Civil Services Chronicle April 2023

1 Marine Spatial Planning Framework

2 NCAER Report on Farm Machinery Industry in India

3 LiFE Lessons from India

1 Three National Flagship Programs launched at ICAR-CIBA

2 Sagar Parikrama Program Phase III

3 Waste to Wealth Plants under GOBAR-Dhan Scheme

4 Computerization of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies

5 Integration of APMC Mandis with e-NAM

6 Free Float

7 Additional Surveillance Mechanism

8 Stock Market Regulation in India

9 Fund to ‘Backstop’ Corporate Debt Market

10 NSE Indices launches India’s First Municipal Bond Index

11 49th GST Council Meeting

12 Status and Proceeds of Disinvestment

13 Land Monetisation

1 Supreme Court Ruling on Appointment of CEC & ECs

2 Corrupt Practices under RPA Act 1951

3 Section 69(A) of Information Technology Act 2000

4 Article 105 of Constitution: The Limits to Free Speech in Parliament

5 Section 153A of IPC: Its Use and Misuse

6 Special Category Status

7 Income Tax Department’s Survey vs. Search

8 Greater Tipraland

9 Issue of Missing Deputy Speaker

10 President’s Rule under Article 356

11 Government sets up Panel on Digital Competition Law

12 Neutral Citation System

13 Conflict of Interest in India’s Food Fortification Policies & Programs

1 India and Germany to Enhance Cooperation

2 G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting

3 3rd ASEAN Digital Ministers Meeting

4 India Abstains in UN Vote on Ukraine

5 EU Green Deal Industrial Plan

6 REAIM 2023

7 Indo-Pacific Strategy of Canada

8 Ratification of Chicago Convention

9 India, UAE & France Trilateral Cooperation Initiative

1 SSLV-D2/EOS-07 Mission

2 Chandrayaan-3 Lander Completes EMI-EMC Test

3 JWST Spots Six Monster Galaxies

4 NISAR Mission

5 New Evidence of Ancient Lake on Mars

6 First Flue Gas Desulphurization Plant in South India

7 Indole-based Novel Molecule as Preventive against COVID Variants

8 Earth’s Innermost Realm

1 Glacial Lake Outburst Floods

2 Feedback Loops Worsening Climate Crisis

3 Poaching and Trafficking of Pangolins in India

4 GSI Discovers Lithium in Jammu and Kashmir

5 Gross Domestic Climate Risk Report

1 Ales Bialiatski

2 Giorgia Meloni

3 Ajay Banga

4 Girish Chandra Murmu

5 Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu

6 Dr. Mahendra Mishra

7 Lieutenant General MV Suchindra Kumar

8 Rashmi Shukla

9 B.V.R. Subrahmanyam

10 Rajiv Gauba

11 Ayushman Khurana

12 Neal Mohan

13 Craig Fulton

14 Paul Berg

15 Kanak Rele

16 Pandit Vijay Kumar Kichlu

17 Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi

18 Om Prakash Kohli

19 Tulsidas Balaram

20 Lalitha Lajmi

21 Gurugram

22 Shinku La Tunnel

23 FRINJEX-23

24 TARKASH

25 Shinyuu Maitri 23

26 Dharma Guardian

27 Cobra Warrior

28 Desert Flag VIII

29 Dustlik

30 Civil Aviation Research Organisation

31 World Hindi Conference

32 International Dharma-Dhamma Conference

33 Indian Rice Congress-2023

34 World Government Summit 2023

35 Thyreus narendrani

36 Horaglanis populi

37 Porter Prize 2023

38 Marconi Prize 2023

39 Raja Ram Mohan Roy National Award for Excellence in Journalism

40 Maharashtra Bhushan

41 Grammy Award

42 Sangeet Natak Akademi Ratna/ Akademi Puraskar

43 Khelo India Youth Games

44 Khelo India Winter Games 2023

45 Ranji Trophy 2022-23

46 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023

47 Important Days/Weeks

1 Musical Instruments and Folk Art of India

2 Lavani Folk Art

3 Dhamaal Dance

4 Aadi Mahotsav

5 Siang Unying Festival

6 Tourist Circuit of Heritage Sites

7 Sangam Era Keeladi Findings

8 1,300-year-old Buddhist Stupa found in Odisha

9 200th Birth Anniversary of Swami Dayanand Saraswati

10 Sant Sevalal Maharaj

11 14th Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav

12 Dr Zakir Hussain

13 Country’s First Marina

14 Mohiniattam

15 Ahmadiyya Movement

16 Govandi Arts Festival

17 Aluxes

1 Anubhuti Inclusive Park

