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Lecture

1- Quote

2- Editorials

3- Vocabulary

4- Subjective Q

5- Current Affair Q

6- News Analysis

7- Capital & Currency

8- Prelims Focus Facts

9- Revision(Base Knowledge)

10- Maps Practice-(Q-Swaziland)

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Glyphosate- It is used to kill

weeds, especially annual

broadleaf weeds and grasses

that compete with crops.

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The non-politics of outrage- उलं्लघन Facebook (FB) and a British political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica (CA), regarding the use

of personal data for political messaging during the U.S. presidential elections

Micro targeted political messaging

CA’s parent company also offers data intelligence services to militaries

Global digital companies such as Microsoft and Google are known to cooperate closely with

the American establishment

Developing countries like India must realise that they do not have kind of leverage that the U.S. or

even the European Union (EU) have over global data

All data collected in India and transported abroad (data laws being nearly nonexistent), on the

other hand, remain largely out of our control or influence

This data gets converted into digitallyintelligent services in all sectors from transport, commerce

and tourism, to education and health, to agriculture and manufacturing

Influence and control our elections, or economics, or culture, or internal and external security


ContinueSrikrishna Committee on data protection seems centred entirely on personal data rights,

which is insufficient

The problem is, even from a security point of view

Data of consumer behaviour (which provides much detailed psychometric

information with cross sectoral application)

Platform companies such as FB, Amazon and Uber are key sites of data collection

and expropriation, and its conversion into digital intelligence (to influence elections,

or whatever else they wish to do)

A data based digital society and economy are a completely new reality.

The question is, are we as a nation ready to develop the needed political response to it?


A perfect storm in the cotton fieldWhy India is the only Bt cottongrowing country facing the problem of pink

bollworm infestation

Bollgard 2, or BG2, Monsanto’s second generation insecticidal technology for cotton,

was supposed to protect crops against pink bollworm, pest has grown resistant to the

toxins produced by this trait.

As a result, farmers now spend more on pesticides to control infestations.

This, along with the high cost of Bt seeds, is driving farmers to indigence.

None of the other 14 Bt cottongrowing countries have seen this resistance.

China still successfully controls pink bollworm with firstgeneration Bt cotton.

U.S. and Australia are moving on to thirdgeneration BG3 without having

faced this problem.

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A unique problemCotton researchers broadly agree on the reason: the pink bollworm grew resistant because

India restricted itself to cultivating longduration hybrids since the introduction of Bt cotton

in 2002.

Hybrids are crosses between two crops that often see higher yields than their parents

All other Bt cottongrowing countries grow cotton varieties rather than hybrids

India is the only country whose intellectual property laws have never prevented its

farmers from either saving or selling seeds

Over 70 countries that are members of the International Union for the Protection

of NewVarieties of Plants

Without such protections, several seed companies in India prefer hybrids

Only solution to the problem is to move swiftly to shortduration varieties

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South Asia, a fertile ground Islamic State has weakened, but it continues to expand

Continues to inspire Muslim youth from different parts of the world, including India.


Map Practice


Prelims Focus Facts-News AnalysisPage-1- U.S. expels 60 Russians, shuts consulate in Seattle

Officials and their families have been given seven days to leave the country


Prelims Focus Facts-News AnalysisPage-1- SC to examine polygamy(बहुवििाह) in Muslim marriage

Seven months after it declared instant triple talaq unconstitutional, the Supreme

Court on Monday decided to look into the constitutional validity of the

prevalent practices of polygamy


Prelims Focus Facts-News AnalysisPage-1- Congress, BJP clash on Twitter over data leaks


Prelims Focus Facts-News AnalysisHC issues notices to Gujarat, Centre on deaths of 184 lions

Seeks explanation for high number, preventive steps

Taking serious note of the death of 184 lions in the State in the last two years, the

Gujarat High Court on Monday sought explanations from the Union and the State

governments in the matter.

Court took suo motu cognisance of news reports

Gujarat is the only home to lions in Asia.

As per the 2015 census, there were 523 lions in the State.


Prelims Focus Facts-News AnalysisSummer of discontent: water crisis looms in Gujarat


Prelims Focus Facts-News AnalysisChina says Doklam is in its territory

Kim Jongun on his first China visit, says media

Rahane replaces Smith as Rajasthan Royals skipper


Last Day- Q’s- Answers…SachinTendulkar

Autobiography- Playing it my way

Exercise MILAN - 10th edition

Hosted in Andaman & Nicobar

Theme- 'Friendship Across the Seas'

Maldives- declined India's invitation to join

Paradip port- Odisha



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