Civil Services Chronicle May 2023

1 Compassionate Appointments

2 Women, Business and the Law 2023

3 Foreign Trade Policy 2023

4 United Nations World Water Development Report 2023

1 National Mission on Natural Farming

2 India’s First Cloned Gir Calf ‘Ganga’

3 IREDA gets ‘Infrastructure Finance Company’ Status

4 MCA proposes Changes to IBC, 2016

5 MSME Competitive (LEAN) Scheme

6 Centre Approves Setting of 7 PM-MITRA Parks

7 Hallmark Unique Identification (HUID) Number

8 PNRGB amends norms to allow Unified Tariff on Natural Gas Pipelines

9 Sagar Manthan Dashboard

1 Disqualification of Members of Parliament

2 Pre-arrest Bail

3 Guillotine in Parliament

4 NCLAT upholds CCI’s Penalty on Google

5 Rule 357 of Rules and Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha

6 Constitutional Validity of Section 354(5) of CrPC, 1973

7 Lok Sabha Passes Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022

8 Pennaiyar River Dispute

9 Sealed Cover Jurisprudence

10 Principle of Audi Alteram Partem

11 National Security Act

12 Centre Reduces “Disturbed Areas” under AFSPA

1 India-US Commercial Dialogue

2 India-Australia Critical Minerals Investment Partnership

3 India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline

4 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations

5 AUKUS: Australia to Get Nuclear Submarines

6 Doha Political Declaration

1 LVM3-M3/OneWeb India-2 Mission

2 Evidence of Active Volcano on Venus

3 Controlled Re-entry Experiment of Megha-Tropiques-1

4 Potential of Organoid Intelligence to Create Biocomputers

5 Laccase

6 Starberry-Sense

1 Himalayan Glacial Retreat

2 Loss of Mountain Forests

3 DNA Profiling of Captive Elephants

4 Landslide Atlas of India

5 Green Tug Transition Programme

6 Adverse Effects of Antibiotics Administered on Livestock

1 Ratan Tata

2 Shaktikanta Das

3 Kiran Nadar

4 Xi Jinping

5 Shaliza Dhami

6 Surekha Yadav

7 Christina Hammock Koch

8 Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani

9 Vice-Admiral Sanjay Jasjit Singh

10 Ajay Singh

11 Salima Tete

12 G Krishnakumar

13 Deepak Mohanty

14 S.S. Dubey

15 Sudha Shivkumar

16 Amit Kshatriya

17 Wing Commander Jag Mohan Nath (retd.)

18 Sara Thomas

19 Ved Pratap Vaidik

20 Abhay Chhajlani

21 Salim Aziz Durani

22 Georgia

23 Finland

24 United Kingdom

25 Denmark

26 Hubballi

27 Mauganj

28 Bandipur National Park

29 Tajikistan and Azerbaijan

30 Bhutan

31 Zawar

32 Jhamarkotra

33 Katarniaghat Sanctuary

34 TROPEX-23

35 SLINEX 23

36 IMX/CE-23

37 EX La Perouse 2023

38 Sea Dragon 2023

39 AFINDEX-2023

40 Bold Kurukshetra

41 Konkan 2023

42 Central Bureau of Investigation

43 India Justice Report 2022

44 CA|TS Status to Six Tiger Reserves

45 'Project Tiger'

