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🚨 October 4 2022 | Tuesday 🚨

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1. test of majority

EC’s way of determining the ‘party’ in case of split

use in
GS2: Polity/Constitution

2. Twin deficit problem
Rising Fiscal Deficit and Current Account Deficit


Pre centric
- UAE new visa norms: Entry visit introduced for the first time



stats

- Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources: 46% households had fully functional tap water connections

- Forex as ratio of GDP
FY22: 21% in March 2022
Expected FY23: 17%


Reading Recommendations

IE
Explained page

- Status of poverty, inequality & unemployment
- Mapping Neanderthal genome

Editorials

- Putin in a corner
- Real Shiv Sena

TH
Editorials

- With the rupee under pressure, what next? (Most comprehensive article I’ve read in weeks- Must Read)
- Decisive shift in discourse of Abortion Rights
- Mahatma’s thought and philosophy


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Dalai Lama was a teenager when Chinese Communists forcefully took over his country

At 24, he had to form his government in exile. He’s 87 today and spent 63 years in exile, away from his home, his people and religious temple.

Yes, our problems are big.
No, they’re not unsolvable.

Learn from great people and start solving your problems. You can conquer the world, at your will :)

Sending best wishes for Vijaya Dashmi to you.

May Lord Rama bless you to conquer all the evil and take you towards good. 🙏🏻

4 articles of Constitution and fun way to learn them:

1-2 interchange trick

1. 123 and 213 (interchange 1-2) 🤯
123: Ordinance power of President
213: Ordinance power of Governor

2. 124 and 214 (interchange 1-2) 😮
124: Supreme Court
214: High Court


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🚨 October 6 2022 | Thursday 🚨

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Haircut
Debt that banks forgo


Reading Recommendations

TH
1. Urban India’s worrying storyline
Checkout the issues, when were plans created and what new needs to be done.

2 IBC resolution
A good look into what IBC is and how the challenges are thus occurring on the surface


3. Criterion for SC status
Holistic article on the issue


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Important articles of constitution related to Union and trick to remember them:

“Number game”
Take a pen and paper. Write 5-6-7 top to bottom and in front of each, write 2-3-4

5 2: President
6 3: Vice President
7 4: Ministers’ Council headed by PM

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🚨 October 7 2022 | Friday 🚨

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1. Geo political reasons for pertaining economic crisis

- US aggressive monetary policy
- Chinese slowdown due to hard COVID19 policy

2. Economy, diplomacy and force
The interlinked aspects of global game



quote

1. True resistance begins with people confronting pain and wanting to do something to change it
2. Democracy is a restrain on power - Henry Kissinger


pre centric
- Vyom Mitra the AI enabled humanoid robot prepared for ISRO's unmanned mission, ahead of Gaganyaan (read more about this)


Reading Recommendations

1. Strengthening CSR Framework is a profitable idea
Take a note of how innovative things can be done around CSR

2. Time for gig economy wrt moonlighting




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English is important for UPSC.

Par improve kaise kare bhai?

Asked this question to Kruti Naik Ji on my podcast. Her reply is a must watch!

Watch and learn 👇🏻
https://youtu.be/L98KRWLfklw

Articles of constitution related to important constitutional offices:

76: Attorney General
148: CAG
315: UPSC
324: Election Commissioner

You can find ample questions from these 4 in PYQs. Take a note! 📝

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🚨 October 8 2022 | Saturday 🚨

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1. Account based CBDC and Token based CBDC
Two types and their relevance (read more on it)


Quote
Law works best when there's least need to enforce it - Gandhi


Pre Centric
- CBDC: First ever Bahamian Sand Dollar (2020); Latest: Jamaica's JAM-DEX



Reading Recommendations

IE
- RBI's CBDC (understand the difference b/w token based and account based currency)
- Let's build on revadi debate read for the recommendations/solutions
- People in poor places rarely do we find articles as good as these!
- Spirit of temperance on alcohol, Gandhi and laws around it.



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8th schedule has 22 languages.

How to remember them all?
This 70 seconds video will teach you a way to never forget it!

