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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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This isn’t 90s era but 2023.
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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 🤷🏻‍♂️

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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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🚨April 27 2023 | Thursday🚨

1. Virtual Digital Assets
- Application of cryptographic means to generate information/code/number/token to be used as 'digital' currency or medium of exchange
- Eg. cryptocurrency, NFT etc.

2. International Seed Day
- April 26 every year
- To recognise importance of seeds
- Dedicated to promote the patent-free seeds, organic food and farmer rights

3. Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd.
- PSE u/ Dept of Atomic Energy; registered u/ Companies Act 1956
- Objective: Operate atomic power plants and implement atomic power projects for electricity generation
- Also responsible to design, construct, commission, and operate nuclear reactors

4. Revise Web 3.0 here

Quote
The sad thing about AI is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence - Jean Baudrillard

Stat
Naxal affected districts down to 90 in 2022 from 200 in early 2000s

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Why Chhattisgarh, why now
2. Google, Meta, Apple, on EU's content rule radar: what are they?

TH
1. Right to marry is not absolute, laws regular marriage, Centre tells SC [Classic arguments by Solicitor-General on page 13]


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