Civil Services Chronicle August 2025

1 Fertility Crisis in India

2 India, Ghana Upgrade Ties to Comprehensive Partnership

3 Semiconductors: Powering India’s Digital Ecosystem

4 India’s Data Imperative: The Pivot Towards Quality

5 Reforming Agricultural Subsidies in India: Towards Efficiency, Equity, and Sustainability

6 Unwrapping India’s Food Safety Challenges

7 Urban Drainage Crisis in India

8 India-Cyprus Five-Year Strategic Roadmap

9 Climate Induced Migration: A Multidimensional Challenge Requiring Global Action

10 Bonn Summit Sets Tense Stage for COP30

11 India-Croatia: Deepening Partnership

12 Drought: Escalating Risks to Communities, Ecosystems, and Economies

1 India’s First International Agri Hackathon

2 Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan

3 Statistical Report on Agriculture and Allied Sectors

4 RBI Relaxes PSL Norms for Small Finance Banks

5 SEBI Tightens Timelines for Rebalancing Mutual Fund Portfolios

6 Financial Stability Report

7 RBI Introduces STRIPS in State Government Securities

8 Sagarmala Finance Corporation Limited: India’s First Maritime NBFC

9 New Maritime Digital Initiatives: Powering Maritime Efficiency

10 Rapid Expansion of India's Startup Ecosystem

11 India’s Transport Infrastructure

12 Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI)

13 Shri Radha Shyam Ratho Committee

14 All-India Electrical Safety Awareness Programme

15 Banking Industry Public Utility Status Extended for 6 Months

16 SPREE Scheme

17 Price Support Scheme (PSS)

18 Variable Rate Reverse Repo Auction

19 Dark Factories

20 Goldilocks Economy

1 One Year of New Criminal Laws

2 RECLAIM Framework

3 Vineet Joshi Panel

4 National Indicator Framework Progress Report, 2025

5 FRA Cells: Facilitating Forest Rights Act

6 Estimates Committee of Parliament

7 National Seminar on Strengthening Rural Microenterprises

8 Centre’s New Regulations for Ladakh

9 Civil Registration System (CRS)

10 Legislatures Enacting Laws Not Contempt of Court: Supreme Court

11 RailOne App

12 GoIStats App

13 NAKSHA

14 Training of Trainers (ToT) Programme

15 India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)

16 Zonal Councils

17 Sugamya Bharat App

18 ECI’s Upgraded Index Card System

19 India Energy Stack

20 MY Bharat 2.0 Platform

21 Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950

22 Offshore Security Coordination Committee

23 Thali Index

24 Silver Notice

25 e-Raktkosh

1 Rwanda and DRC Sign U.S.-Brokered Peace Deal

2 Finland Exits Ottawa Treaty on Landmines

3 India-Kyrgyzstan Bilateral Investment Treaty Comes into Force

4 India-Paraguay: Strengthening South-South Cooperation

5 India Refuses to Sign SCO Joint Statement

6 NATO Summit 2025

7 G7 Leaders Struggle for Unity amid Geopolitical Crises

8 UN Member States Endorse ‘Seville Commitment’

9 India Elected to UN ECOSOC for 2026–28 Term

10 China Hosts First-Ever Trilateral Meeting with Pakistan and Bangladesh

11 India Wins IIAS Presidency for 2025–2028

12 India–Japan Maritime Cooperation

13 Iran Declared in Breach of Non-Proliferation Obligations

14 India Slams OIC for Comments on Indian Muslims, Kashmir

15 India-Norway Maritime Talks

16 Sustainable Development Report (SDR) 2025

17 Operation Spider’s Web

18 UN80 Initiative

1 Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4)

