Civil Services Chronicle August 2021

1 Beed Model of Crop Insurance

2 Green Gold Collection for Bamboo Products

1 Government proposes Amendments to Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020

2 New Stimulus Package amid 2nd Covid-19 Wave

1 Toycathon 2021

1 Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme

1 NITI Aayog Releases “Fast Tracking Freight in India” Report

2 World Investment Report 2021

1 India Joins OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework Tax Deal

2 National Statistics Day 2021

3 Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI)

4 Current Account Deficit

5 Seed Minikit Programme

1 News Snippets

1 PIB Corner

2 PIB Corner

3 PIB Corner

4 PIB Corner

1 Delimitation Exercise kicks off in Jammu & Kashmir

1 Censorship of Cinema: Draft Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2021

1 Defining Limits of Sedition

2 Draft Model Rules for Live-Streaming and Recording of Court Proceedings

1 6th Anniversary of Smart Cities Mission, AMRUT and PMAY-U

2 Model Panchayat Citizens Charter

1 SAGE Initiative

2 Disability Early Intervention Centres

3 Assam to Implement Two-Child Policy

1 Niti Aayog Report on Not-for-Profit Hospital Model

2 All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2019-20

1 UN CEO’s Water Mandate

2 Attorney General of India

3 Task Force for Mission Karmayogi

1 News Snippets

1 G7 Summit 2021

1 UN’s Myanmar Resolution

2 At UNHRC, Grave Concerns raised over Xinjiang

1 India - Sri Lanka

2 India-China Relations: A Year after Galwan

1 New Atlantic Charter

2 Antarctic Treaty

1 UNHRC Resolution on Israel Human Right Violation on Palestine

2 OPCW Report on use of Chemical Weapons by Syria

3 42nd Session of FAO Conference

4 2021 NATO Summit

5 India completes Term as Chair of ILO’s Governing Body

1 BRICS opposes Exceptionalism: China

2 EU urged to consider its GSP+ Status given to Sri Lanka

3 SCO Meet 2021

1 Global Expansion of Nuclear Arsenal: SIPRI Report

1 Maldives wins 76th UNGA Presidential Election

2 Bitcoin: Legalised by El Salvador

3 Joe Biden-Vladimir Putin Geneva Summit

4 G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting

5 Iran refuses to give Nuclear Site Images to IAEA

6 First-Ever Israeli Embassy opens in UAE

1 News Snippets

1 CAR T-cell Therapy: Heralding a New Era in Cancer Treatment

1 Chandrayaan-2 Solar X-ray Monitor Unravels Mysteries of the Solar Corona

2 New Research Points to Possibility of Life on Jupiter

3 PASIPHAE Sky Survey Project

4 Understanding Heavy Metal Abundance in CEMP Stars

1 ESA’s EnVision Mission

2 Shenzhou-12 Manned Mission: Astronauts Dock with Space Station

1 UNESCO Science Report 2021

1 Defence Innovation with iDEX-DIO

1 IISS Report Assesses India’s Cyber Power

1 Novel Technique for Early Detection of Cyclones

1 Triboelectric Nanogenerator (TENG)

2 SERB and Intel India Launch ‘Fund for Industrial Research Engagement’ (FIRE)

3 Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO)

1 News Snippets

1 PIB Corner

1 Deep Ocean Mission

1 WMO verifies Record High Temperature for Antarctica

2 UN High-level Dialogue on Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought

1 Odisha plans to create Natural Barriers to Cyclonic Storms

1 SDSN’s Sustainable Development Report 2021

1 UN Proposes Global Roadmap for Universal Access to Sustainable Energy

2 UNESCO Launches First Ocean Decade Actions

3 Sustainable Water Management: Insights on Water Source Sustainability

1 Conservation Pact on Black Softshell Turtle in Assam

2 Dihing Patkai National Park Inaugurated

1 News Snippets

1 PIB Corner

1 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj

2 Ram Prasad Bismil

3 Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

1 Reclining Buddha

2 National Maritime Heritage Complex

3 Raja Parba Festival

4 Copperplate Inscriptions found at Srisailam Temple

5 Tulu Language

6 New Caves discovered at Nashik’s Pandav Leni Complex

7 ‘Snaana Yatra’ of Lord Jagannath

1 News Snippets

1 Important Bodies in News

1 Judiciary & Important Judgements

1 Legislature & Executive

1 Governance & Federal Issues

1 Articles of the Constitution in News

1 BRICS Employment Working Group Meeting

2 India on US Treasury’s ‘Currency Watch List’

3 India and the Quad

4 World Food Programme

5 India as Non-Permanent Member of UNSC

6 BIMSTEC

7 Osaka Declaration on Digital Economy

8 Chabahar Port (Zahedan Railway Line)

9 Abraham Accord

10 Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI)

11 International Summits (SCO, BRICS, G20, OPEC, RCEP)

12 India’s Draft Arctic Policy

13 Suez Canal and Ever Given Ship

14 Indo-China Border Dispute

15 Military Coup in Myanmar

16 Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

17 New START Treaty

1 Science & Technology (Space Technology)

1 Science & Technology ( Defence Technology)

1 Science & Technology (Biotechnology)

1 Science & Technology (Other Major Developments)

1 History/ Art & Culture (Personalities in News)

2 History/ Art & Culture (Sculpture & Architecture)

3 History/ Art & Culture (Painting & Other Art Forms)

4 History/ Art & Culture (Historical Events)

5 History/ Art & Culture (Global Initiatives to Conserve Cultural Heritage)

6 History/ Art & Culture (Miscellaneous)

1 ​Prelims 2021 : Current Affairs Based MCQs

1 India’s Policy Options in Middle-East