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Now that dust has settled on media speaking about PM Modi in the USA and Egypt, it’s time to get going with making notes from all the relevant articles. It’s great if you’ve done it yourself. If you haven’t, I have compiled UPSC centric pointers from 30+ articles on both visits on my blog. Save these posts to your GS2 notes 😉 Find them here 👇🏼 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: Get Visual Notes for Pre and Mains from my pinned message. Click here to visit pinned message 😄 🚨July 1 2023 | Saturday🚨 Join my high value blog with email: CSEWhy.Substack.com Vertical Reservation - Reservation to SC/ST/OBC etc. - Applies separately for each group under the law - Article 16(4) contemplates vertical reservation Horizontal Reservation - Equal opportunity to other categories of beneficiaries - refers to women, trans, PwD etc - Article 15(3) contemplates horizontal reservation Read more on Vertical and Horizontal quota here Pre related 1. Groundwater extraction leading to shift in earth's axis - 2150 gigatonne groundwater extracted b/w '93-2010 moving axis about 80cm east - Poles and axis keep shifting naturally as mass distribution in and on the planet changes (Polar Motion) due to: a) Due to rocks moving inside the crust b) Ocean currents and Hurricane c) Human activities like ground water extraction Reading Recommendations IE 1. Removal of extra import duty on US apples: How it can impact Indian growers [focus on why US apples still won't flood Indian markets] 2. India's critical mineral [don't stress if you find it hard, it'll be explained on my blog very soon] 3. ASPARTAME (educate yourself on this) TH 1. A new chapter in India-Africa ties can be written [GS2: Indian relations, make a one page note of 5 methods of engagement] 2. The governor's move is dangerous, unconstitutional [GS2: Role of governor] 3. Sacred hymns, political gains [read to understand the issue] PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

Note: Wrote multiple tests today and hence the delay. Please take my sincere apology for today 😄 🚨June 30 2023 | Friday🚨 Join my high value blog with email: CSEWhy.Substack.com Pre related 1.Conservation places in news Debrigarh Wildlife sanctuaries & Nalabana Bird Sanctuary - Both in Odisha - Both free of human settlements as a state govt effort 2. Anti Microbial Resistance is back in news. Revise it here Quotes - Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination - John Dewey - Chips are new oil and Taiwan is new Saudi Arabia Reading Recommendations IE 1. How NRF aims to boos research in higher educational institutes (read for an idea) 2. India and the chips war [Most imp article of today] 3. Move towards time based tariffs [pg 15] TH 1. The Open Market Sale scheme for wheat and rice [read just to take an idea on what's the issue] 2. Assam delimitation draft [read just gist] 3. Re-evaluating indiscriminate use of BMI to make conclusions on health [GS3 - Fun article with clear basics] PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

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Note: Inflation, Deflation, Disinflation, Greedflation etc. explained on blog here😄 🚨June 29 2023 | Thursday🚨 Join my high value blog with email: CSEWhy.Substack.com UN report on Children and conflict - Relevant measures had India out of list after 12 years - India was on list for 12 years alongside Burkina Faso, Pak, Nigeria, Cameroon etc - Included because of issues JnK - Post 370 abrogation, JJ act and POCSO act implemented - Use of pellet guns suspended National Research Foundation - Envisages synergy between industry, academia, and RnD - Offers merit based but equitable peer-reviewed research funding - Aim: strengthen the research ecosystem in the country - (India spends barely 0.7% of GDP on research) H1B Visa - Non immigrant visa allowing US corporations to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations requiring theoretical or technical expertise Quote - It is not out differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. - Audre Lorde - History does not repeats itself but it rhymes - Mark Twain - There are no eternal allies, and no perpetual enemies. Only national interests are eternal and perpetual and those interests is it our duty to follow Reading Recommendations IE 1. NRF gets nod (pg1: read for the need of NRF in India) 2. Partnership for the future [GS2: India-Philippines relations] 3. The new give and take [read for opinion] 4. Understanding greedflation, basic concepts from this explained on the blog here [GS3] TH Nothing much significant here today. can skip PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

Note: CSEWhyPlanB now has dedicated Twitter. Click here to follow 😄 🚨June 28 2023 | Wednesday🚨 Join my high value blog with email: CSEWhy.Substack.com Narco-Terrorism - Transnational transfer of narcotics from Indian neighbours. - Revise how India is sandwiched between Drug crescent and triangle. Pre related 1. Meira Paibis - Mothers torch bearers of Manipur formed 1977 - Loosely organized group of Meitei women coming from Imphal valley - Widely seen in the news for the bandhs they organize for multiple protests 2. Tunnel Falls - Intel Quantum Computing chip - 12 qubit Silicon chip with information encoded in the spin of electrons 3. 7 UP products get GI tag - Amroha Dhola (musical instrument made of natural wood) - Baghpat Home furnishing (cotton yarn used in handloom weaving process) - Barabanki Handloom - Kalpi Handmade Paper - Mahoba Gaura Patthar Hastshilp - Mainpuri Tarkashi - Sambhal Horn craft Reading Recommendations IE 1. PM pushes UCC, accuses Opposition of instigating Muslims (Front page: read opinion of PM on UCC) 2. Grey to Green (GS3: Infra and Environment) 3. Myanmar blind spot in Manipur (V. IMP | GS3: Security) 4. The civil code debate [Imp] 5. If we have to go green, then we as a country must significantly invest in the railways [Great points here, don't miss] 6.Why tomato on fire now? [Quick read to understand the issue] 7. Partners of Global South (Notes from this article added to CSE Why India-Egypt Blog Post here) TH 1. Tracing the arc of American exceptionalism for India (Read view on why US is extending concessions to India) 2. The concerns about India-US digital trade (Will add notes from above two on the blog soon here) 3. Feminist approach to IR (IMP for PSIR students) 4. Can Laos cave remains establish humans first came to to SE asia? (as Mrunal sir says, thoda padho, aage badho) PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

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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

Note: Some important jobs posted today on @CSEWhyPlanB, Join and apply😄 🚨June 23 2023 | Friday🚨 Subscribe to my high value blog for UPSC aspirants via email: CSEWhy.substack.com Urban Forests to Urban Slums A reflection of how our hill cities are turning out to be! Profitable upstream, valuable downstream A keyword for the GS3 supply chains topic reflecting 'how our supply chains should be' Professor of Practice - An individual with significant experience in respective industry appointed to a faculty position at a university to share their practical knowledge and skills with students. - It'll bring practitioners, policymakers, skilled professionals etc. into higher education system - A UGC initiative to institutionalize this concept Pre related 1. Solstice - Means 'sun stands still' in Latin - NASA describes it as instant in time when North Pole points more directly toward the Sun than at any other time during the year - Summer Solstice: June 21, Winter Solstice: December 22 2. MATSYA 6000: revise here Reading Recommendations IE 1. The diasporic delusion [GS2: Diaspora] 2. Chipping away at federalism [GS2: Federalism] 3. Inflation down, not (all) prices TH 1. Small hill towns, big plain aspirations [GS1: Urbanization] 2. The uproar over the new COP28 President PS: appreciate my effort by reacting to this message ❤️

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