UPSC CSE Why

Pre note: Selecting 200 aspirants for UPSC 2025 Cohort this week: WHYMentorship. Apply here 🚨 3rd July | Wednesday 🚨

Pre related facts

1. Abhaya Mudra • A raised open palm gesture resembling freedom from fear • Mudra in Sanskrit: Seal, Mark, Sign or Currency • Mudra in Buddhist context : Hand and arm gestures in rituals • Seen in depictions of Lord Ganesh, Lord Shiva, Lord Vishnu and Buddha (Gandhara School)

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express🗞 1. Delhi & A new London (editorial) (GS2: A good read on IR) The Hindu 📰 1. Digital jurisprudence in India, in an AI era (editorial) (Read to understand AI and patent issues) 2. France: India’s steady partner in green growth (editorial) (GS2: IR, Add to your India-France notes) 3. On improving rural mobile connectivity (text & context page) (GS1/GS3: Read latest S&T dev to solve India's connectivity problem) PS: See Abhay Mudra below👇🏻

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Pre note: Did you start your mains preparation? Apply for a free mentorship session 🚨 2nd July | Tuesday🚨

Prelims related news

1. Project Nexus • Multilateral int'l initiative for instant cross border retail payments • Links domestic Fast Payment Systems (FPS) • UPI + FPS = Project Nexus • India founding member; joined by Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore & Thailand • Idea by: Innovation hub of the Bank for International Settlements 2. Totaliser Concept • A concept of counting votes of 14 polling booths together • Why? Prevents voter harassment by candidates • Already used in 2007 as a pilot & 2009 UP/Meghalaya

Reading recommendations

Indian Express 🗞 1. Floods and urbanization in Delhi (Read to understand the urban problem behind NCR water crisis) 2. How the world’s first brain implant to control epileptic seizures works (Read to understand the latest development for SnT) The Hindu 📰 1. Sense of uncertainty (Read to understand the challenges in execution of new criminal laws) 2. What is on the agenda for the 16th Finance Commission? (GS3: A good read on India’s rural-urban economic divide and how other countries manage it) PS: 35k+ aspirants are now on my Instagram. Have you followed here?

It's a mixed feeling Many of CSEWhy students are clearing Prelims Many more are writing with heartbroken texts! My best to everyone who won & heart goes out to everyone who did not win it today! Always remember: Never rejected, always redirected

Friends, if you have given at least 1 interview, I have a fun opportunity for you. CSEWhy is working on a unique project for UPSC Mains. This is for you if you: a) Open to relocate to Delhi-NCR for few days in July 2024 b) Know how to present things on camera c) Have given ATLEAST one interview If you will be interested in learning more, please drop an email to whycse@gmail.com with answers to following in the body of the email: 1. Year you gave interview: 2. How many UPSC attempts given?: 3. Giving UPSC 2024 Mains?: Yes/No 4. Aspiring for UPSC 2025 attempt Note: Paid project

those who cleared the exam, pls drop an email to whycse@gmail.com to get assistance with Mains2024. Congratulations & All the best :)

Didn’t clear Pre24? Read this 👇🏼 बिखरे है, बनेंगे। फिर आकर तनेंगे अभी तो जवानी भारी है अभी कहाँ जवानी हारी है? हम फिर ख़ुद को ख़ुद ही उठाएँगे हम फिर ख़ुद को ख़ुद ही बनाएँगे। अंधेरे कमरों से, किताबों से, काग़ज़ों से फिर उजाले लाएँगे हम फिर आएँगे हम फिर आएँगे 💪🏻

Pre note: Get CSEWhy mentorship for UPSC 2025 Apply here! 🚨 28th June | Friday 🚨

Keywords ✍🏼

1. Meningoencephalitis (aka brain-eating amoeba) • 2 killed in KL due to this • cause: Unhygienic & stagnant water • Amoebic enters through nose & travels to nose 2. Prosopagnosia or face blindness • Visual agnosia: inability to identify everyday items just by looking at them

Reading Recommendations 📖

Indian Express 🗞 1. Gandhi & Martin Luther King 2. Boosting a special bond (GS2: IR India-Nepal ties) 2. India’s new criminal laws (A very good read on new criminal laws and potential future implications) The Hindu 📰 1. New criminal laws in force; Cr.PC, IPC applicable only for old cases (GS2: Read to understand the executive challenge in new criminal laws, Avoid political storyline) 2. Court on climate right and how India can enforce it (Environment policy: Read to understand judicial game around climate change) 3. On Tamil Nadu’s financial distress (Read to understand financial challenges in CMRL) 4. Should education be brought back to the State list? (GS2: A good read on how policies affect academic outcomings) PS: Avoid speculations over result. It will come when it will come! :)