2 Superheated Plasma

3 Antibiotic-Producing Thermophilic Bacteria

4 Scientists Discover Key to Delaying Female Fertility Decline

5 Global Guideline for Managing Sickle Cell Disease in Pregnancy

6 Skin Health Gets Global Attention

7 Scientists Pioneer Ultra-Sensitive Cryo-EM with MagIC and DuSTER

8 Bharat Gen: Multilingual AI for Every Indian

9 Indigenous VTOL UAV ‘Rudrastra’

10 India Demonstrates Quantum Entanglement-Based Secure Communication

11 Hybrid Stochastic Computing

12 DRUM App

13 Battery Recycling Tech Gets Boost from TDB

14 Neutrino Mass and the KATRIN Experiment

15 Critical and Emerging Technologies Index

16 IndiaAI Mission Scales Up Indigenous AI Capacity

17 SIPRI Yearbook 2025: Global Nuclear Arsenal

18 Stablecoins

19 Step-and-Shoot SPArc

20 Gwada Negative

21 Strawberry Moon

1 Global Science-Policy Panel to Combat Chemicals, Waste and Pollution

2 Farm Fungicide Fuels Deadly Drug Resistance in Candida tropicalis

3 Cooling Revolution in Data Centres

4 ICAR Develops Eco-Friendly Biopesticide for Cardamom Thrips

5 Global Warming Could Slash Staple Crop Yields by 2100

6 Atlantic Ocean Current Collapse Could Plunge Europe into Extreme Winters

7 Rajasthan’s Khichan and Menar Wetlands Declared Ramsar Sites

8 AviList: World’s First Unified Global Bird Checklist Launched

9 Jharkhand Plans Its First Tiger Safari

10 Ocean Acidification Crosses Planetary Boundary, Threatens Global Marine Ecosystems

11 Global Drought Outlook

12 International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure 2025

13 India Hosts First International Big Cat Alliance Assembly

14 UN Ocean Conference 2025: Countries Adopt ‘Nice Ocean Action Plan’

15 State of World Marine Fishery Resources

16 Eurasian Otters Reappear in Kashmir After Decades

17 Dushanbe Conference

18 Raja Khas: Himachal’s First Solar Model Village

19 Tamil Nadu Declares Dhanushkodi as Greater Flamingo Sanctuary

20 New Parasitic Wasp Discovered in Chandigarh

21 India’s Ungulates under Threat: First National Assessment

22 New Species of Intelligent Jumping Spider Discovered

23 Stratospheric Aerosol Injection

24 Thirstwaves

25 Ocean Darkening

26 Nano Fertilizer

27 Land Degradation

1 Shubhanshu Shukla

2 Jahnavi Dangeti

3 Amitabh Kant

4 Peggy Whitson

5 Lee Jae-myung

6 Parag Jain

7 Zou Jiayi

8 Kirsty Coventry

9 Sivasubramanian Ramann

10 Aliawati Longkumer

11 Yashasvi Solankee

12 Katrina Kaif

13 S Mahendra Dev

14 Rajiv Memani

15 Surendra Dubey

16 Maruti Chitampalli

17 Nellai Su. Muthu

18 Ustad Ghulam Nabi Shah

19 Vijay Rupani

20 Daji Panshikar

21 Dilip Doshi

22 Important Days

23 Exercise ‘Shakti 2025’

24 Exercise "Tiger Claw"

25 Exercise Khaan Quest 2025

26 51st G7 Summit 2025

27 SCO Defence Ministers’ Meeting

28 The Indian Conservation Conference (ICCON) 2025

29 Bonn Climate Change Conference 2025

30 First Assembly of the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA)

31 National Conference On Agri Stack: Turning Data Into Delivery

32 Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan

33 Strait of Hormuz

34 Bengaluru

35 Kariyachalli Island

36 Lakhapar Village, Kutch District, Gujarat

37 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

38 Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

39 International Potato Center (CIP)

40 Recent State Honours to PM Narendra Modi

41 Digital Payments Award 2024–25

42 JCB Literature Award

1 India’s Cultural Gifts to Croatian Leaders

2 Lucknow's Bid for UNESCO City of Gastronomy

3 Hul Diwas

4 Beej Utsav

5 Ambubachi Mela of Assam

6 Servants of India Society

7 Discovery of 800-Year-Old Shiva temple of Later Pandya Period

8 Salkhan Fossil Park Added to UNESCO Tentative List

9 Neolithic Rock Grooves

10 Rath Yatra

11 PM Receives Historic Sanskrit Grammar Reprint

