Civil Services Chronicle December 2022

1 Criterion for Scheduled Caste Status

2 Global Hunger Index 2022

3 GEAC Approves Commercial Cultivation of GM Mustard

4 Emissions Gap Report 2022

1 National Natural Farming Mission

2 Digital Banking Units

3 Global Bond Indices

4 IBBI allows IPEs to act as Insolvency Professionals

5 India Infrastructure Project Development Fund Scheme

1 Revamping of Parliamentary Committees

2 Silver Jubilee of Quality Council of India

3 Committee to Examine Death in Gambia

4 Doctrine of Pleasure

5 First Amendment to the Indian Constitution

6 ST Status to Pahari Community

7 Split Verdict

1 IOR+ Defence Ministers’ Conclave

2 India-Africa Defence Dialogue

3 6th Summit of Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia

4 ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting

5 Pakistan Taken Off the FATF ‘Grey List’

6 Special Meeting of UNSC Counter-Terrorism Committee

1 LVM3 M2 / OneWeb India-1 Mission

2 Pillars of Creation

3 NASA’s New Earth Space Mission Maps Methane ‘Super-Emitters’

4 China’s Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory

5 New Plastic Upcycling Technology

6 Semi-confined Unreinforced Brick Masonry

7 One Health Joint Action Plan

1 Record Melting of Glaciers in the Alps

2 Climate Tipping Points

3 The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change

4 Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Forestry

5 Mission LiFE

6 Two Indian Beaches Get Blue Flag Certification

1 Benjamin Netanyahu

2 Lula da Silva

3 Michel Aoun

4 Aruna Sairam

5 EK Janaki Ammal

6 Pankaj Tripathi

7 Jamshed J Irani

8 Elaben Bhatt

9 Dilip Mahalanabis

10 Temsüla Ao

11 A. Gopalakrishnan

12 Subbu Arumugam

13 Shyam Saran Negi

14 Justice D.Y. Chandrachud

15 Mata Amritanandamayi

16 KG Balakrishnan

17 Shefali Juneja

18 Elizabeth Jones

19 Sangeeta Verma

20 Jaxay Shah

21 Dr. Sankarasubramanian K.

22 Bharati Das

23 Aparajita Sarangi

24 Roger Binny

25 Subhrakant Panda

26 Radhakrishnan Committee

27 Joint Military Training-2022

28 Garuda-VII

29 ‘Simbex’ - 2022

30 IMT TRILAT

31 Sakharov Prize 2022

32 Nansen Refugee Award 2022

33 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2022

34 Booker Prize 2022

35 World Green City Award

1 Mawmluh Cave

2 Bhoota Kola Ritual

3 Kati Bihu

4 Navayana Buddhism

5 National Unity Day

1 International Day of Rural Women

2 Debate around Surrogacy in India

Sikkim

1 India’s first Avalanche Monitoring Radar

Haryana

1 World’s Largest Safari Park

Telangana

1 Aasara

2 Hike in Reservation for the Scheduled Tribe Communities

Himachal Pradesh

1 Water Sports Center

2 HIMCAD Scheme

Kerala

1 Pullampara: First Fully Digital Literate Panchayat

2 Honesty Shops

3 Responsible Tourism (RT) Mission’s Initiative

Uttar Pradesh

1 Legislature Reserves a Women-only Day

2 First All-Woman PAC Battalions

Gujarat

1 Modhera Declared as first 24×7 Solar-Powered Village

2 100 per cent ‘Har Ghar Jal’ State

Nagaland

1 Mobile Attendance Application

Odisha

1 India’s Second Rashtriya Adarsh Veda Vidyalaya Inaugurated

2 Football for All

3 Cancer as "Reportable Disease"

4 Safal Common Credit Portal

Chhattisgarh

1 Chhattisgarh Olympic

Assam

1 Trees Outside Forests in India (TOFI)

Andhra Pradesh

1 SALT Project

Meghalaya

1 5th Edition of Megha Kayak Festival 2022

Tamil Nadu

1 First State to Achieve Jal Jeevan Mission Target for 2022

1 Controller General of Accounts

2 Doctrine of Proportionality

3 National Security Council (NSC)

4 Representation of People (Amendment) Act, 2010

5 Football4Schools Initiative

6 Singapore’s Enabling Village

7 Bharat Skills Forum

8 herSTART

9 Jeevan Pramaan

10 Heal in India Campaign

11 Assistance to Disabled Persons for Purchase / Fitting of Aids and Appliances (ADIP) Scheme

