CDS 2023 PYQ Notes are here!!!

With these notes, I am starting a new way of education in today's India. 😎

What do I mean? 🤔

Read Point No. 2 and 3 of Introduction of these notes below before you start revising. I am sure you'd support me, like you always do! 🥰

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🚨May 2 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Constitutional Punctuality
A demand which requires time based order for people in constitutional positions to discharge their duties.


Pre related
1. Ajeya Warrior
- India-UK military exercise in UK (ongoing)
- 2 exercises were asked in CDS 2023. Added that to CDS Notes in message above this

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Opportunity in crisis
2. The hunger paradox
3. Roadmap to energy justice
4. Grappling with AI
5. In divorce, SC's power to do 'complete justice'

TH
1. China's amended anti-espionage law [Read 'the gist' and 'What will be the impact of amended law' paragraph]
2. The ever expanding medicinal uses and properties of psychedelic substances


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🚨May 3 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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De-dollarization
Replacement of USD by other currencies as global reserve currency

Reserve Currency
Any currency that is widely used in cross border transactions and is commonly held as reserves by central banks

Gig worker
A person who performs work or participates in a work arrangement and earns from such activities outside of traditional employer-employee relationship

Platform Work
Work arrangement outside of a traditional employer-employee relationship in which organisations or individuals use an online platform to access other organisations or individuals to solve specific problems or to provide specific services.

Laws covering
a) 'Employees'
- Minimum Wages Act 1948
- Employees' PF and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 1952
- Payment of Bonus Act 1965

b) 'Contract labourers'
- Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1970
- Also get PFs

Pre related

1. Internet and Mobile Association of India
- Not for profit industry body regd. u/ Societies Act 1896
- Mandate: Expand & enhance online and mobile value added services sector

2. Take a look at Administered Price Mechanism for Oil and Gas in India here

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Internal chaos, external crisis
2. Most populous: history and economics of India's population growth

TH
1. The golden globe race: the voyage of mad men (beautiful story)
2. De-dollarisation: the race to attain status of global reserve currency [Imp]
3. Why are Blinkit workers protesting? [Imp, make 1 page note from this]


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🚨May 4 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Purchasing Managers Index
- Survey based measure tracking 'perception' on key business variables
- Purpose: To offer information about current and future business conditions to stakeholders
- Separately created for Services and Manufacturing and then a composite is also published
- Given as 0-100 number: PMI more and less than 50 means expansion and contraction respectively.
- PMI at 50 reflects no change
- Compiled by IHS Markit (S&P Global) for 40+ global economies

Yanomami
- Brazilian region
- Famous for Illegal gold mining
- Gold mining has impacted lives of indigenous people with violence, diseases and environment damage
- Mercury poisoning seen as miners search for gold by mixing liquid mercury into excavated sediment of the Amazon forest's rivers

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Ocean's Twenty
2. Why EU has acted against six Indian CCPs

TH
1. Europe uses India, China to get Russian oil despite sanctions [Imp]
2. EU's AI Act [read gist first and then the whole article]


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2 things that make a difference on D-day in UPSC Prelims are PYQ Analysis and Mindset

How to fix both?
2 different officers on my Podcast answered these questions very well!

What did they teach?
Watch these 2 videos in 10 mins break today

(Hear at 1.25x and you'll finish in less than 9 minutes)

1. How to analyse UPSC Pre PYQs by IFS Anupam Sharma
https://youtu.be/uMyQtNjScis

2. My Practical Tips which helped me score 140+ in Prelims by IPS Rajesh Mohan
https://youtu.be/ySmJhvZLCAI

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🚨May 5 2023 | Friday🚨

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Pre related

1. Diabetes Types

- T1: Body doesn’t produce enough insulin (genetic) 😧
- T2: Body can’t utilise the produced insulin (lifestyle related mostly) 🏃‍♀️🤥

2. Trinity of Carnatic Music
TDS: Tyagaraja, muttusvami Dikshitar, Syama shastri
(Question seen in Prelims 2010, 2013 and 2018 from this topic)

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Bridging the gulf [Read to have an idea on Indo-UAE ties areas]
2. Behind Manipur flare-up, tribal anger, HC Order [Read to know why Manipur is burning]
3. SCO Opportunity for India [Imp]

