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🚨March 20 2023 | Monday🚨

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India-Japan ties mantra
- Collaborate: Co-Innovate: Co-create

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. A sweet export story (so much to learn from this! If you're to read just one article today, make it this)
2. What does the ICC's arrest warrant mean for Vladimir Putin? (read for conceptual clarity)
3. Raccoon dog (species in news)
4. Not with a rate hike (Inflation GS3)

TH
1. Moving forward with a newer concept of UHC


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🚨March 21 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Cheap Money
Lot of money being printed by central banks and credit made available at near 0% interest rate


Reading Recommendations (Nothing too prominent in the newspaper(s) today. Can skip reading newspaper today)

IE
1. Credit Sussie and global banking turmoil (read just for an idea on what went wrong)

TH
1. Concluding on a high note, in Manhattan (read to revisit Indian priorities
2. Are foreign law firms now allowed in India? (read just gist)


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Articles of Constitution related to Constitutional Bodies in one place.

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Strongest ever earthquake I’ve felt in Delhi. 🥶

Hope everyone is safe!

On a lighter note, Earthquake bhi Prelims ki tayaari kar rha hoga tabhi itni zor se ro diya 😅😂

Zones revise kar lo yaar ab sone se pehle! 😛

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🚨March 22 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Climate Reparation
Call for money by developing countries as a means to address historical contributions made by developed countries towards climate change

Importance of Millets
- Door to prosperity
- Cornerstone of nutrition
- Ally against climate change.

Cognitive Dissonance
feeling of unease when one encounters tension between their own beliefs, actions, attitudes and values.

Weather Modification
A part of geoengineering which intentionally manipulates weather (think of cloud seeding)

Ecocide
Self inflicted damage on ecology (related with sui-cide, geno-cide etc.)

Gandhadagudi
Land of sandalwood (Term used for Karnataka)


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. The second spectre (read to understand ISI/Pak role in PB vis-a-vis Kashmir)
2. The new global disorder (read for generic understanding of what's happening in world)
3. Xi's power play in Moscow (read to understand how China benefits from Ukraine war)

TH
1. A grave mistake in Great Nicobar (read neutrally w/o bias)
2. Understanding waste-to-energy plants (very imp article for SnT, Urbanisation and ULBs)
3. Why couples want recognition for same-sex marriage PG-12 (read neutrally to understand other side of the story)


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World Water Day today

Good time to revise decreasing order of water on earth's surface. (Remember this table and mnemonic)

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🚨March 23 2023 | Thursday🚨

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High Seas
- Open ocean areas outside jurisdiction of any country
- High seas have 64% of global ocean surface and 43% of earth's surface

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Answers in the off-shore wind (Well correlated article)
2. A scientific religion (read for basic understanding)
3. The High Seas Treaty (understand the basics involved)
4. RJ's Right to Health Bill: Provisions, opposition (note the opposition to bill and other govt schemes)

TH
1. The road to ending TB (Note 3 areas)
2. The limits of American power in West Asia (a light read for US influence in Mid-east)
3. The OPS is a burden on poor
4. The protests in FR over pension reforms
(Read 3& 4 and in sync with each other and relate how pension is becoming a point of contention as life expectancy increases and demographic dividend is altered)


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4 cities on North, South, East and West of Harappa civilisation.

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🚨March 24 2023 | Friday🚨

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Local Journalism
Shines a bright light on local issues, people and causes which many times may not be covered in mainstream

Community Journalism
Opens avenues for members of marginalised communities to be a voice for their own issues

Responsible Journalism
Beacon of truth that can guide us to a better tomorrow; an engine that drives democracy forward based on quest of truth, justice and equality


Pre related

Newspapers of Dr. Ambedkar
- Janata
- Mooknayak
- Bahishkrut Bharat
- Prabuddha Bharat

Marburg Virus
- Seen in Equatorial Guinea & Tanzania
- Deadly hemorrhagic fever (no vaccine/treatment)
- Originates in Bats like Ebola, spreads b/w people with bodily fluids of infected people or surfaces

Sarus Crane
State bird of UP


Reading Recommendations

IE
- After Rahul’s conviction
- Guillotine (revise)
- Russian Ballet, Chinese steps
- Survivors show the way
- What India is doing to eliminate
TB by 2025?
[collect and compile all TB related articles in one place]

TH
- India's push for semiconductors (read to note India's advantages and deduce environmental impacts)
- Why is India's CAMPA at odds with IPCC report? (read to know what's CAMPA)


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🚨March 25 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Governance, Development and Employment
Keywords for governance methods of UP govt. (can be used in 'ideal' governance)

Tianxia
A Chinese theory that everything under the heavens has China as central authority and all other states are tributaries. Zhongguo the term for the middle kingdom (China) b/w heavens and those tributaries

Pre related

1. Project Tiger
- Started @ Jim Corbett on April 1, 1973
- India has largest number of CAT-accredited TRs in the world (17)
- Started w/ 9 Tiger Reserves (TR) and has 53 today w/ 2.4% of India's geographical area
- 3K tigers at present in India which is 70% of global wild tiger population and increasing at 6% pa
- The target was to 2x wild tiger population by 2022 based on St. Petersburg Declaration of 2010
- Compensation for voluntary village relocation enhanced from 10 lac to 15 lac to aid tiger conservation

2. Abel Prize (since 2003)
- aka Nobel for Mathematics
- Named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Abel
- 2023: Luis Caffarelli for Partial Differential Equations
- ~$720k prize money + glass plaque is given to the winner
- Norwegian Parliament established prize in 2002 where recipients are chosen by Abel Committee
- For Abel Committee, Mathematicians are appointed by Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on advice of International Mathematical Union and European Mathematical Society

