Civil Services Chronicle March 2021

1 Light House Projects Inaugurated for Affordable Housing

2 India Innovation Index 2020

3 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Enters Into Force

4 Bird Flu Outbreak in India

5 Green Hydrogen: Fuel of the Hour

6 India bets Big on Seaweeds

Myanmar

1 Harmful Effects of Consuming Trans Fats

2 Use of Pesticides-Chemicals in Production of Foodgrain

1 Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana Completes Five Years

2 RBI Introduces Digital Payment Index

3 RBI Operationalises Payment Infrastructure Development Fund

4 RBI’s Risk Based Internal Audit Framework

5 Off-Budget Borrowings

6 Counter-Cyclical Fiscal Policy

7 RBI Proposes 4-Tier Structure for Tighter Regulation of NBFCS

8 Iron-Ore Policy 2021

9 New Industrial Development Scheme for Jammu & Kashmir (J&K IDS, 2021)

1 Government Drafts a Bill to Strengthen Cigarette & Tobacco Control Law

2 Govt Approves Construction of over 1.68 Lakh Houses under PMAY-Urban

3 India Tightens Oversight on Funds Received by NGOs

4 Digital Voter ID Cards

5 Supreme Court Dismisses Aadhaar Review Petitions

6 Supreme Court Puts Three Farm Laws on Hold

1 Russia Withdraws from Open Skies Treaty

2 USA Re-designates Cuba as State Sponsor of Terrorism

3 Solidarity and Stability Deal

4 India and GCC

5 The Difficult Four Countries

6 Argentina’s Abortion Law Enters Force

7 Second Scottish Independence Referendum

8 Prarambh: Startup India International Summit with BIMSTEC

9 India-Sri Lanka Joint Working Group on Fisheries

10 India-Japan Ink Pact on Movement of Skilled Labours

11 India Begins its Tenure as Non-permanent Member of UNSC

1 Theia 456 is a Stretched Out Stream of Sibling Stars: Study

2 Astronomers Detect 10- Billion Year Old Multiplanet System

3 AstroSat Helps Spot UV Stars in Milky Way’s Cosmic Dinosaur

4 Missing Supermassive Black Hole at Centre of Distant Galaxy Baffles Scientists

5 NASA Approves Heliophysics Missions to Explore Sun, Earth’s Aurora

6 Emergency Use Approval for Two Vaccines

7 Explorations Put Arunachal on Vanadium Map of India

8 India Successfully Test-Fired New-generation Akash Missile

9 Smart Anti Airfield Weapon

1 Antarctic Ozone Hole Closes

2 Global Warming May Intensify Flooding in South India

3 40th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica Launched

4 NCAVES India Forum 2021

5 Ministry of Power Notifies Norms and Standards for E-Certificate Trading Under PAT Scheme

6 NGT Issues Order for Compliance of E-Waste Management Rules

7 UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2020

8 Deaths Due to Lightning Strikes Declined by 37%

9 Management Effectiveness Evaluation of Protected Areas

10 Govt. Approves Advisory for Management of Human-Wildlife Conflict

11 Bird Survey of Sundarbans

12 Global Forest Loss Hotspots Bigger than Germany:WWF

13 Scientists Find Way to Improve Nitrogen Use Efficiency In Paddy

1 Newsmakers

2 On the Hot Seat

3 Faces Only in Memory

4 States in News

5 Places in News

6 Summit/Seminar

7 Organisations/Groupings/Alliance in News

8 Study/Survey/Report

9 New Initiatives

10 Defence

11 Miscellaneous

12 World of Awards

13 Persons in News

1 Republic Day Tableaux

2 Harvest Festivals of India

3 World’s Oldest Known Cave Painting Found in Indonesia

4 Prabuddha Bharat

5 Somnath Temple

1 NHRC Recommends Special Act Against Manual Scavenging

2 UN Report: Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition

3 Corruption Perception Index 2020

1 PIB Corner

2 PIB Corner

3 PIB Corner

4 PIB Corner

5 PIB Corner

1 Entire Nagaland Declared ‘Disturbed Area’ under AFSPA

2 Parakram Diwas to Commemorate Birth Anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose

3 Maharashtra-Karnataka border Dispute

4 Education Ministry Guidelines to Identify and Educate Migrant Children

5 Institutions of Eminence Allowed to Set Up Campus Abroad

6 Patharu Ghat Uprising

7 Special Marriage Act

8 News Snippets

9 K-shaped Economic Recovery

10 IFSCA Become Associate Member of IOSCO

11 RBI Constitutes Working Group on Digital Lending

12 CBIC Introduces Liberalised Authorised Economic Operator Package for MSMEs

13 RBI Fully Operationalizes ‘College of Supervisors’

14 Ratle Hydro Power Project

15 Single Window Clearance System for Coal Mines

16 TRIFOOD Parks to be Set up in Madhya Pradesh

