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Note: Saw my new DP? 😉 🚨August 5 2023 | Saturday🚨 Subscribe with email to my high value blog for UPSC aspirants: blog.CSEWhy.com Mains Keywords🔍 1. Morality, Rationality, Proportionality (MRP) - Keyword(s) for ethical counter to use of Nuclear weapons 2. Education, Globalization and Digitalization - The 3 elements that make today's younger ones smarter Pre-related💡 1. Kalbelia dance 💃 • Related to Kalbelia community • In list of UNESCO Intangible heritage since 2010 • Performed only by women, men participate as instruments' players • Kalbelias were once the snake handlers, their art today reflects the same in music and dance🐍 2. Amrit Bharat Stations Scheme 🚉 • Developing stations on a continuous basis with a long-term vision • Large focus is on improving the design, readying stations for the Amrit Kaal Quote(s)💬 • Political competence comes with age - Plato • The internet gave us access to everything but it also gave everything access to us - James Veitch Reading Recommendations🗞 - Lowering the age of fighting elections in both IE & TH🗳 IE 1. The Cheetah's return [GS3: IMP] 🐆 2. J&K, like other states [Read to learn the flow of essays] 3. Changing views on privacy: the journey of India's data protection Bill [GS3, will make a proper blog compiling all the articles related to this topic] PS: React ❤️ to celebrate my new DP with me :)

मैंने देखें है बंद कमरों में खुले सपने। मैंने देखें है पराए होते वो अपने। मैंने समझी है माँ बाबा कि लाचारी मैंने किताबों में सीखी है दुनियादारी मेरा दिन लक्ष्मीकान्त से शुरू और शाम लक्ष्मी के अभाव में निकलती है। मेरी रात में अशोक, अकबर और पुरु और दोपहर विश्वास में सम्भलती है। मेरा परिचय है किताबों का वो कोना गुमनाम पहचान, सड़क पर मेरा ना होना। शाहजहाँ की कहानी से शाहजहाँ रोड का सफ़र करूँगा मैं UPSC भवन से India Gate तक असर करूँगा मैं। मेरा नाम आज गुमनाम है, कल दुनिया जानेगी मैं कलाम का अनुयायी, दुनिया जल्द मानेगी। मैं जहाँ से आया हूँ और जहाँ मुझे जाना है, अकेला हूँ और शिखर जल्द कमाऊँगा मैं भारतीय हूँ, जय हिन्द हर पल गाऊँगा॥ 🇮🇳 (Wrote it this morning immediately after waking up. React ❤️ if you relate?😄)

Current Affairs require you to revise Disqualification of lawmakers. I could not find a single resource and thus wrote a blog post compiling all 3 ways of disqualification 1. 10th schedule for defection 2. u/A 102(1) for MPs & 191(1) for MLAs 3. u/ Representation of The People Act (RPA) 1951 Learn below 👇🏻 https://blog.csewhy.com/p/101-disqualification-of-law-makers

Note: Trust your Bal, Trust your Buddhi, Trust your Vidya. and then; do it, Whatever it takes! 🚨August 4 2023 | Friday🚨 Subscribe with email to my high value blog for UPSC aspirants: blog.CSEWhy.com Mains Keywords 1. Urbanity • A particular attitude including belief and education in arts of coexistence & fair play • It is a matter of lifestyle; good keyword for GS1 Urbanization 2. Not of Standard Quality (NSQ) • Colloquial term for substandard drugs • A drug that fails standard requirements for a particular product 3. Interstellar • Located, taking place, traveling among stars Pre related 1. Vultures: Natural scavengers to keep the environment clean Efforts for Conservation of Vultures: • Plan for Vulture Conservation (2006) w/ Drugs Controller General of India banning vet use of dicolfenac • Vulture Conservation Plan (2020-2023) [u/ MoEFCC] a) Upscaling Conservation - To establish additional conservation breeding centres alongside Vulture Conservation Centres - To implement the Vulture Safe Zone Programme at diff places in the country b) Drug Control - Minimize Diclofenac use - Prevent poisoning of vultures' food 2. Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) • Estd. 1975, it is a political, regional and economic union of 15 West African countries • Goal: Achieve "Collective self-sufficiency" by creating a single large trade bloc • Serves as a peacekeeping force in the region • Member countries in the image below 3. Voyager 1 & 2 • NASA Mission Voyager: To explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune • Launched in 1977, these are identical spacecraft equipped with instruments to carry out experiments • Come with nuclear reactors, antenna and multiple cameras • Purpose: Explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune before heading to interstellar • V1 entered interstellar in 2012 & V2 in 2018 • Discoveries: - Jupiter's Moon IO is geologically active - 3 new moons of Jupiter: Thebe, Metis & Adrastea - Titan was NOT the biggest moon of solar system - Great Dark Spot: Huge spinning storm in atmosphere of Uranus (V2) Quote • As government expands, liberty contracts - Ronald Reagan Reading Recommendations IE 1. How Jan Vishwas Bill proposes to deal with substandard drugs TH 1. 19 MLAs, 10 MPs caught for traffic offences by AI cameras [pg6: Read for eg of tech as equalizer] 2. Nuclear signalling; the need for new guard rails [IMP] 3. India needs evidence based, ethics driven medicine [interesting view point] 4. Coups in Niger; causes and concerns [You won't find good article like this anywhere else, screenshot it and keep in your notes.] 5. Why's Biological Diversity bill facing opposition [Quick read] PS: Don't stress about Digital India Bill, will do a comprehensive blog post on it once bill is past legislature. React ❤️ to push me do more for you! :)

