Civil Services Chronicle January 2020

1 Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019: Dehumanising India's Third Gender

2 Revisiting Roles of Constitutional Heads in a Democracy

3 Steel Scrap Recycling Policy: A Shot in the Arm for Steel Industry

4 Essar Steel Verdict: Changes the Rules for Future Insolvency Cases

5 16th India-ASEAN Summit: Catalysing Regional Economic Growth with ASEAN

6 11th BRICS Summit: Boost to Multilateralism

7 Avian Botulism Kills Migratory Birds in Sambhar Salt Water Lake

1 Cabinet Approves Recycling of Ships Bill – 2019

2 Government Plans to Increase Deposit Insurance Limit

3 Annual Report on Road Accidents in India – 2018

4 Alternative Investment Funds

1 Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 comes into Effect

2 India Celebrates 70 years of Adoption of the Constitution

3 Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill Passed in LokSabha

4 NSO Survey Debunks Swachh Bharat Claims

5 Office of CJI Comes Under the Purview of RTI Act

6 Rise in Review Petitions at Supreme Court

1 Nepal Flags Concerns over Kalapani

2 Indo-Bangla MoU on Feni River

3 German Chancellor Calls for Fresh Attempts at EU-India Trade Deal

4 Sri Lankan President visits India

5 Controversial Re-Education Camps of Xinjiang

6 Change in USA’s West Bank Policy

7 SCO Joint Exercise on Urban Earthquake, Rescue Held in India

8 BIMSTEC Ports Conclave

9 International Solar Alliance Gets New Members

10 East Asia Summit 2019

1 The Mystery of Coronal Heating

2 NASA Renames Ultima Thule

3 NASA’s Voyager 2 Enters Interstellar Space

4 ISRO Successfully Launches Cartosat-3

5 ISRO Develops Crew Module Design

6 India Plans to Test-fire SLBM K-4

7 Space Internet

8 CRISPR Takes First Steps to Fight Cancer

9 China’s Approach to Treat Alzhiemer’s

1 Australian Bush Fires Point at Climate Change

2 Venice is Going Under Water

3 IndAIR: CSIR-NEERI’s Web Facility

4 Red Atlas Action Plan Map for Flood Mitigation

5 Bengal Tree Frog

6 Marengo sachintendulkar: Rare Species of Asian Jumping Spider

7 Idris Elba: Tiny Parasitic Wasp

8 Sumatran Rhinoceros Now Extinct in Malaysia

9 Chemicals in Garcinia Plants of Northeast Beneficial for Humans

10 India gets 43 million USD to Boost Climate Resilience in Coastal States

1 PERSONS IN NEWS

2 ON THE HOT SEATS

3 FACES ONLY IN MEMORY

4 STATES/UTS IN NEWS

5 DEFENCE

6 PLACES IN NEWS

7 STUDY/SURVEY/REPORT

8 ART/CULTURE/HERITAGE

9 MISCELLANEOUS

10 WORLD OF AWARDS

11 WORLD OF SPORTS

1 Remembering Tipu Sultan: The Tiger of Mysore

2 Revisiting History: Third Battle of Panipat

3 550th Birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev

1 National Health Profile, 2019

2 FSSAI Seeks to Clampdown on Junk Food Served in Schools

3 77 million Diabetics Reported in India

4 PM Matru Vandana Yojana: Insufficient Coverage, Dismal Approach

1 NITI Aayog’s Roadmap for Future Health Systems

2 SAANS Campaign

3 Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh

4 North India’s First Sugar Mill to Produce Ethanol

5 India’s Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) Declining: SRS Report

6 WTO’s Appellate Body may be Dysfunctional

7 Khadi gets HS Code

8 GI Tag to Darjeeling Green, White Teas

9 NCDEX AGRIDEX: India's First Agri Index

10 Budapest Convention and India

11 Bougainville Referendum

12 70th Year of India-China Diplomatic Ties

13 Cabinet Approves MoUs with Saudi Arabia to Combat Smuggling of Narcotic Drugs

14 Key Features

15 Aerosol Optical Depth

16 Detection of Argon-40 in the Lunar Exosphere

17 Water on Europa

18 Cortisol: A Stress Hormone that Controls Body Clock

19 Winter-grade Diesel from IOC

20 RT-PCR Machines for Speedy Detection of Dengue

21 Guru Ghasidas National Park Declared as Tiger Reserve

22 India’s Carbon Emission Target

23 Govt Approves Setting up of Six Plastic Parks

24 Geochemical Baseline Atlas of India

25 MARUDHAM

26 New Species of Signal Fish Discovered

27 GRAF: Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting System

1 Electoral Bonds: Safeguards of Indian Democracy Falling Apart

2 Meghalaya Makes Registration Mandatory for Non-Resident Visitors

3 International Seed Treaty

4 6th ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting - Plus

5 India Chairs Kimberley Process Meet on Blood Diamonds

6 Kerala Cabinet Approves Fibre Optic Network

7 Relaunch of Anti-Rabies Vaccine

8 First Detection of Sugars in Meteorites Gives Clues to Origin of Life

9 NASA Unveils Maxwell

10 New Zealand's Zero Carbon Law

11 Madrid to Host Cop 25 UN Climate Talks

12 India Attends IUCN’s 7th Regional Conservation Forum

13 NMCG Organized Ganga Utsav in New Delhi

14 International Conference on Soil and Water Resources Management

15 Fall Armyworm Attack Neutralized

16 Conservation Agriculture

1 The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2019

2 Industrial Relations Code Bill, 2019

3 Swachh- Nirmal Tat Abhiyaan

1 Global Microscope for Financial Inclusion Report 2019

2 Working Group on Core Investment Companies

3 High Level Advisory Group Report

4 Company Law Committee Report

Ecology & Environment

Miscellaneous

1 Ecology Concepts

Biodiversity

1 ​Biodiversity of India

Major International Organizations/Conventions/Protocols/Declaration

1 International Union for Conservation of Nature

Pollution

1 Environmental Pollution

2 Air Pollution

3 Land Pollution

4 Water Pollution

Climate Change

1 Global Climate Change

Mock Test Papers

Prelims

1 PRELIMS Mock Test 2020

Essays

1 Medicine for the Ailing Planet
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