Civil Services Chronicle December 2023

1 RBI Issues Norms to Regulate Cross-Border Payment Aggregators

2 Withholding Tax

3 RBI Issue Norms for Closure of DCCBs

4 Government Allows Direct Overseas Listing of Indian Companies

5 Section 54EC Bonds

6 Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement

1 Energy Efficiency Programmes Launched by Ministry of Power

2 RBI includes PM Vishwakarma under PIDF Scheme

3 Amendment to Aircraft Rules, 1937

4 Toll Operate Transfer (TOT) Model

1 Jamrani Dam Multipurpose Project

2 Standards & Labelling Programme for Solar PV Modules

3 Indian Oil launches Reference Fuels

1 Vizhinjam International Seaport

2 National Turmeric Board

3 Automatic 'Status Holder' Certificates

4 Card-on-File Tokenization (CoFT)

5 Arunachal Yak Churpi

6 One CGIAR Global Initiative

7 Kisan Rin Portal

8 Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC)

9 Overnight Index Swap (OIS)

10 Small Savings Instruments (SSIs)

11 National Waterways 44

12 Udangudi Panangkarupatti

1 43rd PRAGATI Interaction

2 Offences Relating to Religion: Section 295A of IPC

3 Lok Sabha’s Ethics Committee

1 Writ Jurisdiction

2 Curative Petition

1 MoU Signed between MEPSC & Magic Bus India Foundation

2 Draft CCI (Lesser Penalty) Regulations, 2023

3 SC Directions for Effective Implementation of POSH Act, 2013

1 Phenomenal Impact of PM SVANidhi Scheme on Street Vendors

1 Poorvottar Sampark Setu

2 Special Leave Petitions

3 Section 106 of the Indian Evidence Act (1872)

4 Mandatory Penny-Drop Verification for NPS

1 Indian Navy Veterans Sentenced to Death in Qatar

2 UAE-India Joint Task Force Meeting Discusses Investment and Cooperation

3 IORA Council of Ministers Meeting in Sri Lanka

4 Canada Recalls 41 Diplomats from India over Immunity Concerns

5 Passenger Ferry Service between India and Sri Lanka Inaugurated

6 India and Tanzania Sign Multiple MoUs to Enhance Bilateral Cooperation

1 Maria Corina Machado's Victory and US-Venezuela Relations

2 Israeli Ground Incursion into Gaza

3 China and Bhutan Sign "Cooperation Agreement" After Border Talks

4 Armenia's President Signs Rome Statute amid Russian Concerns

1 India's Abstention in UN Vote on Israel-Hamas Conflict Resolution

2 India Re-elected as President of AIBD General Conference

1 NASA Launches Psyche Mission

2 ISRO Successfully Launches Test Vehicle for Crew Safety in Gaganyaan Mission

3 Moon Found to be 40 Million Years Older than Previously Believed

4 JWST Discovers High-Speed Jet Stream on Jupiter

5 Discovery of Bright Gamma-Ray Burst Resulting from Neutron Star Merger

1 Yard 12706 (IMPHAL): India's First Warship with Dedicated Accommodation for Women

1 Niobobaotite Ore Discovered in Inner Mongolia

2 BIS Approves Indigenous AC/DC Charging Standard for Light Electric Vehicles

3 China Constructing Underwater Telescope to Detect Ghost Particles

1 Study Reveals How Cell Microenvironment Stiffness Affects Tissue Form

1 Earth's Core Leak Revealed through Ancient Arctic Rocks

2 120-Million-Year-Old Pontus Tectonic Plate Unveiled in Asia-Pacific Region

1 Orionid Meteor Shower

2 X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat)

3 BlueWalker 3

4 Vikram-I

5 ImmunoACT

6 Bright Transient Survey Bot (BTSbot)

7 Iron Dome

1 Failure to Reach Agreement on Climate "Loss and Damages"

2 WMO Urges Improved Water Resource Monitoring

3 NCCR Attributes Algal Bloom in Puducherry to Human Factors

1 New Climate Report Raises Alarm

2 Massive Ozone Hole Detected Over Antarctica

1 Rubber Production in Southeast Asia Drives High Forest Loss

2 Chennai Tops Trafficking Network for Tortoises and Turtles

3 New Dragonfly Species Discovered in Wayanad

4 Decline in Bird Species Recorded in Tamil Nadu: SOIB 2023

1 Punjab to Ban Cultivation of PUSA-44 Paddy Variety

2 Gujarat Government Bans Planting of Ornamental Conocarpus Trees

1 Marine Cloud Brightening

2 Mytella strigata

3 Green Energy Corridor

4 Climate Smart Villages

5 Urban Flooding

6 Tiger Census

7 Mother Nature Campaign

1 Muneesh Kapur

2 Indra Mani Pandey

3 Navneet Munot

4 Lieutenant General Raghu Srinivasan

5 Dr. Bijay Kumar Mohanty

6 Ipsita Dasgupta

7 Sanjay Kulshrestha

8 Dr. Meenesh Shah

9 Arindam Bagchi

10 Justice Siddharth Mridul

11 Ramaswamy N

12 K.N. Shanth Kumar

13 Sanjay Kumar Jain

14 Ashok Vaswani

15 Rajkumar Rao

1 MS Dhoni

2 Katrina Kaif

3 Mohammed Shami

1 Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Capital: Vientiane)

2 Sinai Peninsula

1 Manohar Singh Gill

2 Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (M.S. Swaminathan)

