Civil Services Chronicle February 2020

1 Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019: Extensive Powers but Less Responsibility

2 India Gets its First Chief of Defence Staff

3 Transformational Organisational Restructuring of Indian Railways

4 Bharat Bond Exchange Traded Fund: A New Offer for Investors

5 India-Australia Mutual Logistics Support Agreement Nears Completion

6 A Breakthrough Against Antimicrobial Resistance

7 COP25 Climate Talks CrashedOver Green Climate Fund

8 First National Ganga Council toSave the Ganges Dolphin

1 Group of Ministers Set Up To Review Crop Insurance Scheme

2 RBI’s Operation Twist to Boost Lending

3 Government Notifies The Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 2019

4 Parliament Paves Way for Unified Regulator for Financial Services

5 Extension for Sabka Vishwas Scheme

6 Government Launches Data Bank of Independent Directors

7 Silver Line Project

8 Cabinet Authorises NHAI to Set Up Infrastructure Investment Trust

1 Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu Merger Act 2019

2 Bill to Ban e-Cigarettes Approved by the Parliament

3 Presidential Assent Given to the Arms (Amendment) Bill, 2019

4 Andhra Pradesh Legislature Passes the Disha Bill 2019

5 Section 144, CrPC: A Relic of Colonial Era

6 Good Governance Index

7 Atal Bhujal Yojana: A Scheme for Groundwater

8 PM Releases Guidelines for Jal Jeevan Mission

1 India-Japan 2+2 Foreign and Defence Ministerial Meeting

2 ‘Phase One’ Agreement between the US and China

3 West Africa Renames CFA Franc

4 Russia Launches Gas Pipeline to China

5 Bougainville Votes to Become World’s Newest Country

6 UK Defies Deadline to Return Chagos Island

7 China, South Korea, Japan Meet Over Trade, Regional Disputes

8 First Global Refugee Forum

1 Giant Black Hole LB-1 Discovered

2 Giant Planet Orbiting a White Dwarf Discovered

3 ESA’s ClearSpace-1 Mission

4 ISRO Successfully Launches RISAT-2BR1

5 US Army to Create Rare Earth Metal Processing Facility

6 Pinaka Missile System Successfully Flight-Tested

7 DRDO Conducts Successful Trials of BrahMos Missile

1 Operation ‘Clean Art’

2 IUCN 10th Asian Elephant Specialist Group (AsESG) Meeting

3 Growth in Global Carbon Emission Slowed

4 CWC Report on Heavy Metals Contaminating Indian Rivers

5 SC Issues Order on Completion of “Smog Tower Project”

6 Climate Risk Index 2020

7 Victoria Falls Runs Dry

8 Ministry of Coal to form Sustainable Development Cell

1 PERSONS IN NEWS

2 ON THE HOT SEAT

3 FACES ONLY IN MEMORY

4 DEFENCE

5 PLACES IN NEWS

6 COMMITTEE/COMMISSION

7 STUDY/SURVEY/REPORT

8 MISCELLANEOUS

9 WORLD OF AWARDS

1 South India’s Earliest Sanskrit Inscription Found in A.P.

1 India Slips to 112th Rank on Gender Parity Index

1 3rd Phase of PMGSY​

2 Future Skills PRIME

3 Army to Set Up Integrated Battle Groups by 2020

4 First Trial Shipment of Fresh Vegetables from Varanasi to Dubai

5 Greenwashing

6 Cabinet approves Aircraft (Amendment) Bill - 2019

7 China-Russia-Iran Trilateral Naval Exercise

8 Saudi Arabia: First Arab Nation to take over the G20 Presidency

9 50th Annual Meet of WEF

10 NATO Summit

11 EChO Network

12 Tweezer Clock

13 Trastuzumab: WHO Approved First Biosimilar Medicine for Breast Cancer

14 ‘Bibha’ & ‘Santamasa’

15 Protein that repairs DNA

16 SnowEx

17 Rhinos to be Re-introduced in Uttarakhand

18 'Swachchh Samundra NW-2019

19 More Plastic Pollution on Maharashtra Beaches than K'taka, Goa

20 BIMSTEC: International Seminar on Climate Smart Farming Systems

21 Assam Forms a Squad to Tackle Human-Wildlife Conflicts in State

Athletics

1 13th South Asian Games

Cricket

1 Wisden Cricketers of the Decade

2 CK Nayudu Lifetime Award

3 Rohit Sharma

Chess

1 FIDE Women’s Grand Prix 2019

2 World Rapid Championships

Tennis

1 Ashleigh Barty, Rafael Nadal: ITF World Champions

2 Roger Federer

1 Parliament Passes Bill to Extend SC/ST Reservations in Legislatures

2 Ethics Panel Set to Form Code of Conduct for Lok Sabha MPs

3 Operation Dolphin’s Nose Unearths Pakistan-Linked Spying Racket

4 Bru Repatriation: Back to Mizoram

5 eBkray- Common e-Auction Platform

6 Standing Committee on Economic Statistics

7 Human Development Index 2019

8 Donald Trump Impeached by House of Representatives

9 Cuba Appoints Miguel Diaz-Canel as Prime Minister

10 “Top 100 City Destination” Ranking

11 Sarvatra: The Indigenous Bullet-proof Jacket

12 Quantum States Created in Everyday Electronics

13 Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Legend

14 StrandHogg: Android’s Vulnerability

15 IUCN Updates “Red List of Threatened Species”

16 Scientists Find World’s Oldest Fossil Forest

17 4th India Water Impact Summit

18 World Soil Day

1 Parliament introduces the Code on Social Security – 2019

2 National Broadband Mission

1 Financial Stability Report

Topper's Interview

Neetu Gupta - 104thAIR - Rajasthan Judicial Services Examination - 2019

Indian History

1 Administrative Policies of British (1757-1857)

2 Land Revenue Policies of British

3 Commercial Policies of British

4 The Revolt of 1857

5 Congress Rule in Provinces

6 Cripps Mission

7 Revolutionary Terrorists

8 Communalism in India

9 Timeline: Evolution of the Two-Nation Theory

10 Peasant Movements

11 Peasant Activity in Provinces

12 Working Class Movement

13 Temple Entry Movements

14 Gurdwara Reform Movements

15 European Settlements and British Conquest of India

16 Rise of British Empire in India

17 Early Indian Responses to British Rule

18 Nationalist Movement (1858-1905)

19 Reasons for Rise of Militant Nationalism

20 Partition of Bengal (1905)

21 Anti-Partition Campaign and Swadeshi Movement under Extremist

22 Differences in Moderates and Extremists

23 Congress Split at Surat (1907)

24 Rise of Revolutionary Terrorism

25 First World War and Indian Nationalism

26 Ghadar Movement, 1914

27 Home Rule League Movement, 1914

28 Gandhi’s Struggle in South Africa

29 How South Africa Evolved Gandhi?

30 Gandhi’s Struggle in India

31 Cause of the Non-Cooperation Movement

32 Method and Spread of the Movement

33 Decline of the Movement

34 The Years Of Stagnation - Swarajists And No-Changers

35 Gandhi’s Instructions for Future Action

36 Mass Civil Disobedience

37 Multiple Forms of Upsurge

38 Impact of the Salt Satyagraha

39 Government Response

40 The Years from 1932-34

41 National Movement: 1939-1942

42 Quit India Movement

43 Indian National Army

44 INA Trials and Mutiny in the Forces

Mock Test Papers

Prelims

1 PRELIMS Mock Test 2020

Essays

1 Is India Facing a Moral or an Economic Crisis?