46 Saraswati Samman 2022

47 Vyas Samman 2022

48 Pritzker Architecture Prize 2023

49 Wildlife Conservation Award

50 SAARC Literature Award-2023

51 Abel Prize 2023

52 Sangita Kalanidhi Award

53 World Seagrass Day (1st March)

54 Zero Discrimination Day (1st March)

55 World Wildlife Day (3rd March)

56 International Women's Day (8 March)

57 International Day of Action For Rivers (14th March)

58 World Consumer Rights Day (15th March)

59 Global Recycling Day (18th March)

60 International Day of Forests (21 March)

61 World Water Day (22 March)

62 World Meteorological Day (23 March)

1 Bumchu Festival of Sikkim

2 Sharada Peeth Corridor

3 Attukal Pongala

4 Matua Maha Mela

5 Bobbili Veena

6 Centenary of the Vaikom Satyagraha

7 Tibetan Buddhism

1 Affinity Test & Caste Claims

2 Guidelines for Blood Donor Selection & Blood Donor Referral 2017

3 Karnataka re-classifies the Definition of ‘Backward Classes’ for Reservation

4 Silver Jubilee of Kudumbashree

Sikkim

1 Go Green, Go Organic

Uttarakhand

1 India’s First State to Start Insurance Scheme for Sericulturists

2 Sports University

3 Mukhyamantri Ekal Mahila Swarozgar Yojana

4 10 % Horizontal Reservation for Statehood Activists

Odisha

1 Gold Deposits Discovered in Three Districts

Haryana

1 Aravalli Green Wall Project

Maharashtra

1 Beggar-free City Initiative Started in Nagpur

Rajasthan

1 Creation of 19 New Districts and Three New Divisions

2 Rajasthan Advocates Protection Bill, 2023

Madhya Pradesh

1 Mauganj: 53rd District of Madhya Pradesh

2 Sambal Yojana

Jharkhand

1 Jharniyojan Portal

Tamil Nadu

1 Tamil Nadu Kasanoi Erappila Thittam (TB Death-free Project)

Assam

1 Assam’s Flood Management Project

Badminton

1 Swiss Open 2023

Sports Persons In News

1 Mirabai Chanu

2 Rani Rampal

1 May 2023 Oneliner Current Affairs From Govt. News Services like PIB, AIR, etc

1 Hue and Cry Notice

2 Indian Dairy Association (IDA)

3 Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN)

4 ‘Call Before u Dig’ (CBuD) App

5 Demand for Grants

6 Operation Trishul

7 Special Courts for Member of Parliament (MP) and Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA)

8 Pharmacy Council of India (PCI)

9 World Happiness Report

10 herSTART Platform

11 Differences in Sex Development (DSD)

12 Anganwadi Centres

13 Sarbat Khalsa

14 Khandagiri Udayagiri Caves

15 Sisupalgarh

16 Yangli Festival

17 Nagaraja Thira dance

18 Har Payment Digital

19 Long-Term Capital Gains (LTCG)

20 Credit Default Swaps (CDS)

21 Data Centre and Cybersecurity Training Institute

22 Rubber Board

23 DigiClaim Platform

24 Canalisation of Import and Export

25 Green Shoe Option

26 Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP)

27 Kangra Tea

28 Plastiglomerate

29 Biotransformation Technology

30 International Liquid Mirror Telescope

31 Candida auris

32 Salt Marshes

33 Sarus Crane

34 International Day of Zero Waste

35 International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA)

36 Global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Infrastructure

37 Uganda's Bill on LGBTQs

38 International Criminal Court

39 McMahon Line

40 Australia-India Education Qualification Recognition Mechanism

1 Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics 2022

1 NITI Aayog launches ATL Sarthi

2 Captive Employment Initiative under DDU-GKY

3 ICMR's Ethical Guidelines for Use of AI in Healthcare

4 Bharat 6G Project

1 Women and Men in India 2022

2 Breaking the Cycle of Unsustainable Food Systems, Hunger and Debt

3 Falling Long-Term Growth Prospects: Trends, Expectations, and Policies

4 Enforcement Directorate releases Data on Money Laundering

5 IQAir’s World Air Quality Report 2022

6 UNCTAD’s Technology and Innovation Report 2023

7 Global Terrorism Index 2023

1 Health Ministry adds Six Rare Diseases under NPRD, 2021

2 New India Literacy Programme

3 World Bank’s Funding to PM-ABHIM

4 Laws related to Antiquity in India

5 Vedic Heritage Portal

Ecology & Environment

Sustainable Development

1 Sustainable Cities Integrated Approach Pilot (SCIAP) Project

2 Blue Bonds

3 Green Permits

4 Nature Based Solution (NBS)

5 Cloud Forest and the Cloud Forest 25 (CF25) Initiative

6 Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)

7 Coal-bed Methane (CBM)

8 Biomass Co-firing

9 Beejamrit

10 Jivamrit

11 Direct-Seeded Rice

12 Right to Repair

Biodiversity

1 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)

2 Multilateral System of Access and Benefit Sharing (ML-ABS)

3 Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) Programme

4 Eco-Sensitive Zone

5 Biodiversity Heritage Sites (BHSs)

6 ‘Tree City of the World’ (TCW) Tag

7 Miyawaki Method

8 Abidjan Convention

9 Aceclofenac

10 Sponge Bleaching

11 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

Pollution

1 Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD)

