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Indian PM was in the USA and Egypt recently. Newspapers wrote a lot about Indian relations with both these countries. So much of information is surely overwhelming for UPSC aspirants. To save you time and offer best quality notes, I have studied 20+ articles on India-US and India-Egypt relationships to compile notes in easy language for you. Find them on my blog: 1. India US https://csewhy.substack.com/p/129-pm-modi-in-usa 2. India Egypt https://csewhy.substack.com/p/130-pm-modi-in-egypt Do react ❤️to appreciate my efforts

Note: CSEWhyPlanB now has dedicated Twitter. Click here to follow 😄 🚨June 27 2023 | Tuesday🚨 Join my high value blog with email: CSEWhy.Substack.com Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) - A Keyword used often in cyber security matters for protection of children from online abuse - In Europe, a man was put on radar for his phone had pictures of his child's intimate areas that he clicked to be sent to a doctor - Need further efficient ways to recognize CSAM via algorithmic models Organic Intellectuals - Those who could help build awareness among masses - Rise from a social class that typically does not produce intellectuals and yet remain associated with their class (unlike traditional intellectuals) - A concept given by Gramsci Pre related 1. Cricket World Cup Trophy - Launched in stratosphere - A bespoke stratospheric balloon used to launch the trophy - Landed in Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad successfully 2. 5 offices u/ World Bank Group 1. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) - Lends to low and middle income countries 2. International Development Association - Lends to Low income countries 3. International Finance Corporation (IFC) - Lends to private sector 4. Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency - Encourages private countries to invest in foreign countries 5. International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes - For dispute settlement Reading Recommendations IE 1. Transforming the bank [V. IMP, Make a 1 page note of solutions] 2. A friendship in making [India-Egypt ties, the notes from here will be updated on my blog sharing India-Egypt ties] 3. Rani Durgavati 4. The Indigo-Tata duopoly 5. Assam delimitation draft: 6. The next big advance in cancer treatment could be a vaccine [pg18] TH 1. Laying the foundation for a future ready digital India [Focus on 'focus area for India'] 2. The role of organic intellectuals in challenging the capitalist hegemony PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

Note: Preparing for 2024? Get my visual notes from point no. 1 of the pinned message😄 🚨June 26 2023 | Monday🚨 As promised, India-Egypt relations now summarized on the blog: https://csewhy.substack.com/p/130-pm-modi-in-egypt Pre related 1. Robert Frost - Only poet to win Pultizer 4 times - Wrote prominently on the nature and the loneliness of humans - PM Nehru was deeply moved by his words and Frost's Miles to go before I sleep was translated by Nehru's friend Harivansh Rai Baccha in Hindi as abhi toh mujhe milon chalna hai 2. Radio telescope - A telescope to help scientists 'see' the universe in radio waves - Collect radio waves and amplify them for humans to study - Radio waves have large wavelength allowing them to travel large distance interruption free - Longer radio waves travel, weaker they become! - One of the biggest radio telescopes in world: FAST instrument in China w/ 500m wide dish Quote 1. The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch them without doing anything - Albert Einstein 2. Ethnic fear is caused by the fear of the future, lived through the past - Vesna Pasic Reading Recommendations IE 1. India, Egypt sign pact on strategic partnerships as Modi, El-Sisi hold talks (pg 3, GS2 Indian relations) 2. The new deal (Good counter view on Indian reliance on the US) 3. Big Picture in Manipur [IMP. One of the most rational articles on Manipur, GS3 Security] 4. Old friends in a changing world [Thumb rule: Never miss anything from Ashoka Gulati sir] 5. Why Punjab and Haryana matter in poor monsoon years [GS3] 6. Banks readying systems to track spends on outward remittances pg15 TH 1. Outreach to diaspora and statesmanship [GS2: diaspora, IMP article] 2. Manipur, this is not the time for finger pointing [Club this with IE article on no. 3 above. Make 1 page note] 3. Retail giants helps link 8 lac producers to markets; farm groups sceptical (pg14) 4. Did climate change really make UP's deadly heatwave twice as likely? (rough read works, long article) PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

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For the Indo-US, if you have not read newspaper in last 2 days or if you did and got confused how to make notes, I got you covered. All notes relevant for UPSC are now updated on the blog. Tomorrow morning, you'll get a post on India Egypt relations. Blog compiling all notes from PM Modi in US for UPSC 👇🏻 https://csewhy.substack.com/p/129-pm-modi-in-usa

