Civil Services Chronicle March 2023

1 Judicial Majoritarianism

2 Annual Survey of Education Report 2022

3 Multi-State Co-Operative Societies

4 Global Risks Report 2023

1 Agricultural Accelerator Fund

2 New Indigenous Livestock Breeds

3 Short Selling

4 Block Deal

5 Depositary Shares

6 Futures Contracts on Corporate Bond Indices

7 Trade-plus-One (T+1) Settlement Cycle

8 RBI’s Loan Loss Provision Framework

9 National Logistics Portal-Marine

10 M-Sand Projects

1 High-Powered Committee on Ladakh

2 Presidential Address

3 Grievance Appellate Committees

4 83rd All India Presiding Officers’ Conference

5 Puisne Judge

6 Mandatory Minimum Sentences

7 Supreme Court Expands Ambit of Article 19

8 Chargesheet Not a Public Document: Supreme Court

1 India and Egypt to Elevate Bilateral Relations

2 India-United States Trade Policy Forum Meeting

3 India’s Notice to Pakistan on Indus Waters Treaty

4 Think-20 Meet: The Bhopal Declaration

5 Voice of Global South Summit 2023

6 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum

1 Webb Detects New Exoplanet

2 Milky Way Galaxy's Most-distant Stars

3 Japan’s IGS-Radar 7 Reconnaissance Satellite

4 INS Vagir Commissioned into Indian Navy

5 New Material to Remove Water Pollutants

6 Sun-powered Reactor to Convert Plastic and CO2 into Fuel

1 New Study on Glacier Melting

2 Asian Waterbird Census

3 Indian Star Tortoise Faces Challenges

4 Healing of Ozone Layer

5 Carbon Emission by Logged Tropical Forests

6 Nature Risk Profile Methodology

1 Santhi Kumari

2 Manuela Roka Botey

3 S. Subbaraman

4 Captain Surbhi Jakhmola

5 Raja J. Chari

6 Petr Pavel

7 Csaba Korosi

8 Manpreet Monica Singh

9 Christopher John Hipkins

10 Pankaj Kumar Singh

11 Praveen Sharma

12 Chetan Sharma

13 Justice AK Sikri

14 Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh

15 AC Charania

16 Dr Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi

17 Karl Alexander Müller

18 Air Marshal Harjeet Singh Arora

19 K. Viswanath

20 Vani Jairam

21 Shantabai Krushnaji Kamble

22 Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi

23 Mir Barkat Ali Khan Mukarram Jah Bahadur

24 Tehemton Erach Udwadia

25 Abdur Rehman Rahi

26 Prabhaben Shah

27 Nilamani Phookan Jr

28 Shanti Bhushan

29 Keshari Nath Tripathi

30 Abyei

31 Manjare Village

32 Hyderabad

33 Odesa

34 Visakhapatnam

35 Veer Guardian 2023

36 Cyclone - I

37 Exercise Varuna

38 AMPHEX 23

39 “Ops Alert”

40 Exercise Pralay

41 TROPEX

42 Exercise Poorvi Akash

43 Trishakti Prahar

44 ‘Exercise Topchi’

45 Think 20

46 GOPIO

47 Y20 Summit

48 Voice of Global South Summit

49 B20 Summit

50 COP 28

51 Padma Awards 2023

52 Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar-2023

53 Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia Lifetime Achievement Award

