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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

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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.

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🔹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


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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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#UPSC #Prelims PYQ: Which political parties did BR Ambedkar establish?

Learning from this, his parties are enlisted💪

- Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha 1924
- Independent Labor Party 1936
- All India SC Federation 1942

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🚨 January 8 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Reading Recommendations


IE:
- Read about Joshimath News and note Mishra Committee

TH:
- Floating solar power (read for benefits)
- The escalation on India-China border
- Will shutting markets fix Pak’s economy?


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🚨 January 9 2023 | Monday🚨

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Urja Daata (energy provider)
- Just like Kisan is considered anna daata, using the farmland for solar panels (like PM-KUSUM) can make solar the third crop and make the kisan urja daata as well

Pre facts
MV Ganga Vilas
- A 51 day long river cruise flagged off from Kashi on Jan 13 and to end at Dibrugarh on March 1
- 50 tourist spots to be visited by on-boarders including world heritage sites, national parks, river ghats and major cities on route
- some cities on route are: Varanasi, Patna, Kolkata, Dhaka, Guwahati
- 27 river systems covered on this route (see map on page 8 of IE)

Reading Recommendations


IE:
1. As share of renewables increases in grid, govt explore storage options (page1) [note problems around storage with renewable generation]
2. Safety of people in areas affected by subsidence is top priority: PMO (page 1)[read report to note phenomenon & involved govt agencies]
3. Taming Defiant bugs [Most imp article on AMR, take a note of solutions to stop AMR]
4. This is not a bailout [take a look at what is JETP]
5. Prosperity through philanthropy [take a rough read to understand the idea]
6. Sovereign Green Bonds [Just read to understand dynamics]
7. Village defence: the return of JnK's armed civilians [very imp article on Internal security ideas]
8. Imbalance in Fertiliser use [This article will teach you diff types of fertilisers used and involved challenges (if you don't know already)]

TH:
1. The potential of generative AI: creating media with simple text prompts (only article you need to read & note on this tech, highly likely to have a pre Q from here)


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Today’s Indian Express is gold mine 🔥

- Land Subsidence wrt Joshimath
- Renewable energy storage issue
- AMR, JETP, VDCs and VDGs
- Fertilisers, Urja Daata
- CCP-Alibaba tussle

In short, don’t miss today’s newspaper of Indian Express.

No, don’t watch analysis videos but READ the paper 📰

Friends, UPSC has asked about 4 temples majorly in Prelims. I have compiled details about these 4 temples first in my PYQ notes and now on my blog.

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🚨 January 10 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Open Access
Improved access of scholarly articles for masses. Similar to Open AI, Open Source terms in Tech

Two imp terms/abbreviations wrt child pornography and digital content
Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (OCSEA)
Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)

Mishra Committee 1976 observations (wrt Joshimath)
- Land upon which town is founded is a deposit of sand and stone
- Town is not built 'main rock' of the mountain
- Undercutting by currents of Alaknanda river makes the area more prone to disasters

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Secure cyberspace for children (read for solutions)
2. Don't outsource excellence (Read 5 point solution suggested here)
3. Time to invest in India (quick look at the stats)
4. Land Subsidence (explained)
5. The Indian Diaspora (Best article on GS2 topic, take a note!)

TH:
1. The delay in decennial census (great source on census)
2. Has human-animal conflict increased in Wayanad? (give a quick read to understand problem & solution)
3. The open access movement (A big debate going on OA in academic circles, keep an eye)


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UPSC asked this question in 2013.

As a serious aspirant, what you shall do on seeing this question is to learn more about these forces.

To save you time, I have compiled the details about these forces on my Blog for you to Revise in JUST 1 minute read.

Visit and learn👇

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🚨 January 11 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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5F for Textiles sector given by PM Modi
Farm, Fibre, Fabric, Fashion, Foreign

Quote
Russia is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma - Winston Churchill

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. The future is international (UGC Chairman explaining Foreign uni in India logic, imp to read his pov)
2. India, the bridge (read to understand way forward towards end)
3. The game in perspective (read to know economics of online gaming)
4. Ozone hole, filling up now (make notes from this on Montreal Protocol and lessons for dealing with climate change)
5. Cold wave (learn the definitions, factors and impacts)
6. Delegated legislation


TH:
1. Lessons from Russia's Ukraine War (take a look at diff lessons for diff geopolitical events)
2. The beginning of India's cultural renaissance (a quick read suffices)
3. See map of Same sex marriages to take an idea on which societies allow it and which do not!)
4. Read 'The Gist' of Page 8 both articles



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UPSC Prelims PYQ | Question from 2013

Only 3 women had been INC President. Who are these 3 women?

1. Annie Besant (1917, Calcutta)
2. Sarojini Naidu (1925, Kanpur)
3. Nalini Sengupta [Nellie Sengupta] (1933, Calcutta)

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🚨 January 12 2023 | Thursday 🚨

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Quote
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children - Nelson Mandela

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Our vanishing monuments
2. SC prescription for CHD
3. Corbusier's vision for city: the genius and the flaws

TH:
1. (Pg 5) White tufted royal butterfly and Indian skimmer
2. Reducing preterm births and stillbirths (Read to understand these terms and solutions)
3 China's oil gambit in Taliban's Afghanistan (just one read to keep an idea)
4. Why is the land sinking in Joshimath?


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