Golden Crescent and Golden Triangle sandwich India. The two 'shapes' are global hub of drug production

1. Crescent (3 countries)
Iran, Afghanistan & Pakistan

2. Triangle (4 countries, don't mistake to be 3 'cz of 'triangle')
Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam

Revise these Ocean Currents focusing on their Warm and Cold status

The Hindu is a leader in visual notes for UPSC aspirants. Revise India's export hubs using this beautiful map in today's TH

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🚨April 19 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Civil Union
Legal status allowing same-sex couples specific rights and responsibilities which are normally conferred upon married couples. (but it is not a marriage)

International Committee of the Red Cross
- Geneva based humanitarian institution (since 1863)
- Won Nobel Prize in 1917, 1944 and 1963
- Mission: To alleviate human suffering, protect life and health, uphold human dignity
- Objective: Ensure protection and assistance for victims of armed conflict and strife

National Museum Institute
- Formed in 1989 u/ Societies Registration Act 1860
- Status: Deemed to be university
- Parent: Ministry of Culture
- Mandate: Lead training and research in field of art and cultural heritage
- Offers MA and Ph.D in History of Art, Conservation and Museology


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Listening to Macron
2. Plan 'cries': Recalling JC Bose (What a beautiful article!)
3. Temperate highest in East, Central India, pockets of extreme heat in sizzling patch (revise Heatwave temperatures)

TH
1. Nagaland's Municipal tightrope (Start with reading the gist)
2. What're the latest developments in Yemen? (read just gist)


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🚨April 20 2023 | Thursday🚨

Revise Supreme Court Cases related to LGBTQ+ rights on blog: https://csewhy.substack.com/p/73-sc-cases-on-lgbtqia-rights

3C issues: COVID, Conflict and Climate
India's addressal areas as G20 President in realm of food security

Yellow Journalism
American term for journalism that presents no legitimate or well-researched news. Uses sensationalism, scandal-mongering or exaggeration

Deadnaming
- Naming a trans, non-binary, gender-expansive person with their old name before they adopted more self-affirming name
- Harmful for it refuses to acknowledge a person by their chosen name/pronouns (transphobia)
- Invalidates one's identity, might reveal personal information which person may not desire to be shared

Pre related

1. Goldilocks Zone
- Habitable zone in planet system with temperature not too high or low
- It optimal distance from a star where water can stay in liquid form on planet's surface
- The range of distance depends on temperature and size of the star
- Eg: Earth in habitable zone of the Sun but Mercury or Venus aren't

2. National Dairy Development Board
- founded 1965 by Dr V. Kurien @ Anand, GJ
- A statutory institute of National Importance; played major role in white revolution
- Set to replicate Amul's success to the whole of India. Also implements National Dairy Plan

3. Nutrition Advocacy in Public Interest (NAPi)
- National think tank on nutrition
- Brings several experts on same platform

4. State of World Population Report by UNFPA (UN Population's Fund)

5. Revise FSSAI here

Quotes
1. A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human - Alan Turing
2. Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains save both - Rommel
3. Moral courage is the ability to speak irrespective of consequences to yourself- Sam Manekshaw

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Fear of falling, hope of rising [Imp]

TH
1. Why's a star-planet pair emitting radio signals? (read gist)



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Friends, I have updated the blog on National/State Party status detailing:

- The criteria to be a national/state party
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🚨April 21 2023 | Friday🚨


Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)
- Intergovernmental Military alliance since 1992 (Tashkent Pact)
- 6 members: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Belarus, Russia
- HQ: Moscow, Russia

Hakki Pikki (Mel Shikari) Tribe
- Hakki: Bird, Pikki: Catcher (Kannada word(s))
- Lives in west and south Indian states near forests
- 4 Clans: Gujaratia, Panwar, Kaliwala and Mewaras
- Monogamy is norm, follow Hindu traditions, have matriarchal society and prefer cross-cousin marriages

Water Census (First ever waterbody census)
- Waterbody: All natural/man-made units bounded on all sides with some or no masonry work; used for storing water for irrigation or other purposes
- WB has most ponds and reservoirs, Sikkim has least
- 7 states have 1 lac+ water bodies: WB, UP, AP, OD, AS, JH, TN
- 24.24 lac water bodies found in India

Abhilekh Patal
- A search web portal of National Archives of India
- Offers archival records available to scholars and users
- 1 cr+ digitized pages on the portal

Revise IAF Aircrafts here


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Mega science, mega dreams (save this article, read for Mains later)
2. Steel frame to bhavna vriksh (by director of LBSNAA)
3. In first every waterbody census, Bengal tops (page 19)

