Civil Services Chronicle April 2021

1 New Guidelines For Digital Media

2 Draft National Strategy on Blockchain

3 Report of Fifteen Finance Commission

4 Military Coup in Myanmar

5 Liberalized Rules on Geospatial Data

6 Sustainable Development of Little Andaman Island

1 Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess

2 National Bee Keeping and Honey Mission

3 One District One Focus Produce Programme

4 Extension of National e-Governance Plan in Agriculture

5 RBI Releases Annual Report of Ombudsman Schemes 2019-20

6 Tax on EPF Interest: Budget 2021

7 New Asset Reconstruction Company

8 Mega Investment Textiles Parks (MITRA) Scheme

9 PLI Scheme for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

10 Certified Jute Seed Distribution Plan

1 DNA Technology Regulation Bill

2 Unrecognised Parties Doubled in 10 Years

3 Cabinet Approves Changes in Juvenile Justice Act

4 Prevention of Insults to National Honour

5 Karnataka: Explosion of Quota Demands

6 CIC Ruling on Lokpal

7 President’s Rule in Puducherry

8 Supreme Court Upholds Right to Choose Life Partner

1 Switzerland’s Policy of Neutrality

2 South China Sea Dispute

3 A New Immunity Passport

4 Nord Stream 2 Pipeline

5 Sri Lanka Pushed India Out of East Terminal Project

6 Comprehensive Economic cooperation and Partnership Agreement between India and Mauritius

7 First India-EU High-Level Dialogue on Trade & Investment

8 US Seeks to Rejoin UN Human Right Council

9 International Criminal Court

10 Indian Ocean Region: Defence Minister’s Conclave

11 Appointment of New WTO Chief

1 Stardust 1.0: Rocket to Run on Biofuel

2 Neutrinos and Death of Massive Stars

3 Square Kilometre Array Observatory Project

4 Hope: UAE Mars Mission

5 Tianwen-1: Chinese Mars Mission

6 NASA’s Perseverance Mission

7 Alcohol Abuse and DNA Change: NIMHANS Study

8 New Lead (Pb) Free Material

9 Aatmanirbhar Defence Sector

10 Software Defined Radios

11 Arjun Mark 1A Tanks

12 Helina and Dhruvastra

1 U.S. Formally Rejoins Paris Climate Agreement

2 Western Disturbance and Indian Climate

3 Exceptional Warming of Peninsular India: IMD report

4 CWCM: First dedicated Wetland Conservation and Management Centre

5 GOBAR DHAN Scheme

6 UNEP Making Peace with Nature Report

7 World’s Smallest Reptile Found in Madagascar

8 Nutrition Garden Inaugurated in Himachal Pradesh

9 Decline in Species Abundance Due to Trade

1 Newsmakers

2 On the Hot Seat

3 Faces Only in Memory

4 States in News

5 Places in News

6 Organisations in News

7 History/Art/Culture/Heritage

8 Committee/ Commission

9 Defence

10 World of Awards

11 World of Sports

1 Chauri Chaura Episode: Centenary Year

2 Dayananda Saraswati

3 Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti

1 EdTech Entities for Online Lessons

2 Nurturing Neighbourhoods Challenge

3 Survey to Address Data Gap on Migrant Workers

1 PIB Corner

2 PIB Corner

3 PIB Corner

4 PIB Corner

5 PIB Corner

1 News Snippets

2 Start-up India Seed Fund Scheme

3 Accommodative Monetary Policy

4 Expert Committee on Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks

5 Make In India 2.0

6 One Nation One Ration Card

7 MCA Amends One Person Companies Rule

8 World Pulses Day

9 Budget Propose to Privatize Two Banks

10 News Snippets

11 Lalandar Dam

12 India - Australia Circular Economy Hackathon

13 Pakistan to Remain on FATF Grey List

14 UNHRC Resolution on Sri Lanka

15 Transatlantic Alliance

16 News Snippets

17 Concentration of Small Black Holes

18 Comet Killed the Dinosaurs: Study

19 Ease of Doing Science Index

20 Lithium Deposits Inferred in Mandaya

21 FSSAI GMO Threshold

22 ISRO Tests Satellite of Private Sector

23 Sandes: India’s New Instant Messaging Platform

24 Fossil of Dickinsonia

25 DIU and TAFCOP

26 News Snippets

27 World Sustainable Development Summit 2021

28 Vembanad Lake

29 Cremanthodium indicum: New Alpine Plant

30 Karlapat Wildlife Sanctuary

31 Mandarin Duck and Black-necked Crane

32 Chittaura Lake

33 News Snippets

34 Uttarakhand Disaster

1 Draft Blue Economy Policy

2 MCA21 Version 3.0

3 Splinternet

4 ISRO, MapmyIndia Join Hands to Take on Google Maps/Earth

5 Vigyan Jyoti Scheme: 2nd Phase

1 India Energy Outlook 2021

Topper's Interview

Vishal Saraswat - All India Rank -1 AIR - Civil Services Examination - 2019

Indian Economy & Socio-economic Development

1 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

2 Shape of Economic Recovery

3 Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy

4 Code on Social Security (GIG Economy)

5 Various Indices and Bodies

6 Poverty in India

7 Empowering/social sector policies for Women, SC/STs, and Minorities

8 Skill Development

9 Direct Tax

10 Indirect Tax

11 P2P(Peer to Peer) Lending Platform

12 Commodity Indices

13 Invits

14 Social Stock Exchange

15 Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs)

16 Municipal Bonds

Agriculture

1 Objectives of Agricultural Sector

2 Agricultural Input

3 Agricultural Marketing

4 Agriculture Storage and Transport

5 Agricultural Extension

6 Food Processing

7 Fisheries

8 Diary

9 Livestock

10 Apiculture or Beekeeping

11 Textile Industries

12 Steel Industries

13 Sunrise Industries

Banking & Finance

1 Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)

2 Economic Capital Framework (ECF)

3 Differentiated Banking (Nicheket Mor Committee)

4 Masala Bonds

5 Suspension of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

6 AR Dave Committee

7 Bad Bank

8 PK Mohanty Committee

9 RBI’s Operation Twist

10 KV Kamath Committee

11 Project Sashakt

12 Surety Bonds

13 Credit Rating Agencies

14 Bilateral Netting

15 Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Act, 2019

Budget

1 Objective of Budget

2 Ways and Means Advance

3 Fiscal Deficit, FRBM, and N K Singh Committee

Infrastructure

1 Infrastructure in India

2 National Infrastructure Pipeline

3 National Asset Monetization Pipeline

4 National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development

5 National Program and Project Management Policy Framework

6 Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs)

7 Railways

8 National Rail Plan for 2030

9 Transformational Organisational Restructuring of Indian Railways

10 Privatisation of Indian Railways

11 Dedicated Freight Corridor

Trade, Commerce & Investment

1 Domestic Trade

2 External Trade