Civil Services Chronicle December 2022

1 Criterion for Scheduled Caste Status

2 Global Hunger Index 2022

3 GEAC Approves Commercial Cultivation of GM Mustard

4 Emissions Gap Report 2022

Agriculture

1 National Natural Farming Mission

Banking And Finance

1 Digital Banking Units

2 Global Bond Indices

3 IBBI allows IPEs to act as Insolvency Professionals

Plans/Policies

1 Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme: A 'Logistical Marvel'

Reports & Indices

1 Concept Note on Central Bank Digital Currency

2 RBI’s Report on Missing Inflation Target

Infrastructure

1 India Infrastructure Project Development Fund Scheme

News Snippets

1 Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)

2 Nihonshu

3 Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)

4 Niveshak Didi

Indian Polity & Governance

1 Revamping of Parliamentary Committees

2 Silver Jubilee of Quality Council of India

3 Committee to Examine Death in Gambia

4 Doctrine of Pleasure

5 First Amendment to the Indian Constitution

6 ST Status to Pahari Community

Judiciary

1 Split Verdict

Plan/Policy/Initiatives

1 Decentralization of MGNREGS

2 One Nation, One ITR Form

3 Draft National Credit Framework

4 Amendments to the IT Rules 2021

News Snippets

1 Controller General of Accounts

2 Doctrine of Proportionality

3 National Security Council (NSC)

4 Representation of People (Amendment) Act, 2010

5 Football4Schools Initiative

International Relations

1 IOR+ Defence Ministers’ Conclave

2 India-Africa Defence Dialogue

3 6th Summit of Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia

4 ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting

World Issues

1 Pakistan Taken Off the FATF ‘Grey List’

International Organisations

1 Special Meeting of UNSC Counter-Terrorism Committee

News Snippets

1 Scorched Earth Tactics

2 INTERPOL General Assembly

Space Science

1 LVM3 M2 / OneWeb India-1 Mission

2 Pillars of Creation

3 NASA’s New Earth Space Mission Maps Methane ‘Super-Emitters’

4 China’s Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory

New Technology & Innovations

1 New Plastic Upcycling Technology

2 Semi-confined Unreinforced Brick Masonry

Miscellaneous

1 One Health Joint Action Plan

News Snippets

1 Fungal Priority Pathogens List

2 China’s Mengtian Module

3 Glyphosate

4 AMR Salmonella

5 Cordy Gold Nanoparticles (Cor-AuNPs)

6 Smart Contracts

Climate Change

1 Record Melting of Glaciers in the Alps

2 Climate Tipping Points

3 The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change

Biodiversity

1 Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Forestry

Sustainable Development

1 Mission LiFE

2 Two Indian Beaches Get Blue Flag Certification

Reports

1 Living Planet Report 2022

News Snippets

1 Terai Elephant Reserve

2 Climate Transparency Report 2022

3 Asia’s Largest Compressed Bio Gas Plant

4 Modhera

Persons In News

1 Benjamin Netanyahu

2 Lula da Silva

3 Michel Aoun

4 Aruna Sairam

5 EK Janaki Ammal

6 Pankaj Tripathi

Obituary

1 Jamshed J Irani

2 Elaben Bhatt

3 Dilip Mahalanabis

4 Temsüla Ao

5 A. Gopalakrishnan

6 Subbu Arumugam

7 Shyam Saran Negi

Appointments

1 Justice D.Y. Chandrachud

2 Mata Amritanandamayi

3 KG Balakrishnan

4 Shefali Juneja

5 Elizabeth Jones

6 Sangeeta Verma

7 Jaxay Shah

8 Dr. Sankarasubramanian K.

9 Bharati Das

10 Aparajita Sarangi

11 Roger Binny

12 Subhrakant Panda

Committee/Commission

1 Radhakrishnan Committee

Military Operations/Exercises

1 Joint Military Training-2022

2 Garuda-VII

3 ‘Simbex’ - 2022

4 IMT TRILAT

Awards

1 Sakharov Prize 2022

2 Nansen Refugee Award 2022

3 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2022

4 Booker Prize 2022

5 World Green City Award

Heritage

1 Mawmluh Cave

Government Policies/Initiatives

1 National Maritime Heritage Complex

2 Mahakaleshwar Temple Corridor

3 Swadesh Darshan 2

Art & Culture

1 Bhoota Kola Ritual

2 Kati Bihu

Indian History

1 Navayana Buddhism

Personality

1 National Unity Day

News Snippets

1 Thyagaraja Temple

2 Sambandar

3 Nagaland Peace Mission

4 Kashi Tamil Sangamam

5 Jageshwar Dham Temple

6 Ponniyin Selvan

Social Justice

1 International Day of Rural Women

Indian Society

1 Debate around Surrogacy in India

Plan & Policies

1 Revision of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme

Reports & Indices

1 Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022

2 World Tuberculosis Report 2022

3 Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting Course

News Snippets

1 Singapore’s Enabling Village

2 Bharat Skills Forum

3 herSTART

4 Jeevan Pramaan

5 Heal in India Campaign

6 Assistance to Disabled Persons for Purchase / Fitting of Aids and Appliances (ADIP) Scheme

7 ASHA Workers

Sikkim

1 India’s first Avalanche Monitoring Radar

Haryana

1 World’s Largest Safari Park

Telangana

1 Aasara

2 Hike in Reservation for the Scheduled Tribe Communities

Himachal Pradesh

1 Water Sports Center

2 HIMCAD Scheme

Kerala

1 Pullampara: First Fully Digital Literate Panchayat

2 Honesty Shops

3 Responsible Tourism (RT) Mission’s Initiative

Uttar Pradesh

1 Legislature Reserves a Women-only Day

2 First All-Woman PAC Battalions

Gujarat

1 Modhera Declared as first 24×7 Solar-Powered Village

2 100 per cent ‘Har Ghar Jal’ State

Nagaland

1 Mobile Attendance Application

Odisha

1 India’s Second Rashtriya Adarsh Veda Vidyalaya Inaugurated

2 Football for All

3 Cancer as "Reportable Disease"

4 Safal Common Credit Portal

Chhattisgarh

1 Chhattisgarh Olympic

Assam

1 Trees Outside Forests in India (TOFI)

Andhra Pradesh

1 SALT Project

Meghalaya

1 5th Edition of Megha Kayak Festival 2022

Tamil Nadu

1 First State to Achieve Jal Jeevan Mission Target for 2022

Current Affairs

Polity & Governance

1 The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act 2022

2 Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2022

3 The Constitution (100th Amendment) Act, 2015

4 Barun Chandra Thakur vs. Master Bholu (13 July, 2022)

5 Commission to Examine Sub-categorisation of Other Backward Classes

International

1 Global Innovation Index, 2022

2 Committee of Experts on Sustainable Finance

Indian Economy

1 RBI Constitutes Working Group on Digital Lending

National

1 National Steering Committee for the Development of National Curriculum Framework

2 Committee to Examine Global Best Practices in Ship Financing & Leasing

3 Committee for Doubling Production and Quadrupling Exports of Handlooms

Science & Technology

1 Advisory Committee for Semiconductor Mission

Model Mock Questions & Answers

Paper-I

1 Civil Services Main Examination 2023

Paper-II

1 Civil Services Mains Examination 2023

Paper-III

1 Civil Services Mains Examination 2023

Paper-IV

1 Civil Services Mains Examination 2023
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