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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!

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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:
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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.
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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'


Pre Related
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.

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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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It is often in news about how Kali/Sarda river forms the Western Border of Nepal-India.

However, one less mentioned river is that forms the Eastern Border is river Mechi (in the circle)

You will find Kosi-Mechi interlink in news often but seldom Mechi's location as international border discussed.

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🚨February 13 2023 | Monday🚨

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Pre related

MIIRA:
- Millets International Initiative for Research and Awareness
- to coordinate millets research programmes at the international level

VARANASI
- The city of Varanasi is named so after two rivers on its North and South end
- The rivers are Varuna and Assi (Varuna + Assi = Varanasi)
- Both are minor tributaries of river Ganga
- In news cz of Assi's poor health and city waste dropped in the river

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. The pull of fast fashion (understand economics and behaviour)
2. Saving the investor (good recos for the regulatory bodies)
3. Protected speech of MPs: its history, reasons for curbs (don't miss this article, can see a Q from it)
4. What farm exports data show (note the trends: what's increasing and what's decreasing)

TH:
1. India-U.S. space cooperation, from handshake to hug (take notes, imp points)
2. The demand for a Greater Tripraland by TIPRA Mohta (learn about the demand)
3. What are microLED displays, and why is Apple shifting to it? (quick read to understand basics)


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🚨February 14 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Multi-generational process
- Call for urban planning to be a multi generational process over election cycle

Pre Related

Geo heritage sites
- Sites containing geo-relics, geological structures, and geomorphic landforms of national and int'l interest
- GSI declared 32 geo-heritage sites for protection & maintenance
- India is needed to have law to protect world cultural and natural heritage as part of UNESCO convention

Quote
If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.
- MS Swaminathan


Reading Recommendations

IE:

1. The Joshimath warning
2. A force for all theatres
3. Gov's inaction in Jharkhand
4. How a ChatGPT based chatbot can help rural India? (pg 23)

TH:
1. Hill or city, urban planning can not be an afterthought
2. Tackling postpartum depression (read just the gist)



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🚨February 15 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Energy Poverty
Self explanatory keyword

Language
- A vehicle of culture
- A living organism

Prelims perspective

1. Geo relics and Geo heritage
- Geo relic: A relic or material of geological significance (eg. sediments, rocks, minerals fossils)
- Geo heritage: the sites with geological importance. (eg. Volcanogenic bedded Barytes of Mangampeta in AP, Akal Fossil Wood Park in RJ, Lonar Lake in MH)
- Geo heritage sites declared by Geological survey of India
- Fossil wealth of dinosaur remains of MP/GJ, Marine fossils of Kutch & Spiti, Stromatolites of RJ/MP are of great geoheritage & geotourism value.


Quote
Everything digital must be accessible to everyone (in context of specially abled)


Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Mumbai, Dhaka, London, NY in line of threat from rising sea-level, says WMO report
2. Green Transition enabler
3. Japan and the Global South
4. The missing Dy. Speaker: the post and what the constitution says (VERY IMP article)
5. High Altitude balloons (SnT)
6. Geo-heritage and Geo-relics

TH:
1. Leveraging JnK's Lithium Reserves (Imp article, blog coming on it soon. Subscribe with email: csewhy.substack.com)



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🚨February 16 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Windfall Profits
Unanticipated spike in earnings of an entity resulting from an exogenous event (which could be one-off and/or prolonged)


Quote
Modesty is the color of virtue.

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Survey v/s Search: Diff b/w IT action (read difference)
2. Roche Limit
3. In BJP poll manifesto for Nagaland, why special focus on eastern region? (understand the problem)
4. Flying high (by Minister Reddy)

TH
1. Taxing windfall profits of oil companies
2. Understanding India's Mental Healthcare Act 2017
3. A manifesto for tackling the silent pandemic of AMR



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🚨February 17 2023 | Friday🚨

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Engineers, English and Youth
3 key fundamentals of growth in India that have potential to drive global optimism

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Govt. ends age-65 cap for receiving organ from donor (pg1, read to know about NOTP/NOTTO)
2. Factors behind moderating CAD, how it will impact markets (best article on CAD macroeconomics)
3. Empowering the MP

TH:
1. Deep sea fish conservation must not go adrift


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