Civil Services Chronicle December 2023

1 Supreme Court’s Ruling on Same-Sex Marriages

2 Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry

3 World Energy Outlook 2023

4 India's National Framework for Climate Services

5 India’s Groundwater Depletion: UNU-EHS Report

1 RBI Issues Norms to Regulate Cross-Border Payment Aggregators

2 Withholding Tax

3 RBI Issue Norms for Closure of DCCBs

4 Government Allows Direct Overseas Listing of Indian Companies

5 Section 54EC Bonds

6 Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement

7 Jamrani Dam Multipurpose Project

8 Standards & Labelling Programme for Solar PV Modules

9 Indian Oil launches Reference Fuels

1 43rd PRAGATI Interaction

2 Offences Relating to Religion: Section 295A of IPC

3 Lok Sabha’s Ethics Committee

4 Writ Jurisdiction

5 Curative Petition

6 Phenomenal Impact of PM SVANidhi Scheme on Street Vendors

1 Indian Navy Veterans Sentenced to Death in Qatar

2 UAE-India Joint Task Force Meeting Discusses Investment and Cooperation

3 IORA Council of Ministers Meeting in Sri Lanka

4 Canada Recalls 41 Diplomats from India over Immunity Concerns

5 Passenger Ferry Service between India and Sri Lanka Inaugurated

6 India and Tanzania Sign Multiple MoUs to Enhance Bilateral Cooperation

7 Maria Corina Machado's Victory and US-Venezuela Relations

8 Israeli Ground Incursion into Gaza

9 China and Bhutan Sign "Cooperation Agreement" After Border Talks

10 Armenia's President Signs Rome Statute amid Russian Concerns

11 India's Abstention in UN Vote on Israel-Hamas Conflict Resolution

12 India Re-elected as President of AIBD General Conference

1 NASA Launches Psyche Mission

2 ISRO Successfully Launches Test Vehicle for Crew Safety in Gaganyaan Mission

3 Moon Found to be 40 Million Years Older than Previously Believed

4 JWST Discovers High-Speed Jet Stream on Jupiter

5 Discovery of Bright Gamma-Ray Burst Resulting from Neutron Star Merger

6 Yard 12706 (IMPHAL): India's First Warship with Dedicated Accommodation for Women

7 Niobobaotite Ore Discovered in Inner Mongolia

8 BIS Approves Indigenous AC/DC Charging Standard for Light Electric Vehicles

9 China Constructing Underwater Telescope to Detect Ghost Particles

10 Study Reveals How Cell Microenvironment Stiffness Affects Tissue Form

11 Earth's Core Leak Revealed through Ancient Arctic Rocks

12 120-Million-Year-Old Pontus Tectonic Plate Unveiled in Asia-Pacific Region

1 Failure to Reach Agreement on Climate "Loss and Damages"

2 WMO Urges Improved Water Resource Monitoring

3 NCCR Attributes Algal Bloom in Puducherry to Human Factors

4 New Climate Report Raises Alarm

5 Massive Ozone Hole Detected Over Antarctica

6 Rubber Production in Southeast Asia Drives High Forest Loss

7 Chennai Tops Trafficking Network for Tortoises and Turtles

8 New Dragonfly Species Discovered in Wayanad

9 Decline in Bird Species Recorded in Tamil Nadu: SOIB 2023

1 Muneesh Kapur

2 Indra Mani Pandey

3 Navneet Munot

4 Lieutenant General Raghu Srinivasan

5 Dr. Bijay Kumar Mohanty

6 Ipsita Dasgupta

7 Sanjay Kulshrestha

8 Dr. Meenesh Shah

9 Arindam Bagchi

10 Justice Siddharth Mridul

11 Ramaswamy N

12 K.N. Shanth Kumar

13 Sanjay Kumar Jain

14 Ashok Vaswani

15 Rajkumar Rao

16 MS Dhoni

17 Katrina Kaif

18 Mohammed Shami

19 Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Capital: Vientiane)

20 Sinai Peninsula

21 Manohar Singh Gill

22 Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (M.S. Swaminathan)

