Civil Services Chronicle April 2023

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

1 PM-KUSUM Scheme Extended by Three Years

1 Free Float

2 Additional Surveillance Mechanism

3 Stock Market Regulation in India

4 Fund to ‘Backstop’ Corporate Debt Market

5 NSE Indices launches India’s First Municipal Bond Index

6 49th GST Council Meeting

1 Status and Proceeds of Disinvestment

1 Land Monetisation

1 Jantri

2 Conformity Assessment Scheme on IS 19000:2022

3 QR Code-Based Coin Vending Machine

4 International Centre of Excellence for Dams (ICED)

5 Clean Plant Program

6 Mulethi (Licorice)

7 InfoCrop

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

1 Neutral Citation System

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

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

1 India and Germany to Enhance Cooperation

2 G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting

3 3rd ASEAN Digital Ministers Meeting

1 India Abstains in UN Vote on Ukraine

2 EU Green Deal Industrial Plan

3 REAIM 2023

1 Indo-Pacific Strategy of Canada

2 Ratification of Chicago Convention

3 India, UAE & France Trilateral Cooperation Initiative

1 Fab 4 Chip Alliance

2 Windsor Framework

3 Seattle Bans Caste Discrimination

4 UN Commission for Social Development

5 Gulfood 2023

6 India-EU Trade and Technology Council

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

1 First Flue Gas Desulphurization Plant in South India

2 Indole-based Novel Molecule as Preventive against COVID Variants

1 Earth’s Innermost Realm

1 Bendable Concrete

2 Mad Cow Disease

3 Organ on a Chip

4 ALMA

5 Automatic Train Supervision

6 CCR5 Mutation

7 Israel’s Sniffing Robot

1 Glacial Lake Outburst Floods

2 Feedback Loops Worsening Climate Crisis

1 Poaching and Trafficking of Pangolins in India

1 GSI Discovers Lithium in Jammu and Kashmir

2 Gross Domestic Climate Risk Report

1 IEA Report Flags Rising Methane Emissions

1 Global Assessment of Soil Carbon in Grasslands

2 Rhododendrons

3 Marine Spatial Planning

4 Omorgus Khandesh

5 Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)

6 Save Wetlands Campaign

7 E20 Fuel

1 Ales Bialiatski

2 Giorgia Meloni

3 Ajay Banga

4 Girish Chandra Murmu

5 Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu

6 Dr. Mahendra Mishra

1 Lieutenant General MV Suchindra Kumar

2 Rashmi Shukla

3 B.V.R. Subrahmanyam

4 Rajiv Gauba

5 Ayushman Khurana

6 Neal Mohan

7 Craig Fulton

1 Paul Berg

2 Kanak Rele

3 Pandit Vijay Kumar Kichlu

4 Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi

5 Om Prakash Kohli

6 Tulsidas Balaram

7 Lalitha Lajmi

1 Gurugram

2 Shinku La Tunnel

1 FRINJEX-23

2 TARKASH

3 Shinyuu Maitri 23

4 Dharma Guardian

5 Cobra Warrior

6 Desert Flag VIII

7 Dustlik

1 Civil Aviation Research Organisation

1 World Hindi Conference

2 International Dharma-Dhamma Conference

3 Indian Rice Congress-2023

4 World Government Summit 2023

1 Thyreus narendrani

2 Horaglanis populi

1 Porter Prize 2023

2 Marconi Prize 2023

3 Raja Ram Mohan Roy National Award for Excellence in Journalism

4 Maharashtra Bhushan

5 Grammy Award

6 Sangeet Natak Akademi Ratna/ Akademi Puraskar

1 Khelo India Youth Games

2 Khelo India Winter Games 2023

3 Ranji Trophy 2022-23

4 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023

1 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

1 Tourist Circuit of Heritage Sites

1 Sangam Era Keeladi Findings

2 1,300-year-old Buddhist Stupa found in Odisha

1 200th Birth Anniversary of Swami Dayanand Saraswati

2 Sant Sevalal Maharaj

1 14th Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav

2 Dr Zakir Hussain

3 Country’s First Marina

4 Mohiniattam

5 Ahmadiyya Movement

6 Govandi Arts Festival

7 Aluxes

1 Anubhuti Inclusive Park

1 Right to be Forgotten

2 Right against Self-incrimination

1 Child Marriage

2 NHRC Flags Implementation Gap in Mental Healthcare Act 2017

1 Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Infrastructure Mission

2 Direct Benefit Transfer

3 New Organ Transplantation Guidelines

1 Trends in Maternal Mortality from 2000 to 2020

1 Jadui Pitara

2 Suposhit Maa Abhiyan

3 eShram Portal

4 Mission Shakti

5 Sickle Cell Anaemia (SCA)

6 Menstrual Leaves

7 MoMo Pregnancy

1 North East’s First Compressed Biogas Plant

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

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

1 Family ID – One Family One Identity Portal

2 Aarohini Initiative

1 Ladli Bahna Scheme

2 Chief Minister’s Residential Land Rights Scheme

1 Project Aspiration for Girls

1 Third Edition of Annual Orange Festival 2023

1 India’s First Green Solar Panel Factory

1 Vision for All School Eye Health Program

1 State Song of Maharashtra

2 Kala Ghoda Arts Festival

3 First Divyang Park of Maharashtra

1 Himachal Niketan

1 The Paalam Project

1 18th National Jamboree of the Bharat Scouts and Guides

1 ‘School of Eminence’ Project

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

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

1 Classification of Minerals

2 Conservation of Minerals

3 Rocks

1 Logistics

2 Health Infrastructure

3 Education Infrastructure

1 Renewable Energy

2 Non-Renewable Energy

1 Surface Transport

2 Railways

3 Water Transport

4 Air Transport

1 Vegetation

2 Social-Forestry

3 Mangroves

4 Ecological Issues

5 Sustainable Development

1 ​Tourism: Important Facts

2 Medical Tourism

1 Demographic Attributes

2 Settlements

3 Regional Imbalance

4 Human Development

1 Major River Interlinking Projects

1 Model MCQs