Civil Services Chronicle October 2020

1 National Digital Health Mission

2 Contempt of Court

3 Transparent Taxation- Honoring the Honest

4 National Strategy for Financial Education

5 Supply Chain Resilience Initiativea in Resilience Initiative

6 India-Nepal to hasten India-aided Development Projects

7 Impending Threat from Sunspot Activity&Solar Flares

8 Microplastic Pollution: An Oceanic Menace

Indonesia

1 Impact of Coronavirus on Trade

2 Setting up of Centres to Create Awareness among People about Indian Culture

3 Skill Development in Backward Districts

4 Unemployment

1 Pokkali Variety of Rice

2 RBI’s New Loan Recast Scheme

3 Positive Pay Mechanism

4 National Handloom Day

5 Kisan Rail

6 India’s Longest River Ropeway Opened in Assam

1 Arunachal Pradesh Seeks Inclusion in Sixth Schedule

2 National Council for Transgender Persons

3 Clause 6 of Assam Accord

4 National Recruitment Agency to Transform Recruitment Process

5 SC’s verdict on Hindu women’s inheritance rights

1 Abraham Accords: Israel-UAE Peace Agreement

2 Myanmar’s Pushback against China-funded Economic Corridor

3 Turkey Discovers a Large Natural Gas Reserve in Black Sea

4 India and Israel Sign Cultural Agreement

5 India- Bangladesh to Open New Trade Connectivity Route

6 BRICS Innovation Base

7 6th Round Table of ASEAN-India Network of Think Tanks

1 Dwarf Planet Ceres Is an Ocean World: NASA

2 ASTROSAT DetectsOne of the Earliest Galaxies

3 Splitting Dent in Earth’s Magnetic Field

4 Vikram Sarabhai: A Crater on Moon

5 Beidou: Chinese Version of GPS

6 Planet Hunter: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

7 Trans-fats must Go from IndianFoods by 2022: Experts

8 NCRP Report 2020: Cancer Cases to Rise by 12% by 2025

9 ITIHAS: IT-enabled lntegrated Hotspot Analysis System

10 Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE)

1 Nationally Determined Contributions –Transport Initiative for Asia

2 Greenland’s Ice sheet Melting beyond “Point of No Return”

3 NGT Sets Stringent Conditions for Commercial Use of Groundwater

4 India Water Resources Information System

5 World Biofuel Day

6 Antibiotic-Resistant "Priority Pathogens" found in Yamuna Water

7 Tsunami Ready Village

8 Landslide Menace

9 India’s First Snow Leopard Conservation Centre

10 Seagrasses

11 Hoolock Gibbons

12 Dhole: Asiatic Wild Dog

13 African Cheetah

1 Shinzo Abe

2 Girish Chandra Murmu

3 Pranab Mukherjee

4 Chora (Kariye) Museum

5 NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL)

6 Committee for determining Ceiling Rates under RoDTEP

7 GI Tag to Three Goa Items

8 International Booker Prize

9 Satyendra Singh Lohia

10 National Sports Awards 2020

1 Lingaraj Temple to be Refurbished Soon

2 Nagara Architecture of Ayodhya's Ram Temple

3 Naukhai Juhar Festival

4 Warli Painting

1 Swachh Survekshan 2020

2 ARIIA 2020 Rankings

3 New Population Projections for India

1 PIB Corner

2 PIB Corner

3 PIB Corner

4 PIB Corner

5 PIB Corner

1 Narmadashankar Dave 'Narmad'

2 KIRAN Helpline Service for Mental Health Rehabilitation

3 Sahakar Cooptube Channel

4 Sin Goods and Sin Tax

5 Food System Vision Prize-2020

6 First Silk Production Center in Arunachal Pradesh

7 Krishi Megh

8 WHO Declares African Continent Free of Wild Polio

9 ASEAN-India Business Council Meet

10 Student Entrepreneurship Programme 2.0

11 Eye in the sky: Ninja Drones to Protect Rail Assets

12 Asteroid 2020 QG

13 Dragonfly Festival- Thumbimahotsavam 2020

14 India & Maldives Contract for Development of Eco-tourism Zones

15 World Elephant Day

16 Seed Bombs

17 Andhra's Etikoppaka Toys Craft

1 Gujarat Launches New Industrial Policy 2020

1 Export Preparedness Index (EPI) 2020

1 ‘Namath Basai’

