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🚨 December 9 2022 | Friday🚨

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India's road (outreach) to Central Asia: Silk road of friendship & cooperation

Revenue Buoyancy
Degree of responsiveness of a fiscal variable wrt given change in base variable.
eg: RB wrt GSDP = 1.21
this means, revenue receipts tend to increase by 1.21% points with 1% rise in GSDP

Why in news? Himachal's RB is -2.27%


Quote
Finance is the lifeblood of terrorism - NSA Sh Ajit Doval


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. A corrosive strike at court (read it for what was wrong with NJAC)
2. India's Central Asia Outreach (GS2: note TL of engagements + India's need(s) + way forward)



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How to remember maths of a political party becoming a state party?

Break it down in blocks:
🔺Lok Sabha
🔺Vidhan Sabha
🔺Combined

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🚨 December 10 2022 | Saturday🚨

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Corruption: Threat to national security


Quote

All faiths are equally true though all are equally imprtfect - Gandhi


Reading Recommendations

IE:
- Charity and conversions (take a look at the history of this topic in India)
- A bad idea returns (note the stats of the OPS bills)
- Media bargaining bill in US (interesting read at what the future in this domain will look like)
- Jumbo and vermin debate u/ New amendment to WPA1972

TH:
- Expand food safety net without delay
-G20 can be alternative to UNSC


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🚨 December 11 2022 | Sunday🚨

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Scarcity to sufficiency -> Story of India!

3F in global trade: Food, Fuel and Fertilizers


Reading Recommendations
TH:
- Badri breed of cows from Uttarakhand
- Leading a helping hand to eliminate TB
- Fascinating Hornbills
- Alzheimer's drug
- Why price cap on Russian oil?


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🚨 December 12 2022 | Monday🚨

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1. World's largest democracy to also the ideal one - Former VP M Venkaiah Naidu's message to Indian democracy going forward

2. Development or national prestige to business and economy
To be used as way forward in diff sectors. eg. Space

3. Bribe for votes the real 'revadis'

Stats

- Pension bill exceeded salary & wages spending for centre and 3 states (GJ, KA, WB)

- Oxfam study: Women are 1/3 internet users in India (it is a stat that can be used in both positive and negative statements)

Reading Recommendations

IE:
- An example and a warning (take a macro view with this read)
- Centre's Subsidy bill (rush through the stats)
- Ajinomoto (read about MSG, this is also a fun story)

TH:
- Threat of China test in India's grand strategy (an interesting perspective, don't limit yourself to this, tho)
- Amending Co-op soc act (read for new proposed amendments)
- Laws on religious conversions (and conflict b/w legislature and judiciary)
- What's End to End encryption and why tech companies focusing on it? (prelims related questions easy to form)


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🇮🇳 States #stats as per Census 2011 for #UPSC

1. Population Density👪
- Highest: BR
- Lowest: Arunachal

2. Population👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
- Highest: UP
- Lowest: Sikkim

3. Sex ratio♂♀️
- Highest: KL
- Lowest: HR

4. Literacy👩‍🏫👩‍🎓
- Highest: KL
- Lowest: BR

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🚨 December 13 2022 | Tuesday🚨

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Reading Recommendations

TH:
1. Big tech & need India for ex ante regulation
2. Politics of National Interest
3. Weighing in on the efficacy of female leadership in government

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Friends, I am working on an exclusive document for GS4 Ethics

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- Special focus on terms from PYQs

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Friends, you are already aware about my initiative where the GS3 Free notes are being made public one by one. 😎

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Friends, I am hosting IPS Ms Nirja Shah tomorrow (14th December 2022, 1800 hours/6 pm) on December episode of The Aspirants Show.

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🚨 December 14 2022 | Wednesday🚨

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Akhand Bharat Ubharta Bharat (Ubharta= rising)

Healing, harmony and hope India's role in post pandemic world as G20 chair


Pre Centric
Elo Ratings
- Given in football
- Used to measure a team's relative strength
- Assigns a rating to each nation, using results of previous int'l games
- Adds weight based on the opponent's strength and makes adjustments for home team's advantage and goal difference
- Different from FIFA World Cup rating

Quote
Imitation is the best form of flattery

Stats
Only 3.6% women in CAPFs (as per Parliamentary Committee)

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. The new money challenge (GS3, GS2)
2. An Indic G20 narrative (GS2, GS1)
3. The fusion energy breakthrough (GS3)
4. How JnK's proposed family ID will work, and why it is being criticised (GS2)

TH:
1. The rise of rural manufacturing (GS3)
2. A conservation bill that endangers forest rights
3. Analysing US-China Bilateral ties
4. The enigma of mythical stories and intense art and dance forms.