TH
1. A new edge to the fight against TB


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🚨April 22 2023 | Saturday🚨

Botanical Garden
- An establishment to grow plants for scientific study and public display
- Oldest (world, 1545): Orto Botanico di Padova (Italy)
- Most well known (world, 1840): Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (near London)
- Oldest (India, 1787): Acharya Jagdish Chandra (AJC) Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah (Kol)

Botanical Survey of India
- estd. 1890 w/ HQ at Kolkata
- Home to ex-situ conservation
- Apex research org. u/ MOEFCC
- Objective: explore plant resources of country and identify plant species with economic virtues
- Read and revise functions of BSI here

World Meteorological Organization
- 192 members
- Intergovernmental Org
- HQ at Geneva, Switzerland
- Deals with Meteorological events, research etc. in the world


Quote
- History will be kind to me for I intend to write it - Winston Churchill

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Assam-Arunachal agreement on border: the dispute and its resolution (UPPSC had a Q in 2022 on same lines)
2. Metro under the river (focus on Technology and Challenges)

TH
1. Botanical gardens and life on earth (spcl focus on Chengalpattu Botanical Garden)


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As population numbers skyrocket, it’s unwise to expect governments to employ you.

This isn’t 90s era but 2023.
A lot is happening everywhere!

If you’re stuck, take a break.
Look around! There’s something great to do for everyone.

For UPSC aspirants, figuring what to do is exactly what Plan B is about!

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🚨April 23 2023 | Sunday🚨

Anthropological Survey of India
- Premier research institute for anthropological research in bio-cultural studies
- estd. 1945 w/ HQ at Kolkata
- Parent Ministry: Ministry of Culture

UV resistant microbes found in Himalayas
- Found in places like Mt. Everest
- Modestobacter altitudinis (Bacteria), Naganishia (Fungus)

Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
- A gateway admission exam for PG in US and other countries (Note: Not just US)
- Conducted by Educational Testing Services (ETS) [HQ: US]
- tests Mathematics, reading and writing

No reading recommendations today. Save time, avoid newspaper


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🚨April 24 2023 | Monday🚨

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Dedollarisation
A country reducing reliance on USD in either its reserve or as medium of exchange

Quote
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man - Heraclitus
(Essay Q seen on this quote in PYQ)

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. SC has used doctrine sparingly (page 14) Note the Court cases from here for Mains Prep!
- Articles around Basic Structure Doctrine on page 10-11, based on your level of prep, read or miss

TH
1. New troika for India's NE region (just take an idea on developments and new potential ideas)
2. EU's new crypto-legislation
3. How can a juvenile be tried as an adult in court? (read gist first and then article)
4. What's LockBit ransomware and how it is specifically targeting Apple computers? (just take an idea of what's happening, don't get too serious)


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🚨April 25 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Hydrolysis
Breakdown of urea into ammonia gas and its release into the atmosphere

Nitrification
Converting to nitrates (from ammonia)

Urease
A soil enzyme that breaks down urea into ammonium and then to ammonia

Italian rivers in news
- Adda, Po and Adige river (related to low water levels)

Repair, Renovation and Restoration (RRR) of water bodies scheme
- Centrally Sponsored Scheme u/ Ministry of Jal Shakti
- Component of PM Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY)

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Why Urea rules India's farms [Imp]
2. India's first water bodies census: Why, and what it says [Imp]

TH
1. How to check relative humidity on a hot day to keep yourself cool [Imp (ignore too much focus on formulae)]


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More I study PYQ, more I am left amused on what mistake aspirants make by not analysing and making notes from PYQs.

2013 Q as it is repeated in 2021. Not even options changed 🤷🏻‍♂️

Before going to sleep today, revise India’s operations to bring back stranded Indians since 2014

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🚨April 26 2023 | Wednesday🚨

Brain Economy
All about rapid innovation and creation driven by technology


Pre Related

1. Triple Planetary Crisis

- given by UNFCCC
- ABC issues: Air Pollution, Biodiversity Loss, Climate Change

2. Zero Shadow Day (ZSD)
- When vertical objects appeared to cast no shadow as sun is at its zenith (directly over the top)
- 2 ZSD for every point b/w Tropics of Cancer & Capricorn
- Why does it happen? With earth's axis tilted at 23.5 degree, Sun 'goes' from north to south and back (Uttarayan and Dakshinayan) This movement put sun 'on top' of the objects twice a year

3. Revise Genome India Project


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. India and the SCO paradox ([Imp] for opinion)
2. Quantum Computers and India [Imp]
3. Brain economy challenge
4. India's first water metro: green, clean boats to feed Kochi's metro rail


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