Civil Services Chronicle May 2022

1 The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill 2022

2 14th India-Japan Annual Summit

3 River Rejuvenation through Forestry Interventions

4 Oil Shock and Its Impact

1 Supreme Court Panel Report on Repealed Farm Laws

2 Carbon-Neutral Agriculture

3 Rupee-Rouble Trade Agreement

4 RBI Removes Pricing Caps for Microfinance Lenders

5 Framework for Geo-tagging of Payment System Touch Points

6 National Land Monetisation Corporation

7 Brahmaputra (NW2) gets connected with Ganga (NW1)

8 Virtual Smart Grid Knowledge Centre

9 Raising and Accelerating MSME Performance

10 Scheme for Strengthening of Pharmaceutical Industry

11 Coastal Economic Zone

12 National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority

1 Chartered Accountants Bill 2021

2 National Commission for Scheduled Tribes

3 New Census Rule Notified

4 WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine

5 Principle of Reasonable Accommodation

6 Fast and Secured Transmission of Electronic Records

7 Assam-Meghalaya Border Pact

8 Centre Removes AFSPA from Parts of Nagaland, Assam and Manipur

1 2nd India-Australia Virtual Summit

2 5th India-Canada Ministerial Dialogue on Trade & Investment

3 Programme of Cooperation

4 5th BIMSTEC Summit

5 BBIN Motor Vehicles Agreement

6 Colombo Security Conclave Meeting

7 Minamata Convention

1 Chandrayaan-2 Observes Global Distribution of Argon-40 in Lunar Exosphere

2 NASA Confirms 5000 Exoplanets

3 The Science behind Solar Spicules

4 New Method of Hydrogen Production by Urea Electrolysis

5 MES Constructs Houses Using 3D Printing Technology

6 Solid Adsorbents for CO2 Capture and Utilisation

7 NSM Deploys Supercomputer Param Ganga

1 Amazon Rainforest Nearing Tipping Point

2 Mass Coral Bleaching of Great Barrier Reef

3 Upcoming Global Treaty on Plastic Pollution

4 Disaster Management Plan of Ministry of Panchayati Raj

1 Gilbert F. Houngbo

2 Dr Ian Fry

3 Jayati Ghosh

4 T Raja Kumar

5 Dr. S Raju

6 Ajay Bhushan Pandey

7 Debasish Panda

8 Eugene Newman Parker

9 Kirori Singh Bainsla

10 Ramesh Chandra Lahoti

11 Kumudben Joshi

12 BB Gurung

13 IONS Maritime Exercise 2022

14 VARUNA – 2022

15 EX DUSTLIK

16 SLINEX

17 Democratic Republic of Congo

18 Moradabad

19 Stockholm Water Prize 2022

20 Abel Prize 2022

21 GD Birla Award for Scientific Research 2022

22 Pritzker Architecture Prize 2022

23 94th Academy Awards

24 British Academy Film Awards 2022

25 Important Days/Weeks

1 Malabar Rebellion

2 Pal-Dadhav Massacre

3 Battle of Pollilur

4 Ol Chiki Script

5 Santhali Sohrai Mural

6 Narasingapettai Nagaswaram

7 Dol Jatra

8 Pandrethan Temple

9 Phool Dei: Uttarakhand's Festival of Flowers

10 UNESCO’s City of Literature Tag

11 Shyamji Krishna Varma

12 Bamiyan Buddhas

13 Namma Ooru Thiruvizha

14 Three-headed sculpture of Lord Vishnu

1 Determination of Minority Status

2 Decline in Maternal Mortality Ratio

3 Ujjwala Effect

4 POSH Act

5 Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav Abhiyan

6 “Her&Now” Project

7 Start-Up Village Entrepreneurship Programme

8 Extension of National AIDS & STD Control Programme

9 India TB Report 2021

10 WHO Releases Abortion Care Guidelines

11 Project Udaan

12 Project UNNATI

13 Gender Samwaad

14 National Achievement Survey (NAS)

15 Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP)

