Civil Services Chronicle May 2019

1 Electoral Bonds

2 Official Secrets Act, 1923

3 Contempt of Court

4 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016

5 Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)

6 Mueller Report Released in the US

7 India’s Latest Move to Impose Sanctions on Masood Azhar Foiled

8 US-North Korea second summit meeting inconclusive

9 New Zealand Terror Attack

10 India – Maldives Ministerial Meet

11 Importance of Maldives for India

12 Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)

13 PM-STIAC Identifies Nine Missions

14 China to Complete Artificial Sun Device This Year

Strategic Location of Israel

Dispute on Golan Heights

1 Pradhan Mantri JI-VAN Yojana

2 Guatemala Files Complaint over India’s Sugar Subsidies

3 Transport & Marketing Assistance (TMA) Scheme to Boost Agriculture Exports

4 Geographical Indication (GI) Tags for Agricultural Products

5 Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan (PM-SYM) Yojana

6 USA Plans to Withdraw Trade Concessions for India under GSP Program

7 World Bank signs a Loan Agreement for Dam Rehabilitation & Improvement Project (DRIP)

8 One Nation One Card

9 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board inks cooperation agreement with IFC

10 RBI and Bank of Japan sign Bilateral Swap Arrangement

1 Country’s First Lokpal Appointed

2 Government’s Prerogative to Frame Schemes: Supreme Court

3 Supreme Court calls for Death Penalty as an Exception

4 Electoral Bonds hit Transparency in Political Funding: Election Commission (EC)

5 Expert Panel Okays Acquisition of Land for ISRO

6 Cabinet approves continuation of National AIDS Control Programme-IV (NACP-IV)

1 UNSC Designated Outfits Banned by Pakistan

2 UN World Happiness Report 2019

3 India-Sri Lanka joint exercise ‘Mitra Shakti-VI’ to commence from Mar 26

4 SCO’s joint exercise ‘Sary-Arka-Antiterror 2019’ announced

5 Brexit Date Postponed by European Union

6 US Officially Recognizes Israel’s Sovereignty over the Disputed ‘Golan Heights’

7 Italy joins BRI

1 NASA Spacecraft Spots Water Molecules on Moon

2 ISRO Launches Electronic Intelligence Satellite ‘Emisat’

3 Solar Tsunami Can Trigger the Sunspot Cycle

4 Ultraviolet Stars Identified in the Globular Cluster NGC 2808

5 Scientists Calculate Mass of Milky Way Galaxy

6 West Nile Virus in Kerala

7 Mission Shakti Accomplished

8 India Successfully Test-Fires “Pinaka”

9 National Policy on Software Products – 2019

10 Google Launches ‘Bolo’ to Tutor Children

1 New Delhi Declaration on Asian Rhinos 2019

2 Erode Turmeric gets GI Tag

3 First GI Tag for Areca Nut

4 Parrotfish Threatened in Andaman

5 Simplifying “UNNATEE’’

6 UN Report Recognizes Nitrogen Pollution as Threat

7 Green Protocol in Kerala

8 Indian Forest Act Amendment Draft Finalised

9 India Cooling Action Plan

10 Forest-Certification Scheme gets Global Recognition

11 Special Stamp on Ice Stupa

12 Climate Vulnerability Maps for Himalayan States

13 Global Chemical Outlook II

14 Bomb Cyclone

1 PERSONS IN NEWS

2 ON THE HOT SEATS

3 FACES ONLY IN MEMORY

4 AWARDS

1 Thakurani Jatra Festival, Odisha

2 Jodi Sankha Dance, Odisha

3 Telangana Tribal Paintings go Online

4 Types of Paintings gone online

5 Oppari Song, Tamil Nadu

1 National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (NARSS 2018-19)

2 FeFA Girls: Initiative to Tackle Malnutrition

3 Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019

4 India on the Brink of a Dry Eye Disease Epidemic

5 National Rural Economic Transformation Project (NRETP) to Boost Rural Incomes

6 Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), 2017-18

1 PIB Corner

2 ​​Survey/Reports/Indices

3 PIB CORNER

4 PIB CORNER

5 PIB CORNER

1 Mizoram passes Maintenance of Household Registers Bill, 2019

2 Arunachal Pradesh Government says no to Permanent Resident Certificates (PRCs)

3 First Transgender Election Ambassador

4 Polling Stations in Mizoram for Bru Refugees

5 Assam Launches Initiative to Educate Voters

6 Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Institute of Archaeology

7 Green Audit Launched at Meenachil River

8 Customs Overseas Intelligence Network (COIN)

9 India & Brunei ink Tax Information Exchange Agreement

10 YONO Cash: India’s First Cardless ATM

11 India, Paraguay Agree to Promote Bilateral Investment

12 Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh get new National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Benches

13 First Workshop on India Energy Modelling Forum

14 Khurja Super Thermal Power Project in Uttar Pradesh

15 Buxar Thermal Power Project in Bihar

16 Teesta Stage-VI Hydro Electric Project, Sikkim

17 Kiru Hydro Electric Project, Jammu and Kashmir

18 India & Brunei ink Tax Information Exchange Agreement

19 ​Honey as a Biomarker for Pollution

20 India Bans Import of Solid Plastic Waste

21 IQAir AirVisual 2018 World Air Quality Report

22 UN Environment Assembly on Sustainable Development Goals

23 Indians in the 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy List

24 Otter Census in Uttar Pradesh

25 Supersonic Pulsar Discovered

26 US Mathematician Becomes First Woman to Win Abel Prize

27 DRDO Chairman Wins Missile Systems Award

28 President Inaugurates Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

29 China’s Long March Rocket Series Completes 300 launches

30 Kepler, 1st Exoplanet Spotted By NASA

1 National Mineral Policy, 2019

2 New Auto Policy: FAME II (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid) & Electric Vehicles)

3 New Hydroelectricity Policy

4 Cabinet Approves Proposal to Align with Global Trademark System

1 Lancet Report: India not on Track to Eliminate Tuberculosis (TB) by 2025

2 Monster Salary Index (MSI): Gender Pay Gap still High in India

3 Multidimensional Poverty Index Report

4 Energy Transition Index, 2019

5 India’s Energy Demand outpaces Global Growth: International Energy Agency

1 Agriculture Sector Schemes

2 Manufacturing Sector Schemes

3 Service Sector Schemes

Topper's Interview

Kanishak Kataria - 1thAIR - UPSC-2018

Akshat Jain - 2ndAIR - UPSC-2018

Junaid Ahmad - 3rdAIR - UPSC-2018

Shreyans Kumat - 4thAIR - UPSC-2018

Srushti Jayant Deshmukh - 5thAIR - UPSC-2018

Vaishali Singh - 8thAIR - UPSC-2018

Ritika - 88thAIR - UPSC-2018

Indian Economy & Socio-economic Development

Digital Infrastructure

1 Introduction

2 AADHAR

3 Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT)

4 BharatNet

5 Agriculture Sector

6 Infrastructure for Cyber Security

7 Commerce and Industry

8 Corporate Affairs

9 Education

10 Governance

11 Law & Justice

12 Technological development and Digital Awareness

13 Banking & Finance

14 e-Participation

15 Railways

16 Health

17 Law & Order

18 Civil Aviation