Civil Services Chronicle April 2019

1 PM-Kisan Scheme

2 Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog

3 Agriculture Sector Credit Stagnates

1 Dam and Irrigation

2 Umbrella SPV to Fund Metro Projects

1 India’s Performance in IP Sector Improves

2 Public Utility Service Expanded

3 Startups Exempted from Angel tax

4 National Policy on Electronics 2019

1 MSP for Minor Forest Produce Extended

1 Rise in Crop Failures Predicted in Ganga Basin States

2 Oil Supply Deal

3 Interim Dividend by RBI

4 42 Non-scheduled Cancer Drugs under Price Control

5 ‘SWAYATT’ on GeM

6 Three Banks Taken out of the PCA framework

1 Fertility Gap and Religion

2 National Survey on Extent and Pattern of Substance Use

3 Gender Gap in Wages

4 Adoption of Girl Child

1 Permanent Resident Status Problem in Arunachal Pradesh

2 All India Services Rules for Conduct, Disciplinary Action

3 Criteria for Inclusion in ST List

1 Twitter CEO Summoned by Parliament

2 Bribe Allegation against the Speaker of the Karnataka Vidhan Sabha

3 How Much Time can a Chief Minister Take before Announcing his Council of Ministers?

1 Women’s Livelihood Bond

1 Significance of Balakot Air Strike

2 India-Indonesia Cooperation in the Exploration and Uses of Outer Space

3 India, EMs Make Case for Special Treatment at WTO

4 4th India-Asean Expo and Summit

1 India-Pakistan Conflict: Is There a Role for SAARC?

1 UN Court Rejects UK’s Claim of Sovereignty over Chagos Islands

1 India at OIC

2 India-Pakistan Conflict: Role of SCO

3 Saudi Crown Prince’s Visit to India

4 Terrorism: What should be India’s Strategy against Nuclear-Armed Pakistan?

1 NASA Solves Mystery of Lunar Swirls

2 NASA’s New Mission to Study Space Weather from ISS

3 New NASA Telescope Could Find over 1,000 Planets

4 ISRO’s New Rocket Likely to Carry Two Defence Satellites

5 India’s 40th Communication Satellite Launched

6 NASA Discovers Oldest and Coldest White Dwarf Star

1 Scientists Can Now Turn Carbon Dioxide Back into Coal

1 Scientists Perform First ‘In Body’ Gene Editing

1 Asteroid Bennu

2 SpaceX’s New Astronaut Capsule Docks on International Space Station

3 Japanese Space Probe Lands on Asteroid

4 ‘Inkjet’ Solar Panels Set to Reshape Green Energy

5 The Table that Defines Chemistry Turns 150

1 Scientists Discover Massive Mountains under Earth’s Crust

2 The Mystery of Moving North Pole

3 Current Affairs Questions

1 Pharmaceutical Residues in Fresh water Pose Environmental Risk

2 Chemical Nose

3 Pollution in Ganga Harming Riverbed Sediments

1 Plastic Fuel

2 Researchers Convert Carbon Dioxide into Coal

1 Sundarban Reserve Forest Now a Wetland of International Importance

2 Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species

3 2nd Phase of River Information System Launched

4 Hilsa Passage through Farakka Navigation Lock

1 Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Meeting on Disaster Risk Management

1 India and China Greening Faster than Rest of the World

1 First Mammal to Go Extinct Due to Climate Change

2 Vulture Safe Zone

3 Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary (TCFS)

4 Current Affairs Questions

1 Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment

1 PERSONS IN THE NEWS

1 ON THE HOT SEAT

1 FACES ONLY IN MEMORY

1 AWARDS

1 CONFERENCE/SUMMITS

1 SURVEY/REPORTS/INDEX

1 COMMITTEES/PANELS

1 STATES IN NEWS

1 WORLD OF SPORTS

1 Trends of Questions from Science and Technology Section

2 Microsat R

3 Types of Satellites Launched by ISRO

4 Space Science & Exploration

5 ISRO’s Launch Vehicles

6 Recent Achievements

7 Applications of Space Technology

1 Harvesting wild Genes Gives Crops Renewed Resistance to Disease

2 Medical Biotechnology

3 Agricultural Biotechnology

4 Environmental Biotechnology

5 Industrial Biotechnology

6 Bioinformatics

1 Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet

2 Classification of Indian Missiles

3 Major Missiles

1 DNA ORIGAMI

2 Nanomaterials

3 Applications of Nanotechnology

4 Nanotechnology in Agriculture

5 Nanotechnology in Medicine

6 Nanotechnology in Electronics

7 Nanotechnology in Environment

8 Nanotechnology in Consumer Products

9 Nanotechnology in Defence

10 Nanotechnology in Space

1 Kaiga 1 Nuclear Reactor

2 Nuclear Energy and Fuel

3 Nuclear Technology in India

4 Installed Nuclear Reactors in India

5 Applications of Nuclear Technology

1 Developmental Biology - World’s First Trial Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPS)

2 Developmental Biology - Human Stem Cells

3 Genetics - Gene Editing Applied to Banana Genome

4 Genetics - Genes

5 Genetics - DNA

6 Genetics - Heredity

7 Genetics - Common Genetic Diseases

8 Genetics - Techniques in Genetics

9 Glands & Hormones - Global Athlete

10 Glands & Hormones - Endocrine System

11 Glands & Hormones - Hormones

12 Human Nutrition - National Nutrition Mission

13 Human Nutrition - Functions & Types

14 Human Nutrition - Carbohydrate

15 Human Nutrition - Protein

16 Human Nutrition - Lipid

17 Diseases - Zika Virus Outbreak

18 Diseases - Immunology

1 REPORTS & INDICES

1 Reservation has Failed to Accomplish Social Justice