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🚨 December 29 2022 | Thursday🚨

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Creative Tourism
Offering space to digital nomads and 'creative' people to flourish in a country (Mexico City's campaign with AirBNB to project it as capital of creative tourism)

Art to heart
A keyword with rhyme to be used in essays and GS1

Economic Globalisation
Term by Keynes


Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Where China is headed (read to have an idea on future of CH (and world))
2. A tale from Punjab (importance of marking days to celebrate stories!)
3. Inside home, a broken silence (imp article on marital rape)

TH:
1. A failed attempt at decriminalisation (take a look at Jan Vishwas bill)
2. Proposal to ban sale of single cigarettes (can read the gist)


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🚨 December 30 2022 | Friday🚨

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Remote EVM: A machine allowing migrant voters living outside their home constituencies to vote from current residence

- Must register online/offline within pre-notified time w/ home constituency RO
- One EVM can cater to voters of multi constituency by using dynamic ballot display in place of usual printed paper ballot sheet

Tribe in news: Bonda
Uses only beads and a strip of cloth to cover their body.

Reading Recommendations

IE:
- A bond with a history (by former PM/President of Armenia)

TH:
- Leveraging voice technology to combat cyber fraud
- KA-MH border row
- Read gist of Videocon-Chanda Kochhar case


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I see a lot of aspirants getting confused in order of the marked states.

How to remember them in right order?
Mnemonic: NaMaMi (similar to Namami Gange)

Na: Nagaland
Ma: Manipur
Mi: Mizoram

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🚨 December 31 2022 | Saturday🚨


Friends, nothing significant in today’s newspapers. You can take a breather and hit refresh.

Meanwhile, checkout my blog and YouTube as you Hit Refresh! 😁

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In a few hours, the year ends.

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Appreciate what’s coming for you in 2023, champion! 💪🏻😎

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🚨 January 1 2023 | Sunday🚨


Reading Recommendations

TH:
- Most GoI offices likely to go fully digital by Feb (pg7, read for e-office 7.0 & NICNET)
- Crypto Awareness Campaign
- Will migrants be able to vote remotely?
- How will free food grain scheme work?


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🚨 January 2 2023 | Monday🚨


Deepfakes
Digital media- video, audio, images etc edited and manipulated using AI; a hyper-realistic digital falsification

Bad Loan
A loan not serviced for a long time. SERVICE: paying back interest & small part of principal

Recognition, Resolution, Recapitalisation and Reforms
4R strategy of GoI towards lowering NPAs

Hidden Hunger
Consuming energy-dense but micronutrients-deficient food


Pre related
Electronics Corporation of India u/ Department of Atomic Energy developed Remote Voting Machine


Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. The Millets Manifesto (combine this with old IE article: The Millets Story)
2. The path to decarbonisation

TH:
1. The danger of deepfakes
2. Has India tided over problem of bad loans?
3. 'App-solute' chaos in NREGA u/ guide of transparency


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🚨 January 3 2023 | Tuesday🚨


Retributive Punishment to Rehabilitative Punishment
The mindset shift needed in Indian jail system

Preventive over Reactive approach towards crime

Create in India
An effort to develop world class games and apps in India


Quote
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future - Oscar Wilde


Reading Recommendations

IE:
- For first time in many years, no rhinos poached in Assam in 2022
- Economics and politics in Govt's promise of a year of free food grains

TH:
- When degrees lose their worth
- The case against state control of Hindu temples
- Towards reducing India's prison footprint
- What is the new delimitation exercise by Assam?


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🚨 January 4 2023 | Wednesday🚨


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3C structure in Multi Domain Operations:
Command, Control and Communication

Quote
The development of full AI could spell the end of human race - Stephen Hawking

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. The danger on the road (note solutions)
2. Power play beyond G20
3. Jain protests: what are the issues linked to JH and GJ shrines
4. Link b/w termite activity and a warming world

TH:
1. It is crucial for India to embrace MDOs
2. Preventing animal cruelty is duty of the state
3. How is India moving to regulate online gaming?
4. On the legality of Israel's occupation
5. SC raises concern on small fishermen hit by purse seine nets (page 12; read more about this issue online)



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🚨 January 5 2023 | Thursday🚨


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Phygital: Physical + Digital
A model adopted by corporations to take business forward. eg: HDFC opening new branches while scaling online business, UnAcademy launching offline stores while doubling down on online numbers

Accessible, Affordable and Equitable
How Healthcare should be delivered to people

Digital Public Goods
Use of tech to create digital goods for larger public interest. eg: CoWIN, Aarogya setu etc.

Proactive, Holistic and Citizen Centric
Aim of digital integration towards healthcare


Pre related
- BIND scheme: Broadcasting Infrastructure & Network Development
a) 2500 cr for 2022-26
b) Vehicle to provide financial support to Prasar Bharti (PB)
c) Aim to help PB w/ expansion and upgrade broadcasting infra, content and civil work


Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Turning the spotlight on health (Must read article)
2. Mercury soars in Europe Winter: What's a heat dome? (note the phenomenon and role of Jet streams)
3. India's green hydrogen push
4. How 50 centrally protected monuments went missing, what next? (Note ASI act and related legislation)

TH:
1. Why has a high power Ladakh committee been formed?
2. Jallikattu: Cultural practice or cruelty?
3. Reading newspapers effectively to prepare for the CSE? (by AIR03 Gamini Singla)



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Sea ‘degree’ channels and what they separate for #UPSC #pre

🔹6 deg: Nicobar & Sumatra
🔹8 deg: Minicoy & Maldives
🔹9 deg: Lakshadweep & Minicoy
🔹10 deg: Andaman & Nicobar
🔹11 deg(Duncan Passage): Great and Little Andaman

You can copy these channels from my Twitter to be saved to your notes👇🏻

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🚨 January 6 2023 | Friday🚨


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Pre related

1. Phytorid Technology: used in Tirupati Liquid Waste Treatment plant
- Works on principle of natural wetland
- Certain plants used to absorb nutrients directly from wastewater, soil not needed
- Plants act as nutrient sinker and remover
- Treated water can be used for gardening purposes

2. Si Donyi festival in Arunachal Pradesh
- Si Donyi: a supreme guardian who protects and cares
- Celebrated by people of Tagin tribe

3. One District Two Products
- Uttarakhand govt scheme where 2 products each from 13 districts are marketed by state for sales
- In sync with Vocal for Local call!

Stats
- Tourism contributes 16% to GDP and 35% to direct employment of Goa
- India's per capita CO2 emission: 1.8 tonnes (but we are 3rd largest single emitter)

Reading Recommendations

IE:
- Let's plan a path to net zero
- The Moving City (GS1: Urbanisation)

TH:
- India's plan to develop green Hydrogen
- Why's Japan offering money to move out of Tokyo?


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