17 Freight Business Development Portal

18 Third phase of PM Kaushal Vikas Yojana Launched

19 Asset Monetization Programmes

20 SEBI Moots Entry Norms to Set Up Stock Exchanges

21 DPIIT Launches Regulatory Compliance Portal

22 Europe’s First Digital Nomad Village

23 China Amends Defence Law to Boost War Preparedness

24 News Snippets

25 Google Threatens to Shut Services in Australia

26 Global Ebola Vaccine Stockpile

27 Whatsapp Privacy Policy

28 FSSAI Cuts Down Limit for Trans-fat Levels in Foods

29 National Baseline Geoscience Data Generation Programmes (2020-2024)

30 News Snippets

31 GHGs Impact Wildfire Outbreaks Regionally

32 Rooftop Solar Scheme: Only Discoms are Authorised

33 Marine Heat Waves Expected to Become More Intense and Frequent

34 News Snippets

1 Bank Investment Company

2 Ministry of Corporate Affairs Brings Amended CSR Rules into Effect

3 2D-electron Gas

4 Draft 5th National Science, Technology and Innovation Policy

5 Quantum Computing Applications Lab

1 Global Investment Trend Monitor Report

Budget

1 Key Highlights of Union Budget 2021-22

Indian Polity And Governance

1 Parliamentary Privileges & Motions

2 National Medical Commission Act, 2019

3 Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana

4 National Interlinking of Rivers Authority

5 Essential Commodities Act (ECA)

6 Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP)

7 Epidemic Disease Act, 1897

8 Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991

9 New Education Policy, 2020

10 Higher Education Financing Agency

11 Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019

12 Mission Karmayogi/National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB)

13 SVAMITVA Scheme

14 Ambedkar Social Innovation and Incubation Mission

15 J&K Roshni Act

16 SUMAN Scheme

17 Sedition Law

18 Ayushman Bharat

19 Electoral Bonds

20 Subhash Chandra Garg Committee

21 NSO Survey on Swachh Bharat

22 Aspirational District Program (ADP)

23 National Program and Project Management Policy Framework (NPPMPF)

24 Disha Act

25 Atal Bhujal Yojana

26 Television Ratings and BARC

27 5th Anniversary of Urban Missions

28 National Policy for Rare Diseases (2020)

29 Internet as Basic Right

30 Private Property is a Human Right

31 Right to Property

32 Right to Equality: Reservation is not a Fundamental Right

33 Rights of Undertrials to Vote

34 Supreme Court Judgement

35 Right to Travel Abroad

36 Right to Public Protest

37 Women’s right to Ancestral Property

38 Right to be Defended

39 Right to Marry/Choose Partner

40 Political Party to Publish entire Criminal History of Candidates

41 Simultaneous Election

42 Criminalization of Politics

Mandate Of Constitutional/Non-Constitutional Bodies

1 Annulment of Article 370 and Article 35 (A)

2 Finance Commission of India

3 Delimitation Commission

4 Minority Educational Institutions

5 Article 164 (4) of the Indian Constitution

6 Basic Structure of the Constitution

7 Sixth Schedule of the Constitution

8 Article 102(1) and 191(1) of the Constitution

9 Article 20: Protection in Case of Conviction for Offences

10 Article 12: Definition of State

11 Official Secrets Act 1923 and RTI

12 Section 497 of IPC

13 Chief of Defence Staff

Miscellaneous

1 Article 131 of the Constitution

2 Assam-Mizoram Border Dispute

3 Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal

4 Bru Community

5 Inter-State River Water Dispute

6 Legislative Council

7 Disqualification Powers of the Speaker

8 Parliamentary Committees System in India

9 Good Governance Index

10 Right to Recall Panchayat Member

11 State Election Commission

Judicial System

1 National Legal Services Authority (NALSA)

2 Contempt of Court

3 Judicial Disqualification or Recusal

4 Darbar Move of J&K

5 Review and Revisory Petition of the Supreme Court

6 Gram Nyayalayas

7 Chief Justice of India under RTI

8 SC/ST Act Pronouncement

9 Supreme Court Collegium System

10 Lt. Governor of Puducherry

11 Uniform Civil Code (UCC)

12 Doctrine of Essentiality

13 Human Rights Courts in India

14 Committee on Content Regulation in Government Advertising

15 Under representation of Women in Judiciary

16 SC on Tribunals

17 Supreme Court on Overtime Wages

18 Justice Amitava Roy (Retd.) Committee on Prison Reforms

Democratic Framework

1 Data Governance Quality Index (DGQI)

Survey

1 Economy Survey 2020-21