Note: Get a job on side with UPSC Preparation where I'll personally mentor you, join @CSEWhyPlanB 🚨August 3 2023 | Thursday🚨 Subscribe with email to my high value blog for UPSC aspirants: blog.CSEWhy.com Mains Keywords 1. Superconductivity State in which material offers zero/near zero resistance to electric current 2. MC Mishra Committee (wrt Joshimath) - Read inputs of this committee here and here Reading Recommendations IE 1. The twain must meet (checkout delimitation 'game') 2. The search for no resistance (Make a one page note) 3. 2 articles on use of tech to solve real world problems • Pg 9: To prevent suicides, IIT-M to get facial recognition system • pg12: How Aadhar is seeking to use AI to tackle bank payments fraud TH 1. Coup in Niger (read for parties involved) 2. Deep tech startups taking brave risks (understand the ecosystem) 3. Jeddah: hope for peace in Ukraine? (read just gist) PS: React ❤️ to push me do more for you! :)

Note: Multiple resources listed in my pinned message for all aspirants, click here to visit 🚨August 2 2023 | Wednesday🚨 Subscribe with email to my high value blog for UPSC aspirants: blog.CSEWhy.com Mains Keywords 1. Economic Geography Study of how businesses are located, how people trave, trade and what resources are available in diff areas 2. Geoeconomics The combination of economic and geographic factors relating to international trade 3. Equitable distribution Self explanatory vis-a-vis reservation 4. MPOWER Measures against tobacco by WHO - Monitor tobacco use & prevention policies - Protect people from tobacco smoke - Offer help to quit tobacco - Warn about dangers of tobacco - Enforce bans on tobacco advertising - Raise taxes on tobacco products Pre related 1. Carbon Capture and Storage - Two forms: a) Point source carbon capture & storage • Captures CO2 produced at source b) Direct air capture • Removes CO2 released in the atmosphere 2. 7 new GI Tags a) UP - Jalesar Dhatu Shilp (A decorative metal craft from Etah) b) Goa - Goa Mankurad Mango (named so by Portugese due to its poor color) - Goan Bebinca (A Indo-Portugese pudding aka Queen of Goan desserts) c) Rajasthan - Udaipur Koftgari metal craft (Ancient art used in ornamental weaponry) - Bikaner Kashidakari craft (Art done on objects related to marriage) - Jodhpur Bandhej craft (Art of tying and dyeing) - Bikaner Usta Kala (Gold nakashi) Quote - The way you do one thing is the way you do everything - Alison Wu - The heart has its reasons which reason knows not - Blaise Pascal Reading Recommendations IE 1. Sharp skew in national cat map: 20% of tiger area has less than 1% population (take a rough idea) 2. South Asia is open for business (beautiful article, must read for better opinion) 3. Sub-categorisation of OBCs (Imp) 4. WHO report on tobacco control: key findings, how India fares (Focus on MPOWER, India and experts opinion) 5. In LS, bill on IIMs, concerns it raises over their autonomy (better than TH article) 6. What's carbon capture and storage, can it cut emissions? TH 1. Bus ride to equality, wheels of change in KA (read to understand positive side of scheme) 2. IIM Bill is a bold move (IE article explains this issue better) PS: Drop a ❤️ reaction to keep me going! :)

