Each day’s newspaper, read against the UPSC mains syllabus — what is worth knowing, how much it matters, and what it would be asked as.
A day’s paper runs several articles about the same story. The exam asks one question about that story, so the articles are grouped into topics first, and everything else hangs off the topic rather than the article.
Each topic is then read against the 60 items of the mains syllabus and rated out of ten for what it is worth to a candidate. Crime reports, sports results and personality items score low and are left out. Specific things — a scheme, a bill, a court judgement, an index, a summit — score higher, because that is what the exam actually asks about.
Notes and questions come from the coverage itself. Questions are written the way UPSC sets them: about polity rather than politics, about governance rather than the government, and never naming a party or a politician.
Where the same thing is in the news on more than one day, those days are joined into a story you can read whole — 533 of them so far. Two entries are only joined when they are the same matter developing, not when they merely share a subject: two unrelated floods are two stories. Nothing is joined on word overlap alone, because that is how an attack in one sea and an attack in another end up filed as one event.
It is not a substitute for reading the paper, and it is not a coaching course. Notes are generated from the day’s coverage and, like any summary, they are a compression — where a topic matters to you, go to the source. Every topic links to the articles it came from.
Ratings are a judgement, not a fact. They are useful for deciding what to read first on a morning when you have forty minutes, not for deciding what to ignore forever.
1102 topics and 60 syllabus items are indexed, with 76 editions of reading filed against them so far. The archive grows daily.
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