2 Right to be Forgotten

3 Right against Self-incrimination

4 Child Marriage

5 NHRC Flags Implementation Gap in Mental Healthcare Act 2017

6 Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Infrastructure Mission

7 Direct Benefit Transfer

8 New Organ Transplantation Guidelines

9 Trends in Maternal Mortality from 2000 to 2020

10 Jadui Pitara

11 Suposhit Maa Abhiyan

12 eShram Portal

13 Mission Shakti

14 Sickle Cell Anaemia (SCA)

15 Menstrual Leaves

16 MoMo Pregnancy

Assam

1 North East’s First Compressed Biogas Plant

Kerala

1 First Indian State to Use Robotic Scavengers

2 First Indian High Court to Publish Judgment in Regional Language

3 Pact with UN Women

4 Green Hydrogen Hubs

Odisha

1 India’s First Agri Chatbot ‘Ama KrushAI’ Launched in Odisha

2 State Food Security Scheme

3 Aska Police Station Awarded as the Best Police Station in India

4 International Craft Summit

Uttar Pradesh

1 Family ID – One Family One Identity Portal

2 Aarohini Initiative

Madhya Pradesh

1 Ladli Bahna Scheme

2 Chief Minister’s Residential Land Rights Scheme

Telangana

1 Project Aspiration for Girls

Nagaland

1 Third Edition of Annual Orange Festival 2023

Uttarakhand

1 India’s First Green Solar Panel Factory

Goa

1 Vision for All School Eye Health Program

Maharashtra

1 State Song of Maharashtra

2 Kala Ghoda Arts Festival

3 First Divyang Park of Maharashtra

Himachal Pradesh

1 Himachal Niketan

Tamil Nadu

1 The Paalam Project

Rajasthan

1 18th National Jamboree of the Bharat Scouts and Guides

Punjab

1 ‘School of Eminence’ Project

1 Info Bytes

1 Status of Aadhaar Linking in India

2 Alderman

3 National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) App

4 Yuva Sangam Portal

5 Advocate Act of 1961

6 Aadhaar Mitra

7 eSanjeevani

8 37th Statehood Day of Arunachal Pradesh

9 Caveat

10 Jantri

11 Conformity Assessment Scheme on IS 19000:2022

12 QR Code-Based Coin Vending Machine

13 International Centre of Excellence for Dams (ICED)

14 Clean Plant Program

15 Mulethi (Licorice)

16 InfoCrop

17 Bendable Concrete

18 Mad Cow Disease

19 Organ on a Chip

20 ALMA

21 Automatic Train Supervision

22 CCR5 Mutation

23 Israel’s Sniffing Robot

24 Global Assessment of Soil Carbon in Grasslands

25 Rhododendrons

26 Marine Spatial Planning

27 Omorgus Khandesh

28 Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)

29 Save Wetlands Campaign

30 E20 Fuel

31 Fab 4 Chip Alliance

32 Windsor Framework

33 Seattle Bans Caste Discrimination

34 UN Commission for Social Development

35 Gulfood 2023

36 India-EU Trade and Technology Council

1 PM-KUSUM Scheme Extended by Three Years

1 IEA Report Flags Rising Methane Emissions

Geography Of India

Agriculture

1 Irrigation

2 Seeds

3 Fertilizers

4 Power

5 Land Holdings

6 Agro-Climatic Zones

7 Crop Production

8 Dryland/Rainfed Farming

9 Livestock Farming

10 Poultry

11 Fisheries and Aquaculture

12 Sericulture

13 Major Agricultural Revolutions

Industry

1 Mining Industry

2 Iron and Steel Industry

3 Aluminium Industry

4 Textile Industry

5 Pharmaceutical Industry

6 Automobile Industry

7 Cottage Industry

8 Industrial Regions

9 Industrial Policy

10 Special Economic Zones

Mineral Resources

1 Classification of Minerals

2 Conservation of Minerals

3 Rocks

Infrastructure

1 Logistics

2 Health Infrastructure

3 Education Infrastructure

Energy

1 Renewable Energy

2 Non-Renewable Energy

Transportation

1 Surface Transport

2 Railways

3 Water Transport

4 Air Transport

Forests

1 Vegetation

2 Social-Forestry

3 Mangroves

4 Ecological Issues

5 Sustainable Development

Tourism

1 ​Tourism: Important Facts

2 Medical Tourism

Human Resources

1 Demographic Attributes

2 Settlements

3 Regional Imbalance

4 Human Development

Miscellaneous

1 Major River Interlinking Projects

Model Test Questions

1 Model MCQs
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