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🚨May 13 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Indian Ocean Conference
- Theme: Peace, Prosperity and Partnership
- Held in Dhaka to discuss how countries of Indian Ocean region can promote economic development while maintaining peace and stability
- Held annually since 2016

Carbon Dating
- A method to establish age of organic materials (erstwhile living things)
- Living things have carbon in them and C14 (radioactive isotope of Carbon)
- C-14 reduces to half in 5730 years (hence, half-life)
- Ratio of C12 to C14 in organic remains is measured to deduce age of organism
- Carbon dating is not for non living things
- For non living things, methods like potassium-argon dating, uranium-thorium-lead dating can be uptaken

Reading Recommendation

IE
1. G20's healing touch
2. Carbon Dating


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Best wishes to everyone writing UPPSC on May 14

Some tips for Paper 1 (150 Q)

- 1.33 for every right answer and 0.44 for wrong
- Mathematically, you need 93-98 Qs correct to clear cut off
- After 118-120 Qs, avoid temptation to solve more if not sure
- Show up with absolute courage, no fear!

If you’re writing MPSC/HPSC next week, know that these two prelims are easier if you’ve been a dedicated UPSC aspirant.🥰

Spend last 1 week in absolute revision. You’ll never regret writing an extra mains this year (other than UPSC) 😄💪🏻

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🚨May 14 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Palghat gap
- A ‘shear zone’ i.e. weak region in crust of earth
- 40km break b/w Nilgiri and Annamalai hills
- Bharatpuzha flows through it
- dry evergreen forest

Karbi tribe of Assam
- expert weavers practising jhum cultivation
- Chomangkan: a unique ceremony to remember the dead for 4 days/nights post death
- This ceremony is believed to give peace
- Rituals performed wearing traditional attire & jewellery

Reading Recommendations

1. UK sees success in mitochondrial replacement therapy (read to understand basics of 3 parent child)
2. Long covid: a lingering problem
3. A break in Western Ghats [imp]
4. Clash of clans in Manipur


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Small update: for everyone who has taken Visual notes, in global water bodies countries bordering Black Sea is Georgia

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🚨May 15 2023 | Monday🚨

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1. Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage
- non profitable charitable org u/ Societies Registration Act 1860
- estd. 1984 in Delhi to spread heritage related awareness
- Special consultant to UN Ecosoc

2. Revise Indian Ocean Diople here

Quote
The capacity to combine commitment with scepticism is essential to democracy - Mary Catherine Bateson

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Weather-proofing food security
2. Deterrence as principle
3. The refugee scam that triggered a spectacle in Nepal's parliament

TH
1. Explaining mitochondrial donation treatment: how a baby has 3 parents (also in y'day paper, make note)
2. The nutritional value of millets (will update on blog very soon)

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🚨May 16 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Aadhar-enabled Payment System
- Bank led model allowing online financial transaction at PoS device and micro ATMs (using Aadhar authentication)
- Uses Aadhaar number, name of bank and fingerprint captured during enrolment
- No need for OTP, bank account and financial details
- created by NPCI

Definition of sexual harassment (following acts included)
- Physical contact and sexual advances
- Demand/request for sexual favours
- making sexually coloured remarks
- showing porn, other unwelcoming conduct of sexual nature


Reading Recommendations

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1. Cheetah's are difficult breeders but Kuno death was avoidable, here's why [V.IMP; many Pre Qs can be framed from this]

TH
1. A court recall that impacts the rights of the accused [understand what's 'court recall' and find out bail issues here]
2. On sexual harassment in the workplace [Imp]
3. Gaps in AePS transaction model [understand the problem, just]
4. What's a transformer, the machine learning model that powers ChatGPT? [Learn basics]

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🚨May 17 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Washington Consensus
- Shared prescriptions on deregulation, privatisation and free trade for economic modernisation from IMF, WB, and US Treasury

Sadar Hills
- Hills in Manipur w/ Kuki population

Girmitiyas
Indentured labour taken to work in sugar plantations from India

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. New Washington Consensus (GS2: IR)
2. Family matters (GS1: Society)
3. Demand for Kuki homeland in Manipur, the history

TH
1. Why Spurious liquor kills [V. IMP, Don't miss this!]

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Ageing parents, increasing age
Losing friends, poor network
Receding hairline, losing fire
High stress, always tired

Harsh reality of UPSC aspirants

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- Upskill and network
- Invest in valuable network
- Set personal deadlines, get a job if multiple failures!

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🚨May 18 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Hostage Diplomacy
When two countries held each other's diplomats hostages. Often the second country 'arrests' the first's diplomats as a reciprocatory measure against similar actions of the first.

Quote
Let us always meet each other with a smile. For the smile is the beginning of love- Mother Teresa

Pre Related

1. Baba Farid
- Fariduddin Madus Ganjshakar aka Baba Farid
- a Muslim mystic and Sufi saint w/ shrine in Pak's Punjab

2. Revise Liberalised Remittance Scheme here
3. Revise Nutrient Based Subsidy Scheme here
4. Revise LIBOR here

Reading Recommendations

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1. A new pension pact
2. The rational economics of Robert E Lucas
3. DoT's AI based facial recognition tool: How it works?


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