• Sci-Tech: Hooch / Methanol poisoning is often treated with the intravenous administration of a mixture of ethanol and water. Because Ethanol inhibits methanol’s conversion into toxins and helps in flushing it out of the body either naturally or through dialysis.
  • Sci-Tech: NASA SWOT: Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite is NASA’s FIRST GLOBAL SURFACE WATER SURVEY SATELLITE. It has advanced microwave radar technology to measure water in oceans, lakes, reservoirs and rivers.
  • Polity: If schools want to operate in Gujarat, they should teach Gujarati, says HC
  • Polity: ST status to Himachal’s Hattees: Lok Sabha clears Bill
  • Ethics☯️: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar rejected demands for compensation to the families of the victims, saying “Sharab pi kar mara hai toh compensation kaisa (if death is due to liquor consumption, where is the question of compensation).I often say ‘piyoge toh maroge’ as a matter of caution and awareness against the evil of drinking.” 🤔Points to Reflect: should the wife and children of the dead should also suffer because of his mistakes?
  • Sports: Gujarat’s bid to host Olympics 2036
  • IR/Defense: Vijay Diwas is observed on December 16 to commemorate India’s win over Pakistan in the 1971 war that led to the creation of Bangladesh as a sovereign country.
  • Quote 🗣: Everything is theoretically impossible until it is done. — Robert A Heinlein
  • 👩🏻‍💼Interview Question/Ethics: PUNJAB Police arrested two juveniles on Friday who fired rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) at a police station in Tarn Taran. The attack was carried out at the behest of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). RPG was fired by the two juveniles who learned to operate the weapon through YouTube videos. As IPS how will you prevent the radicalisation of juveniles?
  • IR/Defense: cut-out and dead letter box (DLB) techniques: a person drops a consignment or information at a pre-determined location and another picks it without making any contact while being managed by a handler. It is used for sending weapon/explosives etc by the terrorists.
  • INS Mormugao, a P15B stealth guided missile destroyer will be inducted in Navy.
  • Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment has recommended increasing the income ceiling to allow more SC and OBC students to avail of the post-matric and other scholarships. The present Rs 2.5-lakh annual income ceiling prevents many of the needy students from getting scholarship. Notable schemes for SC/OBC students- 1) Scholarship for Higher Education for Young Achievers Scheme (SHREYAS), 2) ‘Free Coaching for SCs and OBCs’; 3) ‘Top Class Education for SCs’; 4) ‘National Overseas Scholarship for SCs’.
  • Books: Kobad Ghandy’s book Fractured Freedom: Prison Memoir and Thoughts. Maharashtra government’s decided to cancel a literary award given to the Marathi translation, because Kobad arrested for being Maoist
  • Sci-Tech: Hooch/desi liquor- is made using fermentation and distillation of water, yeast and sugar (often from fruit waste). Fermentation creates two alcohols- ethanol and toxic methanol. Distillation separates ethanol (consumable alcohol) from this mixture by precisely heating it to its boiling point. Methanol has a lower boiling point (64.7 °C) than ethanol (78.4°C). If care is not taken then methanol gets mixed up with Ethanol. Sometimes liquor-mafia add adulterants like battery acid, and industry grade methanol to increase potency of liquor. Methanol causes impaired vision, high toxicity and kidney damage.
  • EcoPill3B-Intl-Orgs: SRI LANKA was to get IMF Extended Fund Facility of $2.9 bn. But it has failed to provide the required plan / promises to IMF so IMF not releasing the money.
  • EcoPill3B-Intl-Orgs: SriLanka’s external debt: China’s share is 52 per cent, Japan’s 19.5 per cent, and India’s 12 per cent. Sri Lanka wants lenders (china, Japan, India) to accept haircut (loss) e.g. Sri Lanka can repay only Rs.85 on outstanding Rs.100 loan. But there is disagreement among the lenders about who will bear how much haircut/loss.
  • Doxxing refers to disclosing online someone’s identity, address, or other personal details. Twitter Benz the account of some journalists after they allegedly doxxed Elon Musk’s location.
  • Private 5G network, also called a captive non-public network (CNPN). Means a Mobile internet network set up solely for a firm’s own use. e.g. Airtel’s CNPN for Tech Mahindra’s factory. ordinary people cannot use it. because, it is closed for external communication. This ideal for institutions like factories, manufacturing plants, hospitals, universities etc.
  • ⚾️📻⚾️🎙✋ RBI directives to digital payment Apps/companies like Razorpay, Cashmere. Technical directives ball by ball commentary not important for exam.