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Today's The Hindu has an article on Nordic-India relations. Good opportunity to revise the countries of: 1. Scandinavia 2. Nordic region 3. Baltic region Appreciate my efforts with a ❤️ react

pre script: If you are serious about Prelims 2023, get your visual notes from my Pinned message!🥰 🚨February 9 2023 | Thursday🚨 Join my high value blog for UPSC CSE aspirants: CSEWhy.substack.com Fair, Equitable and Balanced Indian approach towards Trade Agreements Pre related 1. Animal Welfare Board of India - Status: Statutory body established in 1962 u/ Prevention of cruelty against animals Act 1960 - Mandate: Advise govt. on animal laws and promote animal welfare in the country - Ministry: Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying - Headquarter: Ballabhgarh, Faridabad, Haryana 2. Grishneshwar Mandir (Hillary Clinton's visit) - A shiva temple constructed by Rani Ahilyabai Holkar in Aurangabad (near Ellora) - Finds mention in Shiv and Padma Purana - Nagara style shikhar with prominent Nandi Reading Recommendations IE: 1. The pact's fine print (understand defence exports games) 2. Counting her work 3. Reading RBI's policy reviews + RBI hikes interest rates by 25bps: what it means? (pg 15/17) 4. See rules behind 'expunged' words TH: 1. A Nordic-India connect to power a green transition 2. The status and proceeds of disinvestment (Must read paragraph on "What is disinvestment?") PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

pre script: If you are serious about Prelims 2023, get your visual notes from my Pinned message!🥰 🚨 February 9 2023 | Thursday🚨 Join my high value blog for UPSC CSE aspirants: CSEWhy.substack.com Fair, Equitable and Balanced Indian approach towards Trade Agreements Pre related 1. Animal Welfare Board of India - Status: Statutory body established in 1962 u/ Prevention of cruelty against animals Act 1960 - Mandate: Advise govt. on animal laws and promote animal welfare in the country - Ministry: Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying - Headquarter: Ballabhgarh, Faridabad, Haryana 2. Grishneshwar Mandir (Hillary Clinton's visit) - A shiva temple constructed by Rani Ahilyabai Holkar in Aurangabad (near Ellora) - Finds mention in Shiv and Padma Purana - Nagara style shikhar with prominent Nandi Reading Recommendations IE: 1. The pact's fine print (understand defence exports games) 2. Counting her work 3. Reading RBI's policy reviews + RBI hikes interest rates by 25bps: what it means? (pg 15/17) 4. See rules behind 'expunged' words TH: 1. A Nordic-India connect to power a green transition 2. The status and proceeds of disinvestment (Must read paragraph on "What is disinvestment?") PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

Two important points every UPSC aspirant need to prepare about ChatGPT for UPSC Prelims: 1. What’s ChatGPT? (Science & Tech) 2. How to use it for UPSC preparation? (Strategy) IAS Jitin Yadav sir explained these both on my podcast. Hear him take a master class on this topic 👇🏻 https://youtu.be/RbaN-Ixg9uA

Two important points every UPSC aspirant need to prepare about ChatGPT for UPSC Prelims: 1. What’s ChatGPT? (Science & Tech) 2. How to use it for UPSC preparation? (Strategy) IAS Jitin Yadav sir explained these both on my podcast. Hear him take a master class on this topic 👇🏻 https://youtu.be/RbaN-Ixg9uA

pre script: Get visual notes from pinned message. 🥰 🚨 February 8 2023 | Wednesday🚨 Join my high value blog for UPSC CSE aspirants: CSEWhy.substack.com Today's Indian Express underlines the Benefits of Millets I have been regularly updating my notes on Millets in a blog post. You can find updated notes from this article and all other previous articles in news on this topic at the following link: https://csewhy.substack.com/p/60-millets-millets-millets-kya-hai Reading Recommendations IE: (Today's IE is an easy ready, don't spend a lot of time) 1. As Asia arms Europe (read to understand which country doing what and India's stand) 2. In hour of Turkey's need (by former Amb of India to Turkey) 3. Assam's child marriage arrests 4. PACS (make notes, PYQ had questions around this) 5. Nagaland DGP case (read for Prakash Singh Case 2006) TH: 1. A polycrisis that is depleting Pakistan's resilience 2. The saga of a 'spy' balloon in US airspace (read only What are spy balloons? para) 3. CAR T-cell therapy: next step towards holistic treatment of cancer (technical article, understand the basics) PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

One of the perfect avenues for UPSC aspirants can be working with global institutes like World Bank and IMF. How to land an internship with them? Learn about it from IAS Jitin Yadav here 👇🏻 https://youtu.be/fHfpdmz8CY0

Revise tectonic plates related to Earthquake via this image from today's Indian Express!

pre script: Get visual notes from pinned message. 🥰 🚨 February 7 2023 | Tuesday🚨 Join my high value blog for UPSC CSE aspirants: CSEWhy.substack.com - Important Infrastructure: Social, Physical and Digital - Consociation: A political system formed by cooperation of different social groups on the basis of shared power. E.g: Malaysia and Lebanon. Say, PM seat 'reserved' only for community A, President for B, and Chief Justice for C. Pre related 1. Digital India Bhashini Portal - Public digital platform - Hosts 206 open source AI based API models - Speech to text conversion, machine translation and text-to-speech conversion in 11 Indian languages and English - Potential to provide crores of Indians with access to internet in native language 2. Agriculture Accelerator Fund - Enable Indian agri ecosystem* to work collaboratively - Find knowledge-based and farmer-centric solutions for agri - *ecosystem= farmers, businesses, startups Stats - Every ₹ spent in capex has a multiplier of 2.95 i.e. it gets ₹2.95 per ₹1 spent Quotes 1. People must be at the heart of any infra growth story - PM Modi Reading Recommendations IE: 1. The growth triad (beautiful and imp article) 2. In Assam, Beti Padhao (read for solutions/alternatives\) 3. The science of earthquakes 4. MCD House logjam, question of voting rights for nominated members TH: 1. Jammu, village defence and governance (read for suggestions on how to keep a check on VDCs) 2. Pak economy crumbles: Forex falls, inflation soars 3. The state of ethnic democracy in Malaysia (read to understand consociation & Malaysian pol system) 4. Voice deepfakes: how they are generated, used, misused and differentiated (Will share notes from this on blog, subscribe to blog for updates: CSEWhy.substack.com) PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

