Civil Services Chronicle August 2020

1 Task Force to Examine Age of Motherhood, Imperatives of lowering MMR& Improving Nutritional Levels

2 OBC sub-categorisation Commission

3 Essential Commodities Act Amended to Boost Farm Sector

The People’s Republic of China

1 Schools in Rural Areas

2 Ease of Living

3 Women Domestic Workers

Agriculture

1 Government Notifies Two Ordinances to Kick in Agri-reforms

2 Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund

3 Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana

Government Policy

1 Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan

2 PM Svanidhi: Micro-Credit Facility Scheme

Industry

1 Interest Subvention Scheme for MUDRA - Shishu Loan

2 Interest Subvention Scheme for MUDRA - Shishu Loan

3 ‘Country of Origin’Made Mandatory to Sell Products on GeM

Infrastructure

1 Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020

2 Kushinagar Airport Declared an International Airport

News Bytes

1 SATYABHAMA Portal

2 Credit Guarantee Scheme for Subordinate Debt

3 Sahakar Mitra Scheme

4 ShweOil &Gas Project

5 SATAT Initiative

PIB CORNER

1 PIB Corner

Legislative

1 Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code

Executive

1 PMO Affirms PM CARES Not a Public Authority Under RTI Act

2 Draft Unmanned Aircraft System Rules 2020

Judiciary

1 Supreme Court Declares ‘Secrecy of Ballot’a Cornerstone of Free and Fair Elections

2 Right to Reservationis not a Fundamental Right: SC

Social Issues

1 COVID 19 Pushed 45 million Globally into Food Insecurity: FAOReport

2 Annual India TB Report 2020

3 NHRC Asks Centre to Provide Interim Aid to Stranded Migrants

4 COVID-19 Widened Educational Divide: UNESCO Report

5 National Institutional Ranking Framework Rankings 2020

Art And Culture

1 Ancient Temple Submerged in River Mahanadi Resurfaces in Nayagarh

2 Puri Rath Yatra Commences with Conditional Approval of Supreme Court

3 Odisha Celebrates Raja Parba Festival amidst Lockdown

4 Kodumanal Excavations Indicate Megalithic Belief in Afterlife

News Bytes

1 TULIP Internship Portal for Graduates

2 State Food Safety Index 2019-20

3 Gairsain Declared as Summer Capital of Uttarakhand

4 Plea for Renaming India as ‘Bharat’ can go to Centre as representation: Supreme Court

PIB CORNER

1 PIB Corner

India And Its Bilateral Relations

1 Strain in Indo-Nepal Ties

2 India Downgrades Diplomatic Ties with Pakistan

3 India and Bhutan Sign MoU on Environment Cooperation

World Issues

1 SIPRI Report:Continuation ofNuclear Weapon Modernization

International Organisations

1 India Elected to the United Nations Security Council

2 Pakistan to Stay on FATF Grey List

News Bytes

1 Russia-India-China Grouping

2 US President wants India to Join G7

3 Ethiopia-Sudan Border Row

4 Vaccine Nationalism

5 H1-B Visa Halt

6 Japan to Rename Senkaku Islands

7 Juneteenth

In Focus

1 India-Australia: Comprehensive Strategic Partnership

PIB CORNER

1 PIB Corner

Astronomy

1 Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA):163348 (2002 NN4)

2 Black Hole Merger: Mystery Object in Mass Gap

Space Organisations

1 SpaceX Crew Dragon: A New Era in Space Exploration

2 NASA’s Gateway Lunar Orbit Outpost

Bio Science

1 China Publishes Coronavirus Genome Data

Indigenous Technology

1 Nature Index 2020

News Bytes

1 Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence

2 Fifth State of Matter in Space

3 Drugs for Fighting COVID-19

4 Malathion and Chlorpyrifos

5 Captain Arjun

6 Viroblock: Anti-viral Textile Technology

7 National AI Portal

8 Global Vaccine Summit

In Focus

1 Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre: IN-SPACe

PIB CORNER

1 PIB Corner

Climate Change

1 The Sixth Mass Extinction

2 Environment Performance Index 2020

3 Oil spill in Russia’s Arctic Region

4 Aerosol Radiative Forcing in Trans-Himalayas

5 India's First Ever Climate Change Assessment Report

Sustainable Development

1 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

Flora

1 Census of Asiatic Lion

2 Increase in Poaching Amidst COVID-19 Lockdown

Fauna

1 New Guidelines for Import of Exotic Species

Disaster Management

1 Integrated Flood Warning System: IFLOWS-Mumbai

2 Baghjan Tragedy: Assam Gas Leak and Fire

News Bytes

1 Cyclone Nisarga

2 WWF on Zoonotic Diseases

3 Indian Gaur Population Estimation in Nilgiris

4 Green Light for Individual contributions to NDRF

In Focus

1 New EPR Framework for Plastic Waste Management

PIB CORNER

1 PIB Corner

Newsmakers

1 Joe Biden

On The Hot Seat

1 Volkan Bozkir

Faces Only In Memory

1 Lt Gen Raj Mohan Vohra

States In News

1 YSR KapuNestham Scheme

Places In News

1 Kotumsar Caves

Study/Survey/Report

1 Global Status Report on Preventing Violence against Children 2020

Committee/Commission

1 P K Mohanty Committee

Defence

1 Navy Inducts Maareech

Miscellaneous

1 Talamaddale

World Of Awards

1 World Food Prize

World Of Sports

1 Khelo India State Centres of Excellence

Mock Test Papers

Prelims

1 PRELIMS Mock Test 2020

General Studies Mains Questions And Answers

1 Q1. Analyse the need for strengtheningthe Civil Rights Act of America in contemporary times.
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