Civil Services Chronicle June 2019

1 Model Code of Conduct

2 Right to Vote from Prison

3 Fisheries Sector: Lifeline of India’s Blue Economy

4 US Ends Waiver Granted On Iran Oil

5 India Creates an Indo-Pacific Division

6 State of the Global Climate in 2018

7 Groundbreaking Malaria Vaccine under Test

1 National Stock Exchange to Launch Eight New Agri-Commodity Contracts

2 New Procedure for Claiming Benefits under Transport and Marketing Assistance (TMA) Scheme

3 India’s Sugar Subsidy Dispute at WTO

4 India Asks for Differential Treatment on Fish Subsidies at WTO

5 India wants EU to Relax Sampling Norms for Fish Exports

6 Centre Permits Import of Feed Grade Maize for Poultry Sector

7 EU drags India to WTO over Import Duties on ICT Products

8 Anti-Dumping Duty Imposed on Import of Solar Cell Component from Four Nations

9 U.S. Trade Representative Again Places India on Watch List

10 Coffee Blockchain Initiative

11 Index of Eight Core Industries

12 NuGen Mobility Summit 2019

13 National Investment and Infrastructure Fund &‘Roadis’ to Invest in Road Projects in India

14 RBI Allows Non-Residents to Participate In Rupee Interest Rate Derivatives Market

15 New Accounting Standard (Ind As) on Leases

16 Changes in E-way Bill System to Check GST Evasion

17 Supreme Court Quashes RBI’s Circular on One-day Default

18 Supreme Court Directs RBI to Alter Disclosure Policy

19 Changes to Taxation Laws

20 RBI sets Ways and Means Advances (WMA) Limit for 2019-20

21 Central Board of Direct Taxes sign 18 Advance Pricing Agreement

1 EC to increase VVPAT Verification from One EVM to Five

2 Cabinet Approves Creation of Sixth Deputy CAG Post

3 Issue of Dual Control over Assam Rifles

4 Registration of Marriage Bill, 2019

1 President of India visits Croatia, Bolivia and Chile

2 Algerian President Steps Down

3 Bhutan Takes a Positive Move on BBIN

4 Bill Introduced to Strengthen US-India Partnership

5 UNSC Resolution 2462 to Combat and Criminalize Terrorist Financing

6 Sri Lanka Terror Attack

7 Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir Ousted

8 Julian Assange Arrested from Ecuador Embassy in London

9 India-Africa Health Sciences Collaborative Platform

10 Arab League Condemns US Views On Golan Heights

11 World Press Freedom Index 2019

1 Enzyme to Arrest Bacteria Cell Growth Discovered

2 Genomics for Map Population Diversity

3 BepiColombo Ready to Take off to Mercury

4 1st Molecule of the Universe Spotted

5 TESS Finds 1st Earth-Sized Alien World

6 Indian Navy Launches INS Imphal

7 Black Hole ‘Powehi’

8 Liquid Methane spotted on Titan-Moon of Saturn

9 Oil-Eating Bacteria Discovered at the Mariana Trench

10 Fast-Charging Lithium-ion Batteries

11 Gagandeep Kang Elected as Royal Society Fellow

1 IUCN lists Hump-backed Mahseer as Critically Endangered

2 National Plan for Polluted Rivers

3 IMD Confirms Weak El Nino Conditions

4 National Seminar on Greenery and Landscaping

5 Global Recognition for Namami Gange

6 Global Coalition for Clean Cooling Launched

7 Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific (RCAP) Congress 2019

8 Cities Go Dark for Earth Hour

9 EPCA’s Parking Management Plan for Delhi

10 Face of Disasters 2019 Report

1 PERSONS IN NEWS

2 ON THE HOT SEATS

3 FACES ONLY IN MEMORY

4 AWARDS

5 STATES IN NEWS

6 WORLD OF SPORTS

1 IIT Madras Team Develops OCR System for Nine Indian Languages

2 Garia Puja

