Civil Services Chronicle September 2021

1 Surveillance Laws and the Right to Privacy: The Pegasus Controversy

2 Emigration Bill 2021

3 Draft Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill 2021

4 New Ministry of Co-operation: A Fillip to the Co-operative Movement

5 SCO Defence Ministers’ Meeting

6 Human Genome Editing: WHO’s New Recommendations

7 EU Introduces ‘Fit for 55’ Legislation

1 The Coconut Development Board (Amendment) Bill 2021

2 Special Livestock Sector Package

3 Harit Dhara: Antimethanogenic Feed Supplement

4 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill 2021

5 Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) Bill 2021

6 Department of Public Enterprises merged with Finance Ministry

7 Central Bank Digital Currency

8 Production-linked Incentive Scheme extended to Specialty Steel

9 National Institutes of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Mgt. Bill 2021

10 Amendments to the Limited Liability Partnership Act 2008

11 Airport Economic Regulatory Authority Amendment Bill 2021

12 Secured Logistics Document Exchange Programme

1 Parliament Passes Juvenile Justice Amendment Bill 2021

2 Anti-Defection Law

3 West Bengal passes Resolution to revive Legislative Council

4 Election of Speaker & Deputy Speaker

5 Adjournment Motion

6 Section 66A of IT Act

7 SC strikes down Provisions of 2021 Tribunal Reforms Ordinance

8 No Immunity to Legislators for Acts of Vandalism

1 Nord Stream 2 Pipeline

2 The OPEC+ decides to withdraw Output Cut

3 Visit of US Secretary of State to India

4 India assumes Presidency of UNSC

5 Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems Summit 2021

6 The Hunger Hotspots Report

7 G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) Meeting

8 China-led South Asian Initiative

1 New Insights into Star Formation Process in the Milky Way

2 Moon-forming Region observed around Exoplanet PDS 70c

3 InSight Mission reveals Mars’ Deep Interior

4 ‘NEA Scout’: NASA’s Solar Sail Asteroid Mission

5 BBX32: A Protein that helps in Plant Growth Regulation

6 Successful Flight Tests of Akash-NG and MPATGM

7 New AI-based Tool to detect Cancer Causing Mutations

1 Water-related Hazards Dominated Disasters in the Past Five Decades

2 First Draft of Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

3 UNEP-WWF Report Highlights the Need for Human-Wildlife Coexistence

4 International Tiger Day

5 Microplastic Pollution in the Ganga

6 ‘Renewables Integration in India 2021’

7 NTPC REL’s New Green Initiatives

1 Person in News

2 Appointment & Resignation

3 Obituary

4 Places in News

5 Web Portals & Apps

6 Military Exercises & Operations

7 Awards in News

8 Famous Books

9 Important Days

1 Bal Gangadhar Tilak: Father of Indian Renaissance

2 Chandra Shekhar Azad

3 New Indian Sites in UNESCO World Heritage List

4 Adrash Smarak Scheme

5 Historic Urban Landscape Project

6 Hero Stone

1 Constitutional Validity of Restitution of Conjugal Rights

2 National Ayush Mission

3 Dying Declaration

4 NIPUN Bharat Programme

5 New Population Policy of Uttar Pradesh

6 Extension to OBC Sub-Categorisation Commission

7 Kapu Community to get Reservation

1 e-RUPI: A Digital Payment Solution

2 DBT approves Funding for MRNA-based COVID-19 Vaccine - HGCO19 for Clinical Trials

3 KASEZ: India’s First Green Industrial City”

4 Project 75 (I): RFP issued for Six Conventional Submarines

Assam

1 Boundary Dispute: Fault Lines from History

Andhra Pradesh

1 Andhra Pradesh to give 10% Reservation for EWS

Jammu & Kashmir

1 J&K to Issue Domicile Certificate to Spouse of Native Woman

Kerala

1 ‘Unnati’ Scheme: No more dependency on MGNREGS

2 Initiative towardsTransgenders to pursue Higher Education

Madhya Pradesh

1 ‘Devaranya’: An Ayush-based Economic Upgradation Scheme

Maharashtra

1 Maharashtra to issue Certificates using Blockchain Technology

Tamil Nadu

1 TN to create Digital Databank of Migrants

Telangana

1 ‘Dalit Bandhu’ – A Free DBT Scheme

Ladakh

1 ‘PaniMaah’observation in Ladakh

Chess

1 Sparkassen Chess Trophy

Football

1 AIFF Awards 2020-21

Tennis

1 Wimbledon Championships 2021

1 Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act (CEA) 2010

2 Dismissal of J&K Govt Employees

3 Central Information Commission

4 Chief Minister

5 World Population Day 2021

6 Garib Nawaz Employment Scheme

7 Gaon Bura

8 Shumang Leela Theatre Form

9 Palaeolithic Cave Paintings found in Aravalli

10 Indian Institute of Heritage

11 Liverpool stripped of ‘World Heritage’ Status

12 Open Network Digital Commerce

13 Post Devolution Revenue Deficit Grant

14 Bhalia Wheat

15 India and Bangladesh reopen Haldibari-Chilahati Rail Link

16 Bill to Grant Provisional Provincial Status to Gilgit-Baltistan

17 Historic Protests in Cuba

18 AMLEX: The Oxygen Rationing Device

19 I-STEM enters Second Phase

20 Indigenous Sensor to detect Arsenic Contamination

21 SpaceX to launch NASA’s ‘Europa Clipper Mission’

22 ‘Nauka’

23 India to Commission 35 New Seismological Observatories

24 Odisha Plans DNA Profiling of Leopards

25 ‘Centre of Excellence’ to be Set up in Arunachal Pradesh

26 National Dolphin Research Centre (NDRC)

1 Tele-Law Initiative

2 Parliament Passes Factoring Regulation (Amendment) Bill

3 Parliament Passes Marine Aids to Navigation Bill 2021

1 India Inequality Report

2 The Future of Work for Women within the Formal Sector in India

3 Policies, Plans, Schemes, & Indices in News (Indices in News)

Model Test Questions

1 ​Prelims 2021 : Current Affairs Based MCQs

Essays

1 ‘Role’ more than ‘Rule’ is important for today's Civil Servant