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🚨February 24 2023 | Friday🚨

Read about Russia-Ukraine war in any of TH/IE, nothing major.


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- My Blog: CSEWhy.substack.com
- Free materials available in my pinned message


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Friends, I’m hosting Mr. Nitin Sangwan, IAS (2016, Gujarat cadre) on The Aspirants Show on Sunday 05:00pm.

This will be on Twitter Space and if you’ve any questions related to UPSC Prep that you’d want to ask him, please email your question(s) to whycse@gmail.com with subject: Question for Nitin Sir 🙏🏻💪🏻

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🚨February 25 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Pre related

About Italy
- Longest river: Po (From Alps to Adiratic Sea)
- Largest lake: GARDA

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Slow path to peace
2. Low tides and drought: Why have Venice's famous canals gone dry?

TH:
1. Cyberattacks are rising, but there is an ideal patch


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River Po, Lake Garda & Venice's canals

- Canals drying out of low tides + high pressure zone
- Garda drying due to drought conditions in north Italy
- River Po has 61% less water than usual

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🚨February 26 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Pre Related

1. Chuktia Bhunjia tribe
- A tribe of Sunabeda plateau on Odisha-AP border
- In news for strawberry farming
- One of PVTGs tribes of Odisha
- You can read more here in this beautiful document of Tribal Affairs Ministry

2. Sunabeda Plateau
- Home to Chuktia Bhunjia tribe

Reading Recommendations

TH:
1. Strawberry farming making waves in tribal land of Odisha
2. Are neutrinos their own anti-particles?
3. Who will benefit from UPI-PayNow link?


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🚨February 27 2023 | Monday🚨

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Quotes

If we don't end war, war will end us - HG Wells


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. The new abnormal
2. DBT at 5.5 trillion INR so far (page13: understand how it is saving money for Govt)
3. ALMA's new brain: Chile telescope will produce even better images of universe
4. Caveat (understand the literal and legal meaning)
5. Indian defence exports (learn what's being exported, what is being explored, which countries are importing currently)

TH
1. Smoke signals from the renewable energy sphere
2. Towards Transparency in OTT regulation
3. Are Menstrual Leave policies implemented globally? (learn what other countries are doing wrt this)
4. The sophisticated anatomy of heat waves (save this article, BEST!)
5. Cyber attack on Go Daddy (learn what it does and how attack is executed)


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🚨February 28 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Quote

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid - Paulo Coelho

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Shadows in Punjab
2. The crash in onion prices
3. Issues in Sisodia case (quick reach to learn basic deal)

TH:
1. Unpacking the new set of e-rules
2. The New START treaty on a pause (read for impacts of this move)
3. Organ chips (wonderful SnT article)


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🚨March 1 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Centre set to invite state views again on Puncchi Panel (pg-11)
2. Windsor Framework (pg-13)
3. How to read Q3 growth data? (pg-13) [revise GDP/GVA]
4. Cooperation amid conflict (pg-15) [Use this article as a reminder to revise all multilateral platforms mentioned here]

TH
1. A thumbs down for 'Adopt a heritage' scheme
2. International courts and climate change [a good article!]
3. Coin vending machine - pilot project [understand WHY of this idea]
4. On regulating online sale of drugs in India [understand WHY]


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As prelims near, IAS Nitin Sangwan shares practical tips for Current Affairs & Prelims.

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🚨March 2 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Reading Recommendations

IE
1. The case for open, verifiable forest data (an important article on forest classification in India)
2. Why sarpanches are protesting against e-tenders in Haryana

TH
1. Combining social welfare and capital markets through SSE (blog on this soon with more details)
2. Understanding the Windsor framework


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🚨March 3 2023 | Friday🚨

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Ornamental Aquaculture
- The culture of attractive colorful fishes of various characteristics; reared in a confined aquatic system
- In news due to Lakshadweep administration promoting same among women

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. SC verdict on ECI appointments
2. Ambedkar to Advani, concerns over how poll panel members are picked
(above two are related, read in coherence)

TH
1. The aftermath of SL's economic crash (can do with just reading the gist)


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Volcanoes in News. You can download/screenshot this picture from link below 👇🏻

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🚨March 4 2023 | Saturday🚨


Muons are spoken about again today in newspaper wrt Pyramids in Egypt.
Already covered in a blog post earlier, Click here to revise them

Reading Recommendations

TH
1. Clean tech as the next big thing in rural India [note 5 point solution]

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🚨March 5 2023 | Sunday🚨

Read this blog JUST once and you'd never forget G20 countries, EVER!