3 Khelchawa Festival

4 Vishu: Malayalam New Year

5 Domkhar Petroglyphs Sanctuary

6 Puthandu: Tamil New Year

7 Batik Painting

8 Filigree Art

9 Rare Buddhist Sculpture Excavated in Telangana

10 Tholu Bommalata

11 Pattachitra Painting

12 Danda Nacha Festival

13 Ramappa Temple

14 Pithora Painting

15 Bandhani Painting

16 Thrissur Pooram Festival

17 Nagaland Konyak Dance

1 100 Years of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

2 ICMR Launches ‘MERA India’

3 Annual Surveillance Reports on Antimicrobial Resistance

4 Know Your Medicine

5 Ministry of AYUSH, CSIR sign MoU to Promote Traditional Medicine

6 Multi-drug Resistant Yeast Present in India since 2011

7 Research Begins on Zika Virus

8 First Global Assessment of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

9 Women’s Labour Force Participation Report: Oxfam

1 PIB Corner

2 PIB Corner

3 PIB Corner

4 PIB Corner

5 PIB Corner

1 Monk's Exclusive Lok Sabha Seat

2 Supreme Court Directed to Provide Electoral Bond Donations' Details

3 Mobile App for Families of Martyred CRPF Troops

4 Utkarsh Bangla Scheme Gets UN Award

5 Rani Abbakka Force : Women Police Patrol Vehicle

6 Kerala’s Pathanamthitta-Best Constituency in India

7 Supreme Court Declares Right to Travel Abroad a Basic Human Right

8 Bank of Baroda Becomes Second Largest Bank After SBI

9 ‘Kandhamal Haldi’ gets GI Tag

10 Learning Coin: A Cryptocurrency Token of IMF and World Bank

11 Creation of Additional Posts in NCLAT for Speedy Case Disposal

12 RBI Extends Ombudsman Scheme to Non-deposit taking NBFCs

13 Bamboo Rice Shows Up In Odisha After Four Decades

14 India, Sweden Pact on Solutions for Smart Cities & Clean Technology

15 Pan Nation Electricity Mobile App: ‘Jagruk’

16 India-Bhutan Finalized Mangdecchu Hydro Project’s Power Tariff Protocol

17 India Highest Recipient of Remittances In 2018: World Bank

18 PM Awarded Zayed Medal

19 REIWA

20 India to Open An Agriculture Training Institute At Malawi

21 AUSINDEX 2019

22 Langkawi International Maritime & Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA) 2019

23 ‘Bold Kurukshetra 2019’

24 India Rejects the Second Belt And Road Initiative (BRI) Forum

25 Indian Bullfrogs Take to Invasive Behaviour Early in Andamans

26 Mount Agung Volcano Erupts

27 Forest Fires Threatening Odisha’s Flora & Fauna

28 Eurasian Lynx

29 Two New Bird Species Spotted in Kerala Sanctuary

30 Factual Report on Great Indian Bustard

31 Olive Ridley Turtle

32 Yangtze Giant Soft Shell Turtle Goes Extinct

33 EU Parliament Approves Ban on Single-use Plastics

34 NASA Probe Detects Likely ‘Marsquake’

35 Scientists Print 3D Heart

36 New State of Matter Discovered

37 Stratolaunch Plane Completes First Test Flight

38 Homo Luzonensis: A New Human Relative

39 Indian Teams Win Awards at NASA Annual Rover Challenge

40 Japan Space Agency Sends Impactor to Blast Asteroid

41 Israel’s Beresheet Mission Crashes on the Moon

42 World’s First 5G Mobile Network

1 Extension of New Urea Policy-2015 for Existing Gas-based Units

1 Asian Development Outlook 2019

2 Renewable Energy Now Accounts for a Third of Global Power Capacity: IRENA

3 Progress in SDG Indicators Still Not Up To The Mark: WHO

4 High Penetration of Electric Vehicles By 2030: NITI Aayog

5 UNESCAP Report Urges India to Spend More For SDG 2030

6 State of Global Air 2019

Topper's Interview

JUNAID AHMAD - 352 RankAIR - IRS (C&I)

