Civil Services Chronicle January 2019

1 8 States Achieve 100% Electrification

1 Subsidy to Boost Rice Exports

1 Fragmentation of Land Holding

2 Bill Seeking To Amend AMPC Act Withdrawn

1 Guidelines for Operation Greens Issued

1 New Norms for Credit Rating Agencies

1 Baba Kalyani Committee on SEZ Submits Report

1 City Gas Distribution (CGD) Projects in 65 Geographical Areas (GAs)

2 Cabinet Approves Strategic Petroleum Storage

1 RBI Survey on Remittance

1 Paisa – Portal

2 NPCC is Now a Miniratna

3 International Standards and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

4 NFRA Rules Notified

1 Allied and Healthcare Professions Bill, 2018

2 Lexicon for Rare Tribal Languages

3 Anaemia among Girls, Women Still Prevalent

1 Criminal Law ill-equipped to Deal with Communal Riots

2 Maratha Quota

1 CBI & Consent

2 Himalayan State Regional Council Constituted

3 ERSS for Himachal Pradesh Launched

1 Sale of Enemy Shares

2 UN to Inventorise India’s Cultural Riches

1 India and Pakistan to Open Kartarpur Corridor

2 India-Japan Strategic Partnership and the Multi-power Order

3 India Elected as a Member of the ITU Council

4 Indian War Memorial Unveiled in France

5 Silver Jubilee Commemoration Ceremony of SIMBEX- 2018

6 President of India Addresses National Assembly of Vietnam

7 India Gets Relief on Iran oil

1 World Bank Group Launches New Multi-Donor Fund

2 Opposition to Proposed Lowering of Pesticide Limits by EU

3 South Pole to Get its First Permanent Airport

1 India and UK Launch New Research Initiative on Cancer

1 India to Study Human Microbiome

1 Mass Bathing Alters Bacterial Load, Diversity

2 GEAC Approves Field Studies of GM Mustard on Honey Bee

1 Artificial Rain Through Cloud Seeding

2 Nine Sub-schemes of ACROSS to Continue

3 NGT Nod for Neutrino Project

1 INS Arihant Completes India’s Nuclear Triad

1 Transgenic Rice with Reduced Arsenic Accumulation

1 GSLV MkIII-D2 Successfully Launches GSAT-29

2 PSLV-C43 Launches Earth Observation Satellite HysIS

1 Kerala to Control Trans-fat in Eatery Foods

2 India to Study Marijuana-derived Drugs

1 Heatwave: Countdown 2018

2 Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion

3 Greenhouse Gas Bulletin

1 Drought in Maharashtra

2 Role of Water and Ecological Systems in Drought Resilience

1 Rare Sub-species of Hog Deer

2 Moths are Key to Pollination in Himalayan Ecosystem

3 Two New Gecko Species Discovered

4 Tigers Dwindling: Just Six Sub-species Remain

5 Eight Captive-Reared Vultures to be Released with Tracking Devices

1 Status of World’s Wilderness

1 Clean Air is a Human Right: WHO

2 Greening with Pollution-gobbling Trees

1 WORLD OF AWARDS

1 PERSONS IN NEWS

1 ON THE HOT SEATS

1 FACES ONLY IN MEMORY

1 CONFERENCE/SUMMIT

1 STUDY/SURVEY/INDEX

1 SPORTS

1 MISCELLANEOUS

1 National

1 Science and Technology

1 Environment and Ecology

1 International Relations

1 Economics

1 Social Issues

1 Art and Culture

1 GS Points From Current Affairs

1 Prehistoric India

2 Mesolithic Age

3 Neolithic Age

4 Chalcolithic Age

5 Miscellaneous

6 Indus Valley Civilization

7 Early Vedic Period

8 Later Vedic Period

1 Praninent Dynasties

2 Delhi Sultanate

3 Mughal Empire

4 Provincial Dynasties

5 Maratha & Shivaji

6 Literature, Music, Art & Architecture

7 Indo-Islamic Culture

1 Advent of the Europeans

2 Later Mughals

3 Rest of India after Mughals

4 Economic Policies

5 Commercialized Policies

6 Policies by British

7 The Revolt of 1857

8 Thinkers in Modern India

9 Freedom Struggle

10 Civil and Tribal Rebellion

11 Charters Act

12 Administrative Policies

13 Education Policy

14 Judicial Reforms

1 PLANNED AND SUSTAINABLE URBANIZATION RARELY HAPPENS