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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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🚨 4th September | Wednesday 🚨

Mains notes

1. Guanabara Bay, Brazil

• Habitat of green sea turtles polluted with sewage and industrial waste

• Boat traffic & pollution has posed significant risk to survival of turtles

• Govt efforts have been slow but in direction of rescue & cleanup

@CSEWhy Recommendations

Indian Express 📰

1. Reclaim the farm (Editorial)
(GS3: Agriculture and India)

2. The court sends a message (The ideas page)
(GS2: Judgements and policies)

3. Harnessing biotechnology for economic development (Explained page)
(GS3: Green economy)

The Hindu 🗞

1. Did corporate tax cut increase wages (Text&Context)
(GS3: Economy)

2. The harm principle (Text&Context)

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🚨 5th September | Thursday 🚨

Mains keywords

1. Expansionism

• Chinese policy to 'grab' more land; evoked in Brunei speech by PM Modi

Pre notes

1. Teachers' Day on September 5, why?

• Birth anniversary of former President (and a teacher) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (05/09/1988)

• 1962: He became President & requested his b'day to be celebrated as Teachers' Day to honor nationwide teachers

Mains notes

1. Satellite toll collection

• MoRTH developed GIS-based software for real-time monitoring of wait times at highway toll plazas

• Allows commuters to check congestion at specific lanes for smoother traffic

• Software developed by Indian Highways Management Company Ltd (IHMCL), promoted by NHAI

• Ministry working on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) tolling, which may replace FASTag

• Users pay for the specific stretch of highway travelled

@CSEWhy recommendations

Indian Express 📰

1. A living constitution museum (Ideas page)
(GS2: Constitution)

2. Genome mapping of Chandipura Virus: findings (Explained page)
(GS3: SnT)

3. State changes in rape law (Explained page)
(GS2: Laws)

The Hindu 🗞

1. Gap between allocations for health, outcomes in state (Editorial)
(GS2: Social issues)

2. What do we know about ANIIDCO? (Text&Context)
(GS3: Economy & Climate)

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🚨 5th September | Thursday 🚨

Mains keywords

1. Development compact

• Strategic alignment b/w Ind-S'pore
• Focus on shared goals & mutual benefits
• How? Capacity building, technology sharing, trade, grants and finance

2. Vertical fiscal imbalance

• Situation where diff govt. levels have unequal powers to raise revenue & spend money

• Centre collects more than it needs; lower levels collect less but have higher spending responsibilities

• Centre transfers funds to address this imbalance

Pre notes

1. No Saturn rings

• Rings to 'disappear' starting March '25 due to optical illusion

• Saturn's position around sun aligns rings edge-on with Earth reflecting little light -> looking invisible

• Happens every 13-15 yrs; rings consists of ice & rock pieces from dust-sized particles to mountains

Mains notes

1. Law commission

• Non-statutory body to advise GOI on legal reforms, reviews outdated laws, & suggests new legislation
• Usually 3 year term consisting of Chair, full time & part time members + ex-officio members

• Past Contributions
- Influenced key laws like the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) & the Right to Education (RTE) Act.
- They also recommended repealing over 1,500 outdated laws

• Key Responsibilities
23rd Commission will review outdated laws, simplify language and processes, and suggest reforms aligned with economic needs and the Directive Principles of State Policy

• 22nd Commission's Work
The 22nd Law Commission presented 11 reports, including recommendations to retain but amend the sedition law (Section 124A IPC) and a report on trade secrets. However, its report on simultaneous elections and the Uniform Civil Code was not submitted

@CSEWhy recommendations

Indian Express 📰

1. Singapore & Semiconductors (Explained page)
(GS3: SnT)

The Hindu 🗞

1. The food security act has revamped the PDS (Editorial)
(GS2: Laws)

2. Can Kerala access funds from the Loss and Damage Fund? (Text&Context)
(GS2: Laws and Acts)

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🚨 7th September | Saturday 🚨

Mains notes

1. Typhoon Yagi

• Super typhoon (Cat 5)

• Peak winds up to 245 km/h, 2nd most powerful cyclone globally in 2024, after Hurricane Beryl

• Landfall: Sept 6, 2024, in Wenchang, Hainan, China.

• It’s the strongest typhoon to hit Hainan in a decade; most intense in the S. China Sea in 55 years

• Experts link increasing typhoon intensity to rising ocean temps from climate change, raising concerns over severe weather

@CSEWhy recommendations

Indian Express 📰

1. At a strategic crossroads (Editorial)
(GS2: IR)

2. Why La Nina is delayed and how it could impact india’s weather (Explained page)
(GS3: Climate)

The Hindu 🗞️

1. Stick to fiscal deficit as the norm for fiscal prudence (Editorial)
(GS3: Economics)

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🚨 9th September | Monday 🚨

Mains keywords

1. Presbyopia

• Loss of ability to see nearer objects with age

Pre facts

1. Soyuz MS-26

• Crewed mission set to launch on September 11, 2024, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

• In collaboration with ISS

• Mission Duration: 180 days

• Launch Vehicle: Soyuz 2.1a rocket

• Docking Port: Rassvet nadir on the ISS

Mains notes

1. Enemy property

• Assets of individuals who acquired citizenship in Pak or China

• Governed by Enemy Property Act of 1968, these properties are managed by CEPI, under MHA

• There are approximately 12,611 enemy properties in India, valued at over ₹1 lakh crore

• Highest concentration of enemy properties is in UP (5,982), followed by WB (4,354) & Delhi

• The 2017 amendment to EPA clarified that, successors of those who migrated to enemy countries cannot claim these properties

@CSEWhy Recommendations

Indian Express 📰

1. Five sutras for digital infrastructure (Ideas page)
(GS3: SnT)

2. Use of AI in warfare (Explained page)
(GS3: SnT)

The Hindu 🗞️

1. Policy paralysis, a weekend healthcare system (Editorial)
(GS2: Policies and social issue)

2. On uncommon cyclones in Indian ocean (Text&Context)
(GS3: Climate)

3. How changes in the level of Arctic sea ice can change....(Text&Context)
(GS3: Climate)

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🚨 10th September | Tuesday🚨

Pre notes

1. Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)

• Aim: Enhance research, innovation & entrepreneurship across diff scientific fields

2. Rama Varma Kunji Pillai Thampuran King of Cochin 1790-1805

• Ruler of Cochin from 1790 to 1805; aka Sakthan Thampuran

• Developed Thrissur as urban city & initiated Thrissur Pooram Festival

@CSEWhy recommendations

Indian Express 📰

1. Vaccines for MPOX (Explained page)
(GS2/GS3: IR and SnT)

2. Why apexcourt intervened in Himachal Pradesh HC’s collegium decision? (Explained page)
(GS2: SC Judgments and laws)

The Hindu 🗞

1. Regulatory reform stuck in a loop in Health Ministry (Editorial)

2. The role of district agro-met offices in supporting farmers (Text&Context)
(GS2: Social issues)

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