Civil Services Chronicle February 2020

1 First Trial Shipment of Fresh Vegetables from Varanasi to Dubai

2 Greenwashing

3 Cabinet approves Aircraft (Amendment) Bill - 2019

1 Group of Ministers Set Up To Review Crop Insurance Scheme

1 Parliament introduces the Code on Social Security – 2019

1 Government Launches Data Bank of Independent Directors

1 Silver Line Project

2 Cabinet Authorises NHAI to Set Up Infrastructure Investment Trust

1 Financial Stability Report

1 eBkray- Common e-Auction Platform

2 Standing Committee on Economic Statistics

1 3rd Phase of PMGSY​

2 Future Skills PRIME

3 Army to Set Up Integrated Battle Groups by 2020

1 Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu Merger Act 2019

2 Bill to Ban e-Cigarettes Approved by the Parliament

3 Presidential Assent Given to the Arms (Amendment) Bill, 2019

4 Andhra Pradesh Legislature Passes the Disha Bill 2019

1 Section 144, CrPC: A Relic of Colonial Era

2 Good Governance Index

3 Atal Bhujal Yojana: A Scheme for Groundwater

4 PM Releases Guidelines for Jal Jeevan Mission

1 India Slips to 112th Rank on Gender Parity Index

1 South India’s Earliest Sanskrit Inscription Found in A.P.

1 Parliament Passes Bill to Extend SC/ST Reservations in Legislatures

2 Ethics Panel Set to Form Code of Conduct for Lok Sabha MPs

3 Operation Dolphin’s Nose Unearths Pakistan-Linked Spying Racket

4 Bru Repatriation: Back to Mizoram

1 China-Russia-Iran Trilateral Naval Exercise

2 Saudi Arabia: First Arab Nation to take over the G20 Presidency

3 50th Annual Meet of WEF

4 NATO Summit

1 India-Japan 2+2 Foreign and Defence Ministerial Meeting

1 ‘Phase One’ Agreement between the US and China

2 West Africa Renames CFA Franc

3 Russia Launches Gas Pipeline to China

4 Bougainville Votes to Become World’s Newest Country

5 UK Defies Deadline to Return Chagos Island

6 China, South Korea, Japan Meet Over Trade, Regional Disputes

1 First Global Refugee Forum

1 Human Development Index 2019

2 Donald Trump Impeached by House of Representatives

3 Cuba Appoints Miguel Diaz-Canel as Prime Minister

4 “Top 100 City Destination” Ranking

1 India-Australia Mutual Logistics Support Agreement Nears Completion

1 EChO Network

2 Tweezer Clock

3 Trastuzumab: WHO Approved First Biosimilar Medicine for Breast Cancer

4 ‘Bibha’ & ‘Santamasa’

5 Protein that repairs DNA

6 SnowEx

1 Giant Black Hole LB-1 Discovered

2 Giant Planet Orbiting a White Dwarf Discovered

1 ESA’s ClearSpace-1 Mission

2 ISRO Successfully Launches RISAT-2BR1

1 US Army to Create Rare Earth Metal Processing Facility

1 Pinaka Missile System Successfully Flight-Tested

2 DRDO Conducts Successful Trials of BrahMos Missile

1 National Broadband Mission

1 Sarvatra: The Indigenous Bullet-proof Jacket

2 Quantum States Created in Everyday Electronics

3 Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Legend

4 StrandHogg: Android’s Vulnerability

1 A Breakthrough Against Antimicrobial Resistance

1 Rhinos to be Re-introduced in Uttarakhand

2 'Swachchh Samundra NW-2019

3 More Plastic Pollution on Maharashtra Beaches than K'taka, Goa

4 BIMSTEC: International Seminar on Climate Smart Farming Systems

5 Assam Forms a Squad to Tackle Human-Wildlife Conflicts in State

1 Operation ‘Clean Art’

2 IUCN 10th Asian Elephant Specialist Group (AsESG) Meeting

1 Growth in Global Carbon Emission Slowed

2 CWC Report on Heavy Metals Contaminating Indian Rivers

3 SC Issues Order on Completion of “Smog Tower Project”

4 Victoria Falls Runs Dry

1 Climate Risk Index 2020

2 Ministry of Coal to form Sustainable Development Cell

1 IUCN Updates “Red List of Threatened Species”

2 Scientists Find World’s Oldest Fossil Forest

3 4th India Water Impact Summit

4 World Soil Day

1 COP25 Climate Talks CrashedOver Green Climate Fund

2 First National Ganga Council toSave the Ganges Dolphin

1 PERSONS IN NEWS

1 ON THE HOT SEAT

1 FACES ONLY IN MEMORY

1 STATES/UTS IN NEWS

1 DEFENCE

1 PLACES IN NEWS

1 COMMITTEE/COMMISSION

1 STUDY/SURVEY/REPORT

1 MISCELLANEOUS

1 WORLD OF AWARDS

1 WORLD OF SPORTS

1 European Settlements and British Conquest of India

2 Rise of British Empire in India

3 Administrative Policies of British (1757-1857)

4 Land Revenue Policies of British

5 Commercial Policies of British

6 Early Indian Responses to British Rule

7 The Revolt of 1857

8 Nationalist Movement (1858-1905)

9 Nationalist Movement (1905-1918)

10 GANDHI'S EARLY CAREER AND ACTIVISM

11 THE NON-COOPERATION MOVEMENT 1920-22

12 THE YEARS OF STAGNATION — SWARAJISTS AND NO-CHANGERS

13 Civil Disobedience Movement 1930-31

14 The Years from 1932-34

15 Congress Rule in Provinces

16 National Movement: 1939-1942

17 Cripps Mission

18 Quit India Movement

19 Inception of the Indian National Army

20 Revolutionary Terrorists

21 Communalism in India

22 Timeline: Evolution of the Two-Nation Theory

23 Peasant Movements

24 Peasant Activity in Provinces

25 Working Class Movement

26 Temple Entry Movements

27 Gurdwara Reform Movements

1 PRELIMS Mock Test 2020

1 Is India Facing a Moral or an Economic Crisis?