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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🚨 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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🚨 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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🚨 February 5 2023 | Sunday🚨

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3R framework by RBI to revitalise stressed assets
- Rectify
- Restructure
- Recovery

Visva Bharati University to be world's first living heritage university by UNESCO tag.
- Set up by Gurudev
- Made uni by an act of Parliament in 1951
- PM by default is the Chancellor of this university

Reading Recommendations

TH:
1. pg5: IBC boosted 'EoDB' rank, Justice Kaul (read provisions)
2. pg7: Easing an albatross off the neck of GIB
3. pg7: India joins UAE, France for trilateral on clean energy, counter-pandemic steps
4 & 5. pg 9: understand concepts in all 3 articles here. Don't lose sleep over these, tho
pg10:
6. What made Adani Group call off its FPO? (read only to understand what's FPO)
7. Why have mangroves got a budget push?
8. Is govt. on track on fiscal deficit targets?

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River Nile

- Ends in: Mediterranean
- Tributaries: White Nile, Blue Nile, Atbara or Black/Red Nile
- White Nile (Origin: Lake Victoria, Uganda)
- Blue Nile (Lake Tana, Ethiopia)
- Black Nile (~50km north of Tana, Ethiopia)
- Blue & White meet at Kharotum, Sudanese capital

Also use this image to develop a visual memory of Lakes in this region.

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🚨 February 6 2023 | Monday🚨

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Keywords

Micro hydro
A small scale hydroelectric power generation system as an alternate to large scale initiatives

Doles to Development
A policy shift away from giving away freebies to Capital investments


Pre Related

Muons and Muon Tomography/Muography
(Read about Muons in organised manner on my blog: https://csewhy.substack.com/p/79-muons-and-muography)

About north star

- aka Polar or Pole star
- Part of Ursa Minor (323 light years away from earth)
- Less than 1 degree away from north celestial pole, almost in direct line with Earth's rotational axis
- First charted by Roman named Ptolemy
- Also seen in story of Christopher Columbus

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. An embattled green (criticism and way forward to hydro power in Himalayas)
2. Price cap, energy geo-politics (great reflection on Ukraine war actions)
3. Amorphous solid

TH:
1. India's just energy transition is more than a coal story (best article in a long time)
2. AP's capital conundrum (quick read)
3. Scientist's take on Budget (read just the gist)



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🚨 February 7 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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- Important Infrastructure: Social, Physical and Digital

- Consociation: A political system formed by cooperation of different social groups on the basis of shared power. E.g: Malaysia and Lebanon. Say, PM seat 'reserved' only for community A, President for B, and Chief Justice for C.


Pre related
1. Digital India Bhashini Portal
- AI based language translation platform
- Public digital platform
- Hosts 206 open source AI based API models
- Speech to text conversion, machine translation and text-to-speech conversion in 11 Indian languages and English
- Potential to provide crores of Indians with access to internet in native language

2. Agriculture Accelerator Fund
- Enable Indian agri ecosystem* to work collaboratively
- Find knowledge-based and farmer-centric solutions for agri
- *ecosystem= farmers, businesses, startups


Stats
- Every ₹ spent in capex has a multiplier of 2.95 i.e. it gets ₹2.95 per ₹1 spent

Quotes

1. People must be at the heart of any infra growth story - PM Modi


Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. The growth triad (beautiful and imp article)
2. In Assam, Beti Padhao (read for solutions/alternatives\)
3. The science of earthquakes
4. MCD House logjam, question of voting rights for nominated members


TH:
1. Jammu, village defence and governance (read for suggestions on how to keep a check on VDCs)
2. Pak economy crumbles: Forex falls, inflation soars
3. The state of ethnic democracy in Malaysia (read to understand consociation & Malaysian pol system)
4. Voice deepfakes: how they are generated, used, misused and differentiated (Will share notes from this on blog, subscribe to blog for updates: CSEWhy.substack.com)




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🚨 February 8 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Today's Indian Express underlines the Benefits of Millets

I have been regularly updating my notes on Millets in a blog post. You can find updated notes from this article and all other previous articles in news on this topic at the following link:
https://csewhy.substack.com/p/60-millets-millets-millets-kya-hai


Reading Recommendations

IE: (Today's IE is an easy ready, don't spend a lot of time)
1. As Asia arms Europe (read to understand which country doing what and India's stand)
2. In hour of Turkey's need (by former Amb of India to Turkey)
3. Assam's child marriage arrests
4. PACS (make notes, PYQ had questions around this)
5. Nagaland DGP case (read for Prakash Singh Case 2006)

TH:
1. A polycrisis that is depleting Pakistan's resilience
2. The saga of a 'spy' balloon in US airspace (read only What are spy balloons? para)
3. CAR T-cell therapy: next step towards holistic treatment of cancer (technical article, understand the basics)



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🚨February 9 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Fair, Equitable and Balanced
Indian approach towards Trade Agreements


Pre related

1. Animal Welfare Board of India
- Status: Statutory body established in 1962 u/ Prevention of cruelty against animals Act 1960
- Mandate: Advise govt. on animal laws and promote animal welfare in the country
- Ministry: Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
- Headquarter: Ballabhgarh, Faridabad, Haryana

2. Grishneshwar Mandir (Hillary Clinton's visit)
- A shiva temple constructed by Rani Ahilyabai Holkar in Aurangabad (near Ellora)
- Finds mention in Shiv and Padma Purana
- Nagara style shikhar with prominent Nandi


Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. The pact's fine print (understand defence exports games)
2. Counting her work
3. Reading RBI's policy reviews + RBI hikes interest rates by 25bps: what it means? (pg 15/17)
4. See rules behind 'expunged' words

TH:
1. A Nordic-India connect to power a green transition
2. The status and proceeds of disinvestment (Must read paragraph on "What is disinvestment?")


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Today's The Hindu has an article on Nordic-India relations.

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1. Scandinavia
2. Nordic region
3. Baltic region

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