🚨 30th June | Sunday🚨

Reading Recommendations 📖

The Hindu 📰 1. India lacks diagnostic tests for emerging infectious diseases (GS1/Snt: Read to understand a crucial social problem in Indian medical space) 2. Why NTA Fails to deliver? (GS2: Bodies) 3. What is holding up the Teesta treaty? (Read to understand everything about the recent Teesta river consensus between India and Bangladesh) PS: Note 6 imp. Economy keywords for Mains Answers here

2007: Sreesanth caught Misbah 2024: Surya catches Miller WORLD CUP IS COMING HOME!!!! 😍🇮🇳

🚨 29th June | Saturday 🚨

Reading Recommendations

🗞 nothing major in newspaper today, revise CA on blog.csewhy.com PS: Did you know? CSEWhy imp. updates are now on WhatsApp too! Click Here to join😁

Some popular leaders who served as Leader of Opposition Take a look! :)

Pre note: Want mentorship for 2025 UPSC? Apply here! 🚨 28th June | Friday 🚨

Quotes 💭

Art has to be disturbing. Art has to ask questions. Art has to predict future. —Marina Abramovic

Important keywords 📝

1. Matriphagy: matri (mother) and phagy (to consume/eat) • Consumption of mother by her offspring(s) • Behaviour seen in Nematodes, Insects, Arachnids, & Caecilian Amphibians

Reading Recommendations 📖

Indian Express 🗞 1. Case for a food buffer policy (GS2/GS3: Read for facts and to understand the impact of buffer policy on food prices) 2. Big reforms push (GS3: Read to understand potential economic measures needed to outperform the challenges in economic development) The Hindu 📰 1. Reasi and the ‘years-old’ issue of cross-border terror (A good read on history of INDO-PAK relations and security disputes) 2. Economy robust despite global risks (GS3: Read for facts) PS: Did you participate to win S. Jaishankar's book giveaway here?

Pre note: Want mentorship for 2025 UPSC? Apply here! 🚨 28th June | Friday 🚨

Quotes 💭

Art has to be disturbing. Art has to ask questions. Art has to predict future. —Marina Abramovic

Important keywords 📝

1. Matriphagy: matri (mother) and phagy (to consume/eat) • Consumption of mother by her offspring(s) • Behaviour seen in Nematodes, Insects, Arachnids, & Caecilian Amphibians

Reading Recommendations 📖

Indian Express 🗞 1. Case for a food buffer policy (GS2/GS3: Read for facts and to understand the impact of buffer policy on food prices) 2. Big reforms push (GS3: Read to understand potential economic measures needed to outperform the challenges in economic development) The Hindu 📰 1. Reasi and the ‘years-old’ issue of cross-border terror (A good read on history of INDO-PAK relations and security disputes) 2. Economy robust despite global risks (GS3: Read for facts) PS: Did you participate to win S. Jaishankar's book giveaway here?

🚨 27th June | Thursday 🚨

Quotes 💭

Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. —Friedrich August Von Hayek

Pre-related news

1. Chandrayan-4 to be sent in parts, assembled in space: ISRO Chief • It is meant to bring back samples from moon • Different parts of it would be launched in two launches and would be assembled before it reaches the moon • Probably the first of its kind mission • SPADEX: Mission to demonstrate docking capability in space 2. France to enter cohabitation • COHABITATION: When in a presidential democracy The President and The Prime Minister are from different political parties

Reading Recommendations

Indian Express 🗞 1. Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha: The position, role and responsibilities (A comprehensive story on Leader of opposition, must read) 2. Safe drinking, not morality (GS1: Read to understand concerning social issue of liquor and the ad hoc administration around it) 3. Moody’s warning (GS1: Read to understand the potential impact of water crisis on Indian economy) 4. It is about jobs (Read to understand the overlooked challenge in becoming an Economic powerhouse) The Hindu 📰 1. Read the rocks to improve India’s geological literacy (GS1: Read to understand the geological concerns and administrative issues around it) 2. Opposition’s larger demography, LoP’s big responsibility (GS2: A good and comprehensive read on Leader of opposition, must read)

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🚨 26th June |Wednesday 🚨

Quotes 💭

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past. --- George Orwell

Pre-related news

1. Estonia is in news again. Click here to revise the map.

Reading Recommendations 🗞

Indian Express 🗞 1. Security and Ecology (Read to understand economic and strategic significance of Andaman and Nicobar Islands) 2. Putting Manufacturing on track (Read to understand the challenges to manufacturing industry and way forward) 3. Click here to understand everything about speaker and Dep. Speaker in India 4. Why India needs to build disaster resilience in its critical infrastructure? (Read to understand the impact of climate on Indian infrastructure and way forward) The Hindu 🗞 1. Agony still in Manipur, a year later (Read to understand complete situation of Manipur crisis) 2.India needs the anchor of National Security Strategy (Read to understand significance of NSS for India) 3. Analysing Maharashtra’s water crisis (Read to understand how diff. geographical factors leads to Maharashtra’s water crisis)