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Doubt Clearance Thread: UPSC 2021

"When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions."

Created this thread as a one stop solution for all members so that all the doubts wherein any conceptual clarification is required can be solved here. 

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@MaeveWiley I searched but it is showing that egrets also eat bugs from water buffalo?


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Which tiger reserve has shown highest increase in tiger populaton?
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If the +ve IOD brings warm water to eastern Africa and creates a LP there, how does it strengthen Indian monsoon? Shouldn't there be HP near Madagascar for monsoon?

More moisture for the winds to carry towards India

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Also, can someone clarify who is the largest producer of sugarcane, as I have read in newspaper that Brazil is the largest sugarcane producer while in some places India is given as the largest?
EiChan,
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@MaeveWiley I searched but it is showing that egrets also eat bugs from water buffalo?


If you look at wikipedia pages of both oxpecker and egret, you'll find that the primary diet of egret consists of grasshoppers, crickets etc which are not parasites or ticks. On the other hand, oxpecker primarily feeds on such ticks found on animals. I think this is why even if an egret sometimes eats a bug on a water buffalo, its largely coincidental than an established relationship.

mehuifs,
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@MaeveWiley Oh, thanks!


MaeveWiley,TheNotorious
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Can anyone clarify if there is any fixed tenure for Cabinet Secretary?
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@MaeveWiley I searched but it is showing that egrets also eat bugs from water buffalo?


Then this will be Mutualism.


https://socratic.org/questions/if-cattle-egrets-removed-ticks-from-cape-buffalo-would-their-relationship-still-#400711


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@Vasu13 Yes, of two years.


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@sstarrr Sathyamangalam Tamilnadu


sstarrr,
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Will it be right to say :-

if Egret is using Buffalo to scout insects  on ground then it will be commensalism.

if Egret is eating the insects lying on the Buffalo, then it will be mutualism because  it is helping the Buffalo in grooming?

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Any document on major pollutants? Anyone. TIA. 
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@Rashmirathi what about Pili

Bhit??

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There are only 15 countries where tiger is found? Read in vision somewhere. 
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@komarambheem3 it has earned award  for better conservation efforts -CA/TS


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@sstarrr there are only 13 tiger range countries 


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Dionysus,
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In the context of the session of the Indian National Congress held at Faizpur in 1936, which of the following decisions/resolutions were taken?

1. Resolution condemning Japanese aggression of China.

2. Exemption of uneconomic holdings from rent and land tax.

3. Formation of Constituent Assembly to frame constitution of their own.

4. Resolution on the abolition of Zamindari and Taluqdari systems.

Select the correct answer using the code given below. 

(a) 1 and 2 only

(b) 3 and 4 only

(c) 1, 2 and 3 only

(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4

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Any idea regarding how to go about CSAT?? I did 2014-2019 PYQ and was sailing through, no issues but then I did last year and it was brutal, couldn’t finish on time, couldn’t even do the passages which are my strong point and I’m kinda freaking out right now. Honestly I’m a bit shaken by how bad it was. Any tips? What should I do? I’ve only heard people suggest doing PYQ so that was my strategy but I’m a bit lost now :(
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