Civil Services Chronicle January 2019

1 ICAR Calls for Climate-Smart Farming

2 Support & Outreach Initiatives for MSMEs

3 Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas

4 Andaman: Balancing Development and Tribal Identity

5 Global Education Monitoring Report 2019

6 Living Planet Report

7 Risks of Nitrogen Pollution Increasing

8 Data Localisation

9 English: The Language of Supreme Court of India

10 Why we Don’t have Hurricanes in India

11 EU Ban on Antibiotic Use in Animals Wake-up Call for India

12 Collision of Three Geographies and the New World Order

13 Weakening RTI Structure

14 Unelected Bodies’s Role in Democracy

1 Subsidy to Boost Rice Exports

2 Fragmentation of Land Holding

3 Bill Seeking To Amend AMPC Act Withdrawn

4 Baba Kalyani Committee on SEZ Submits Report

5 City Gas Distribution (CGD) Projects in 65 Geographical Areas (GAs)

6 Cabinet Approves Strategic Petroleum Storage

1 Criminal Law ill-equipped to Deal with Communal Riots

2 Maratha Quota

3 CBI & Consent

4 Himalayan State Regional Council Constituted

5 ERSS for Himachal Pradesh Launched

1 India and Pakistan to Open Kartarpur Corridor

2 India-Japan Strategic Partnership and the Multi-power Order

3 India Elected as a Member of the ITU Council

4 Indian War Memorial Unveiled in France

5 Silver Jubilee Commemoration Ceremony of SIMBEX- 2018

6 President of India Addresses National Assembly of Vietnam

7 India Gets Relief on Iran oil

8 World Bank Group Launches New Multi-Donor Fund

9 Opposition to Proposed Lowering of Pesticide Limits by EU

10 South Pole to Get its First Permanent Airport

1 India to Study Human Microbiome

2 Mass Bathing Alters Bacterial Load, Diversity

3 GEAC Approves Field Studies of GM Mustard on Honey Bee

4 Artificial Rain Through Cloud Seeding

5 Nine Sub-schemes of ACROSS to Continue

6 NGT Nod for Neutrino Project

7 INS Arihant Completes India’s Nuclear Triad

8 Transgenic Rice with Reduced Arsenic Accumulation

9 GSLV MkIII-D2 Successfully Launches GSAT-29

10 PSLV-C43 Launches Earth Observation Satellite HysIS

11 Kerala to Control Trans-fat in Eatery Foods

12 India to Study Marijuana-derived Drugs

1 Heatwave: Countdown 2018

2 Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion

3 Greenhouse Gas Bulletin

4 Drought in Maharashtra

5 Role of Water and Ecological Systems in Drought Resilience

6 Rare Sub-species of Hog Deer

7 Moths are Key to Pollination in Himalayan Ecosystem

8 Two New Gecko Species Discovered

9 Tigers Dwindling: Just Six Sub-species Remain

10 Eight Captive-Reared Vultures to be Released with Tracking Devices

11 Status of World’s Wilderness

12 Clean Air is a Human Right: WHO

13 Greening with Pollution-gobbling Trees

1 WORLD OF AWARDS

2 PERSONS IN NEWS

3 ON THE HOT SEATS

4 FACES ONLY IN MEMORY

5 CONFERENCE/SUMMIT

6 STUDY/SURVEY/INDEX

7 MISCELLANEOUS

1 Allied and Healthcare Professions Bill, 2018

2 Lexicon for Rare Tribal Languages

3 Anaemia among Girls, Women Still Prevalent

4 8 States Achieve 100% Electrification

5 Guidelines for Operation Greens Issued

1 Sale of Enemy Shares

2 UN to Inventorise India’s Cultural Riches

3 India and UK Launch New Research Initiative on Cancer

4 Paisa – Portal

5 NPCC is Now a Miniratna

6 International Standards and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

7 NFRA Rules Notified

1 RBI Survey on Remittance

1 New Norms for Credit Rating Agencies

Current Affairs

National

1 National

Science & Technology

1 Science and Technology

Ecology & Environment

1 Environment and Ecology

International

1 International Relations

Indian Economy

1 Economics

Socio-Economic Development

1 Social Issues

Heritage, Art & Culture

1 Art and Culture

Model Test Questions

1 GS Points From Current Affairs

Indian History

Ancient India

1 Prehistoric India

2 Indus Valley Civilization

3 Early Vedic Period

4 Later Vedic Period

Medieval India

1 Praninent Dynasties

2 Delhi Sultanate

3 Mughal Empire

4 Maratha & Shivaji

5 Literature, Music, Art & Architecture

6 Indo-Islamic Culture

History Of Modern India

1 Advent of the Europeans

2 Later Mughals

3 Rest of India after Mughals

4 Economic Policies

5 Commercialized Policies

6 Policies by British

7 The Revolt of 1857

8 Thinkers in Modern India

9 Freedom Struggle

10 Civil and Tribal Rebellion

11 Charters Act

12 Administrative Policies

13 Education Policy

14 Judicial Reforms

Essays

1 Planned And Sustainable Urbanization Rarely Happens