Civil Services Chronicle June-July 2021

1 Rural Health Statistics

2 NITI Aayog’s Report on Connected Commerce

3 G-7 agrees to 'Historic' Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate

4 Protected Planet Report 2020: Equity and Effectiveness are Crucial Post-2020

1 Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture

2 Large Area Certification Scheme

3 Horticulture Cluster Development Programme

4 RBI Joins Network for Greening the Financial System

5 RBI announces Steps to Fight Second Wave of Covid-19

6 India Energy Dashboards Version 2.0

7 Reclassification of Promoters by SEBI

8 Model Insurance Villages

1 Re-Nomination to Rajya Sabha

2 Section 51 of Disaster Management Act, 2005

3 The Tribunals Reforms (Rationalization and Conditions of Service) Ordinance, 2021

4 Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY) 3.0

5 Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020

6 SWAMITVA Scheme

7 UAPA (Unlawful Activities [Prevention] Act), 1967

8 NITI Aayog’s SDG Index

9 Gram Unnat-Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) Programme

10 Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991

11 Supreme Court on Maratha Reservation Law

1 Mali Suspended from African Union

2 Currency Swap between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

3 China’s Three-Child Policy

4 US Opposes Militarization of Artic

5 Permanent Commission Proposed For Israel Human Rights Violations

6 Lithuania quits China’s 17+1 Cooperation

7 Project DANTAK

8 India backs Maldives’s candidature for UNGA President

9 India-Australia Meeting

10 First BRICS Employment Working Group Meeting

11 Asian Development Bank

12 G7 Foreign Ministers Summit

1 Evolution of the Milky Way: New Insights

2 New Study on 3-D Distribution of Molecular and Atomic Hydrogen in Andromeda Galaxy

3 Study Sheds New Light on Big Bang Theory

4 Solar Orbiter Captures First Coronal Mass Ejection

5 China’s Zhurong Rover Lands on the Red Planet

6 Parker Solar Probe discovers Natural Radio Emission in Venusian Atmosphere

7 OSIRIS-Rex heads back Home with Asteroid Sample

8 New NASA Missions to Study Venus

9 Optogenetic Therapy restores Partial Vision in Blind Patient

10 WHO and Switzerland Launch First BioHub Facility

11 New Theory by Indian Scientists Solves Mystery behind Complex Phenomena in Plasma

12 Indian Navy designs Oxygen Recycling System

13 Israel’s Iron Dome Aerial Defence System

1 Climate Breakthroughs Summit

2 Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update

3 State of the Global Climate 2020 Report

4 WWF Report on Snow Leopard

5 Forest Bird Species on the Decline in Western Himalaya

6 India’s Deep Sea Fauna

7 Global Forest Goals Report 2021

8 UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

9 Investments in Nature-based Solutions need to triple by 2030 for Sustainable Development

10 8th Global Nitrogen Conference

1 Newsmakers

2 On the Hot Seat

3 Faces Only in Memory

4 States in News

5 Places in News

6 Miscellaneous

7 World of Awards

8 World of Sports

1 Kumbh Mela

2 New Indian Sites added to Tentative List of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites

1 Global Gender Gap (GGG) Report

2 Swachh Survekshan (SS) 2021

3 Commitment to Reduce Inequality Index 2020

4 Highest Demand under MGNREGA

1 PIB Corner

2 PIB Corner

3 PIB Corner

4 PIB Corner

5 PIB Corner

1 Women and Men in India Report 2020

2 World Press Freedom Index, 2021

3 Native Languages

4 News Snippets

5 Draft Rules for Road-Trains

6 On Tap Licenses for Banks

7 Di-ammonium Phosphate

8 Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules 2011

9 Dip in Revenue Receipts

10 Kharif Strategy 2021

11 India Recorded highest ever FDI Inflow

12 News Snippets

13 Herero and Nama Genocide

14 Digital Border

15 China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Dialogue

16 E9 Countries

17 8888 Uprising

18 Ukraine Bid to Join NATO

19 News Snippets

20 Black Fungus Disease

21 Indian Astronomers Develop New Method to Identify Cluster Stars

22 DRDO Lab develops Antibody Detection Kit ‘DIPCOVAN’

23 Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts Oxygen on Mars

24 National Technology Day

25 India’s 1st Reactor on PPP Model

26 NEWS SNIPPETS

27 12th Clean Energy Ministerial and the Industrial Deep Decarbonisation Initiative

28 Global Warming Responsible for One-third of the World’s Heat Deaths

29 Bryocrumia malabarica – New Species of Bryophyte

30 Blackbuck Population doubles in Odisha

31 News Snippets

1 Indian Insurance Companies (Foreign Investment) Amendment Rules 2021

2 CBDT notifies Threshold for Significant Economic Presence

3 SEBI Proposed Framework for Gold Exchange in India

4 Government Extends Emergency Credit Scheme for MSMEs

5 National Programme on Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC) Battery Storage

6 MeitY Launches Three New Initiatives

7 National Mission on Use of Biomass in Coal Based Thermal Power Plants

1 RBI’s Annual Report 2020-21

2 SEBI Technical Group’s Report on “Social Stock Exchanges”

3 Asian Development Outlook 2021

4 World Employment and Social Outlook Report 2021

5 World Energy Investment Report 2021

Model Test Questions

1 Prelims Model Test 2021 - Art & Culture

2 Prelims Model Test 2021 - History

3 Prelims Model Test 2021 - Polity & Constitution

4 Prelims Model Test 2021 - Economy

5 Prelims Model Test 2021 - Environment

6 Prelims Model Test 2021 - Geography

7 Prelims Model Test 2021 - International Relations

8 Prelims Model Test 2021 - Science & Technology

9 Prelims Model Test 2021 - Miscellaneous

Essays

1 The Idea of Self-Reliant India
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