12 ASHA Workers

13 Thyagaraja Temple

14 Sambandar

15 Nagaland Peace Mission

16 Kashi Tamil Sangamam

17 Jageshwar Dham Temple

18 Ponniyin Selvan

19 Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)

20 Nihonshu

21 Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)

22 Niveshak Didi

23 Fungal Priority Pathogens List

24 China’s Mengtian Module

25 Glyphosate

26 AMR Salmonella

27 Cordy Gold Nanoparticles (Cor-AuNPs)

28 Smart Contracts

29 Terai Elephant Reserve

30 Climate Transparency Report 2022

31 Asia’s Largest Compressed Bio Gas Plant

32 Modhera

33 Scorched Earth Tactics

34 INTERPOL General Assembly

1 Decentralization of MGNREGS

2 One Nation, One ITR Form

3 Draft National Credit Framework

4 Amendments to the IT Rules 2021

5 Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme: A 'Logistical Marvel'

1 Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022

2 World Tuberculosis Report 2022

3 Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting Course

4 Concept Note on Central Bank Digital Currency

5 RBI’s Report on Missing Inflation Target

6 Living Planet Report 2022

1 Revision of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme

2 National Maritime Heritage Complex

3 Mahakaleshwar Temple Corridor

4 Swadesh Darshan 2

Topper's Interview

Jitesh Sharma - 20thAIR - Haryana Judicial Services Examination, 2021

Current Affairs

Polity & Governance

1 The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act 2022

2 Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2022

3 The Constitution (100th Amendment) Act, 2015

4 Barun Chandra Thakur vs. Master Bholu (13 July, 2022)

5 Commission to Examine Sub-categorisation of Other Backward Classes

International

1 Global Innovation Index, 2022

2 Committee of Experts on Sustainable Finance

Indian Economy

1 RBI Constitutes Working Group on Digital Lending

National

1 National Steering Committee for the Development of National Curriculum Framework

2 Committee to Examine Global Best Practices in Ship Financing & Leasing

3 Committee for Doubling Production and Quadrupling Exports of Handlooms

Science & Technology

1 Advisory Committee for Semiconductor Mission

General Studies Mains Questions And Answers

1 Bay of Bengal, which is a region of great significance, is in disorder. Discuss

2 As per World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the current La Nina has spanned three consecutive northern hemisphere winters making this the century’s first ‘triple-dip’ La Nina. In light of this describe the phenomenon of triple dip La Nina and highlight its impact.

3 Discuss the contributions of Vallinayagam Olaganathan Chidambaram Pillai.

4 The development of Nepal’s West Seti and Seti River projects by India can be a win-win situation for India. Comment.

5 India not finding a place in Minerals Security Partnership is a matter of concern. Elucidate.

6 Rajasthan’s Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme is not a sustainable solution to urban unemployment. Comment.

7 Hughes Communications India (HCI), a satellite internet service provider launched India’s first high throughput satellite (HTS) broadband service powered by ISRO satellites. In light of this, enumerate the issues associated with satellite communication.

8 National Logistics Policy by bringing efficiency in services and human resource can serve as a panacea to the problems crippling the logistic sector. Analyze.

9 Transition to bioenergy has potential benefits. In light of this, mention the cross-cutting barriers to bioenergy deployment.

10 In light of accusation by Central Board of Direct Taxes on Micro Labs Ltd. (Dolo-650 makers) of supplying freebies worth approximately Rs. 1000 Crores to doctors to prescribe the drug, highlight the concerned ethical issues.