Civil Services Chronicle February 2020

1 Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019: Extensive Powers but Less Responsibility

2 India Gets its First Chief of Defence Staff

3 Transformational Organisational Restructuring of Indian Railways

4 Bharat Bond Exchange Traded Fund: A New Offer for Investors

5 India-Australia Mutual Logistics Support Agreement Nears Completion

6 COP25 Climate Talks CrashedOver Green Climate Fund

7 First National Ganga Council toSave the Ganges Dolphin

1 Group of Ministers Set Up To Review Crop Insurance Scheme

2 RBI’s Operation Twist to Boost Lending

3 Government Notifies The Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 2019

4 Parliament Paves Way for Unified Regulator for Financial Services

5 Extension for Sabka Vishwas Scheme

6 Government Launches Data Bank of Independent Directors

7 Silver Line Project

8 Cabinet Authorises NHAI to Set Up Infrastructure Investment Trust

1 Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu Merger Act 2019

2 Bill to Ban e-Cigarettes Approved by the Parliament

3 Presidential Assent Given to the Arms (Amendment) Bill, 2019

4 Andhra Pradesh Legislature Passes the Disha Bill 2019

5 Section 144, CrPC: A Relic of Colonial Era

6 Good Governance Index

7 Atal Bhujal Yojana: A Scheme for Groundwater

8 PM Releases Guidelines for Jal Jeevan Mission

1 India-Japan 2+2 Foreign and Defence Ministerial Meeting

2 ‘Phase One’ Agreement between the US and China

3 West Africa Renames CFA Franc

4 Russia Launches Gas Pipeline to China

5 Bougainville Votes to Become World’s Newest Country

6 UK Defies Deadline to Return Chagos Island

7 China, South Korea, Japan Meet Over Trade, Regional Disputes

8 First Global Refugee Forum

1 Giant Black Hole LB-1 Discovered

2 Giant Planet Orbiting a White Dwarf Discovered

3 ESA’s ClearSpace-1 Mission

4 ISRO Successfully Launches RISAT-2BR1

5 US Army to Create Rare Earth Metal Processing Facility

6 Pinaka Missile System Successfully Flight-Tested

7 DRDO Conducts Successful Trials of BrahMos Missile

1 Operation ‘Clean Art’

2 IUCN 10th Asian Elephant Specialist Group (AsESG) Meeting

3 Growth in Global Carbon Emission Slowed

4 CWC Report on Heavy Metals Contaminating Indian Rivers

5 SC Issues Order on Completion of “Smog Tower Project”

6 Climate Risk Index 2020

7 Victoria Falls Runs Dry

8 Ministry of Coal to form Sustainable Development Cell

1 PERSONS IN NEWS

2 ON THE HOT SEAT

3 FACES ONLY IN MEMORY

4 STATES/UTS IN NEWS

5 DEFENCE

6 PLACES IN NEWS

7 COMMITTEE/COMMISSION

8 STUDY/SURVEY/REPORT

9 MISCELLANEOUS

10 WORLD OF AWARDS

11 WORLD OF SPORTS

1 South India’s Earliest Sanskrit Inscription Found in A.P.

1 India Slips to 112th Rank on Gender Parity Index

1 3rd Phase of PMGSY​

2 Future Skills PRIME

3 Army to Set Up Integrated Battle Groups by 2020

4 First Trial Shipment of Fresh Vegetables from Varanasi to Dubai

5 Greenwashing

6 Cabinet approves Aircraft (Amendment) Bill - 2019

7 China-Russia-Iran Trilateral Naval Exercise

8 Saudi Arabia: First Arab Nation to take over the G20 Presidency

9 50th Annual Meet of WEF

10 NATO Summit

11 EChO Network

12 Tweezer Clock

13 Trastuzumab: WHO Approved First Biosimilar Medicine for Breast Cancer

14 ‘Bibha’ & ‘Santamasa’

15 Protein that repairs DNA

16 SnowEx

17 Rhinos to be Re-introduced in Uttarakhand

18 'Swachchh Samundra NW-2019

19 More Plastic Pollution on Maharashtra Beaches than K'taka, Goa

20 BIMSTEC: International Seminar on Climate Smart Farming Systems

21 Assam Forms a Squad to Tackle Human-Wildlife Conflicts in State

1 Parliament Passes Bill to Extend SC/ST Reservations in Legislatures

2 Ethics Panel Set to Form Code of Conduct for Lok Sabha MPs

3 Operation Dolphin’s Nose Unearths Pakistan-Linked Spying Racket

4 Bru Repatriation: Back to Mizoram

5 eBkray- Common e-Auction Platform

6 Standing Committee on Economic Statistics

7 Human Development Index 2019

8 Donald Trump Impeached by House of Representatives

9 Cuba Appoints Miguel Diaz-Canel as Prime Minister

10 “Top 100 City Destination” Ranking

11 Sarvatra: The Indigenous Bullet-proof Jacket

12 Quantum States Created in Everyday Electronics

13 Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Legend

14 StrandHogg: Android’s Vulnerability

15 IUCN Updates “Red List of Threatened Species”

16 Scientists Find World’s Oldest Fossil Forest

17 4th India Water Impact Summit

18 World Soil Day

1 Parliament introduces the Code on Social Security – 2019

2 National Broadband Mission

1 Financial Stability Report

Indian History

1 European Settlements and British Conquest of India

2 Rise of British Empire in India

3 Administrative Policies of British (1757-1857)

4 Land Revenue Policies of British

5 Commercial Policies of British

6 Early Indian Responses to British Rule

7 The Revolt of 1857

8 Nationalist Movement (1858-1905)

9 Nationalist Movement (1905-1918)

10 GANDHI'S EARLY CAREER AND ACTIVISM

11 THE NON-COOPERATION MOVEMENT 1920-22

12 THE YEARS OF STAGNATION — SWARAJISTS AND NO-CHANGERS

13 Civil Disobedience Movement 1930-31

14 The Years from 1932-34

15 Congress Rule in Provinces

16 National Movement: 1939-1942

17 Cripps Mission

18 Quit India Movement

19 Inception of the Indian National Army

20 Revolutionary Terrorists

21 Communalism in India

22 Timeline: Evolution of the Two-Nation Theory

23 Peasant Movements

24 Peasant Activity in Provinces

25 Working Class Movement

26 Temple Entry Movements

27 Gurdwara Reform Movements

Mock Test Papers

Prelims

1 PRELIMS Mock Test 2020

Essays

1 Is India Facing a Moral or an Economic Crisis?
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