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🚨 January 25 2023 | Wednesday🚨

National Tourism Day today, learn these tourism centric keywords for Mains answer writing https://csewhy.substack.com/p/55-tourism-keywords

SMART Police
S: Strict and Sensitive
M: Modern and Mobile
A: Alert and Accountable
R: Reliable and Responsive
T: Techno savvy and Trained


Reading Recommendations

IE:

1. A battle-fit police (Whenever Prakash Singh Sir writes, sit down quietly and take notes)
2. Common code conversations (imp notes on way forward for UCC)
3. Norovirus in Kerala
4. Colombo: The view from Delhi

TH:
1. Working hand in hand to showcase India
2. Developing schools without barriers (read Towards inclusivity para)
3. What ails the Ken-Betwa river link project?


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🚨 January 26 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Tech for Good
Larger use of tech for good

Quote
Spaces should be enriched by the imagination, not necessarily by the form of structure


Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Delhi's outreach to Cairo (imp article for Indian stances in Mid east)
2. Why does India celebrate R-day on Jan 26? (revise Spectrum notes here :P)
3. 5 features that defines the work of master architect BV Doshi (take cue for urbanisation GS1)
4. Why India's BharOS faces tough road ahead
5. Changes in living will guidelines (interesting article, will do a blog on this)

TH:
1. Torpedoing a submarine rumour (read for insights)
2. Contesting the hegemony of dollar (read "what this means" para)
3. Next leg of Russia-Ukraine war (read just the gist)



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The Tiranga 🇮🇳 is ‘unfurled’ on R-Day and ‘hoisted’ on I-day. What does this mean?

On Republic Day, 🇮🇳 is tied on top of pole and ‘unfurled’

On Independence Day, 🇮🇳 is ‘hoisted’ to top from bottom of the pole.

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🚨 January 27 2023 | Friday🚨

Notes to understand evolution of Basic Structure Doctrine are now live on the blog. Visit: https://csewhy.substack.com/p/75-basic-structure-doctrine-debate


Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. The problem with Collegium
2. Growing amid slowdown (understand reasons which prompt Indian growth despite global slowdown)
3. Short Selling
4. India's Egypt Opportunity

TH:
1. Japan to flush Fukushima Wastewater


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🚨 January 28 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Quotes

1. India has no choice but to grow fast given the present level of per capita income - C Rangarajan
2. There is no health w/o mental health - Brock Chisholm

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Stigma scatters in the light (note the 4 pillar suggestions)
2. The path to 2047
3. Indus Treaty notice to Pak

TH:
1. India's groundwater governance is in better shape (MUST READ)
2. Mankading: an unnecessary moral dilemma (GS4 Ethics)


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🚨 January 29 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Pre Facts

1. Hormonal Therapy
- Slows/stops growth of hormone sensitive tumours
- How? It blocks production of hormones leading to breast cancer (or other diseases)

2. Namdhapa National Park (NNP)
- Noble's Helen (a butterfly otherwise found in Indo-China seen here)
- NNP: b/w Patkai and Dapha ranges of Mishmi hills in Eastern Himalayas
- Only park in world w/ 4 big cats: Tiger, Leopard,, Snow Leopard and Clouded Leopard
- Hoolock Gibbons found here
- River: Noa-Dehing (Brahmaputra tributary)

3. Piltvice Lakes National Park - Croatia:
- In news for gorgeous waterfalls


Reading Recommendations

TH:
1. Why's SC examining marriage laws for minors? (GS2)


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🚨 January 30 2023 | Monday🚨

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Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Rare plateau found by ARI team could hold clues to plan survival amid climate change
2. Gandhi in Amrit Kaal
3. Polar Vertex
4. Inflation in milk
5. How tech firms misread pandemic demand and left workers out in cold

TH:
1. In NREGA reforms, priortise the worker and her dues
2. Revisit the tax treatment of tobacco products
Both 1 and 2 are easy to read high value articles

3. India's call to modify IWT (note Ratle and Kishenganga rivers)
4. Dementia: nature of the disease, how it progresses and ways you can help others.


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First look of the PDF with all my Twitter Thread Compiled in one place.

It will help you with revising fast and keeping all notes in one place. (You can thanks me for thinking so much for your UPSC prep!)

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Friends, I am hosting Sh Jitin Yadav on my podcast today (31st Jan) at 2100 hours.