2 Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR)

3 Green Crackers

4 Grey Water

5 Per and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)

6 Raman Spectroscopy

7 Photo Pollution

8 Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)

9 Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

10 Prior Informed Consent (PIC)

Geographical Phenomenon

1 ‘Triple Dip’ La Niña

2 Karakoram Anomaly

3 Asani

4 Fujiwhara Effect

5 Dvorak Technique

6 Bomb Cyclone

7 Azores High

Wild Life Protection And Biodiversity

1 Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Treaty

2 CITES

3 Wild Life (Protection) Act (WLPA), 1972

4 Invasive Species

5 Critical Tiger Habitat (CTH)

6 Project REPLAN

7 Microbeads

8 Stockholm+50

9 Eco-Fascism

10 Blue Deal

11 Living Lands Charter

12 India Business & Biodiversity Initiative

13 Forest (Conservation) Rules, 2022

14 Compensatory Afforestation Fund

15 Community Forest Rights

16 Arth Ganga

17 Blue Flag Beaches/Certification

18 Oran Land

19 Boreal Forest

Climate Change

1 Super-Emitters

2 Artic Amplification

3 Zombie Ice (Doomed Ice)

4 LiFE

5 Principles for Locally Led Adaptation (LLA)

6 Emission Gap

7 Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS)

8 Climate Tipping Points

9 Greenwashing

10 Keeling Curve

11 Climate Equity

12 Ocean Carbon Sequestration

13 Regenerative Agriculture

14 Pyrene Remediation

15 Polar Vortex

16 Pileus Cloud

17 Green Steel

18 Soil Carbon Sequestration

Climate Finance Initiatives

1 Polluter-Pays Principle (PPP)

2 Carbon Border Tax and Carbon Leakage

3 Emissions Trading System (ETS)

4 GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP)

5 Common But Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities (CBDR-RC)

6 ‘Cap and Trade’

7 Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF)

8 Least Developed Countries Fund

9 Skyglow

10 Global Climate Resilience Fund

11 Carbon Trade

12 Blue Bob

13 Nature Positive Fund

14 Sovereign Green Bonds

15 Carbon Budget

16 Green Fins Hub

17 Infrastructure Resilience Accelerator Fund

18 Insurance Adaptation Acceleration Campaign

Major International Organizations/Conventions/Protocols/Declaration

1 Global Methane Pledge

2 Global Energy Monitor (GEM)

3 International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO)

4 Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) Mission

5 Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON)

6 Sharm el-Sheikh Implementation Plan

7 Koronivia Joint Work for Agriculture (KJWA)

8 First Movers Coalition

9 Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETP)

10 Long-Term Low Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS)

11 ‘In Our LiFEtime’ Campaign

12 Hydrogen Valley Platform

13 Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

14 Global Clean Energy Action Forum (GCEAF)

15 Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)

16 Green Events Tool (GET)

17 “Land, Life and Legacy” Declaration

18 Initiative on Nutrition and Climate Change (ICAN)

19 Lisbon Declaration

20 Seoul Forest Declaration

21 International Big Cat Alliance

Miscellaneous

1 Plasticosis

2 Arribada

3 Yaya Tso

4 MISHTI Scheme

5 World Restoration Flagships

6 ANGAN

7 BEEP

8 SHOONYA Campaign

9 Derecho Storm System

10 Rain Bomb

11 Important Environmental Conventions

Science & Technology

Space Technology

1 Retrograde Orbit

2 Gravitational Lensing

3 Nebula

4 Space Sustainability

5 Kessler Syndrome

6 Space Situational Awareness (SSA)

7 Schwarzschild Radius

8 Ergosphere

9 Relativistic Jet

10 Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs)

11 Dark Matter and Dark Energy

12 Chandler Wobble

13 Hybrid Propulsion System

14 Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (IAD)

15 Blood Moon

16 Geomagnetic Storm

17 Coronal Holes

18 Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)

19 Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs)

20 Betelgeuse

21 Space Tourism

22 Black Holes

23 Binary Super Massive Black Hole (SMBH)

24 Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission

25 Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Mission

26 SpaceTech Innovation Network (SpIN)

27 White Dwarfs

28 Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet

29 Dark SKY Reserve

30 Sampurnanand Optical Telescope (SOT)

31 SARAS 3 Telescope

32 Liquid-Mirror Telescope (LMT)

33 Space Bricks

34 Mars Orbiter Mission

35 NASA’s Perseverance Rover

36 Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV)

