Civil Services Chronicle June 2019

1 National Stock Exchange to Launch Eight New Agri-Commodity Contracts

2 New Procedure for Claiming Benefits under Transport and Marketing Assistance (TMA) Scheme

3 India’s Sugar Subsidy Dispute at WTO

4 India Asks for Differential Treatment on Fish Subsidies at WTO

5 India wants EU to Relax Sampling Norms for Fish Exports

6 Centre Permits Import of Feed Grade Maize for Poultry Sector

1 Extension of New Urea Policy-2015 for Existing Gas-based Units

1 EU drags India to WTO over Import Duties on ICT Products

2 Anti-Dumping Duty Imposed on Import of Solar Cell Component from Four Nations

3 U.S. Trade Representative Again Places India on Watch List

4 Coffee Blockchain Initiative

5 Index of Eight Core Industries

6 NuGen Mobility Summit 2019

1 National Investment and Infrastructure Fund &‘Roadis’ to Invest in Road Projects in India

2 Changes in E-way Bill System to Check GST Evasion

1 Women’s Labour Force Participation Report: Oxfam

1 Asian Development Outlook 2019

2 Renewable Energy Now Accounts for a Third of Global Power Capacity: IRENA

3 Progress in SDG Indicators Still Not Up To The Mark: WHO

4 High Penetration of Electric Vehicles By 2030: NITI Aayog

5 UNESCAP Report Urges India to Spend More For SDG 2030

1 Bank of Baroda Becomes Second Largest Bank After SBI

2 ‘Kandhamal Haldi’ gets GI Tag

3 Learning Coin: A Cryptocurrency Token of IMF and World Bank

4 Creation of Additional Posts in NCLAT for Speedy Case Disposal

5 RBI Extends Ombudsman Scheme to Non-deposit taking NBFCs

6 Bamboo Rice Shows Up In Odisha After Four Decades

7 India, Sweden Pact on Solutions for Smart Cities & Clean Technology

8 Pan Nation Electricity Mobile App: ‘Jagruk’

9 India-Bhutan Finalized Mangdecchu Hydro Project’s Power Tariff Protocol

10 India Highest Recipient of Remittances In 2018: World Bank

1 PIB Corner

1 EC to increase VVPAT Verification from One EVM to Five

1 Cabinet Approves Creation of Sixth Deputy CAG Post

2 Issue of Dual Control over Assam Rifles

1 Registration of Marriage Bill, 2019

1 100 Years of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

2 ICMR Launches ‘MERA India’

3 Annual Surveillance Reports on Antimicrobial Resistance

4 Know Your Medicine

5 Ministry of AYUSH, CSIR sign MoU to Promote Traditional Medicine

6 Multi-drug Resistant Yeast Present in India since 2011

7 Research Begins on Zika Virus

8 First Global Assessment of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

1 IIT Madras Team Develops OCR System for Nine Indian Languages

2 Garia Puja

3 Khelchawa Festival

4 Vishu: Malayalam New Year

5 Domkhar Petroglyphs Sanctuary

6 Puthandu: Tamil New Year

7 Batik Painting

8 Filigree Art

9 Rare Buddhist Sculpture Excavated in Telangana

10 Tholu Bommalata

11 Pattachitra Painting

12 Danda Nacha Festival

13 Ramappa Temple

14 Pithora Painting

15 Bandhani Painting

16 Thrissur Pooram Festival

17 Nagaland Konyak Dance

1 Monk's Exclusive Lok Sabha Seat

2 Supreme Court Directed to Provide Electoral Bond Donations' Details

3 Mobile App for Families of Martyred CRPF Troops

4 Utkarsh Bangla Scheme Gets UN Award

5 Rani Abbakka Force : Women Police Patrol Vehicle

6 Kerala’s Pathanamthitta-Best Constituency in India

7 Supreme Court Declares Right to Travel Abroad a Basic Human Right

1 PIB Corner

1 President of India visits Croatia, Bolivia and Chile

2 Algerian President Steps Down

3 Bhutan Takes a Positive Move on BBIN

4 Bill Introduced to Strengthen US-India Partnership

1 UNSC Resolution 2462 to Combat and Criminalize Terrorist Financing

2 Sri Lanka Terror Attack

3 Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir Ousted

4 Julian Assange Arrested from Ecuador Embassy in London

1 India-Africa Health Sciences Collaborative Platform

2 Arab League Condemns US Views On Golan Heights

3 World Press Freedom Index 2019

1 PM Awarded Zayed Medal

2 REIWA

3 India to Open An Agriculture Training Institute At Malawi

4 AUSINDEX 2019

5 Langkawi International Maritime & Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA) 2019

6 ‘Bold Kurukshetra 2019’

7 India Rejects the Second Belt And Road Initiative (BRI) Forum

1 US Ends Waiver Granted On Iran Oil

2 India Creates an Indo-Pacific Division

1 PIB Corner

1 PIB Corner

1 Enzyme to Arrest Bacteria Cell Growth Discovered

2 Genomics for Map Population Diversity

1 BepiColombo Ready to Take off to Mercury

2 1st Molecule of the Universe Spotted

3 TESS Finds 1st Earth-Sized Alien World

1 Indian Navy Launches INS Imphal

1 Black Hole ‘Powehi’

2 Liquid Methane spotted on Titan-Moon of Saturn

1 Oil-Eating Bacteria Discovered at the Mariana Trench

1 Fast-Charging Lithium-ion Batteries

1 Gagandeep Kang Elected as Royal Society Fellow

1 NASA Probe Detects Likely ‘Marsquake’

2 Scientists Print 3D Heart

3 New State of Matter Discovered

4 Stratolaunch Plane Completes First Test Flight

5 Homo Luzonensis: A New Human Relative

6 Indian Teams Win Awards at NASA Annual Rover Challenge

7 Japan Space Agency Sends Impactor to Blast Asteroid

8 Israel’s Beresheet Mission Crashes on the Moon

9 World’s First 5G Mobile Network

1 Groundbreaking Malaria Vaccine under Test

1 IUCN lists Hump-backed Mahseer as Critically Endangered

1 National Plan for Polluted Rivers

1 IMD Confirms Weak El Nino Conditions

1 State of Global Air 2019

1 National Seminar on Greenery and Landscaping

2 Global Recognition for Namami Gange

3 Global Coalition for Clean Cooling Launched

4 Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific (RCAP) Congress 2019

5 Cities Go Dark for Earth Hour

6 EPCA’s Parking Management Plan for Delhi

1 Face of Disasters 2019 Report

1 Indian Bullfrogs Take to Invasive Behaviour Early in Andamans

2 Mount Agung Volcano Erupts

3 Forest Fires Threatening Odisha’s Flora & Fauna

4 Eurasian Lynx

5 Two New Bird Species Spotted in Kerala Sanctuary

6 Factual Report on Great Indian Bustard

7 Olive Ridley Turtle

8 Yangtze Giant Soft Shell Turtle Goes Extinct

9 EU Parliament Approves Ban on Single-use Plastics

1 PIB Corner

1 State of the Global Climate in 2018

1 Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman

1 Uttarakhand High Court Declares

1 India’s National War Memorial Launched

1 ‘Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (Sfdr)’ Propulsion-Based Missile System

1 Himalayan Springs

1 The Highest Result of Education is Tolerance