23 Bishan Singh Bedi

24 Important Days/Weeks

25 KAZIND-2023

26 India-EU Joint Naval Exercise

27 2023 Cambrian Patrol Competition

28 Annual Joint HADR Exercise 2023 (AJHE-23) – CHAKRAVAT 2023

29 SAMPRITI

30 SCO Council

31 IOC Session

32 Dark Patterns Buster Hackathon 2023

33 16th Urban Mobility India Conference & Exhibition

34 G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit

35 Shramdaan Event

36 World Health Summit 2023

37 Global Maritime India Summit 2023

38 Rohini Nayyar Prize

39 Ballon d’Or 2023

40 Award For Global Leadership

41 Durga Bharat Samman

42 UNWTO’s Best Tourism Village 2023

43 EU’s Sakharov Prize 2023

44 Best Tourism Village of India 2023

45 Satyajit Ray Excellence in Film Lifetime Award

46 Saraswati Samman 2022

47 Dutch Spinoza Prize

48 Nobel Prize in Literature 2023

49 Nobel Peace Prize 2023

1 Revival of Kashmiri Dogra Architecture

2 Someshwara Inscription of Alupa Dynasty

3 Edakkal Caves

4 Vajra Mushti Kalaga

5 Banni Festival

6 Ratna Bhandar of Puri Jagannath Temple

7 Talagirishwara Temple

8 500th Birth Anniversary of Veerangana Rani Durgavati

9 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

10 Basohli Pashmina

11 Pichwai Painting

12 Bekal Fort

13 Jageshwar Temples

14 Jaderi Namakatti

15 Neolithic Age

1 Habitat Rights of PVTGs

2 Supreme Court Directions on Eradication of Manual Scavenging

3 Enhancing Corporate Inclusivity for Persons with Disabilities

4 Protocol for Management of Malnutrition in Children

5 Right of the Unborn Child

6 Mera Yuva Bharat

7 Civil Union

8 Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) Report 2022-2023

9 Saras Aajeevika Mela

10 UMEED Scheme

11 Jehovah’s Witnesses

12 ILO Study on Transformative Childcare Policy

13 International Migration Outlook 2023

14 Children Displaced in a Changing Climate

Kerala

1 Kasaragod: First District in India to Declare Official Tree, Flower and Bird

2 Kerala Becomes First State With Hallmarking Centres In Every District

3 Kerala Gets Its First 3D-Printed Building

Punjab

1 PUSA-44

Goa

1 Goan Cashews

Jharkhand

1 First State To Take Steps To Ensure Minimum Wages For Workers

Jammu & Kashmir

1 J&K Achieves 100% Open Defecation Free Plus Model Status

Telangana

1 Healthway: India’s First Solar Cycling Track

Bihar

1 Rhino Task Force

1 PIB/AIR/PTI Info Bytes

1 PM Vishwakarma

2 Voyage to Study the Earth's Sun

3 Space Infrastructure

4 Road Infrastructure Getting Smarter

5 Rail Infrastructure

6 Port Infrastructure in Gujarat

7 Unity Malls

8 Agri Infrastructure

9 G-20: Global Startup Ecosystem

10 Vision for Green and Clean Rural India

11 Preserving the Green Cover of Indian Villages

12 Rural India towards Green Development

13 Green Village: New Identity of New India

14 Leveraging Agro-ecological Approaches for Clean and Green Villages

15 Water Park Clean and Green Villages

16 Integrated Solar Villages Scheme for Inclusive Development

17 National Supercomputing Mission

18 National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NMICPS)

19 Science and Technology for the Progress of the Country

20 Ensuring Gender Equity in Science

21 Water Technology Initiative of DST

22 Combating Climate Change

23 Empowering Societies through S&T Interventions

1 Poorvottar Sampark Setu

2 Special Leave Petitions

3 Section 106 of the Indian Evidence Act (1872)

4 Mandatory Penny-Drop Verification for NPS

5 Vizhinjam International Seaport

6 National Turmeric Board

7 Automatic 'Status Holder' Certificates

8 Card-on-File Tokenization (CoFT)

9 Arunachal Yak Churpi

10 One CGIAR Global Initiative

11 Kisan Rin Portal

12 Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC)