37 James Webb Space Telescope

Defence

1 Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (SFDR) Technology

2 Submersible Ship Ballistic Nuclear (SSBNs)

3 Nuclear-Power attack Submarines (SSNs)

4 Diesel-electric Attack Submarines (SSKs)

5 Dirty Bomb

6 Submersible Platform for Acoustic Characterization & Evaluation (SPACE)

7 Butterfly Mines

8 Agni-5 Missile

9 S-400

10 Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (ATGM)

11 Man-Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM)

12 Vertical Launch Short Range Surface-to-Air Missile (VLSRSAM)

13 Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QRSAM)

14 HELINA

15 Astra Mk-I beyond Visual Range (BVR) Air-to-Air Missiles

16 Pralay Missile

17 INS Vikrant

18 Project 15 B

19 Project 17A

20 Project 75(I)

21 Indian Naval Ship (INS) Vagsheer

22 Dornier (Do-228) Aircraft

23 Indigenous Stealth Drone

24 Pinaka Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher (MBRL) System

25 High-Energy Laser System (HELS)

IT And Other Technologies

1 Digital Twin

2 Network Slicing

3 Fiberisation

4 Splinternet

5 GigaMesh

6 Dark Net

7 Generative AI

8 4D Printing

9 Superimposition

10 Entanglement

11 Bitcoin Mining

12 Merge and Proof-of-Stake

13 Non-Fungible Tokens

14 Extended Reality (XR)

15 Embedded SIM (e-SIM)

16 Cryptojacking

17 Hermit

18 Bluebugging

19 National Data & Analytics Platform (NDAP)

20 Data Empowerment Protection Architecture

21 Data Center

22 5G Open Radio Access Network (RAN)

23 ChatGPT

24 LaMDA Technology

25 3D Printing

26 Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)

27 Facial Recognition System (FRS)

28 Radio frequency Identification (RFID)

29 IndiaStack

30 2Africa Pearls

31 Global Lighthouse Network (GLN)

32 ITU’s Regional Standardization Forum (RSF)

33 Frequency Modulation (FM)

34 PARAM PORUL

35 True Random Number Generator (TRNG)

Health & Disease

1 Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

2 Self-amplifying Messenger RNA (mRNA) Vaccine

3 Food Fortification

4 Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS)

5 Epstein Barr Virus (EBV)

6 Zombie Virus

7 Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD)

8 Canine Distemper

9 Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES)

10 PEN Plus Strategy

11 DNA and RNA Vaccines

12 One Health

13 First-Ever Fungal Priority Pathogens List (FPPL)

14 Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2)

15 iNCOVACC

16 Monkeypox

17 Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)

18 Marburg Virus Disease (MVD)

19 African Swine Fever (ASF)

20 Tomato Flu (Tomato Fever)

21 White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV)

22 Porcine Virus

23 Shigella Bacteria

24 Sickle Cell Anaemia

Biotechnology

1 Genome Editing

2 Site-Directed Nuclease (SDN)

3 Bioeconomy

4 Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-Cas 9

5 Chimeric Antigen Receptor T (CAR-T) Cell Therapy

6 Genome Sequencing

7 Genomic Surveillance

8 Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT)

9 Genetic Modification (GM) Technology

10 T and B Cells

11 Cloning

12 Molecular Motor

Miscellaneous

1 Tokamak

2 Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)

3 Hyperloop System

4 Flex Fuel Technology

5 Fuel Cell

6 Click Chemistry

7 Bio-orthogonal Chemistry

8 Glycans

9 Quantum Teleportation and Bell Inequalities

10 Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)

11 Paleogenomics

12 Crescograph

13 Lithium-Ion Battery

14 Hydrogen-Powered Engine

15 Roshini

16 Mission Innovation

17 The "Mystery" Particle Finding

18 SPARK (Studentship Program for Ayurveda Research Ken) Program

19 Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR)

20 Graphene

21 Ethylene Glycol

22 Single-Crystalline Scandium Nitride (ScN)

23 Cordy Gold Nanoparticles (Cor-AuNPs)

24 Nixtamalization

Model Test Questions

1 Model MCQs