Minal Karanwal - AIR 35AIR - CSE 2018

Art & Culture

1 India’s National War Memorial Launched

2 ‘Bagru’ Block Printing

3 ​Ardh Kumbh

4 ​70Th Republic Day 2019

5 Gandhi Circuit

6 ​Gandhi Peace Prize

7 Pravasi Bhartiya Divas 2019 (PBD)

8 ​Sri Satguru Ram Singh Ji / Kuka Movement

9 Unesco Global Geopark Network Status

10 ​75th Anniversary Of The Azad Hind Government

11 ​500th Death Anniversary of The Great Saint Kabir

12 ​Statue Of Ramanujacharya

13 ​Thanjavur Paintings

Indian Economy & Socio-economic Development

1 Project Sashakt: Sunil Mehta Panel Report On Non Performing Assets (NPAS)

Plan Policy

1 Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (Pm-Kisan)

2 ​India Gets First Tir Shipment Via Chabahar Port From Afghanistan

3 ​Instex Sas

4 ​Women’s Livelihood Bond

5 ​Aber: Dgital Currency

6 ​U K Sinha Committee

7 ​Gafa Tax

8 Baba Kalyani Committee: Sez Policy Report

9 Agriculture Export Policy-2018

10 ​Udyam Abhilasha Campaign

11 ​First Multi-Modal Terminal on Inland Waterways

12 ​Operation Greens

13 ​First Human Capital Index

14 ​Petroleum, Chemicals And Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR)

15 ​Sustainable Blue Economy Conference

16 10th Agriculture Census

17 ​Center For Fourth Industrial Revolution In India

18 ​Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan (PMAASHA)

19 Bond- I: World’s First Blockchain Bond

20 ​Aapoorti App

21 ​Water Aerodrome

22 ​Khan Committee On Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI)

23 ​India’s First Global Skills Park

24 ​First All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey (2016-17)

25 ​Solar Charakha Mission

26 ​Power Asset Revival Through Warehousing And Rehabilitation (Pariwartan) Scheme

27 ​Municipal Bonds

28 ​Khan Prahari App

29 ​Krishi Kalyan Abhiyaan

30 ​India’s First Freight Village

Science & Technology

Defence

1 ‘Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (Sfdr)’ Propulsion-Based Missile System

2 ​Param Shivay

3 ​Leprosy Cases On The Rise

4 ​Gas Hydrates

5 ​Bullsequana Supercomputer

6 ​Sunspot Cycle

7 ​‘Opportunity Rover’ Mission

8 ​Spherex

9 ​Hysis Satellite

10 National Policy On Electronics

11 ​National Digital Communications Policy

12 ​GSAT 11

13 Earth’s Extra Two Hidden Moons

14 ​Celiac Disease

15 ​Who World Tb Report 2018

16 ​Nobel Prize In Physiology And Physics Chemistry

17 ​Pm’s Science Technology And Innovation Council

18 ​Thermal Battery

19 ​Mission Innovation

20 ​5G Technology

21 ​Raman Effect

22 ​Wolbachia Bacteria

23 ​Indian Humanoid Rashmi

24 ​Dry Sorbent Injection (DSI)

25 ​Isro Launches Electronic Intelligence Satellite ‘Emisat’

26 ​Ultraviolet Stars Identified In The Globular Cluster Ngc 2808

27 ​Mission Shakti Accomplished

28 ​West Nile Virus (Wnv) In Kerala

29 ​Supersonic Pulsar Discovered by Nasa

Space Technology

1 ​Exoplanet Discovered by India

Ecology & Environment

Miscellaneous

1 Himalayan Springs

2 Biodiversity Award for Arunachal Reserve

3 Ganga Praharis

4 ​Lidar-Based Wind Profiling

5 ​Ecologically Sensitive Area

6 ​State Energy Efficiency Preparedness Index

7 ​Blue Bond

8 ​National Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management And Planning Authority (Ncafmpa)

