Civil Services Chronicle July 2019

Article

Big Issue :- Electric Mobility: A Global Game Changer - By Chandrakant Singh

Policy Analysis :- Article 370 To Be or Not to Be? - By Noopur Joshi

Review :- India's Internal Migration Causes, Roadblocks & Way Forward - By Chronicle Editorial Team

Viewpoint :- SCO Is the Fulcrum of India–Central Asia Binary - By Chronicle Editorial Team

Issue Analysis :- Women’s Dismal Participation in Democratic India - By Rishabh Srivastava

Current Affairs In Focus

1 Crisis of Judicial Credibility

2 Surjit Bhalla Committee on Indian Trade

3 PepsiCo vs. Gujarat Farmers: Battle of Unequals

4 CTBTO Invites India to be an Observer at Meetings

5 US –India Trade Issues

6 NASA’s Artemis

7 UK, Republic of Ireland Declares Climate Emergency

8 U20 Leaders Call on G20 to Accelerate SDG Goals Progress

Economy Watch

1 NABARD announces Venture Capital Fund

2 FSSAI Allows Small organic Growers to sell Directly without Certification

3 Government acquires National Housing Bank from RBI

4 RBI Vision 2021

5 RBI Released Draft Liquidity Norms for NBFCs

6 RBI to Create Regulatory Cadre

7 RBI imposes fines on PPIs for violating Norms

8 SEBI bars NSE in Co-location Case

9 Draft Export Policy Unveiled

10 Government to Introduce AI System in MCA 21 Portal

11 FDI Inflows Record 1st Decline in Six Years

12 ADB to Provide Loan for Railway Track Electrification Project

13 HR Khan Working Group on FPI Regulations

14 Extension for Bimal Jalan Committee

India Watch

1 Supreme Court Denies Extension date on Finalisation of Assam NRC

2 Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of Section 23 of PCPNDT Act