12 Ashadhi Bij

13 Poson Poya

14 Bonalu Festival

1 Nationwide Digital Application for Profiling Waste Pickers

2 C-LAB Report on Child Labour Rescues in India

3 Employment Linked Incentive Scheme

4 NAVYA Initiative

5 Skills for the Future: Transforming India’s Workforce Landscape

6 Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students

7 Organ Transplantation: Systemic Challenges

8 Inclusive Education Access for Persons with Disabilities

9 POSHAN Abhiyan

10 Football for Schools (F4S) Programme

11 Gender Budgeting Knowledge Hub

12 Adi Karmyogi Programme

13 India's Social Security Coverage

14 Gender Budgeting

Uttar Pradesh

1 Gorakhpur Link Expressway

2 UP Leads Nation in Public Procurement via GeM

3 20 Per Cent Reservation to Agniveers

Bihar

1 Bihar's First Nuclear Power Plant

2 Bihar: 1st State to Adopt E-Voting System

Tamil Nadu

1 Greater Flamingo Sanctuary at Dhanushkodi

2 No Extension to Rosewood Conservation Act

3 Discovery of 800-year-old Pandya-Era Shiva Temple

Assam

1 Welfare Initiatives for Transgenders and Anganwadi Workers

Delhi

1 Artificial Rain in Delhi

Tripura

1 Tripura: Third State to achieve “Fully Functional Literacy” Status

Kerala

1 Aralam Butterfly Sanctuary

2 Eravikulam: India’s Best National Park

Madhya Pradesh

1 ‘Humare Shikshak’ Platform

Chess

1 2025 Grand Chess Tour at Zagreb in Croatia

2 UzChess Cup Masters 2025

Tennis

1 2025 French Open (Roland-Garros 2025)

Hockey

1 Odisha and Tamil Nadu Win 1st Hockey India Masters Cup 2025

1 Info Bytes From Govt. News Services like PIB, AIR, etc

1 Food Security and Cooperatives: A Gamechanger for India

2 Rural Prosperity through Skills and Cooperation

3 Towards the Revival of Aravalli

4 Crop Residue Management: From Environmental Crisis to Solution

5 Triangle of Rural Innovation: Inclusion, Cooperation and Digital Strategy

6 India’s Dairy Sector: Nourishing the Future

7 The Yoga Journey of Village Self-Reliance: A Decade of Holistic Change

8 Operation Sindoor: India’s Strategic Clarity and Planned Military Action

9 Operation Sindoor: Emergence of Self-Reliant Innovation in National Security

10 Operation Sindoor: Synergy among India’s Armed Forces

11 Rural Prosperity through Storage

12 Infrastructure Development & Urbanization

13 Communication Models in the New Media Era

14 Extreme Weather Events Due to Climate Change

15 Environmental Pollution and Human Health

16 Pigeons Say “Coo Coo”: A Quirky Companion

17 Cleanliness Equals a Beautiful Environment

18 Environmental Technology Must Ease Life

19 Indian Philosophy of Environmental Protection

20 Test Your Knowledge

1 August 2025 Current Affairs Based Model MCQs

1 Revised Guidelines for Waste-to-Energy Projects

2 Series Approval of Solar PV Inverters: Draft Guidelines

3 MoHUA Advisory on Repurposing of Smart City SPVs

4 Revisions in Biomass Programme Guidelines

5 SEZ Rules Relaxed to Promote Semiconductor Manufacturing

1 Science and Technology Clusters Annual Report 2024-2025

2 Sustainable Development Report 2025

3 Global Gender Gap Report 2025

4 Global Tobacco Epidemic Report

5 UNFPA State of World Population Report 2025

6 State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2025

7 Global Liveability Index 2025

8 Global Peace Index (GPI) 2025

1 Nine Years of ‘Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan’

2 Dharti Aaba Janbhagidari Abhiyan

3 Diu: India’s First 100% Solar-Powered District

UPSC

Paper I

1 Despite facing serious challenges, the Ghadar Party played a notable role in India's revolutionary movement. Analyze.

2 Examine the impact of climate change on the migratory patterns of birds. How does this affect the ecosystem?

3 “The preservation of tribal cultures amidst modernization presents remarkable opportunities and challenges.” Comment.

