Civil Services Chronicle December 2019

1 Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey Points at India’s Nutrition Deprived Children

2 Global Hunger Index: India Slides down to 102nd Rank

3 India Innovation Index

4 Government Aims to Push Entrepreneurship in MSME Sector

5 PM’s Visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

6 Visit of PM of Bangladesh to India

7 2019 Nobel Prizes in Sciences

8 Colombo Declaration

South China Sea

1 Government to Issue Sovereign Gold Bonds

2 State Government Pushes for Farmer’s Registration in PFMS

1 Sedition Law Strikes Again

2 Ayushman Bharat Completes One Year of its Launch

3 SC/ ST Act: Supreme Court Recalls March 2018 Directions

4 Judicial Power of President to Grant Clemency

5 Information Fusion Centre for the Indian Ocean Region becomes Functional

1 India – China Informal Summit

2 India Pulls Out of RCEP

3 Britain Signs Brexit Deal with the EU

4 International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)

5 91st Interpol General Assembly to be Hosted by India

1 WhatsApp Hack: Pegasus Spyware

2 Google Claims Quantum Supremacy

3 World’s First Plant-Powered Camera Takes World’s First Plant-Powered Selfie

4 National Digital Health Blueprint Report Completed

5 NASA's ICON Satellite Launches

6 Dirac Metals: New Class of Quantum Materials for Clean Energy Technology

1 Scientists Discover New Antibiotic in Tropical Forests

2 C40 Cities Climate Summit Held at Copenhagen

3 Ganga Amantran Abhiyan Launched

4 CSIR Develops Green Crackers

5 Siachen Glacier Now Open to Tourists

6 Smallest Ozone Hole in Decades

7 Climate Change to Affect Future ‘Super El Niño’ Events

8 International Day for Disaster Reduction Observed

1 NEWSMAKERS

2 FACES ONLY IN MEMORY

3 STATES IN NEWS

4 SURVEY/REPORT

5 DEFENCE EXERCISES

6 ART/CULTURE/HERITAGE

7 PLACES IN NEWS

8 MISCELLANEOUS

9 WORLD OF AWARDS

10 WORLD OF SPORTS

1 Rekindling Skandagupta: The Last Vikramaditya of India

2 Graves of Chalukyan Kings Unearthed in Karnataka

1 NCRB Data Decoded

2 Government launches SUMAN Scheme

3 State of the World’s Children Report

4 India Accounts for 27% of the Global TB Burden: WHO Report

1 PIB Corner

2 PIB Corner

3 PIB Corner

4 PIB Corner

5 PIB Corner

1 Kanyashree Scheme

2 Ayodhya Deepotsav given State Fair Tag

3 World Cotton Day

4 Maharatna Status Granted to HPCL and Power Grid

5 India Pakistan Sign the Pact to Open Kartarpur Corridor

6 18th Non-Aligned Movement Summit

7 Elastocaloric Effect

8 Cosmic Yeti Discovered

9 Food Safety Mitra Scheme Launched

10 The Gandhian Challenge Launched by AIM

11 Orionids Meteor Shower

12 Saturn has the Highest Moons

13 New Species Named After Climate Activist Greta Thunberg

14 D28 Iceberg breaks off Antartica

15 Asia Environmental Enforcement Award

16 India’s First e-Waste Clinic

17 SEED Awards Announced

1 India Joins G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance on Technology Governance

2 One Nation One FASTag

3 Pradhan Mantri Innovative Learning Programme- ‘DHRUV’ Launched

1 Global Competitive Index

2 Ease of Doing Business Report 2020

3 Global Mobility Report

4 RBI Report on State Finances

5 20th Livestock Census

6 World Economic Outlook Report

7 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics

Topper's Interview

Abhinav Ahlawat - 26th AIR - Delhi Judicial Services Exam – 2019

Essays

1 Role of India in Changing the Global World Order