54 Golden Globe Award (Best Original Song)

55 FIH President Award

56 Republic Day Parade Awards

1 Art Forms Recognized by Padma Awards 2023

2 Gaan Ngai Festival

3 Maghi Mela

4 Theyyam Ritual Art Form

5 Dravidian Languages of India

6 Toto Language

7 Buddhist Monastery Complex Discovered in West Bengal

8 Sagol Kangjei : The Traditional Manipuri Polo

9 Wall of Peace: Modern Mural Art

10 Uttarakhand’s Tableau wins top Republic Day Award

11 Charaideo Maidams: Pyramids of Assam

1 Supreme Court Simplifies Procedure for Passive Euthanasia

2 JJ Act: Draft Guidelines on Conducting Preliminary Assessment

3 Mahila Samman Savings Certificate

Kerala

1 Country’s First Fully Digital Banking State

2 Kollam: First Constitution Literate District In India

3 Wayanad: Country’s First District to Provide Basic Documents to all Tribals

4 Indian Library Congress

5 Year of Enterprises Project

6 Welfare Board

Tamil Nadu

1 Tamil Nadu Information Commission

2 Octave 2023

Tripura

1 Mission-929

2 “Saharsh” Special Education Program

Himachal Pradesh

1 Sukhashray Sahayata Kosh

2 Old Pension Scheme

West Bengal

1 Didir Suraksha Kavach

Hockey

1 Hockey World Cup 2023

Badminton

1 Australian Open 2023

2 India Open Badminton Championship

Cricket

1 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup

1 SMART Program

2 Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)

3 Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC)

4 PM CARES Fund

5 Project ELLORA

6 Aspirational Block Programme (ABP)

7 Project 39A

8 Hakku Patra

9 Bal Mitra

10 Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005

11 Section 6A of the Citizenship Act

12 Chunyun

13 Soligas People

14 Juna Khatiya

15 Aiyanoor Ammanoor Festival

16 Chamundeshwari Temple

17 Parshuram Kund Festival

18 Ottanthullal Dance

19 Ramcharitmanas

20 Lighthouse Certification

21 Agriculture Insurance Company of India Limited (AIC)

22 Flipping & Reverse Flipping

23 Open Market Sale Scheme (OMSS)

24 Pashu Sakhi

25 REWARD Program

26 Sunni Dam Hydro Electric Project

27 ASCEND Samagam

28 Nau-Anaj

29 SLYM

30 ChatGPT

31 Phonons

32 Doppler Weather Radar

33 Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC)

