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CSE 2015, AIR 73 Shashank Mani Tripathi shares what strategy he adopted to make notes for his UPSC preparation.

Did you know Kolkata was the second city in the world to implement an anti-air pollution law? Or that it's air was once declared "cleaner than any major European industrial city"? #History

“The only answer here is practice. One has to write answers and attempt mock tests within the proper time limit. I started first by writing answers daily which was three answers within the stipulated time limit,” shares Akshat.

“Yes, Sivakasi is famous for its firecracker market, and while the damage done by them is undeniable, you will find that vehicles are the biggest cause of increased air pollution,” says 44-year-old M Ravishankar. #AirPollution #Innovation

For the General Studies Paper Khan relied heavily on two newspapers –The Hindu and The Indian Express. “Normally, aspirants make notes of various news items in notebooks but I made notes on sheets of paper.”

Ira is the first person with a disability to have topped the UPSC CSE exam. This gritty officer suffers from a medical condition called scoliosis, which is essentially the curvature of the spine.

In 1938 Albert Einstein himself wrote a stellar recommendation for Walter Kaufmann.

The media’s influence on public beliefs is so vast that people sometimes adopt a new treatment due to the information they learn through the media.

Kurin Systems has designed a 40-feet-tall purifier christened ‘City Cleaner’, which claims to provide clean air to 75,000 people living in the 3-km radius around it.

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