Topper's Interview

Abhishek Saraf - All India Rank - 8AIR - Civil Services Examination - 2019

Pradeep Singh - All India Rank–IstAIR - Civil Services Examination 2019

Dipankar Choudhary - All India Rank–42AIR - Civil Services Examination 2019

Mock Test Papers

Prelims

1 PRELIMS Mock Test 2020

Disaster Management

General Studies Paper III

1 Chemical Disaster Management

2 Flood Management

Case Study

1 Case Study

General Studies Mains Questions And Answers

1 Despite heavy floods in different states of India, there exists a critical dangers of national water emergencies.Elaborate on the aggravated problem by providing some possible solutions.

2 Discuss about the middle-latitude cyclones and examine how they are different from tropical cyclone?

3 “Dravidian temple architectures reached at its peak during Chola Empire of Southern India”. Discuss.

4 Is Non-Alignment Movement still relevant for the present foreign policy and diplomatic relations of India? Discuss.

5 What are the major reasons for India for exiting from the International free trade agreement - Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)?

6 Discuss the importance of intraparty democracy for Indian political system? Critically examine the issues with intraparty democracy and measures needed to strengthen intraparty democracy in India.

7 During his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister showed his concern about the suffering of women due to malnutrition and underage marriage. In this light examine how prevalent is underage marriage in India and discuss its correlation with women’s health?

8 In view of the pandemic and a truncated Monsoon Session, Indian Parliament has decided to skip Question Hour. In this vein, discuss Question Hour and Zero Hour. Explain the importance of question hour in a parliamentary democracy.

9 Discuss the Naga peace accord of 2015. What are the pressing issues in finalising the pact and suggest some measures to break the stalemate?

10 What is Resource efficiency? Discuss its benefits in Indian context.

11 Explain the significance of climate diplomacy for India.

12 Stubble burning has emerged as a serious threat to north Indian states in recent years. In this light discuss the causes and its impact and suggest a way forward?

13 Discuss the significance of National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) for India. Also examine the associated challenges.

14 What is Operation Twist? Discuss its impact on the banking sector in India.

15 What is value and how does it guide us in our life? List some important values for an administrator.

16 The Law at Present: The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013

Security

General Studies Paper III

1 Cyberspace

2 Cybersecurity

3 Cyber Threats

4 Need for Cyber Security

Social Justice

General Studies Paper II

1 Gender Unequal India

2 High Death Rate due to Gender Biasness

3 Intervention through Programmes and Schemes

4 Evolution of Legislation and Policies for Women

5 Contemporary Statutory Measures

6 Pam Rajput Committee on the Status of Women

7 UN’s Efforts towards Gender Equal World

8 Sexual Harassment at Workplace

9 Indian Constitution on Sexual Harassment

10 Pre- Vishakha Judgement Legislation

11 Vishaka and Others Vs State of Rajasthan 1997

12 Recommendations of the Justice Verma Committee

International Relations

General Studies Paper II

1 Indian Diaspora

2 Origin of Indian Diaspora linkages

3 Role of diaspora in Country’s Progress and Diplomacy

4 Cultural, Economic and Political Impact on Other Nations

5 Transition to Demographic Dividend

6 Four Mechanisms for Growth in Demographic Dividend

7 Favourable Advantages of Demographic Dividend

8 Demographic Dividend in India

9 Challenges in Reaping Demographic Dividend

10 How to harness demographic dividend in India?

11 Way Forward to Tap the Demographic Dividend