Note: Any issues with prep? Talk to me directly at whycse@gmail.com 🚨August 1 2023 | Tuesday🚨 Subscribe with email to my high value blog for UPSC aspirants: blog.CSEWhy.com Mains Keywords 1. Friendshoring Manufacturing/Sourcing from geopolitical allies 2. Autoimmune diseases The diseases in which the body's immune system attacks specific cells 3. Cell free DNA - Some fragments of DNA released from containers to be present in the body fluids - Learn about them in detail on my blog here Pre related 1. Niger - Former French colony w/ capital Niamey - Houses 7th largest reserves of Uranium - See Sahel region in the image below 2. Horripilation - Scientific name for goosebumps - Small bumps developing on skin under the follicles - Caused due to cold weather, intense emotions, 3. Space Liability Convention 1972 - Launching state to be 'absolutely liable' to pay compensation to the state that incurs damages from former's space debris - Only once has it led to monetary compensation when Russia paid Canada 3 million Canadian Dollars in compensation in 1978 4. Akira ransomware - Targets both window and linux devices, steals data to encrypt and claims ransom for decryption - Learn more about Ransomwares on my blog here Reading Recommendations IE 1. What the data hides & tells 2. Because culture unites all 3. The employment picture TH 1. Chip tactics 2. Recalibrating India's clean cooking strategy [good pointers on making it sustainable via business] 3. The hybrid EV imperative [Just understand the issue] PS: Extra efforts today to curate 2 blogs for you. Drop a ❤️ reaction to keep me going! :)

One Q I often read on mail: “How many hours to study in a day?” Answer 👇🏼 - Obsess content not hours - Have a plan to stick to at least 6 days a week, every week, for next 12-16 months UPSC cares about your answers on D-day not the hours you studied in last one year 🙂💁🏻‍♂️ Aayi baat samajh? ❤️react karke batao

Note: Looking for a side job with UPSC Prep? Join @CSEWhyPlanB 🚨July 31 2023 | Monday🚨 Subscribe with email to my high value blog for UPSC aspirants: blog.CSEWhy.com Cryptobiosis 🧬 A condition of inactive metabolic activity when environmental conditions are adverse leading to inactivation of reproduction, development, and repair Pre related - Yakkara river 🌊 A Kerala river near Palakkad district Quote 💬 Social media is the new opium of the masses🤳 Reading Recommendations📰 IE 1. Monsoon and food inflation (take rough idea)🌧 2. Bill to amend FCA: provisions, concerns (read to learn the issue)🤔 3. Pathways for digital inclusion (comprehensive view of all DPIs of GoI)🛣 4. Data beyond surveys (understand the issue)📈 5. Smart ideas for big cities (note 4-5 solutions to counter floods)🏙 TH 1. Bitter truths in MH's sugar fields (read to learn the issues of stakeholders of MH sugarcane industry)🚜 2. A crisis of academic ethics in India (GS4 Ethics)🎓 3. State's lax response to lynching (no notes needed, just read)🚫 4. Sam Altman's biometric project (think of dimensions to it: ethical, social, political, technical, etc)👤 PS: React ❤️ to join me in today's newspaper! :)

2nd case study is now live. Solve this and paste your answers in reply to the tweet linked below https://twitter.com/csewhy/status/1685626070626676736?s=46&t=9sA42S8ayGCzzKyFIJII0g (Winners to both 1st and 2nd Case Study to be announced on July 31 at 07:00pm. Post your answers before that!)

Note: Any UPSC related issue, write to me at whycse@gmail.com 🚨July 30 2023 | Sunday🚨 Subscribe with email to my high value blog for UPSC aspirants: blog.CSEWhy.com Sure! Here are some suitable emojis added to the text: Mains Keywords 🔍 1. 4-Is to make India developed by 2047 🇮🇳 Infrastructure, Investment, Innovation and Inclusivity 2. Fabless Companies 🎛 - Entities designing semiconductor chips and outsourcing manufacturing 3. Reasonable doctrine ⚖️ - Reasonableness: legal standard used by top courts of diff countries to assess govt decisions - Israel does not have written constitution, reasonableness is thus a critical judicial check on executive decisions 🇮🇱 Pre-related ℹ️ 1. Dengue fever 🦟 - Caused by Dengue virus (DENV) - DENV: RNA virus, impacts 400mn people globally per year - No specific antiviral, treatment is in prevention - Prevention: control mosquito population & raise public awareness 2. Coups in Africa: Mali and Burkina Faso (each in 2020), Niger in 2023 3. Revise TB here Quote "Education in mother tongue is a significant step towards social justice" - Narendra Modi 🎓 Reading Recommendations🗞 TH 1. In Bengal village, shrimp farms thrive on mangrove litter (Pg11: read for co-existence example, GS3: Environment) 🍤 2. Scientists' toughest experiment: sourcing quality products from GeM (Pg11: read to reflect on policy negatives) 👩‍🔬🛒 3. Plastic pollution widespread in water bodies across the world [GS3]🚯 4. Mapping India's chip design ecosystem🇮🇳 5. Are human challenge studies effective? [GS4: Ethical issues] 👥🧪 6. Why has Israel plunged into crisis? [understand the issues] 🇮🇱📉 PS: React ❤️ to laud my efforts; its Free!😉

