Civil Services Chronicle August 2020

1 Task Force to Examine Age of Motherhood, Imperatives of lowering MMR& Improving Nutritional Levels

2 OBC sub-categorisation Commission

3 Essential Commodities Act Amended to Boost Farm Sector

4 India-Australia: Comprehensive Strategic Partnership

5 New EPR Framework for Plastic Waste Management

The People’s Republic of China

1 Schools in Rural Areas

2 Ease of Living

3 Women Domestic Workers

1 Government Notifies Two Ordinances to Kick in Agri-reforms

2 Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund

3 Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana

4 Indian Gas Exchange

5 Special Liquidity Scheme for NBFCs and HFCs

6 Interest Subvention Scheme for MUDRA - Shishu Loan

7 Interest Subvention Scheme for MUDRA - Shishu Loan

8 ‘Country of Origin’Made Mandatory to Sell Products on GeM

9 Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020

10 Kushinagar Airport Declared an International Airport

1 Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code

2 PMO Affirms PM CARES Not a Public Authority Under RTI Act

3 Draft Unmanned Aircraft System Rules 2020

4 Supreme Court Declares ‘Secrecy of Ballot’a Cornerstone of Free and Fair Elections

5 Right to Reservationis not a Fundamental Right: SC

1 Strain in Indo-Nepal Ties

2 India Downgrades Diplomatic Ties with Pakistan

3 India and Bhutan Sign MoU on Environment Cooperation

4 SIPRI Report:Continuation ofNuclear Weapon Modernization

5 India Elected to the United Nations Security Council

6 Pakistan to Stay on FATF Grey List

1 Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA):163348 (2002 NN4)

2 Black Hole Merger: Mystery Object in Mass Gap

3 SpaceX Crew Dragon: A New Era in Space Exploration

4 NASA’s Gateway Lunar Orbit Outpost

5 China Publishes Coronavirus Genome Data

6 Nature Index 2020

1 The Sixth Mass Extinction

2 Environment Performance Index 2020

3 Oil spill in Russia’s Arctic Region

4 Aerosol Radiative Forcing in Trans-Himalayas

5 India's First Ever Climate Change Assessment Report

6 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

7 Census of Asiatic Lion

8 New Guidelines for Import of Exotic Species

9 Increase in Poaching Amidst COVID-19 Lockdown

10 Integrated Flood Warning System: IFLOWS-Mumbai

11 Baghjan Tragedy: Assam Gas Leak and Fire

1 Joe Biden

2 Volkan Bozkir

3 Lt Gen Raj Mohan Vohra

4 YSR KapuNestham Scheme

5 Kotumsar Caves

6 Global Status Report on Preventing Violence against Children 2020

7 P K Mohanty Committee

8 Navy Inducts Maareech

9 Talamaddale

10 World Food Prize

11 Khelo India State Centres of Excellence

1 Ancient Temple Submerged in River Mahanadi Resurfaces in Nayagarh

2 Puri Rath Yatra Commences with Conditional Approval of Supreme Court

3 Odisha Celebrates Raja Parba Festival amidst Lockdown

4 Kodumanal Excavations Indicate Megalithic Belief in Afterlife

1 COVID 19 Pushed 45 million Globally into Food Insecurity: FAOReport

2 Annual India TB Report 2020

3 NHRC Asks Centre to Provide Interim Aid to Stranded Migrants

4 COVID-19 Widened Educational Divide: UNESCO Report

5 National Institutional Ranking Framework Rankings 2020

1 PIB Corner

2 PIB Corner

3 PIB Corner

4 PIB Corner

5 PIB Corner

1 TULIP Internship Portal for Graduates

2 State Food Safety Index 2019-20

3 Gairsain Declared as Summer Capital of Uttarakhand

4 Plea for Renaming India as ‘Bharat’ can go to Centre as representation: Supreme Court

5 SATYABHAMA Portal

6 Credit Guarantee Scheme for Subordinate Debt

7 Sahakar Mitra Scheme

8 ShweOil &Gas Project

9 SATAT Initiative

10 Russia-India-China Grouping

11 US President wants India to Join G7

12 Ethiopia-Sudan Border Row

13 Vaccine Nationalism

14 H1-B Visa Halt

15 Japan to Rename Senkaku Islands

16 Juneteenth

17 Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence

18 Fifth State of Matter in Space

19 Drugs for Fighting COVID-19

20 Malathion and Chlorpyrifos

21 Captain Arjun

22 Viroblock: Anti-viral Textile Technology

23 National AI Portal

24 Global Vaccine Summit

25 Cyclone Nisarga

26 WWF on Zoonotic Diseases

27 Indian Gaur Population Estimation in Nilgiris

28 Green Light for Individual contributions to NDRF

1 Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan

2 PM Svanidhi: Micro-Credit Facility Scheme

Mock Test Papers

Prelims

1 PRELIMS Mock Test 2020
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