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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! 😁

- Blog: CSEWhy.substack.com
- YouTube: YouTube.com/@CSEWhy

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- basic English
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In a few hours, the year ends.

Maybe it was not your best year,
Maybe it was hard one for you,
Maybe it gave bad experiences,

But do know: all of it made you the person you are today. ✨

Appreciate your ups and downs.
Appreciate what’s coming for you in 2023, champion! 💪🏻😎

Happy New Year, Friends.

Wishing for best of Bal. Buddhi. Vidya. for y’all 💪🏻

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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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Friends, I’ve shared complete Book Resources List for Prelims on Twitter.

Please visit this thread, RT and benefit max from it. 🙏🏻💪🏻👇🏻

https://twitter.com/CseWhy/status/1609538779114770433?s=20&t=xlEHJhx177Bn3YwXY03bLA

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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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Friends, if you are now switching towards UPSC Prelims Prep, my Visual Notes are a must for you!

You can expect direct questions from these notes in Prelims 2023. Take my advice and get your notes from the pinned message. 😁🙏🏻

You can check Index of Visual Notes in this message 👆🏻

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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👇🏻

https://twitter.com/CseWhy/status/1610998070417952770?s=20&t=x3VkAPfH1FUOIyuTfs5fcw

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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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Friends, following 15 Scheduled Tribes have been asked by #UPSC in Prelims PYQs.

Sharing this compiled list so that you don't have to! Appreciate my effort with a❤️ reaction!

🔹Bhutia and Lepcha: Indigenous tribes of Sikkim
🔹Gond and Korku: Melghat tiger reserve
🔹Irula and Toda: Tribals of Niligiris of TN
🔹Sahariya (RJ): Tribals from MP, one of most backward in RJ
🔹Agariya (GJ): A salt making tribe of Kutch
🔹Limboo: Sikkim
🔹Karbi: Assam
🔹Bhotiya: Himachal Pradesh
🔹Dongaria Kondh & Bonda: Odisha
🔹Bhil & Gond: MP


You can download this as pdf or copy names to your notes from my blog👇
https://csewhy.substack.com/p/67-tribes-from-upsc-prelims-pyqs

Friends, in the January giveaway, I am giving away 3 copies of the book 10 Judgements that changed India for free.🥰

The giveaway is on twitter and to participate, visit the link below👇🏻
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🚨 January 7 2023 | Saturday🚨


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MEA's speech on problems and solutions in front of world:
Problems: 3C i.e. Conflict, COVID, and Climate
Solutions: 3P i.e. Peace, Progress and Prosperity


Stats
46% of total pending cases in court system pertains to govt.

Pre facts

- Largest Indian women peacekeepers unit in Abyei, on border of Sudan & South Sudan
- Sagol Kangjei played on Manipur Pony, it is a sport believed to be 'ancestor' of Polo
- LIMBS project (2015) Legal Information Management Briefing System
a) Intent: connect 55 ministries for litigation management
b) i.e. connecting 'Limbs' of state governance


Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Opening the campus door (take a rough read to understand technical issues)
2. A lighter load for court
3. The new war machine (see how AI is being used in Maritime domain)
4. Lighthouse for the world (take a rough quick read)
5. Manipur's ancient polo and its stories ponies
6. The delimitation exercise in Assam: why, how and why now



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