Watch and learn 👇🏻

https://youtu.be/KZ82YCNRx8U

Fundamental Rights available only to citizens of India:

15,16,19,29,30

Read it in Hindi, you’ll never forget:
Pandrah, Saulah, Unnees, Unnatees, Tees.

Hogya yaad! 😎💪🏻

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“Bhai IAS toh mai bann jau par consistency nahi maintain ho paa rahi. Kaise karu?”

Checkout this video and you’ll understand science of consistency.

Watch and learn here 👇🏻

https://youtu.be/qgUwdMBZNDQ

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🚨 October 9/10 2022 | Sunday-Monday 🚨

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1. Quantum Entanglement
Phenomenon by which pair of particles (say photons) are allowed to exist in a shared state where they’ve complementary properties. Knowing properties of one will give you those of other



Reading Recommendations

IE
1. In defence of freebies a counter argument to read on revadi debate

TH:
1. Fate of chips -> fate of nations good reflection on future based on present

2. Programming Languages of Crypto a rare article for SnT don’t miss this :)

Sunday TH (09-10)
1. At heart of Physics Nobel
2. Predicting heat waves
3. Click chemistry
4. Palaeogenomics & our origin


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🚨 October 11 2022 | Tuesday 🚨

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1. Pakistan with major powers

- w/ USA: Major non-NATO ally
- w/ China: all weather relationship that is higher than Himalayas, deeper than the Indian Ocean and sweeter than honey

2. Bank run
A situation where depositors become worried of bank’s survival and rush to withdraw their savings.

Enough people doing it simultaneously -> bank reserves unable to cover all withdrawals -> bank driven to bankruptcy



Quote
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system
Jawaharlal Nehru


Reading Recommendations

IE:
- Pakistan-US: The Bajwa reset (GS2: Int’l relations)
- Ujjain Mahakal Corridor (checkout the funding sources, topic u/ GS2/GS3)
- How China beat extreme Poverty (GS2: Issues related to poverty)

TH:
- Building resilient mineral supply chains (GS3: Energy)
- Throttled at Grassroots: how to strengthen decentralised governance (GS2: 73/74 AA)



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How to remember venue and patrons of 3 ‘major’ Buddhist councils?

- Venue:
Start from latest- PVR
R: Rajgriha
V: Vaishali
P: Pataliputra

- Patrons: AKA (year)
A: Ajatashatru (483BC)
K: Kalasoka (383BC)
A: Ashoka (250BC)

Hogya yaad!

“Bhai UPSC ke liye Current Affairs kaise prepare karu?”

Asked this question to an expert officer on my podcast.

Watch & learn 👇🏻

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🚨 October 12 2022 | Wednesday 🚨

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1. Monsoon not a mere weather phenomenon but key driver of Indian economy!

2. 3P must in policy
People, Planet & Profit


Quote

A nation achieves glory when it takes pride in its heritage

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Kurds
2. Monsoon

TH:
1. Blaming tech for death by suicide is misleading
2. Solutions by the people, for the people
3. NBDA v/s Google



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Collegium system is an important topic for both Pre & Mains.

Documented my notes on tho blog.
Read and learn 👇🏻

https://csewhy.substack.com/p/18-collegium-system-explained

“Bhai UPSC ke liye Current Affairs kaise prepare karu?”

Watch & learn 👇🏻

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🚨 October 13 2022 | Thursday 🚨

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1. brain drain to brain gain
Govt efforts to retain talent at home


pre related
- Kaduvur Slender Loris Sanctuary declared (a first) in TN’s Karur & Dindigul districts

Quote
Justice is another name of liberty, equality and fraternity


stats

Living Planet Report
- 69% dip in wildlife in 5 decades (1970-2018)
- 137 km of Sunderbans erosion
- 94% decline in Latin America

Reasons of decline:
- Habitat degradation
- Loss, exploitation & introduction of invasive species
- Pollution
- Climate change
- Disease
- Land use change



Reading Recommendations

IE:
- That remote village, along the border good reasoning with interesting solution
- Indian students abroad most likely to stay back take a look at report description in this report
- Reading IMF’s economy report one of the best articles to understand inflation and growth relation.

TH:
- Court & Collegium Problem an imp article to reflect on what’s problematic about collegium system
- War against illegal goods
- China’s Wolf Warrior era


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