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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

IE
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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Friends, I have compiled important pointers for UPSC Prelims from Mann Ki Baat of June 2022 to April 2023.

- 5 Page document
- Revise in 10-12 mins before sleeping 2-3 times, you'll be good.

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- Easy to revise for Pre 2023
- Details of both: answer and options
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🚨May 19 2023 | Friday🚨

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Dotted lands
In land surveys of British Era, disputed lands had 'dot' in column of ownership!

Tax Terrorism
Uncontrolled powers given to tax authorities at expense of civil liberties

Greenwashing
Misleading claims about positive environmental impact of an activity

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. A perverse tax [Imp] & Credit card spends abroad [Imp]
2. Our quantum leap
3. SC upholds TN Jallikattu law: What's the decade old case?

TH
1. Money is about more than just survival [beautiful article]
2. What are RBI regulations on green deposits?
3. Elections and the airwaves [Imp]


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😍 COMBO OFFER ON PYQs FOR FIRST 31 ASPIRANTS!😍

Friends, I have compiled notes from PYQs in PDF format for you all to learn and ace Prelims2023!

Today, I am offering 20% off on PYQ Notes ONLY for first 31 aspirants till 10:30 pm

How will my PYQ Notes help you?
- Easy to revise for Pre 2023
- Details of both: answer and options
- Deep analysis of all UPSC Prelims PYQs (2009-2022)
- 14 years are ~200 pages and 10 years are ~160 pages
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🚨May 20 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Pre related

1. 2000 notes introduced in Nov 2016 under section 24(1) of The RBI Act 1934
2. 3P aim for SDGs: People, the Planet, and Prosperity
3. Van Gujjars
- Practice seasonal migration in Terai Bhabar and Siwalik region, seen in HP, UK, JnK
- Majorly a pastoral community with forest rights of Govind Pashu Vihar NP)

Quote
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts- Winston Churchill


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Freedom & reasonable restriction: Red lines around right to assembly
2. Your 2000-rupee notes

TH
1. How GJ is working to become India's green hydrogen hub (Pg 6)
2. Tracking SDGs progress the Bhopal way


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Small edit in PYQ Notes

2011, page 1
The reason of formation of African and Eurasian belt is sub tropical high pressure cells and cold ocean currents

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Friends, 2022 Prelims saw questions w/ options like “Only 1/2/3/4 correct,”

To deal with it, it’s essential for you to develop strong Map based visual memory for Prelims 2023 on topics like👇🏼

- National Parks, Tiger Reserves
- UNESCO Sites, Ramsar Sites
- Global rivers, Straits, Mountains, Deserts etc
- Lakes, Ports etc.

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🚨May 21 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Pre related
1. Revise NSTC here

Reading Recommendations

TH
1. New technique welcomes Ca-41 to radiometric dating (understand why it's better than C dating)
2. WHO's guideline on non-sugar sweeteners
3. How was SC validated TN stand on Jallikattu?
4. Will all overseas spends come under tax net?


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It’s tough to use mnemonics to remember all countries of G20.

How to remember instead?
Visual memory.

Think of a continent and see which country from it is a member. I wrote a blog sharing exactly this.

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🚨May 22 2023 | Monday🚨

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Reading Recommendations

IE
1. As DK Shivakumar becomes KA Dy CM, recalling history of post [Read for Article & GK of Dy PMs]

TH
1. What's ONDC (read for Basics)
2. Understanding a human pangenome map [Imp for SnT]
3. After sugar, it's time to regulate how much salt is being consumed [Imp for UPSC and personal health]


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🚨May 23 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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De-risking
- The phenomenon of financial institutions terminating/restricting business relationships with clients to avoid rather than manage risk
- De risking fundamentally means having resilient, effective supply chains and ensuring no coercion of any other country

Pre related

1. Indian yellow
- Color seen in Van Gogh's The Starry Night
- Color sees origin in Bengal where the cows were fed special diet of mango leave, water and mixed with turmeric to get bright yellow urine
- This urine collected in earthen pots over fire overnight for concentrated liquid
- Strained, hard pressed to sediment balls and dried in heat
- This pigment reached Europe via merchants and used as yellow in paintings

2. FIPIC: Forum for India Pacific Islands Cooperation
- estd. 2014 with efforts of PM Modi
- Includes 14 Pacific Island nations
- First Meet: 2014 Fiji, Second 2015 Jaipur, Third 2023 Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea)
- PM Modi referred to them as large ocean states and not island nations. Understand the meaning of this. Small islands with large EEZs😉
- Papua New Guinea is largest trade partner of India in FIPIC

3. World Meteorological Organization
- 192 countries, India member
- HQ Geneva, Switzerland
- Since 1950

4. Revise South Asia Gas Enterprise (SAGE) here

Stat
By 2050, India projected to have have 319 million elderly (3x from 2011 census)

Quotes
On Alcohol
- When it comes to alcohol consumption, there's no safe amount that does not affect health- WHO
- Alcohol is one of the most socially accepted poisons - Dr Sarin

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. No Way Out [GS 1 Society, Role of Women]
2. Bare new world [GS2: IR]
3. Economics of climate change [don't lose sleep over stats much, focus on trend]

TH
1. The tussle over services in Delhi [will make a blog post after Pre on ordinance and judgement]
2. Do sons contribute more toward elderly care? [Interesting read]


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