Note: Friends,the imp notes for UPSC from PM Modi in US (Indian Express June 24) will be updated in this blog post 😄 🚨June 24 2023 | Saturday🚨 Find all imp notes from PM Modi's US visit on my blog: https://csewhy.substack.com/p/129-pm-modi-in-usa India Egypt Ties: Perhaps the oldest civilisational link - In 2750 BCE, Pharaoh Sahure sent ships to "Land of Punt" (peninsular India) - By mid of second millennium BCE, Egyptian Mummies were wrapped in muslin dyed w/ indigo (both from India) (More detailed blog for GS2 soon) Reactive culturalism A keyword to reflect the reactions as a cultural leading to offline and online behaviour such as protests and cancel culture. De-notified tribes - Most vulnerable and deprived communities - These were 'notified' as 'born criminals' by Britishers u/ Criminal Tribes Act 1871 - In 1952, post independence, GoI 'De-notified' these tribes Quote To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy - Will Durant Reading Recommendations IE 1. A footnote once, tech is the new driver of India-US diplomacy [pg1: read to know India-US history of relationships] 2. To control rising retail prices, govt. to sell wheat, rice in the open market [GS3] 3. The road not taken before [opinion from here on blog tomorrow morning, skip reading if you want to] 4. Together, a better future to world, a better world to future [read but you'll find notes from it on the blog] TH 1. Strike a balance, have a just civil code [interesting points here] 2. Squaring the circle at India-Egypt summit [will post notes from it on the blog tomorrow morning] PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

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Friends, today's Indian Express presents overwhelming amount of information relevant for UPSC from PM Modi's US visit. Don't stress, I have you covered! I compiled relevant information from all those articles in an organized manner on my blog. You can skip reading all those articles related to Modi's visit and stick to my blog. Everything you need is here👇🏻 https://csewhy.substack.com/p/129-pm-modi-in-usa

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Note: Get daily CA compilation at ₹199/- from above message Price increases to ₹229/- from tomorrow 😄 🚨June 21 2023 | Wednesday🚨 Subscribe to my high value blog for UPSC aspirants via email: CSEWhy.substack.com 1. Initiatives around Yoga (quote in mains answers) - WHO, Ministry of AYUSH and major institutions developed mYOGA app to educate people about therapeutic benefits of yoga - 150 Swami Vivekananda District Yoga Health Centres and 1.25 lac AYUSH health and wellness centres established - Tele Yoga advisory developed by dept of AYUSH w/ NIMHANS, S-VYASA University - 6 central universities have Yoga departments - Vivekananda Yoga University, California: master's program in Yoga - 3 universities in US, 1 each in China, UK, and Australia offers programs in Yoga - National Yogasana Federation and World Yogasana Federation established to standardise and introduce yogasana based competitions at national/international level 2. Global Stock Take (GST) - Mandated by Paris Agreement 2015; conducted every 5 years starting 2023 - Aim: a) assess progress in fight against climate change b) decide ways and means to enhance global action to bridge adequacy gap 3. India: Fellow democracy to US and strategic counterweight to China - Keyword for GS2 IR: India-US relationship 4. Heat stroke Happens when ambient temperature is so high that body is unable to sweat to regulate the core temperature which shoots up to 40 degrees 5. Heat Exhaustion Happens when body sweats excessively to keep the core temperature low Pre related 1. GEMCOVAC-OM - India's first indigenous mRNA vaccine for Omicron 2. Mitigation Work Program - Set up at COP26 in Glasgow 2021 - temporary emergency exercise focused on increasing emission cuts Quote Forever is composed of nows - Emily Dickinson Reading Recommendations IE 1. 'I present my country to world as my country is, and myself as I am' [pg 9] 2. No holding back [never miss any commentary from C. Raja Mohan sir] 3. At Bonn climate meet, old conflict- and some forward movement [Must read: GS3 SnT] 4. India-US: Trust & necessity [read in tandem with y'day article on same page in IE] 5. Heatwave deaths: why a heat stroke kill, and how to stay safe [Must read and make a page note for GS3] 6. Chess' IPL moment arrives with GCL [page 22] TH 1. A people of an emerald isle, waiting with doosras [good pointers on history of Tamil-Sri Lankans and what's needed to have them become inclusive in Sri Lankan polity] 2. Semiconductor fab: unfinished agenda [learn the intricacies involved in semiconductor manufacturing] 3. What's contention b/w coal India and CCI [read just the gist and last para] 4. The climate lawsuit against delta airlines [read gist first for context and then para] PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