9 ​Unnatee

10 ​India Cooling Action Plan

11 ​National Bamboo Mission

12 ​The Chiller Star Labelling Program

13 ​Green Good Deeds

14 ​Eco Niwas

15 ​Green Skill Development Programme (Gsdp)

16 ​Green-Ag

17 ​Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats

18 ​Nilgiri Marten

19 ​Pondicherry Shark

20 ​Mugger Crocodile

21 Golden Langur

22 ​Golden Jackal

23 ​Cinereous Vulture

24 ​Small Woodbrown Butterfly

25 ​Pangolins

26 ​Sarus Crane

27 Brown Peach Aphid

28 ​Snow Leopard

29 ​Indus Dolphins

30 ​Bonnethead Shark

31 ​Bhupathy’s Shieldtail

32 ​Mangaluru Narrow-Mouthed Frog

33 ​Eurasian Otter

34 ​Himalayan Blue Sheep

35 White Naped Tit

36 ​Singphan Wildlife Sanctuary

37 ​Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary

38 ​Eravikulam National Park

39 ​Pampadum Shola National Park

40 ​Kanger National Park

41 ​Kozhikode’s Malabar Wildlife Sanctuary

42 Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (Dtr)

43 ​Orang Tiger Reserve

44 ​Nahargarh Biological Park

45 ​Corbett Tiger Reserve

46 ​Neelakurinji Plants

47 Gandheli

48 Recovery Programme For Critically Endangered Species

49 National Action Plan For Conservation Of Migratory Birds

50 ​World Wildlife Foundation’s (Wwf) ‘Tx2’ Programme

51 ​Green Climate Fund

52 ​Global Carbon Project

53 ​Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI)

54 Un Environment Award

55 ​COP24, Katowice

56 ​World Network Of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR)

57 ​International Conference On Status And Protection Of Coral Reefs (STAPCOR – 2018)

58 ​South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network (SAWEN)

59 ​India Water Impact Summit 2018

60 ​Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD)

61 ​Cites – Washington Convention

62 ​Convention On The Conservation Of Migratory Species Of Wild Animals (CMS)

63 ​Stockholm Convention On Persistent Organic Pollutants

64 ​Dead Zone

65 Conference Of Parties To United Nations Convention To Combat Desertification (Unccd)

Indian Polity And Governance

1 Section 66A of Information Technology Act 2000

Judicial System

1 Uttarakhand High Court Declares Animal Kingdom ‘Living Person’

2 ​Supreme Court Upholds Reservation Only In Home State

3 ​Restricted Area Permit

4 ​Aadhaar Constitutionally Valid

5 ​Minorities In India

6 ​National Security Act

7 ​Office of Profit

8 ​Breach Of Privilege

9 ​National Register Of Citizens

10 ​Education As Minimum Qualification to Contest Local Elections

11 ​Tribunals

12 ​15Th Finance Commission

13 ​Eastern Zonal Council Meet in Kolkata

14 ​North Eastern Council

15 ​Inter-State Council (Isc)

16 Justice Pinaki Ghose: The First Lokpal Of India

17 ​Odisha Approved Proposal for Legislative Council

18 ​National Commission for Safai Karmacharis (Ncsk)

19 ​National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (Ncpcr)

20 ​Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System (Etpbs)

21 ​Electoral Bonds

22 ​Contempt Of Court

23 ​123rd Constitution Amendment Bill

24 10% Reservation for Economically Weaker Section

25 ​North-East Autonomous Councils

26 ​Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016

27 ​Prohibition Of Benami Property Transactions Act

28 ​Prevention Of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018

29 Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill (Feob), 2018

30 National E-Vidhan Application (Neva) Project

31 ​Witness Protection Scheme

32 Law Commision Report onWrongful Prosecution

33 ​Double Jeopardy

34 ​Article 370

35 ​Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI)

36 ​Public Interest Litigation (Pil)

37 73rd And 74th Constitution Amendment Acts

38 ​Yuva Sahakar Cooperative Enterprise Support And Innovation Scheme

Essays

1 The Highest Result of Education is Tolerance