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Friends, in case you missed The Aspirants Show episode with IPS Nirja Shah, you can hear the podcast on Spotify.

Save it for your tomorrow's evening walk or free time. Do tweet to me your response and views on this electrifying podcast. 😍

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🚨 December 15 2022 | Thursday

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Applied Artificial Intelligence
An ethical use of AI for the betterment of humanity

F.I.R.E.= Financial Independence, Retire Early
A new concept emerging in Indian millionaires by the age of 40

Quote
1. Societies that suppress questioning voices find, in time, that their capacity to innovate is damaged (in context of crackdowns in China)

Pre related

GI tag sought for Beypore URU
- A boat handcrafted by skilled artisans in Beypore, Kerala
- Made of premium wood w/o using any modern techniques
- Symbol of KL's trade relations with Gulf countries
- 1-4 years taken to build one uru

Reading recommendations

IE:
1. A silent revolution
2. A bond that holds firm
3. Artic heat (climate change on page 15)
4. India's trade with China (take a rough look to see what's happening here)
5. Beyond OPS vs NPS, question of India's broken pensions system (a thoughtful read looking beyond both OPS & NPS)

TH:
1. Census as a mirror of past and present
2. How gene therapy could cure cancer
3. Why are India's slowing exports a cause of concern (read the gist)
4. The race of two Asian giants: the story of India and China so far (fun story & a good read)


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Friends, Millets are hot in news and an important topic for both Pre and Mains.

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Bifurcation of Punjab is one of the saddest episodes of Indian history

The ‘real’ Punjab here had Haryana and parts of Himachal Pradesh in it too

Thinking of impact from syllabus perspective
- GS1: Heritage, Art, Culture and Society
- GS2: Polity & Social Justice
- GS3: Economy, Biodiversity, Security, DM

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🚨 December 16 2022 | Friday 🚨

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5 vertical Infra growth on LAC:
- Habitat
- Aviation
- Road
- Operational Infrastructure
- Security Infrastructure

Reading recommendations

IE:
- Bangladesh reaches out to IMF: What's wrong with its economy?
- LAC: past tense, present uncertain
- The key is exports

TH:
- What are Kerala's University Laws (Amendment) bills?

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🚨 December 17 2022 | Saturday 🚨

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Dual Cost on the developing countries around climate change: (GS3 Env)
- shift away from fossils
- climate catastrophe (think of Pakistan floods costing $30bn)

Captive Non Public Network (GS3 Infra)
- Private network ONLY for the firm's use
- Relies on high-frequency, low wavelength airwaves
- Ideal for institutions like factories, manufacturing plant, hospitals, universities etc

Stats
- 92% of excess historical emissions attributed to developed countries
- UNEP: $160-340 bn by 2030 needed for climate adaptation

Pre related
GI tag to 5 agri products of KL, total 17 from state now.
- Beans
- Red Gram
- Sesame
- Garlic
- Snap Melon

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. At Kota, a collective failure (read for solutions)
2. Funding the transition (easy words, rich content)
3. Our response to Tawang (read to trace the history of India-China conflict
4. Keeping the net neutral (most imp article on this topic)
5. Hooch (read for the science of Hooch and role of ethanol and methanol)
6. NASA's global surface water survey satellite
7. When courts go on vacation (take a note of committees mentioned here)


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🚨 December 18 2022 | Sunday 🚨

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China US rivalry keywords relevant for GS2:

1. Phased modernisation of China
China's strategy to achieve centrality in international system

2. Perception of rivalry as democracy v/s authoritarianism

3. 3 pillar approach of the USA towards China: Invest, Align and Compete

4. 5 Noes previously mentioned by POTUS Biden:

i) Not seek a new cold war
ii) Not seek to change China's system
iii) Not to revitalize its alliances against China
iv) Not to disturb the cross-strait status quo
v) Not look for conflict with China


IE:
What are gold bonds? (Revise)


TH:
- Breast Cancer is not a ‘national emergency’ (Pg8)
- The challenges of quantum computing
- How can mRNA vaccines help fight cancer?
- NASA’s global water surface survey from space
- Why banyan/peepal trees live long?



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