3 Home Ministry terminates Black List of Indian-Origin People

4 Lok Sabha Election 2019 results

World Watch

1 Prime Minister’s Swearing-In Ceremony Invites World Leaders

2 Masood Azhar Sanctioned by UNSC Sanctions Committee

3 Indian Objects Human Rights Council Report On Kashmir

4 US Announces New Rules for Issuance of Green Cards

5 India Extends Retaliatory Tariff Deadline on US Products till June 16

6 At WTO India Pushes For Unbiased Assessment of Trade Policies

7 US-Iran Crisis Escalates

8 China Hits Back at US with Retaliatory Sanctions

9 HC: United Nations Not a State under Article 12

10 IMF to loan Pakistan $6 billion over 3 years

Science & Technology

1 ISRO Inaugurates ‘Yuvika 2019’

2 ISRO Announces Seven Mega Missions

3 ISRO Launches Radar Imaging Observation Satellite RISAT-2B

4 Rapid and Cheap Diagnostic test for Haemophilia A developed

5 First Ever Genetic Study on Lakshadweep Island’s Natives

6 ICRISAT-led Team Identifies Climate- Resilient Genes in Chickpea

7 Singapore Reports the First Ever Case of the Monkeypox Virus

8 Serotonin May Help Treat Neurological Decline

9 Largest Graphite reserves found in Arunachal Pradesh

10 Scientists Vote to Recognise Anthropocene as Earth’s New Epoch

11 Brain of SKA Designed

12 India Tests ABHYAS

13 India Adopts New Standards for Measuring Units

Ecology & Environment

1 Fourth World Reconstruction Conference

2 Crowded Mount Everest Becomes Deadly

3 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Released

4 China and India are leading the Increase in “Greening Efforts” Across the World

5 UNEP Releases Report “Sand and Sustainability”

6 The Curious Case of Drying Northeast India

7 New Viper Species Discovered in Arunachal Pradesh

8 New Vine Snake Discovered in Odisha Biosphere Reserve

9 Last Captive White Tiger Died at Sanjay Gandhi National Park

10 Purple Frog Soon to be Designated as Kerala’s State Amphibian

11 Grizzled Giant Squirrel Sighted at Pakkamalai Reserve Forests

12 Herbivore Census in Gujarat’s Gir

News Notes

1 PERSONS IN NEWS

2 ON THE HOT SEAT

3 FACES ONLY IN MEMORY

4 AWARDS

Art & Culture

1 Pichwai Art

2 Cheraw Dance

3 Gangamma Jatara Festival

4 Manjuvirattu

5 Postal Stamps of Vedanta Desikan Unveiled

6 Tanjore Paintings

7 ASI identifies Indian Artifacts Seized in USA

8 Jagannath Puri and Konark Sun Temple

9 ASI Unearths Underground Sacred Chambers in UP

10 Sikki Handicraft

11 Orchha Added to Tentative List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites

12 Tikuli Art

13 Rudraksh Plantation in Ganga Basin

14 Shankaracharya Jayanti Celebrated in Kashmir

Society Watch

1 SC Upholds Constitutional Validity of Consequential Seniority

2 Supreme Court disapproves Assam’s Foreigner’s Tribunals Plan

3 NOTTO’s Nod must for Organ Allocation to Foreign Nationals

4 NPPA Slashes prices of 9 Non-Scheduled Cancer Drugs

5 Meghalaya Launches Aroma Mission

PIB Corner

1 PIB CORNER

2 PIB CORNER

3 PIB CORNER

4 PIB CORNER

5 PIB CORNER

State Watch

Sports In News

News Snippets

1 India Owed the Highest in Unpaid Dues for UN Peacekeeping

2 Maharashtra Second State to get ICJS

3 Ongole Cattle Breed

4 Pumping Units Commissioned at Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme

5 Telangana signs Sister City Agreement with Indonesia

6 Meghalaya to Set up Farmer’s Commission

7 Karnataka and Maharashtra Cabinet Approves Cloud Seeding Programme

8 NITI Aayog’s Proposal for Artificial Intelligence Platform

9 Punjab bans Online Food Delivery without Hygiene Rating

10 SEBI allows FPI Investment in Municipal Bond

11 Anti-dumping duty put on Saccharine Import

12 Boost to Unnat Bharat Abhiyan

13 15th Finance Panel Needs to Reconcile Data

14 Yellow Rust Fungus

15 Centre of Excellence for Waste to Wealth Technologies

16 CBDT and GSTN Sign Pact to Share Data

17 Centre decides to merge CSO and NSSO into a National Statistical Office

18 BOPET Film Demand in India to Grow 10% in Next 5 Years

19 India Gives Two Attack Helicopters to Afghanistan

20 North Korea fires missiles as US envoy visits Seoul

21 Saudi Arabia’s Two Oil Tankers Sabotaged in Attacks

22 Scientists sequence Asiatic lion’s Genome for the first time

23 Giant Asteroid Expected to Fly Close to the Earth

24 CRISPR anti-venom

25 Jamia Researchers Develop Ultrafast Quantum Thermometer

26 NASA’s DART to Collide with Asteroid in 2022

27 Shrinking Moon Generates Lunar Quakes

28 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB)

29 Goldman Environmental Prize

30 Fourteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention

31 Fall Armyworm (FAW) becomes a Major Problem for Farmers

32 One of India’s Smallest Orchids Discovered in Assam

Reports & Indices

1 India Projected to Grow at 7.1% in Fiscal Year 2020: UN Report

2 Gender Diversity Good for Businesses and Economies: ILO

IAS/PCS Success Sutra

Topper's Interview

Srushti Jayant Deshmukh - 5th^AIR - CSC - 2018

Vaishali Singh - 8th^AIR - CSE - 2018

K. Lalith - 626th^AIR - CSE - 2018

Prelims Specials

PYQ Solved Paper

1 CSE'19 Prelims Set-D

Mains Specials

Disaster Management

General Studies Paper III

1 CYCLONE

Essays

1 Good Fences Make GOOD NEIGHBOURS

2 Changing Dynamics of Military

Constitution, Polity & Governance

General Studies Paper II

1 Electoral Reforms

2 Issues with Election Commission of India

3 Issues with Electoral Funding

4 Electoral reform undertaken for political funding

5 Issues related with Political system

6 Issues with Delimitation

7 Suggestions for Delimitation Reforms

8 Issues with Social dynamics

Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude

General Studies Paper IV

1 Concept of Public Service

2 Philosophical basis of governance and probity

3 Objectives of Probity in Governance

4 Good Governance

5 Philosophical basis of governance and probity

6 Actions needed to ensure probity in governance

7 Code of Ethics

8 Need of Code of Ethics for Public Servants

9 Present Ethical Framework for various Public Servants

10 The Committee on Ethics of the Lok Sabha

11 Ethical Framework for Civil Servants

12 Ethical framework for the judiciary

13 What is Corruption

14 Manifestations of Corruption

15 Methods of Corruption

16 Challenges of corruption

17 Social Infrastructure to combat corruption

18 Citizens’ Charter