4 Evaluate the impact of globalization on consumer behaviour in India. How does this trend differ in urban and rural markets?

5 Examine the impact of sand mining on river ecosystems in India. What sustainable practices can be implemented to balance the demand for sand with environmental protection?

Paper II

1 "The evolution of the cabinet system in India has profoundly impacted parliamentary supremacy." Critically evaluate.

2 "Cooperative federalism in India is more of a rhetoric than a reality." Discuss this statement in the context of recent central policies affecting state autonomy.

3 Explain the impact on India-Russia relations of the sanctions imposed by Western countries on Russia following the invasion of Ukraine, and discuss how India has balanced its position in this situation.

4 Explain the effectiveness of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs in India. Also, discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with these programs.

5 "The Citizen's Charter movement was initiated to improve the quality of public services to meet the needs and expectations of the people, but it has not achieved the expected success." Review.

Paper III

1 Discuss how India's growing reliance on cloud computing services presents new cybersecurity challenges. Propose a comprehensive strategy to mitigate these risks.

2 "The integration of paramilitary forces with local law enforcement agencies is crucial for effective border management." Discuss.

3 Vulnerability mapping is a critical tool for disaster risk reduction. Explain its components and methodologies. How can it be integrated with other spatial planning tools for effective disaster management?

4 Discuss the multifaceted factors affecting resource mobilization in India, and discuss measures to enhance the efficiency and efficacy of the resource mobilization mechanism.

5 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) play a significant role in India's economic development. Critically evaluate the importance of the MSME sector.

Paper IV

1 "Attitude is not static; rather, it evolves with time and experiences.” Discuss.

2 Discuss how the lack of integrity and objectivity in civil servants can negatively impact the quality of governance.

3 "Ethics involves several key dimensions that are crucial for guiding the moral behaviour of individuals and organizations." Explain the key dimensions of ethics that influence human action. Discuss how these dimensions shape ethical decision-making.

4 An independent and robust social audit mechanism is essential for ensuring performance, accountability, and ethical conduct in the public service sector. Discuss.

5 ‘Empathy’ and ‘compassion’ are foundational values for addressing significant issues and for decision-making in administration. Suggest mechanisms through which these values can be developed in the civil services. Provide relevant examples.

BPSC

Economic Survey 2024-25

1 Overall Economic Status of the State

2 Agriculture and Allied Sectors

3 Industrial Sector

4 Services Sector

5 Infrastructure

6 Human Development

7 Environment and Climate Change

8 Fiscal Position

9 Social Security and Inclusion

10 Policy Initiatives

Budget 2025–26

1 Budget Size, Structure and Economic Indicators

2 Education, Health and Human Resource Development

3 Rural Development, Agriculture and Irrigation

4 Women Empowerment, Social Justice & Welfare

5 Infrastructure, Energy & Transport

6 Employment, Skill Development & Industry

7 Financial Management & Revenue

8 Environment, Climate & Green Budget

9 Law & Order, Judiciary & Administrative Reforms

10 Future Direction

International Relations

India And Its Bilateral Relations

1 India - United States

2 India - Russia

3 India - UK

4 India - France

5 India - Australia

6 India - Israel

7 India - UAE

8 India - Iran

9 India-Sri Lanka

Regional Groupings

1 BIMSTEC

2 ASEAN

3 SAARC

4 BRICS

5 QUAD

6 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)

7 Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA)

8 East Asia Summit (EAS)

Global Groupings

1 Group of Seven (G7)

2 G20

3 G77

4 OPEC & OPEC+

5 Five Eyes Alliance

6 Global 4 (G4) Nations

International Organizations

1 United Nations and Its Organs

2 India–World Bank Cooperation

3 International Monetary Fund (IMF)

4 World Trade Organisation (WTO)

5 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

6 World Health Organization (WHO)

International Reports & Indices

1 Global Energy Investment Report 2025
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