Civil Services Chronicle October 2021

1 The Constitutional (127th) Amendment Bill 2021

2 The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Act 2021

3 Vehicle Scrappage Policy 2021

4 BRICS Agriculture and Environment Ministers’ Meetings

5 Major Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Achieved

6 IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report

1 National Mission on Edible Oil-Oil Palm

2 IndiGau: India’s First Cattle Genomic Chip

3 Guarex: First Agrisectoral Index

4 Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act 2021

5 General Insurance (Business) Amendment Bill 2021

6 Financial Inclusion Index

7 Viswanathan Committee on Urban Cooperative Banks

8 Enhanced Access and Service Excellence 4.0

9 PM SVANidhi Scheme

10 Oil Bonds

11 UbharteSitare Fund

12 Handloom Sector in India

13 SAMARTH Udyog Bharat 4.0

14 Gati Shakti Master Plan

15 New ‘BH’ Number Series for Vehicles

16 UjjawalaYojana 2.0

1 National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (Amendment) Bill 2021

2 National Commission for Homeopathy (Amendment) Bill 2021

3 Double Jeopardy

4 Procedure to Arrest a Cabinet Minister in India

5 Office of Whip

6 Foreigners Tribunals

7 Centenary of Madras Legislative Council

8 Renaming Places in India

9 Collegium Recommendations on Appointment of Judges to High Courts

10 Continuation of Scheme for Fast Track Courts

11 Right to be Forgotten

1 UNSC Resolution Addresses Key Concerns on Afghanistan

2 China Opens Sea-Road-Rail Link to Indian Ocean

3 UNSC Adopts Presidential Statement and Resolution on Peacekeeping

4 India Elected to Two Bodies of Universal Postal Union

5 India and the Netherlands Review STI Cooperation

6 Greater Male Connectivity Project

7 IBSA Tourism Ministers’ Meeting

8 6th Eastern Economic Forum

9 11th Annual Meeting of FEMBoSA

1 Chandrayaan 2 detects Hydroxyl and Water Molecules on Moon

2 Rare merger of Three Supermassive Black Holes Detected

3 EscaPADE Mission

4 Japan to Bring Back Soil Sample from Phobos

5 Second United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC)

6 New Geo-spatial Applications Launched

7 Scientists identify Live Immune Cells in Coral and Sea Anemone

8 DRDO Develops Advanced Chaff Technology

9 Defence India Startup Challenge 5.0

10 IceNet: Artificial Intelligence Tool to Help Predict Arctic Sea Ice Loss

11 Quantum Computer Simulator (QSim) Toolkit

1 July 2021: The Hottest Month on Record

2 Children’s Climate Risk Index

3 WMO Report on State of Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean

4 India added 557 New Species in 2020

5 Eco-sensitive Zone of Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary Notified

6 Four Indian Wetlands get Ramsar Recognition

7 Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021

8 India to Ratify Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol

9 India’s Largest Floating Solar PV Project

1 Person in News

2 Appointments

3 Obituary

4 Places in News

5 Military Exercises & Operations

6 Awards in News

1 100 Years of Malabar Rebellion

2 Sangam-age Harbour of ‘Korkai’ and ‘Azhagankulam’

3 Saroop of Guru Granth Sahib

4 Shankracharya Temple

5 Narayankoti Temple

6 Aranmula Boat Race

7 Wanchua Festival

8 National Council of Science Museums (NCSM)

9 Abanindranath Tagore

10 Maharaja Ranjit Singh

1 Moral Policing

2 Adoption (First Amendment) Regulation 2021

3 Chakma and Hajong Communities

4 e-Prison Project

5 PM-DAKSH Scheme

6 Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act 2021

7 Rice Fortification

8 Samvad 2.0

9 Samagra Shiskha 2.0

10 Jan Shikshan Sansthan

1 Grant-in-aid to Rural Local Bodies

2 Indian Scientists develop Carbon-based Wrapper for preserving Fruits

3 ‘SUJALAM’ Campaign for making more ODF Plus Villages

Andhra Pradesh & Telangana

1 Prevalence of NCDs in AP & Telangana higher than National Average

Arunachal Pradesh

1 AtmaNirbhar Krishi Yojna & AtmaNirbhar Bagwani Yojna

Assam

1 Assam Micro Finance Incentive and Relief Scheme

2 Rise in Cases of Child Marriage

Chhattisgarh

1 Four New Districts to come up in Chhattisgarh

2 Forest Resource Rights in an Urban Area

3 Chhattisgarh releases State’s First Tribal Atlas

Kerala

1 ‘Navajeevan’ Project

Geo-tourism Sites In NE

1 Geo-tourism Sites in NE

1 Gambling Regulations in India

2 Halam Sub-tribe

3 Karez System of Irrigation

4 AT1 Bonds

5 Durand Line

6 IADS

7 Wild Buffalo (Bubalus arnee)

1 Jal Jeevan Mission

2 Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme

3 New Monetisation Pipeline

4 National Bio Entrepreneurship Competition

1 Quality of Life for Elderly Index

2 Global Manufacturing Risk Index 2021

Mock Test Papers

Prelims

1 UPSC Civil Services Prelims Examination 2021 (Test -I)

2 UPSC Civil Services Prelims Examination 2021 (Test -II)

3 UPSC Civil Services Prelims Examination 2021 (Test -III)

Model Test Questions

1 ​Prelims 2021 : Current Affairs Based MCQs

Essays

1 Education is the Manifestation of Perfection Already Existing in Man