Note: One of the most imp newspaper days. Read today's CA message carefully!
🚨August 14 2023 | Monday🚨
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Mains Keywords✍🏻
1. Rule by Law
• Use of law as an instrument of suppression, oppression, and social control
• All of it done in course of implementing a political agenda
2. Ethnic Cleansing
• Purposeful policy designed by one ethnic/religious group to remove by violent & terror inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic/religious group from certain geographic areas
• Arbitrary arrest, property demolition, forced removal, displacement etc. are methods
3. Ground penetrating Radar (GPR)
• A tech used to produce 3D model of buried archaeological features
• Used in ASI surveys
4. Urea Gold fertiliser
• Urea 'fortified' with Sulphur; developed by Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd.
• Aim:
- Deliver S along with N (needed in oilseeds)
- Improve N use efficiency as S coating ensures gradual release of N
Mains Keys🗝
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AI cameras, anti-drone systems in place for I-day security (Use as example of tech in GS3 Security answers)
Pre related📝
1. Limestone Calcines Clay Cement (LC3)
• Climate friendly alternative to conventional cement
• 30-40% less carbon-intensive to make tangible impact in reducing global carbon footprint
• Developed as a result of a collaboration b/w Indian-Swiss scientists
2. Malaiyali Tribe
• Malai: Hill and
Yali: People (hill people of norther TN)
• Foragers who cultivated table peak for food
Stats📈
• 65% of Nitrogen given to plants is lost via release in atmosphere or leaching in ground
Quote💭
• The purpose of the law is to prevent the strong always having their way - Ovid
• There is a social contract between the government and the governed - John Locke
• Justice must never take the form of revenge - Justice Bobde
• When state tends to persecute on basis of religion, constitution suffers a breakdown
Reading Recommendations🗞
IE
1. Erasing Macaulay's mark (make 1 page noting 5 pro-points)
2. A time tested friendship (GS2: IR)
3. Delhi & Taipei, just friends (GS2: IR)
4. Making urea deliver more (GS3: IMP)
5. What's Parliament's Privileges Committee, how it works (GS2: Legislature)
TH
1. A scientific survey at Gyanvyapi, its limits (GS1: Culture + GS3: SnT)
2. Is US-Iran hostage swap finally materialising? (GS2: IR)
3. Maya OS (pg11: Imp, read & make a small note)
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