3 Bishan Singh Bedi

1 Important Days/Weeks

1 KAZIND-2023

2 India-EU Joint Naval Exercise

3 2023 Cambrian Patrol Competition

4 Annual Joint HADR Exercise 2023 (AJHE-23) – CHAKRAVAT 2023

5 SAMPRITI

1 SCO Council

2 IOC Session

1 Dark Patterns Buster Hackathon 2023

2 16th Urban Mobility India Conference & Exhibition

3 G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit

4 Shramdaan Event

5 World Health Summit 2023

6 Global Maritime India Summit 2023

7 Durga Bharat Samman

1 Rohini Nayyar Prize

2 Ballon d’Or 2023

3 Award For Global Leadership

4 UNWTO’s Best Tourism Village 2023

5 EU’s Sakharov Prize 2023

6 Best Tourism Village of India 2023

7 Satyajit Ray Excellence in Film Lifetime Award

8 Saraswati Samman 2022

9 Dutch Spinoza Prize

10 Nobel Prize in Literature 2023

11 Nobel Peace Prize 2023

1 Revival of Kashmiri Dogra Architecture

2 Someshwara Inscription of Alupa Dynasty

3 Edakkal Caves

4 Vajra Mushti Kalaga

5 Banni Festival

6 Ratna Bhandar of Puri Jagannath Temple

7 Talagirishwara Temple

1 500th Birth Anniversary of Veerangana Rani Durgavati

2 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

1 Basohli Pashmina

2 Pichwai Painting

3 Bekal Fort

4 Jageshwar Temples

5 Jaderi Namakatti

6 Neolithic Age

1 Habitat Rights of PVTGs

2 Supreme Court Directions on Eradication of Manual Scavenging

3 Enhancing Corporate Inclusivity for Persons with Disabilities

1 Protocol for Management of Malnutrition in Children

1 Right of the Unborn Child

1 Mera Yuva Bharat

1 Civil Union

2 Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) Report 2022-2023

3 Saras Aajeevika Mela

4 UMEED Scheme

5 Jehovah’s Witnesses

1 ILO Study on Transformative Childcare Policy

2 International Migration Outlook 2023

3 Children Displaced in a Changing Climate

1 Kasaragod: First District in India to Declare Official Tree, Flower and Bird

2 Kerala Becomes First State With Hallmarking Centres In Every District

3 Kerala Gets Its First 3D-Printed Building

1 PUSA-44

1 Goan Cashews

1 First State To Take Steps To Ensure Minimum Wages For Workers

1 J&K Achieves 100% Open Defecation Free Plus Model Status

1 Healthway: India’s First Solar Cycling Track

1 Rhino Task Force

1 PM Vishwakarma

2 Voyage to Study the Earth's Sun

3 Space Infrastructure

4 Road Infrastructure Getting Smarter

5 Rail Infrastructure

6 Port Infrastructure in Gujarat

7 Unity Malls

8 Agri Infrastructure

9 G-20: Global Startup Ecosystem

1 Vision for Green and Clean Rural India

2 Preserving the Green Cover of Indian Villages

3 Rural India towards Green Development

4 Green Village: New Identity of New India

5 Leveraging Agro-ecological Approaches for Clean and Green Villages

6 Water Park Clean and Green Villages

7 Integrated Solar Villages Scheme for Inclusive Development

1 National Supercomputing Mission

2 National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NMICPS)

3 Science and Technology for the Progress of the Country

4 Ensuring Gender Equity in Science

5 Water Technology Initiative of DST

6 Combating Climate Change

7 Empowering Societies through S&T Interventions

1 India and Vietnam

2 World Cooperative Economic Forum (WCEF)

3 Operation Ajay

4 The Rafah Crossing

1 RAS Prelims Exam 2023

1 RAS Prelims Exam 2023

1 RAS Prelims Exam 2023

1 RAS Prelims Exam 2023

1 RAS Prelims Exam 2023

1 RAS Prelims Exam 2023

1 RAS Prelims Exam 2023

1 Erosional and Depositional Landforms by Rivers and Wind

2 Heat Budget of the Earth

3 Cloudbursts: Causes, Consequences, Prevention and Mitigation

4 Effect of Indian Ocean Dipole and ENSO on Indian Climate

5 Characteristics and Causes of Tropical Cyclones in Arabian Sea

6 Marine Biotic Resources

7 Agro-Ecological Regions in India

8 Indian Monsoon and Rainfall Pattern

9 Management of Floods in India

10 Western Disturbances

11 Structure and Relief Features of Peninsular India

12 Coal Resources of India

13 Rare Earth Elements in India

14 Geographical Characteristics of the Eastern Ghats

15 Factors Affecting Ocean Salinity

16 Causes and Consequences of Marine Pollution

17 Seismic Zones in India

18 Urbanisation: Geographical Factors and Effect on Natural Resources

19 Landslides: Types and Causes

20 Factors Affecting Agricultural Productivity in India

21 Groundwater Contamination in India

22 Combating Desertification: Major Initiatives

23 Factors Affecting Industrial Location in India

1 Inflation: Measurement and Control Measures

2 Banking Regulation – Insolvency and NPAs

3 Marketing of Agricultural Produce: Mechanisms in Place

4 Indigenous Seeds: Infrastructure & Management

5 Agro-based Industries in India

6 Road & Water Transport Network & Infrastructure

7 Satellite Towns: Infrastructure Development Programmes

8 Types of Tax in India

9 Socio-economic Welfare: Important Indicators

10 Measurement of Economic Growth: Key Indicators

11 Cottage Industries in India

12 Poverty: Measurement and Eradication Programmes

13 Food Processing Industry: Role in Agricultural Growth

14 FDI: Role in Economic Growth

15 India’s Livestock Resources

16 Sources of Government Revenue

17 Areas of Government Expenditure

18 Types of Subsidy and Their Effects

19 Tax Authorities and Tribunals

20 Types of International Free Trade Agreements

21 India’s New Industrial Zones

22 Multi-modal Logistics Parks

23 Digital Public Infrastructure