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🚨June 11 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Pre related

Arctic Ice
- Maintains cool and energy balance on earth
- Sea ice: light colored, reflects more sunlight back to space than liquid water
- Keeps air cool by being a barrier b/w cold air above and warmer water below
- [Read more in TH article for great article]

cry2Ai
- Gene in cotton seeds making it resistant to pink bollworm (a major pest)
- GEAC: read about GEAC here
- Info: Transgenic cotton is only GM crop approved and cultivated in fields in India

Polar jet streams
Currents of air formed when warm and cold air meet

Reading Recommendations

TH
1. Adapting to living at high altitudes
2. Water as a weapon
3. What's happening to Arctic Sea ice? [focus on first para]
4. Why are crypto exchanges in the line of fire? [focus on last 2 para]

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🚨June 12 2023 | Monday🚨

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Quote
Let food be thy medicine and medicine by thy food - Hippocrates

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. To find a lost child [3 point solution]
2. A nine-year report card [data heavy article, focus on noticing the trends]
3. Potential Ecological impact of Ukraine's Kakhovka Dam collapse [note the impacts of floods]
4. Why Nagaland ban on sale of dog meat was quashed? [imp article wrt food regulations in India]
5. The American hand
6. Aussie farmers unleash dinosaur rush as fossil findings rewrite history

TH
1. Amplify the subject of adolescent girl nutrition
2. Manipur, a rude reminder of NE tensions
3. The significance of Thailand elections
4. Why're YouTube creator accounts with large following targeted by hackers?

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🚨June 13 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Application Programming Interface (API)
- An interface that helps two applications share data with each other
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Necrophilia
- Psychosexual disorder prompting morbid fascination with death and dead, more like an erotic attraction to corpses
- Not yet punishable in India but debate to criminalize this as an offence u/ IPC 297
- In Parmananad Katara v/s Union of India, SC ruled that dignity of a dead body must be maintained and respected while establishing a duty on the state to ensure decent cremation.

Pre Related

1. Svalbard Mission
- India-Norway first ever rocket launch from Svalbard in Norway (1997)
- Rohini Mk-II was flown; named Isbjorn-1 by Norway (meaning polar bear-I)
- Testimony of Indian relations with Scandinavian countries (See image next to see which countries are Scandinavia, Nordic and Baltic)

2. One Future Alliance
Indian imagination to form an alliance of like-minded nations to use tech to improve people's lives (connect it with keyword: Digital Public Goods)

3. Minimum Support Price is back in news. From crops to formulae, implications to way forward, it's a wide topic and MUST prepare for Mains 23 and Pre/Mains 24. Click here to revise in detail and make 1 page note

Quote
"When the world is in crisis, we must pledge-a pledge that's greater than crisis itself"

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Biden's new geo-economics [Never miss anything from CR Mohan sir]
2. In old ties, a hopeful turn [Best article comprehensively covering latest India-Nepal ties by Ambassador Sharan, take a note in your GS2 notes]
3. Man acquitted of 'rape' of dead woman: What IPC says on necrophilia (GS2)
4. The middle class: a reality check [GS3: Economy]
5. Look for ways to adopt AI into audit techniques for effectiveness: CAG (page 19: amalgamation of tech and eco in GS3, pg 19)

TH
1. Same-sex marriage: morality vs equality (good article for GS4 and Essay although it's too philosophical. Can skip if you are a newbie)
2. Will Betelgeuse, the bright red giant star, blow up in your lifetime? (Learn how stars 'die' and which elements involved)

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Scandinavia, Nordic and Baltic

Which country is which? Best infographic to develop a visual memory

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🚨June 14 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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1. Disinflation
- Decrease in inflation rates and opposite of reinflation
- It reflects decline in rate of increase in general price level of goods and services of GDP

2. US & UNESCO
- 2011: US stopped funding owing to Palestinian addition to UNESCO
- 2018: US completely pulled out of UNESCO
- 2023: $600mn to be paid in dues and join back owing to China's presence on shaping AI rules and others
- Not first time exit/return; happened in 1984 by POTUS Reagan and 2003 POTUS Bush rejoined

3. Mayon Volcano spewing heat steam in Albay, Philippines

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Holes in the digital net [on CoWIN data hack, lookout for solutions]
2. A world to win [note on how Indians have the world to win]
3. El Nino and the Monsoon [Explains basics of ENSO, skip if you already know]
4. Why 2014 Arunachal law is facing protest [quick read for general awareness]
5. A stunted middle class (Part of 2 article series, one came y'day. Read these both to develop understanding on 'real' middle class)

TH
1. Musings of the frictions in India-Canada ties [Take a quick read for India-Canada ties, GS2]
2. Where anyone can be accused of Sedition [Counter view on sedition, GS2]
3. High burden of diabetes and BP in KL & WB [See maps for visual memory, GS3]
4. HAP to take AI governance global [Don't fret over it, just know what it is. This article is largely a speculation not final result]
5. Cancel culture: speaking truth to power or a form of mob vigilantism? [fun article to read for GS 1 Society]

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🚨June 15 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Stats

1. India has
- 18% of global population
- 11% arable land
- feeds ~81cr people u/ NFSA2013
- total storage capacity: 145 million metric tonne (MMT)
- total food production: 311 MMT

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. The grain storage plan that Govt has unveiled; and how can it help farmers [make a 1 page note from this, VERY Imp]
2. Learning in a cluster [GS3: policy]
3. Super rich leaving India, why wealthy migrate [Imp, understand for conceptual clarity]
4. The Senthil Balaji Case File [read this not for this case but to understand how system works. From lower court to higher, ED and other elements]
5. In Full Flow [GS2: International Organisations/IR]
6. Do check
- Page 10 for news on Africa G20 meet
- Page 15 for China in Palestine

TH
1. Male centric medicine is impacting female health [GS2: policy]
2. Why did Govt impose ceiling on wheat stocks? [GS2: Policy, GS3: Agriculture]
3. Status of transgenic crops in India [GS3: Agriculture]


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🚨June 16 2023 | Friday🚨

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Bibliometrics
Measurable aspects of the research like:
- Number of research papers published
- Citations and impact factors

Cyclone
1. Landfall
- Coming of cyclone over land after being on water, it's after landfall that it starts weakening since moisture supply over land is cut off
- In a landfall, the eye of the storm moves over coast

2. Direct hit
- Core of high winds hit the shore (but eye is still away)

Quotes
1. It is not logic that makes men reasonable nor the science of Ethics that makes men good - Oscar Wilde
2. Hunger is rural - three fourths of the world's poorest and food insecure people live in the rural areas - Alvaro Lario

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. A hand to the small farmer [Good solutions to quote in agri, relevant for both: GS2 & GS3]
2. Three years to Galwan [2 articles with same heading, read both]
3. When women travel free [GS1: Role of women, GS2: Policy]
4. Brij Bhushan case [note the IPC charges here w.r.t Crime against women]

TH
1. Reflections on AI, as friend or foe [GS2: Policy, GS3: Tech]
2. Jumpstarting the next phase of Indo-US ties [GS2: IR]
3. Are NCDs increasing in India?
4. Is university ranking system flawed? [read to understand how manipulations work here]


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