16 EatSmart Cities Challenge

17 English Access Micro Scholarship Programme India

Karnataka

1 AQVERIUM: India’s First-Ever Digital Water Data Bank

2 Women@Work Programme

3 Dishaank App

Tripura

1 Mukhyamantri Chaa Srami Kalyan Prakalpa Scheme

Madhya Pradesh

1 First Drone School

Haryana

1 India’s First Virtual Smart Grid Knowledge Centre

2 Sushma Swaraj Award

3 Haryana Matrushakti Udyamita Yojana

4 35th Surajkund International Crafts Mela

Rajasthan

1 Camel Protection and Development Policy

Telangana

1 Telangana Topped the Country in Terms of Per Capita Net State 2022

Odisha

1 Mission Indradhanush: Odisha Topped in Full Immunization with 90.5% Coverage

Nagaland

1 Nagaland Assembly First in India to Implement National E-Vidhan Application

Tamil Nadu

1 Tamil Nadu Petroproducts

Meghalaya

1 Meghalaya’s MeghEA Project Shortlisted for UN Awards 2022

Bihar

1 Bihar Diwas

Badminton

1 PV Sindhu

1 Dies-non

2 National Bee Board (NBB)

3 I-STEM National Portal

4 National Conference on Economics of Competition Law

5 National Pension System (NPS)

6 International Election Visitors Programme (IEVP)

7 Predatory Pricing

8 Tax Loss Harvesting

9 Venture Capital

10 Kalanamak Paddy

11 Padkai Farming

12 Market Intervention Scheme (MIS)

13 Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH)

14 ‘Meri Policy Mere Haath’ Campaign

15 Kaji Nemu

16 PACER Scheme

17 GSAT-7B Satellite

18 Gallium Nitride (GaN)

19 ExoMars 2022

20 Australia’s Defence Space Command Agency

21 Indigenous Air Traffic Management Systems

22 Minamata Convention on Mercury

23 Boma Technique

24 Pensilungpa Glacier

25 Earth Hour

26 Project Nilgiri Tahr

27 Syllipsimopodi bideni

28 Glycosmis albicarpa

29 International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

30 Bucharest Nine (B9)

31 National College for Policing and Law Enforcement (NCPLE)

32 Hague Convention of 1954

1 Draft National Medical Devices Policy 2022

2 Sujalam 2.0 Campaign

3 Donate a Pension Scheme

4 National Capacity Building Framework for Garbage Free Cities

5 MSME Innovative Scheme

6 Amendment to the Mines and Minerals Act, 1957

7 Dare2eraD TB Launched

8 India’s Arctic Policy

1 Democracy Report 2022

2 NITI Aayog Releases Second Edition of Export Preparedness Index 2021

3 2021 World Air Quality Report

4 World Water Development Report 2022

Indian Polity And Governance

Miscellaneous

1 Indian Polity

Indian Economy

1 Minimum Support Price

2 Participatory Notes (P-notes)

3 Index of Eight Core Industries

4 Balance of Payment (BoP) & Balance of Trade

5 Balance of Payment (BoP) – Causes of Disequilibrium and Measures to Rectify

6 Convertibility of Rupee

7 India’s Merchandise Exports and Merchandise Imports

8 Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMS)

9 Components of Monetary Policy

10 Reserve Bank of India (RBI): Mandate & Appointment

11 Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of RBI

12 Money Multiplier

13 Public Debt (Government Securities (G-Sec))

14 Rise of Indian Government Bond Yield

15 Determinants of National Income

16 GST- Coverage (Tax Base)

17 GST- Advantages of Implementation

18 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS)

19 Tax to GDP Ratio

20 Capital Budget

21 Budget Deficit & Measures to Reduce Them

22 Devaluation of a Currency: Effects

23 Inflation

24 Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Wholesale Price Index (WPI)

25 Role of RBI/Govt. in controlling the Inflation

26 Stressed Assets/NPAs

27 Economic Recession

28 Digital Payment System

29 National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI)

30 Social Capital

31 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)

32 Legal Tender Money

33 Opportunity Cost

34 Human Capital Formation (HCF)

35 IFC Masala Bonds

36 Core Banking Solution

37 Seed Village Concept

38 Global Depository Receipts

Model Test Questions

1 Prelims 2022: General Studies Paper I MCQs

2 Prelims 2022: Current Affairs Based MCQs

Essays

1 Role of Research and Innovation in India’s Economic Growth

General Studies Mains Questions And Answers

1 Landslide is a major problem in the Himalayan region. Discuss its causes and mitigation measures.

2 Discuss the importance of solar energy in the future economic development of India.

3 Examine the significance of ecotourism in relation to socio-economic development and biodiversity conservation in India.

4 Recently, India and South Africa gave a clarion call at the World Trade Organization (WTO) demanding that key provisions of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement be temporarily waived. What is the issue? What is your opinion on this?

5 What are the reasons of Russia-Ukraine crisis? What are the likely impacts for India?

6 What do you understand by good governance? Has India achieved the objective of good governance? Explain with examples.

7 What do you understand by financial inclusion? Whether the policies regarding financial inclusion implemented in India have yielded positive results? Comment.

8 How did land reforms in some parts of the country help to improve the socio-economic conditions of marginal and small farmers?

9 Nobel Prize in Physics for 2021 has been awarded to climatologists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann for the physical modeling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming. How will it improve our understanding of climate change?

10 How do the melting of the Arctic ice and glaciers of the Antarctic differently affect the weather patterns and human activities on the Earth? Explain.
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