various departments on name change

• Rationale: New districts are formed to improve governance, address local demands, and enhance service delivery

• Challenges: Financial implications, administrative setup, and potential political motives can complicate district formation

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express 📰

1. Two new U.S agreements: A short history of growing defence ties (Explained page)
(GS2: IR)

2. A vacuum waiting to be filled (The ideas page)
(GS2: Political thought, must read)

The Hindu 📰

1. The working behind some simple medical tools one sees in a doctor's office (Text&Context)
(GS3: SnT)

2. Pragyan rover reveals signs of Magma ocean on ancient moon (Science page)
(GS3: SnT)

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🚨 28th August | Wednesday 🚨

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Reading Recommendations

Indian Express

1. Upgrading weather forecast (Explained page)
(GS3: SnT Dev)

2. A system to bank on (Editorial)
(GS3: Economy)

The Hindu 📰

1. Advancing equity from Covid to Mpox (Editorial)
(GS3: Climate)

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🚨 29th August | Thursday 🚨

Mains Keywords

1. Reform, Perform, Transform, Inform: PM to Council of Ministers
(Keyword for GS2 Answers on Governance)

Mains notes

1. The prohibition of child marriage (Himachal Pradesh Ammendment) bill, 2024

• Raises legal marriage age for girls to 21 years

• Enhances penalties for those facilitating or conducting child marriages, including parents/guardians

• Empowers local authorities like Gram Panchayats and Urban Local Bodies to take immediate action

• Introduces fast-track courts for speedy trial of offenders

Reading recommendations

Indian Express 📰

1. 10 Years of Jan-Dhan (Explained page)
(GS3: Economy)

The Hindu 🗞

1. Establishing a carbon market (Opinions page)
(GS3: Climate)

2. High amount of microplastics in Indian personal care products (Science page)
(GS2: Social issues)

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🚨 30th August | Friday 🚨

Pre facts

1. Martial arts across the globe

A. Jiu-Jutsu

• Origin: Japan, abt self-defense without weapons

• Uses opponent's force against them, allowing to defend against a larger adversary

B. Aikido

• Origin: Japan by Morihei Ueshiba in 20th century

• Aikido = Martial arts + Philosophy of harmony

• It focuses on defense rather than aggression

Other Martial art forms:

1. Karate - Japan
2. Tai Chi - China
3. Boxing - England
4. Kung Fu (Wushu) - China
5. Taekwondo - South Korea
6. Wrestling - Ancient Greece/Rome

Mains notes

1. Merit VS Spoil system

Merit

• Merit system promotes government employees based on their abilities

• Established in the U.S. after the Pendleton Act of 1883

Spoil

• Spoil system, where political parties reward supporters with jobs post-election

• Introduced in British India with introduction of ICS in 1858

2. Bonda tribe

• Lives in the Bonda Hills, Malkangiri district, Odisha, in isolated hilltop villages

• Women: "ringa" (strip of cloth) with bead necklaces, metal bands, and rings.
Men: loin cloths and carry bows and arrows

• They practice shifting cultivation and engage in hunting and gathering

• Traditional dance: Dhangingidi

• Traditional Music: The Bondas use simple, handmade musical instruments, such as dhol or mandal, flutes & others

Other prominent tribe from Odisha include:
Santals, Munda, Saora, Kondh

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express 📰

1. On wings of microlight aircraft, helping birds find lost routes (Explained page)
(GS3: SnT)

2. Assam's muslim marriage law (Explained page)
(GS2: Laws)

The Hindu 📰

1. Moving the spotlight to grassroot democracy (Editorial)
(GS2: Governance)

2. Analysing the gender budget of 2024-2025 (Text&Context)

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🚨 31st August | Friday 🚨

Pre facts

1. Registration Terms

• Copyright

Intellectual property that grants creator legal rights to reproduce, distribute, adapt & display their original works for limited duration

• Patent

Protects inventions and processes.

• Creative Commons

Licenses that allow sharing and adaptation of creative works

Mains notes

1. Cyclone Asna

• Tropical cyclone formed in Arabian Sea, named by Pakistan

• First cyclone in August in the North Indian Ocean since 1981 and the first in the Arabian Sea since 1976

• Caused significant rainfall in Gujarat, with some areas receiving over 300 mm

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Indian Express 📰

1. India's second nuclear submarine (Explained page)
(GS3: SnT)

2. What commissioning of Arighat means for India (Explained page)
(GS3: Internal Security)

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🚨 1st September | Sunday 🚨

Mains Keywords

1. Space omic

Set of studies involved in understanding all the ways in which the body can be affected by the space environment

Mains notes

1. Health ministry with ICMR is establishing TRC

• TRC: Technical resource centres
• Each TRC will be funded with Rs. 20 Lacs a year for 3 years; extension subject to performance

Functions of TRC

• Conduct reviews and analyses to provide evidence for developing clinical guidelines using the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation) approach

• Organise training programmes and workshops to share best practices in evidence synthesis and GRADE methodology, supporting effective guideline development.

@CSEWhy recommendations

The Hindu 🗞️

1. Centre plans to boost ‘2G ethanol’ production, set up enzyme-manufacturing facilities to reduce imports (PG: 11)
(GS3: SnT and Green Energy)

2. Why did the Centre alter its pension plan? (Editorial)
(GS2: Policies)

3. Will an extended space stay affect astronauts? (Editorial)
(GS3: SnT)

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🚨 2nd September | Monday 🚨

Mains notes

1. NJAC Act.

• Formed by 99th Constitutional Amendment Act and NJAC Act, 2014

• Enhances transparency and accountability in appointing judges in SC and HC

• Composition: CJI, two senior-most SC judges, Union Minister of Law and Justice + 2 eminent persons nominated by a committee including the CJI, PM and LoP @CSEWhy

• In October 2015, SC declared NJAC Act unconstitutional; under premise of constitutional independence

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Reading recommendations

Indian Express 📰

1. Opening up the field (Editorial)
(GS3: Agricultural Economy)

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2. De-hyphenating rice-wheat (Explained page)

3. Why Namibia plans to kill hundreds of its majestic wild animals (Explained page)
(GS3: Climate)

The Hindu 🗞️

1. India’s neighbourhood watch, past and present (Editorial)
(GS2)

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🚨 3rd September | Tuesday 🚨

Reading recommendations

Indian Express 📰

1. Plan for farms (GS3 e-tech in aid of farmers)

The Hindu 🗞

1. The disaster management bill is knotty (GS3 Disaster Management)

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