13 Overnight Index Swap (OIS)

14 Small Savings Instruments (SSIs)

15 National Waterways 44

16 Udangudi Panangkarupatti

17 Orionid Meteor Shower

18 X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat)

19 BlueWalker 3

20 Vikram-I

21 ImmunoACT

22 Bright Transient Survey Bot (BTSbot)

23 Iron Dome

24 Marine Cloud Brightening

25 Mytella strigata

26 Green Energy Corridor

27 Climate Smart Villages

28 Urban Flooding

29 Tiger Census

30 Mother Nature Campaign

31 India and Vietnam

32 World Cooperative Economic Forum (WCEF)

33 Operation Ajay

34 The Rafah Crossing

1 Cheget

2 Gravity Battery

3 Protein Binders

4 Watermeal

5 Iron Beam

6 Kibbutz

1 RAS Prelims Exam 2023

2 RAS Prelims Exam 2023

3 RAS Prelims Exam 2023

4 RAS Prelims Exam 2023

5 RAS Prelims Exam 2023

6 RAS Prelims Exam 2023

7 RAS Prelims Exam 2023

1 Current Affairs based Prelims 2024

1 Tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

2 India's G20 Presidency

3 Implementation of the National Education Policy 2020 in Higher Education

4 “Indefinite suspension” of MPs

5 Lok Sabha Ethics Committee’s Proceedings

1 Renewable Energy Sector in India

2 India’s Fisheries Sector

1 MoU Signed between MEPSC & Magic Bus India Foundation

2 Draft CCI (Lesser Penalty) Regulations, 2023

3 SC Directions for Effective Implementation of POSH Act, 2013

4 Energy Efficiency Programmes Launched by Ministry of Power

5 RBI includes PM Vishwakarma under PIDF Scheme

6 Amendment to Aircraft Rules, 1937

7 Toll Operate Transfer (TOT) Model

8 Punjab to Ban Cultivation of PUSA-44 Paddy Variety

9 Gujarat Government Bans Planting of Ornamental Conocarpus Trees

Geography Of India

1 Erosional and Depositional Landforms by Rivers and Wind

2 Heat Budget of the Earth

3 Cloudbursts: Causes, Consequences, Prevention and Mitigation

4 Effect of Indian Ocean Dipole and ENSO on Indian Climate

5 Characteristics and Causes of Tropical Cyclones in Arabian Sea

6 Marine Biotic Resources

7 Agro-Ecological Regions in India

8 Indian Monsoon and Rainfall Pattern

9 Management of Floods in India

10 Western Disturbances

11 Structure and Relief Features of Peninsular India

12 Coal Resources of India

13 Rare Earth Elements in India

14 Geographical Characteristics of the Eastern Ghats

15 Factors Affecting Ocean Salinity

16 Causes and Consequences of Marine Pollution

17 Seismic Zones in India

18 Urbanisation: Geographical Factors and Effect on Natural Resources

19 Landslides: Types and Causes

20 Factors Affecting Agricultural Productivity in India

21 Groundwater Contamination in India

22 Combating Desertification: Major Initiatives

23 Factors Affecting Industrial Location in India

Indian Economy

1 Inflation: Measurement and Control Measures

2 Banking Regulation – Insolvency and NPAs

3 Marketing of Agricultural Produce: Mechanisms in Place

4 Indigenous Seeds: Infrastructure & Management

5 Agro-based Industries in India

6 Road & Water Transport Network & Infrastructure

7 Satellite Towns: Infrastructure Development Programmes

8 Types of Tax in India

9 Socio-economic Welfare: Important Indicators

10 Measurement of Economic Growth: Key Indicators

11 Cottage Industries in India

12 Poverty: Measurement and Eradication Programmes

13 Food Processing Industry: Role in Agricultural Growth

14 FDI: Role in Economic Growth

15 India’s Livestock Resources

16 Sources of Government Revenue

17 Areas of Government Expenditure

18 Types of Subsidy and Their Effects

19 Tax Authorities and Tribunals

20 Types of International Free Trade Agreements

21 India’s New Industrial Zones

22 Multi-modal Logistics Parks

23 Digital Public Infrastructure
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