Surprising but nothing too important in Sunday's newspaper for UPSC aspirants.
Skip it and save your time.

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🚨March 6 2023 | Monday🚨

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Organoid Intelligence (OI)
Lab grown organs (using human stem cells) given the cognitive recognition of humans. (relate it with advanced Artificial Intelligence but for organs)

Bio Computers
OI aims to create Bio computers where brain cultures can be coupled to real world sensors and input-output devices

Pre related

Composition of panels for picking:
1. CBI director
PM, LS LoP (or leader of largest opposition party), CJI (or his nominee)

2. CVC (u/ CVC act 2003)
PM, HM, LS LoP

3. CIC (u/ RTI Act 2005)
PM, LS LoP, Union Minister nominated by PM

4. NHRC chief & members (u/ Protection of Human rights act 1993)
PM, HM, LS Speaker, RS Deputy Chair, LS & RS LoP


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Revisiting a dream (VERY imp article on 2x farmers' income)
2. Agriculture & employment (understand GVO & GVA like concepts)
3. KA MLA accused of graft: state Lokayukta (read and revise 2013 act and KA act)

TH
1. Utilising India's moment under the diplomatic sun (read to form an opinion)
2. What are bio computers and how do they function? (SnT, highly relevant)


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🚨March 7 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Salt Flat
- A natural landscape in which a large area of flat land is covered by salt.
- Most well know salt flat is Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia)

Pre related

1. International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA)

▪️ An Indian initiative to protect and conserve 7 major cats
- Tiger, Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Puma, Jaguar and Cheetah
▪️Membership to 97 'range' countries w/ natural habitat for these cats
▪️Conservation alliance unprecedented in scale, purpose and activities
▪️Structure: General Assembly, GA elected Council for 5 years (7<x<15 members), Secretariat (New Del)
▪️Major activities: advocacy, partnership, knowledge e-portal, capacity building, eco-tourism, partnerships and finance tapping


2. SWAMIH Investment Fund

▪️Special Window for Affordable & Mid-Income Housing
▪️Considered lender of last resort for distressed projects
▪️Social Impact Fund for completing stressed and stalled residential projects
▪️Sponsored by Finance Ministry, Managed by SBICAP Ventures Ltd. (State Bank Group company)
▪️Aim: Provide debt financing for completion of stressed, brownfield, and RERA registered residential projects falling in affordable, mid-income housing category

3. Langa Manganiyar Community

▪️Muslim folk singers from desert (in Rajasthan & Sindh)
▪️Mostly in Jaisalmer and Barmer district on Indian side
▪️Language(s) of folk art: Marwari, Sindhi, Dhatti, Thareli, Saraiki

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Perils of go-to secularism (GS2)
2. A new trade strategy (GS3)
3. What's Hindu rate of growth? (GS3)
4. JnK court martial: How armed forces punish their personnel for crime

TH
1. A 'Zeitenwende' in the India-Germany relationship (GS2; read for details of relationship)
2. How to become a Green Hydrogen Superpower (GS3: Note 5 point way forward)
3. Reasons for recovery (see graphs and understand GDP on pg 7)
4. Is the internet as we know it going to change? (understand Section 230: 26 words that created internet)
5. Multilateral reforms as a priority in G20 (this one article will teach you all about multilateralism)
6. Why are salt flats around the world covered in a similar pattern of ridges?


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I seldom share newspaper clips but this one is a must read. You'd learn so much about Multilateralism in just one read from this article! :)

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