34 BharOS

35 Immune Imprinting

36 New Dwarf Boa Species

37 Neelakurinji

38 Titanosaur Eggs

39 Mahabali Frog

40 Liquified Natural Gas

41 Green Steel

42 Triassic Caecilian Fossils

43 iCET Dialogue

44 WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies

45 Student Loan Safety Net

46 Asian Pacific Postal Union

47 Draft Global Pandemic Agreement

1 Broadcasting Infrastructure and Network Development Scheme

2 New Electricity Rules 2022

3 MAARG Platform

1 All India Survey on Higher Education 2020-2021

1 Pradhan Mantri PVTG Development Mission

2 Pradhan Mantri Vishwakarma Kaushal Samman

Budget 2023-24

1 Key Points

2 Priority 1: Inclusive Development

3 Priority 2: Reaching the Last Mile

4 Priority 3: Infrastructure & Investment

5 Priority 4: Unleashing the Potential

6 Priority 5: Green Growth

7 Priority 6: Youth Power

8 Priority 7: Financial Sector

Indian Polity And Governance

Democratic Framework

1 Parliamentary Democracy

2 Parliamentary Sovereignty

3 Liberal Democracy

4 Constitutional Government

5 Representative Form of Government/Representative Democracy

6 Social Democracy

Federal System

1 Cooperative Federalism

2 Competitive Federalism

3 Governor vs. State Government

4 Role of Rajya Sabha in India’s Federal Set-up

5 LG vs. Elected Government

6 Inter-State River Dispute

7 Inter-State Border Dispute

8 Reform in Seventh Schedule

9 Special Category Status of States

10 Inter-State Council

Rights And Duties

1 Right to Protest

2 Right to Health

3 Right to Abort

4 Rights of the Unborn Child

5 Adolescent Child Rights

6 Right to Marry

7 Right to Worship

8 Right to be Forgotten (RTBF)

9 Right to Sleep

10 Broadcasting Rights of Informal Media

11 Right to Travel

12 Free Legal Aid

13 Prisoners’ Right

14 Exceptions to Fundamental Rights

15 Animals Rights

16 Free Speech vs Hate Speech

17 Sedition Law

18 Digital Rights

19 Digital Sovereignty

20 Right to Use Internet (Access to Information)

21 Preventive Detention

22 Rights of Crime Victims

23 Social Media-Censorship and Regulation

24 Enforcement of Fundamental Duties

Law Making & Parliament

1 Ordinance Making Provisions and Powers

2 Parliamentary Privileges

3 Collective Responsibility of Executive to Parliament

4 Parliamentary Sessions

5 Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha

6 Joint Session of Parliament

7 Office of Profit

8 Obsolete Laws

9 Delayed Justice

10 Tribunals

11 Standing Committees

Judicial System

1 ​Rule of Law

2 Principle of Natural Justice

3 Due Process of Law

4 Writ Petitions

5 Public Interest Litigations

6 Anticipatory Bail

7 Contempt of Court

8 Criminal Justice System

9 Judicial Custody and Police Custody

10 Judicial Review/Activism/Overreach/Restraint

11 Capital Punishment

12 Judicial Accountability

13 Juvenile Justice System

14 Judicial Transfers

15 Supreme Court vs High Court vs District Courts

Governance Dynamics

1 The Pardoning Power of President vs. Governor

2 Citizen’s Charter

3 Democratic Principles in Global Governance

4 Draft National Data Governance Framework Policy

5 National Register of Citizens (NRC)

6 Digital Governance

7 Official Language

8 Excluding Laws from Judicial Review (9th Schedule)

9 Democratic Decentralisation

Electoral System

1 Model Code of Conduct (MCC)

2 Election Symbols

3 Electoral Bonds

4 Election Petition

5 Delimitation Commission

6 Freebies

7 Remote Electronic Voting Machines (RVM)

8 Online Campaigning

9 Registered Unrecognised Political Parties (RUPP)

10 Anti-Defection Law

11 Voting Rights for Under Trials

Social Justice & Welfare

1 Human Trafficking

2 Child Abuse

3 Child Adoption

4 Mercy Killing

5 Mental Illness

6 Transgenders’ Rights

7 Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) Quota

8 Police Brutality

9 Decriminalization of Suicide

10 Honour Killing

11 Marital Rape

12 Clinical Trial

13 Surrogacy

14 Tribal Rights

15 Rights of Person with Disabilities

16 Sub-categorization of Other Backward Castes

17 Reservation in Promotion

18 Rights of Illegal Migrants

19 Creamy Layer Determination

20 Scheduled Areas

21 Panchayat (Extension of the Schedule Areas) Act, 1996

22 Caste Census

23 Uniform Civil Code

24 Anti-Conversion Laws

25 State and Regulation of Temples

Mandate Of Constitutional/Non-Constitutional Bodies

1 CBI (Terms of Reference, CBI vs. States)

2 National Commission for Scheduled Tribes

3 Enforcement Directorate (ED)

4 National Investigation Agency (NIA)

5 National Commission for Protection of Child Rights

6 Law Commission of India

7 Competition Commission of India (CCI)

8 Central Information Commission (CIC)

9 National Green Tribunal (NGT)

10 National Commission for Women

11 National Human Rights Commission

12 Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)

Miscellaneous

1 Minority Educational Institutions (MEIs)

2 Local Reservation in Private Sector

3 Civil Services Reforms

4 Right to Property

5 Right to be Defended

6 Criminalization of Politics

7 One Nation One Election

8 Positive Secularism

9 Inner Party Democracy

10 Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO)

Survey

1 State of the Economy

2 India’s Medium Term Growth Outlook

3 Fiscal Developments

4 Monetary Management and Financial Intermediation

5 Prices and Inflation

6 Social Infrastructure and Employment

7 Climate Change and Environment

8 Agriculture and Food Management

9 Industry

10 Services

11 External Sector

12 Physical and Digital Infrastructure
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