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Note: Downloaded resource materials from my pinned message to kickstart your UPSC Prep? 😄 🚨June 20 2023 | Tuesday🚨 Subscribe to my high value blog for UPSC aspirants via email: CSEWhy.substack.com Equitable burden sharing A keyword for use in answers of: Refugees, financial distribution, cooperative federalism, finance commission, disaster management, geopolitics etc. Debottleneck Infrastructure A system thus put in place to offer clearances for smooth working of infra. (GS3: Infra, GS2: Governance) Financial prudence A practical way to deal with finances (relevant in GS3 Eco, govt. budgeting) Ambassador car defence tech A metaphoric key word to describe the tech of past from where we have to move to modernising the tech (militarily and non-militarily) Merit and National Interest Basis of Indian decisions in geopolitical situation based on case by case basis. (eg: Russian oil purchase) Viksit Yuva Viksit Bharat Self explanatory keyword Qubits A particle- like an electron; collection of particles, or a quantum system engineered to behave like a particles. All governed by rules of quantum physics Phonons Packets of vibrational energy behaving like packets of light energy using a beam splitter, qualify to act as qubits technically Pre related 1. Mesolithic era paintings in Guntur, AP - Ochre: Pigment made of clay, sand and ferric oxide - Kaolinite: Soft, earthy and white mineral produced by chemical weathering of aluminium silicate minerals like feldspar 2. June 20: World Refugees Day 3. Only 3 world leaders have addressed US Congress twice: Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela and now PM Modi 4. India gifts INS Kirpan to Vietnam, an indigenously built in-service missile corvette Quote 1. Refugees need opportunities not handouts - Oscar Mundia (UNCHR India Chief) 2. The journey from friendship to ally is a short one and needs to be walked by both sides, here and now. - Stephen Cohen 3. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed - Gandhi Reading Recommendations IE 1. India-US: Trade & Strategy [Must Read] 2. The diaspora moment [GS2 Diaspora] 3. KA's free bus rides for women: what the numbers on costs show 4. Everybody's rath yatra [Insight into how Police Bandobast works in tandem with tech] 5. Why Biparjoy's path was difficult to predict 6. Inflation at 100%, Argentinians make beeline to restaurants [interesting case study] TH 1. A rising India, in waltz dance steps with the US [Must read] 2. Phonons on the chopping block: Are 'sound particles' quantum too? [Must Read] 3. Refugees as assets to their new countries [Good pointers] 4. A summit with substance 5. Archaeologist finds Mesolithic-era rock painting in Guntur [pg4] 6. India gifts INS Kirpan to Vietnam [pg 10] PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

Note: Suggesting some imp jobs for UPSC aspirants on @CSEWhyPlanB today 😄 🚨June 19 2023 | Monday🚨 Subscribe to my high value blog for UPSC aspirants via email: CSEWhy.substack.com Bot - Computer program to act as agent of a user or another computer program - 'Automates' multiple tasks for the user/owner Pre related 1. Miyawaki Forest Technique - Japanese technique where 2-4 indigenous trees are planted within every sq m of plot - Being this close, they shoot up quickly competing for sun; reaching full potential within 3 years - Such forests manage the carbon levels of the local area, surface temp and soil fertility 2. Gandhi Peace Prize - Jury headed by PM - Given to acknowledge the "outstanding contribution towards social, economic, and political transformation through through non-violent and other Gandhian methods" - Prize given since 1995 w/ ₹1 cr, plaque, citation, and handicraft/handloom item Quote To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity - Nelson Mandela Reading Recommendations IE 1. Cross postings in army [pg 7] 2. New assignment for border guards, collect areas 2000 years history [pg7, GS3 Security; read to understand the rational] 3. Needed due diligence [GS2, PDP Bill/Digital India Bill] 4. A narrative in search of data [Inclusive Growth, can clip and add graphs to the notes] 5. What's in a name change? Right to life [GS2] 6. Paddy and the price of water [GS3: Agri] TH 1. Responsibilities and the complexities of climate leadership 2. China's developmental security approach 3. The remarkable endurance of the Y chromosome, 'master of maleness' PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️