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One of the perfect avenues for UPSC aspirants can be working with global institutes like World Bank and IMF. How to land an internship with them? Learn about it from IAS Jitin Yadav here 👇🏻 https://youtu.be/fHfpdmz8CY0

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pre script: Get visual notes from pinned message. 🥰 🚨 February 6 2023 | Monday🚨 Join my high value blog for UPSC CSE aspirants: CSEWhy.substack.com Keywords Micro hydro A small scale hydroelectric power generation system as an alternate to large scale initiatives Doles to Development A policy shift away from giving away freebies to Capital investments Pre Related Muon Tomography/Muography - Use of subatomic particles called Muons - Generates 3D images of large structures - Penetrate up to 100s of metres inside stone surfaces - Helps in finding small density anomalies that can safety hazard - Earlier used in Pyramids of Giza, Fukushima Nuclear Reactors post 2011 tsunami, Mt. Vesuvius (Italian Volcano) - Now in use at Xi'an walls of China About Muons - Subatomic particles - Rain down from space - Created when Earth's atmosphere collide with cosmic rays (Cosmic rays are clusters of high energy particles that move through space at just below the speed of light) - About 10,000 muons reach every square metre of earth's surface every minute - Resemble electrons but 207 times heavier About north star - aka Polar or Pole star - Part of Ursa Minor (323 light years away from earth) - Less than 1 degree away from north celestial pole, almost in direct line with Earth's rotational axis - First charted by Roman named Ptolemy - Also seen in story of Christopher Columbus Reading Recommendations IE: 1. An embattled green (criticism and way forward to hydro power in Himalayas) 2. Price cap, energy geo-politics (great reflection on Ukraine war actions) 3. Amorphous solid TH: 1. India's just energy transition is more than a coal story (best article in a long time) 2. AP's capital conundrum (quick read) 3. Scientist's take on Budget (read just the gist) PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

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River Nile - Ends in: Mediterranean - Tributaries: White Nile, Blue Nile, Atbara or Black/Red Nile - White Nile (Origin: Lake Victoria, Uganda) - Blue Nile (Lake Tana, Ethiopia) - Black Nile (~50km north of Tana, Ethiopia) - Blue & White meet at Kharotum, Sudanese capital Also use this image to develop a visual memory of Lakes in this region. Hogya yaad? ❤️ react karke batao! 🥰

pre script: Get visual notes from pinned message. 🥰 🚨 February 5 2023 | Sunday🚨 Join my high value blog for UPSC CSE aspirants: CSEWhy.substack.com 3R framework by RBI to revitalise stressed assets - Rectify - Restructure - Recovery Visva Bharati University to be world's first living heritage university by UNESCO tag. - Set up by Gurudev - Made uni by an act of Parliament in 1951 - PM by default is the Chancellor of this university Reading Recommendations TH: 1. pg5: IBC boosted 'EoDB' rank, Justice Kaul (read provisions) 2. pg7: Easing an albatross off the neck of GIB 3. pg7: India joins UAE, France for trilateral on clean energy, counter-pandemic steps 4 & 5. pg 9: understand concepts in all 3 articles here. Don't lose sleep over these, tho pg10: 6. What made Adani Group call off its FPO? (read only to understand what's FPO) 7. Why have mangroves got a budget push? 8. Is govt. on track on fiscal deficit targets? I have posted comprehensive notes on Mangroves and MISHTI scheme on my blog. Visit and learn: https://csewhy.substack.com/p/78-mangroves-and-mishti-of-budget PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

If you are overweight, highly likely that you'd not be allowed for LBSNAA foundation course even after getting AIR 01. Simple! I am not saying it, IAS Jitin Yadav shared this shocking info on my podcast. What exactly did he say? Hear below and get set running! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EkbXBOlwjw

pre script: Get visual notes from pinned message. 🥰 🚨 February 4 2023 | Saturday🚨 Join my high value blog for UPSC CSE aspirants: CSEWhy.substack.com Pre related Follow On Public Offer Reading Recommendations IE: 1. 2 yrs after coup, Myanmar's mess and India's headache 2. Paris Club 3. Pakistan needs more 4. Health in Amrit kaal (not the areas where contributions can be made) 5. Adani enterprise (understand strength and weaknesses of Adani) TH: 1. Little to celebrate in Sri Lanka at 75 PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

pre script: Get visual notes from pinned message. 🥰 🚨 February 4 2023 | Saturday🚨 Join my high value blog for UPSC CSE aspirants: CSEWhy.substack.com Pre related - Follow On Public Offer Reading Recommendations IE: 1. 2 yrs after coup, Myanmar's mess and India's headache 2. Paris Club 3. Pakistan needs more 4. Health in Amrit kaal (not the areas where contributions can be made) 5. Adani enterprise (understand strength and weaknesses of Adani) TH: 1. Little to celebrate in Sri Lanka at 75 PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️