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

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- right answer
- Night Blindness cause
- what⬇️Vit E causes?

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🚨 February 4 2023 | Saturday🚨

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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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If you are overweight, highly likely that you'd not be allowed for LBSNAA foundation course even after getting AIR 01. Simple!

I am not saying it, IAS Jitin Yadav shared this shocking info on my podcast. What exactly did he say?

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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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Revise tectonic plates related to Earthquake via this image from today's Indian Express!

One of the perfect avenues for UPSC aspirants can be working with global institutes like World Bank and IMF.

How to land an internship with them?
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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.

Good opportunity to revise the countries of:
1. Scandinavia
2. Nordic region
3. Baltic region

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"UPSC toh crack kar lu par English itni acchi nahi hai"

A common problem for many aspirants.
Sharing some actionable and practical tips to improve your English in the link below!

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🚨February 10 2023 | Friday🚨

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4E challenge to Green Hydrogen
- Electrolyser
- Energy Source
- End Use
- Endogenous Sources

Pre related

1. India France joint exercises
- Navy: Varuna
- Air Force: Garuda
- Army: Shakti


Quote
Life's most persistent and urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?' Martin Luther King Jr.

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Green Hydrogen Challenge (note 4Es)
2. 69A of IT Act (and how it is diff from 66A)
3. Nord Stream
4. Second flight of ISRO's mini vehicle, with hope, promise on board

TH:
1. Exploring the blue in India-France partnership
2. Locating China in the Russia-Ukraine war (must read paragraph: what is the rationale behind China's emerging attitude?)


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🚨February 11 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Scientific Interests
- wrt GMRT, a good keyword to line of words like 'national interest'


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Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT)
- 30 fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45m diameter
- Project of Dept of Atomic Energy operated u/ Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)
- Designed on SMART concept: Stretch Mesh Attached to Rope Trusses
- Located in Pune district's Narayangaon area.

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. The starved city
2. The Pakistan Precipice
3. Article 105, limits to free speech in Parliament, and what SC has ruled
4. Lithium 'inferred' in JnK- how significant is this find, what next
5. The India Canada reset

TH
1. India's law and order matrix needs a reboot (good article on Internal security)


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This one discovery has potential to reset new world order for next 5 decades (and more)

However, it comes with new challenges.
We’ll potentially see a new wave of insurgency with China & Pak hand in glove.

Start thinking of things from 360 perspectives like one above.

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🚨February 12 2023 | Sunday🚨


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Keyword: Different Strokes for Different Folks
India's new effort to tailor made tourism offerings for diff countries


Pre Related

1. Central Board of Film Certification
- Statutory body u/ Cinematograph Act 1952
- Ministry: Information & Broadcasting
- HQ: Mumbai
- Non-official members + Chairman (all appointed by GoI)

2. Yanomami: Indigenous people of South American Amazon forest(s)

3. As demand for horizontal reservation sees surface among LGBTQIA+ community, it is a good time to revise the important court cases about the community. I have them all documented in a blog post: https://csewhy.substack.com/p/73-sc-cases-on-lgbtqia-rights


Quotes
No matter how you slice it, climate change will alter what we eat in the future


Reading Recommendations

TH:
1. Why are the Turkey earthquakes so deadly?
2. What made MSCI act on Adani stocks? (read for Free Float)
3. How is govt. ramping up border infrastructure?



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