3. SeaMeWe-6
- South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 6
- A cable beneath sea to transport data from Asia to Europe via Africa & Mid east
- It will connect dozen countries snaking from S'pore to France crossing 3 seas and Indian Ocean

Quote
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
Benjamin Franklin


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Cold war, again
2. Why transgender female athletes can't compete in female events (read for technicalities)


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Compiled all major bhakti saints in one place. Watchout for the classic map at the end of this document

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🚨March 26 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Evergreening of patents
A strategy whereby patent-owner continuously extends rights and/or applies multiple patents for the same entity. (Indian Patent Laws disallow evergreening)

Pre Related

1. Anij Khad River bed
- India's first cable-stayed rail bridge on Anij Khad riverbed in Reasi district, JnK
- To connect JnK with rest of India seamlessly


2. Tuberculosis
- An infection of bacterium Mycobacterium TB in lungs (or in other organs)
- Treatment: Strict adherence to a Physician prescribed doses & frequencies
- Deviation can lead to bacteria become drug-resistant (high cost or poor quality of life causes deviation)
- Multi-Drug-Resistant (MDR) TB: Resists treatment by at least 2 drugs- Isoniazid and Rifampicin
- Extensively-Drug-Resisted (XDR) TB: Resists above 2 + Fluoroquinolones + second line injectable drug
- Note: Bedaquiline is used to treat MDR (J&J applied for patent for this drug, now rejected)
- Less harmful
- Available as tablets
- Could be toxic to heart & liver
- Recommended only as treatment of last resort.

3. Nuclear Power and India
- 22 Nuclear Reactors in India serving 3% of Indian electricity needs
- We've 3 stage nuclear program:
a) Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PWHR)
b) Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR)
c) Thorium Based Reactor (TBR)
- Currently, 3% needs are served by PWHR as FBR & TBR are either in test or research stage
- Why did India sign up for PWHR and not Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR)?
a) First Nuclear reactor in India (Set up w/ help of Canada) was PWHR
b) PWHR is safer and cheaper (as it uses Uranium which is available in India whereas PWR needs 'enriched' Uranium)

4. Patent Rules

5. Chip4 Alliance: Alliance for semiconductor chips among countries of JUST (Japan, US, South Korea, Taiwan)

Reading Recommendations

TH
1. Why did India reject J&J's patent on TB drug?
2. Will Mega textile parks help boost the sector?


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🚨March 27 2023 | Monday🚨

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Biotransformation
- Alter state of plastics making them biodegradable
- It ensures plastics that escape refuse streams are processed efficiently and broken down

Pre Related

1. Benefits of Institute of Eminence Tag
- Set fees, admission process and structure programmes
- Admit Int'l students (30%), Int'l faculties (25%) and offer online courses (20%)
- Exempted from govt. approvals for academic collabs with top 500 foreign institutions
- 10 govt owned institutions promised funding upto Rs 1,000 cr

2. Open Credit Enablement Network (OCEN)
- To raise credit penetration by transitioning system to cash flow based lending
- Raise competition among lender banks to give loans to person and thus lowering cost of lending
- It is projected to take Credit to GDP ratio from 57% to 100% by 2031

Stats
1. Cost of internet per GB
2014: Rs. 300
2022: Rs 13.5

2. India produces 3.5 Bn Kg of plastics per annum

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Lebanon wakes up in two time zones amid clock change row
2. Masking Cruelty
3. Tech at your service (must read from IT Minister)
4. On mode of capital punishment, fresh debate (note how diff countries give capital punishment)
5. In 1975, when a court disqualified Indira Gandhi from Parliament (note sections of RPA and 39/44 Amendment Acts)
6. Tractors and two wheelers (note the trends and develop and understanding)
7. Marburg virus (take a note of the details)


TH
1. Making sense of the disqualification of Lok Sabha
2. Understanding IMF Bailouts (important read, such questions seen in Prelims PYQ)
3. Why has TN govt decided to merge schools? (read just the gist)
4. Biotransformation tech (V. Imp article)


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🚨March 28 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Daylight Saving Time (v. imp concept. learn!)
2. In SC today, disqualification of another MP

TH
1. A shared G20 vision for the ocean commons
2. The disqualification conundrum (read to explore 'solutions')

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🚨March 29 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Pre related
1. Bucharest Nine
- 2015 estd. in Romanian capital
- A club of the Central European countries
- Formed post Russian annexation of Crimean peninsula in 2014
- Bulgaria, Czech, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Romania

2. Three Seas Initiative
- estd. 2016
- Bucharest Nine + 3 countries (Austria, Croatia & Slovenia)
- To consolidate political and economic cooperation (Baltic, Black and Adriatic Sea)

3. Lublin Triangle
- estd. 2020
- Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine
- To promote political, economic and security cooperation
- These three states share history and cultural commonality


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. The new Warsaw pact
2. In better health
3. Governing for the last citizen (Imp keywords on citizen engagement)

TH
1. The need for sector specific safeguards in 'techade'
2. What Muslim personal law say on inheritance (read just gist)


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🚨March 30 2023 | Thursday🚨

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6 policy intervention suggested by World Bank report for healthier economy
1. cut trade costs
2. improve global cooperation
3. capitalise on service exports
4. Incentivise investments into economy
5. boost labour force participation rates (especially for women)
6. ensure fiscal and monetary policies don't run against each other

Pre related

1. Thanjavur style of painting
- Depicts deities in rich and vivid colors
- Coats of shining golden foil used

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. When two aircraft come too close- and how they are kept safely apart

TH
1. India needs public policy education
2. Understanding Russia-Belarus nexus (imp from pre pov too)
3. How to manage India's solar PV waste problem? (V. Imp looking at PYQs)


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