Civil Services Chronicle January 2020

1 Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019: Dehumanising India's Third Gender

2 Revisiting Roles of Constitutional Heads in a Democracy

3 Steel Scrap Recycling Policy: A Shot in the Arm for Steel Industry

4 Essar Steel Verdict: Changes the Rules for Future Insolvency Cases

PIB CORNER

1 WTO’s Appellate Body may be Dysfunctional

2 Khadi gets HS Code

3 GI Tag to Darjeeling Green, White Teas

4 NCDEX AGRIDEX: India's First Agri Index

Government Policy

1 The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2019

2 Industrial Relations Code Bill, 2019

Industry

1 Cabinet Approves Recycling of Ships Bill – 2019

Infrastructure

1 Annual Report on Road Accidents in India – 2018

2 Alternative Investment Funds

Reports & Indices

1 Global Microscope for Financial Inclusion Report 2019

2 Working Group on Core Investment Companies

3 High Level Advisory Group Report

4 Company Law Committee Report

News Bytes

1 International Seed Treaty

PIB CORNER

1 NITI Aayog’s Roadmap for Future Health Systems

2 SAANS Campaign

3 Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh

4 North India’s First Sugar Mill to Produce Ethanol

5 India’s Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) Declining: SRS Report

Legislative

1 Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 comes into Effect

2 India Celebrates 70 years of Adoption of the Constitution

3 Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill Passed in LokSabha

Executive

1 NSO Survey Debunks Swachh Bharat Claims

Judiciary

1 Office of CJI Comes Under the Purview of RTI Act

2 Rise in Review Petitions at Supreme Court

Social Issues

1 National Health Profile, 2019

2 FSSAI Seeks to Clampdown on Junk Food Served in Schools

3 77 million Diabetics Reported in India

4 PM Matru Vandana Yojana: Insufficient Coverage, Dismal Approach

Art And Culture

1 Remembering Tipu Sultan: The Tiger of Mysore

2 Revisiting History: Third Battle of Panipat

3 550th Birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev

News Bytes

1 Electoral Bonds: Safeguards of Indian Democracy Falling Apart

2 Meghalaya Makes Registration Mandatory for Non-Resident Visitors

PIB CORNER

1 Budapest Convention and India

2 Bougainville Referendum

3 70th Year of India-China Diplomatic Ties

4 Cabinet Approves MoUs with Saudi Arabia to Combat Smuggling of Narcotic Drugs

5 Key Features

India And The World

1 Nepal Flags Concerns over Kalapani

2 Indo-Bangla MoU on Feni River

3 German Chancellor Calls for Fresh Attempts at EU-India Trade Deal

4 Sri Lankan President visits India

World Issues

1 Controversial Re-Education Camps of Xinjiang

2 Change in USA’s West Bank Policy

International Organisations

1 SCO Joint Exercise on Urban Earthquake, Rescue Held in India

2 BIMSTEC Ports Conclave

3 International Solar Alliance Gets New Members

4 East Asia Summit 2019

News Bytes

1 6th ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting - Plus

2 India Chairs Kimberley Process Meet on Blood Diamonds

In Focus

1 16th India-ASEAN Summit: Catalysing Regional Economic Growth with ASEAN

2 11th BRICS Summit: Boost to Multilateralism

PIB CORNER

1 Aerosol Optical Depth

2 Detection of Argon-40 in the Lunar Exosphere

3 Water on Europa

4 Cortisol: A Stress Hormone that Controls Body Clock

5 Winter-grade Diesel from IOC

6 RT-PCR Machines for Speedy Detection of Dengue

ASTROPHYSICS

1 The Mystery of Coronal Heating

Space Organisations

1 NASA Renames Ultima Thule

2 NASA’s Voyager 2 Enters Interstellar Space

3 ISRO Successfully Launches Cartosat-3

4 ISRO Develops Crew Module Design

Defence

1 India Plans to Test-fire SLBM K-4

Information Technology

1 Space Internet

Bio Science

1 CRISPR Takes First Steps to Fight Cancer

2 China’s Approach to Treat Alzhiemer’s

News Bytes

1 Kerala Cabinet Approves Fibre Optic Network

2 Relaunch of Anti-Rabies Vaccine

3 First Detection of Sugars in Meteorites Gives Clues to Origin of Life

4 NASA Unveils Maxwell

In Focus

1 IndiGen Project: Sequencing Indian Genes

PIB CORNER

1 Guru Ghasidas National Park Declared as Tiger Reserve

2 India’s Carbon Emission Target

3 Govt Approves Setting up of Six Plastic Parks

4 Geochemical Baseline Atlas of India

5 MARUDHAM

6 New Species of Signal Fish Discovered

7 GRAF: Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting System

Climate Change

1 Australian Bush Fires Point at Climate Change

2 Venice is Going Under Water

Policy

1 Swachh- Nirmal Tat Abhiyaan

Pollution

1 IndAIR: CSIR-NEERI’s Web Facility

Disaster Management

1 Red Atlas Action Plan Map for Flood Mitigation

Fauna

1 Bengal Tree Frog

2 Marengo sachintendulkar: Rare Species of Asian Jumping Spider

3 Idris Elba: Tiny Parasitic Wasp

4 Sumatran Rhinoceros Now Extinct in Malaysia

Flora

1 Chemicals in Garcinia Plants of Northeast Beneficial for Humans

Sustainable Development

1 India gets 43 million USD to Boost Climate Resilience in Coastal States

News Bytes

1 New Zealand's Zero Carbon Law

2 Madrid to Host Cop 25 UN Climate Talks

3 India Attends IUCN’s 7th Regional Conservation Forum

4 NMCG Organized Ganga Utsav in New Delhi

5 International Conference on Soil and Water Resources Management

6 Fall Armyworm Attack Neutralized

7 Conservation Agriculture

In Focus

1 Avian Botulism Kills Migratory Birds in Sambhar Salt Water Lake

Persons In News

1 PERSONS IN NEWS

On The Hot Seat

1 ON THE HOT SEATS

Faces Only In Memory

1 FACES ONLY IN MEMORY

States In News

1 STATES/UTS IN NEWS

Defence Exercises

1 DEFENCE

Places In News

1 PLACES IN NEWS

Study/Survey/Report

1 STUDY/SURVEY/REPORT

Art/Culture/Heritage

1 ART/CULTURE/HERITAGE

Miscellaneous

1 MISCELLANEOUS

World Of Awards

1 WORLD OF AWARDS

World Of Sports

1 WORLD OF SPORTS

Ecology & Environment

Miscellaneous

1 Ecology Concepts

Biodiversity

1 ​Biodiversity of India

Major International Organizations/Conventions/Protocols/Declaration

1 International Union for Conservation of Nature

Pollution

1 Environmental Pollution

2 Air Pollution

3 Land Pollution

4 Water Pollution

Climate Change

1 Global Climate Change

Mock Test Papers

Prelims

1 PRELIMS Mock Test 2020

Essays

1 Medicine for the Ailing Planet
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