Mr Yadav’s book is a great guide for aspirants during UPSC Prep journey. His tweets are guiding light for all

I’m inviting your questions that you’d want him to answer for you. If you’ve any UPSC or life related questions in general, please email them to whycse@gmail.com 🥰💪🏻

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🚨 January 31 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Not much in both Express and Hindu today. Read just one article

TH pg 8: Tasks for India's Millet revolution

Alternatively, you can revise Millets quickly from notes on my blog:
https://csewhy.substack.com/p/60-millets-millets-millets-kya-hai


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Friends, my podcast conversation with IAS Jitin Yadav sir is now on Spotify.

It’s one of my best podcasts till date and you’ll learn a lot from UPSC perspective: revision, note making, mindset etc.

Schedule to hear this podcast on evening walk or at the gym but do make time to learn from it.

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🚨 February 1 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Quotes

On death:
1. Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is necessary for a man's growth as life itself is. - Gandhi
2. Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves- Tagore
3. Education is fruitless without educate women

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. The un-love triangle
2. Economic Survey takeaways
3. Recession fears dissipate, India will be fastest growing major economy: What the IMF's outlook update says
4. Assessing the case for amending India-Pak IWT

TH:
1. Alienation: the separation of labour from the product, process, humanity, society
2. The funding and demand for MGNREGA (won't find notes like these)
3. Solar energy is not the best option for India



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Important links from today regarding Budget and UPSC notification compiled in one place👇🏻

1. Summary:
a) Budget
https://indiabudget.gov.in/doc/bh1.pdf


b) Survey
https://indiabudget.gov.in/economicsurvey/doc/Infographics%20English.pdf


2. UPSC One Time Registration
https://upsconline.nic.in/upsc/OTRP/index.php


3. UPSC 2023 Notification
https://upsc.gov.in/whats-new/Civil%20Services%20%28Preliminary%29%20Examination%2C%202023/Exam%20Notification

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🚨 February 2 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Fiscal Prudence
Ability of govt to sustain smooth monetary operation and long standing fiscal condition

Innovation Bridge
Indo-US MoU to connect defence startups of 2 countries


Pre related

P-notes
- FPI issued Offshore Derivative Instruments to overseas investors
- Offered to those who want to invest in Indian stock markets w/o registering directly
- Lesser stringent requirements
- Tax sops given in Budget 2023 to lure funds into Indian equity


Lab Grown Diamonds (LGD)
- Actual atoms arranged in characteristic diamond crystal structure in lab conditions
- Exhibit same optical and chemical properties as that of actual diamond
- RnD allocation for LGD in budget 2023 to make it competitive in Int'l markets

National Book Trust
- estd. 1957
- Objectives:
a) Produce and encourage production of good literature in Eng, Hindi and other languages
b) Make such literature available at moderate prices
c) Conduct events around the books to make people book minded
- National Digital Library w/ NBT as apex


Reading Recommendations

- Revise PVTG as fresh impetus given in Budget 2023
- There's not much in newspaper from UPSC pov except terms mentioned above. In place of wasting time on newspaper, visit the summaries in previous message to revise better.

TH:
1. What's the govt's new policy of UPI for NRIs? (read it to understand NRE and NRO)


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t-Vidya has been downloaded more than 8,000 times. 🤯

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🚨 February 3 2023 | Friday🚨

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Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Page 11: FM interview. (If not all, read QnA on MGNREGA, Life insurance, Ukraine war)
2.Page13: LiFE lessons for all
3. Page 19: Why proposed change has rattled India-startups? (understand what's angel tax)

TH:
1. Trading more with Asia makes economic sense (excellent solutions here)
2. Putting budget 2023 into perspective (read only gist for the trends)


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2014 Prelims PYQ: UPSC asked deficiency of which vitamins causes what?

What will a smart aspirant do? Find out:
- right answer
- Night Blindness cause
- what⬇️Vit E causes?

What will a smarter aspirant like you do?
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🚨 February 4 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Pre related
Follow On Public Offer

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. 2 yrs after coup, Myanmar's mess and India's headache
2. Paris Club
3. Pakistan needs more
4. Health in Amrit kaal (not the areas where contributions can be made)
5. Adani enterprise (understand strength and weaknesses of Adani)

TH:
1. Little to celebrate in Sri Lanka at 75



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