TH
1. And another airline bites the dust [read only last para: Revamp the aviation policy]
2. Washington Declaration [read for geo political games in East Asia]
3. What's behind Manipur's widespread unrest? [Both IE & TH have same article, read either of the two]

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Anupam Sharma (IFS) Sir has shared 70+ tips and tricks for logical elimination in Prelims

I’ve compiled these in a two part blog post with due permission. Find both parts linked below & visit to revise👇🏼

1. Part 1: https://csewhy.substack.com/p/93-prelims-logical-tricks-part-1

2. Part 2: https://csewhy.substack.com/p/94-prelims-logical-tricks-part-2

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🚨May 6 2023 | Saturday🚨

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1. National Company Law Tribunal
- Quasi judicial u/ Ministry of Corporate Affairs
- 11 benches with principal bench in New Delhi
- Adjudicating authority for insolvency u/ Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016
- Justice Eradi Committee recommended to adjudicate issues related to Indian companies

2. National Company Law Appellate Tribunal
- set up u/ Section 410 of Companies Act 2013
- Hears appeals against the orders of NCLT
- Also hears appeals against decisions of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India
- Appeal to NCLAT lies with Supreme Court

3. When does WHO declare a disease as public health emergency? 3 conditions
a) When it is spreading across several countries
b) It is leading to a serious illness, hospitalisation, and deaths
c) Serious stress on health systems because of the disease

4. Revise Cape Town Convention here

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Partnership of equals
2. Manipur's ethnic fault lines [Imp]
3. Govt. widens Aadhaar ambit: 22 pvt firms can use it to verify customers (pg 17)

TH
1. Switching on India's smart electricity future [Imp, take notes]

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🚨May 7 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Environmental Surveillance
Testing elements of the environment to gauge the health of inhabitants. eg: Wastewater testing done in COVID19 to track ailments

Pre related

1. Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology
- set up in 1960 u/A 344(4) w/ HQ at New Delhi
- Objective: Defining scientific and technical terms in Hindi and all Indian languages
- Coordinates with all states to ensure uniformity of scientific terminology in Hindi and other Indian languages

2. Some pills/tablets in news:

a. Albendazole Tablet related to Intestinal worms
b. Mifepristone related to medical abortion (terminates early pregnancy)


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Indian scientist-led team witnesses star engulfing Jupiter-sized planet [pg 14]

TH
1. Scientists help find new kind of molecular motor [Imp]

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Friends, I am deeply moved by your ethics. It is for the first time ever in India that someone gave notes first and then asked people to pay.

I did this with CDS 2023 Notes. You get notes first and then you pay ₹21/- 😉

I have great respect for your ethics and can surely confirm that everyone who chose to pay ₹21/- with honesty have great ethics. I am certain you will do great in your life for you have a strong ethical system.

Thank YOU! 😄

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🚨May 8 2023 | Monday🚨

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Pre related

1. Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary
- North Goa, houses Bengal tigers
- Home to India's 'big four' venomous snake
- An International Bird Area due to diverse birds range
- Mhadei river aka Mandovi river flows through this WS
- Goa's 3 highest peak are in this sanctuary (Sonsogod>Talavche Sada>Vageri)

2. Arab League
- Formed 1945 w/ HQ @ Cairo, Egypt
- See members in the image next

3. Cotton and India
- India is 2nd in both production and export of cotton
- Production: China>India
- Export: USA>India

4. Financial Intelligence Unit
- set up 2004 u/ Ministry of Finance
- Nodal agency for receiving, analyzing, disseminating information related to suspect financial transactions
- Can obtain reports on cash transaction, suspicious transaction etc. from both public and pvt banks u/ PMLA 2002
- Mandatory for banks to furnish monthly report of all transactions above 10 lac to FIU

5. Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
- estd. 1949 as a Statutory body u/ The CAs Act 1949
- Administrative control with Ministry of Corporate Affairs, GoI
- Mandate: Regulate CA profession in India by formulating standards and prescribing procedures
- Has a council with 40 members, 32 CAs and GoI nominees