Note: Any UPSC related issue, write to me at whycse@gmail.com 🚨July 29 2023 | Saturday🚨 Subscribe with email to my high value blog for UPSC aspirants: blog.CSEWhy.com Mains Keywords 🔍 1. India's strengths in 3D: Democracy, Demography, and Dividend 2. Small Island States are actually Large Ocean Countries Pre related - Int'l Tiger Day: July 29 🐅 (Set in 2010 at St. Petersburg Summit) - Parakchik glacier: Largest in Suru river valley - Suru river is part of Zanskar ranges in western Himalayas - Stapled Visa: Unstamped piece of paper attached by pin to passport; can be torn off at will (China issues it for JnK & Arunachal Pradesh residents) Quotes 💬 - "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion" - Albert Camus Ethics Case Study IE (Pg1): When instant loan apps turn to abuse, morph photos to blackmail Reading Recommendations🗞 IE 1. Ease of doing research [read only if you are new to NRF topic]🔍 2. In a new world, India's moment [imp]🇮🇳 3. Porous border & Manipur Crisis (Read for FMR, GS3 Internal security) 🚧 TH 1. Charting the path for 17th FC [focus on the last para] 📈 2. India, Japan will work to strengthen peacetime cooperation (pg11) 🇮🇳🤝🇯🇵 PS: React ❤️ to laud my efforts; its Free!

Answer this Case Study and Win a Free book 'Ethics Made Easy' for GS4 Ethics by IPS Ashok Kumar DGP and IPS Rajesh Mohan Tweet your answer in reply to the tweet linked below👇🏻 https://twitter.com/CseWhy/status/1684915163617427456?s=20

Note: Got any issue related to UPSC Prep? Write to me directly at whycse@gmail.com 🚨July 28 2023 | Friday🚨 Subscribe with email to my high value blog for UPSC aspirants: blog.CSEWhy.com Pre related 😊 1. Bhadohi: carpet city of India 2. Need for Cinematograph bill 🎬 - To harmonise law w/ various executive orders, SC judgements & other legislations - To improve licensing procedure for films for public exhibition - To address film industry demand to address piracy - To expand categorisations for certification Quotes 💬 - The CCP party is like god. He is everywhere. You just can't see him. - Richard McGregor 🇨🇳 - Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest - James Lovelock🌳 Reading Recommendations 📰 IE 1. Cinematograph bill passed in RS: What are its provisions (make a small note) 🎞 2. Niger army extends support for coup to avoid bloodbath (Pg18) 🇳🇪 TH 1. Weighing in on the NRF bill (read if you are new to NRF till now)🆕 2. Anatomy of Yamuna flood plains (GS1 Urbanization, GS3 Disaster) 🏞 3. Stapled visa issue (page 12) 📌 4. No President can retract climate change promise (Pg14)🚫 PS: React ❤️ to laud my efforts; its Free!

Note: Shared my email for you to talk about your plan B with UPSC prep. Click here to find my email 🚨July 27 2023 | Thursday🚨 Subscribe with email to my high value blog for UPSC aspirants: blog.CSEWhy.com Mains Keywords 🔍 1. Economic Geography - A geographic unit put together by Economic compulsions - eg: Delhi-NCR is not a state in itself but an economic geography 🏙 2. Revise No Confidence Motion from M. Laxmikant 📜 Quotes 💬 - "Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate." - Nietzsche - "Today's borrowing is taxing tomorrow." Reading Recommendations📰 IE 1. A win-win partnership on AI (good article to read, no note-making needed) 🤝 2. Europe's Carbon burden (focus on 'how shall India respond') ♻️ 3. 3rd largest economy in the 3rd Modi term? Anatomy of India's growth (most imp article in IE today) 📈🇮🇳 TH 1. The SCO is a success story that can get better (quick read) 🌟 2. Shedding more light on the debt dilemma (highly technical article, good read)💡 3. The changing contours of Delhi (Most imp. article in the Hindu today)🏙 PS: Did you know? Reacting ❤️ to laud my efforts is Free! 😍😍

Exciting news😍 From July28, I’ll post one GS4 Ethics case study daily on Twitter till July 31. 2 aspirants w/ quality ans will win ‘Ethics Made Easy’ book everyday 😮 Total 8 books for grab 📕 How to win?🤔 - Just reply your answer to Case Study daily📝 It’ll be on Twitter. Follow me at Twitter.com/CSEWhy to participate 😄