6. Guru Padmasambhava
- Buddhist teacher aka second Buddha or Guru Rinpoche
- laid foundation of Tantric Buddhist traditions in Tibet aka Tibetan Buddhism
- Born in India (probably Odisha), travelled in Himalayas to spread Buddhist teachings
- In 2019, CM Patnaik inaugurated 19 foot high statue of Guru Padmasabhava in Gajapati, Odisha

7. Important places
a) Rewalsar Lake: In Mandi of Himachal Pradesh, famous for floating island and Buddhist site
b) Larji dam: On Beas river in Himachal Pradesh
c) Kuntisar Lake: In Mandi of Himachal Pradesh, Pandavas stayed here for brief period, 7 lakes believed to be created by Arjuna's arrow.
d) Atal Tunnel: Longest highway tunnel above 3k metres, cuts mountain through Rohtang and is on eastern Pir Panjal range to shortened distance b/w Solang valley and Sissu (from 4 hours to 15 minutes) [Q on it seen in BPSC, HPSC etc.]

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Doval in Saudi to discuss US rail link plan for west Asia (pg1)
2. Healing touch on rebels [Imp]
3. Farm exports: the big picture [Imp]
4. Shoot at sight in Manipur [Imp]
5. BJP's Sangamam politics: What's driving Govt projects highlighting north-south links [Pg 9, Imp]

TH
1. India's first national water-body census


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WOW! Important Physical Map of India here just like a blessing to every UPSC CSE aspirant.

You can find rivers and tributaries, mountain ranges, plateaus, passes all here in high resolution, easy to zoom.

Save this image from the link below
https://twitter.com/CseWhy/status/1655448131645984768?s=20

Hey, some of you complain about the resolutions of the previous image.

You can find and download HD image of the physical features from the link below.

Thank me later 😉

Edit: Mahi and Sabarmati rivers are exchanged in this map

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Physical_Map_of_India.jpg

Solved relevant Qs of UPSC NDA and Geoscientist 2023 Paper today.

Good pointers to revise and note. Shall I make short notes for you all to revise? 🤔

React ♥️ if your answer is YES

Had made this for myself long back. Helped in solving NDA 2023 Q on Treaty of Yandabo

Just go through it once taking a look at Timeline and treaties.

Ask yourself curious questions:
1. Why Afghan III in this manner?
2. Why Burma after so long?
3. Why/How did Sikhs side with Britishers in 1857?
4. Why Maratha war after 20 years of Salbai?
5. Why Mysore first?

Will help in building critical thinking. :)

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🚨May 9 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Buddhist diplomacy
Projecting Indian heritage for cultural, diplomatic and travel soft power

Railway diplomacy
NSA in Saudi to offer Indian expertise in constructing trans west Asia rail network connected with South Asia

Pre related

1. Sri Venkateswara Temple, Tirumala
- Vaishnavite temple, Dravidian architecture
- Garbhagriha called Ananda Nilayam
- One of the richest temples in the world
- Tirupati Laddu has GI tag

2. Indian Council for Cultural Relations
- Autonomous org involved in cultural diplomacy
- Estd. 1950 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
- Responsible to facilitate Yoga Day celebrations at Indian missions abroad

3. Central Drugs Standard Control Organization
- Statutory org u/ Drugs and Cosmetics act
- Regulates control over import, approval and clinical trials related to drugs

4. Central Consumer Protection Authority
- Estd. u/ Consumer Protection Act 2019
- Revise in detail here


Reading Recommendations

IE
Nothing major here today, skip read.

TH
1. Buddhism, India's soft power projection tool [Note]
2. What are the regulations to curtal misleading food ads [Imp]
3. The lack of drug recall law in India


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UPSC NDA and Geoscientist 2023 PYQ Notes are here!!! 😎

This is Trust Document 2.0.

What does that mean?
Read Point No. 2 and 3 of Introduction of these notes below before you start revising to know! 🥰

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I8rNTle2HCKMSaj-QpnOHQFP8SGingaX/view?usp=sharing

Note: 40% off on PYQs today for first 44 aspirants. Sale starts at 11:30 am

🚨May 10 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Reading Recommendations

IE
1. A new Arabian tale [Imp]
2. The out-of-place people [Imp]
3. If diesel cars are banned [Imp]

TH
1. Minimising the threats from IEDs [Imp, take note for GS3 Security]

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