Current Affairs In Focus

1 Right against Climate Change - A Fundamental Right

2 India-Oman Partnership: Charting New Paths

3 Heat Action Plans: Tackling Heat & Its Impacts

National Issues

1 Parliamentary Privileges and Bribery: SC Pronouncement

2 High-Level Committee Report on One Nation, One Election

3 Supreme Court Judgment on Electoral Bond Scheme

4 SC Verdict on Abrogation of Article 370

5 Standing Committee Report on Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita Bill, 2023

6 Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry

7 Ramnath Kovind Panel on ‘One Nation, One Election’

8 CAG Report on AB-PMJAY

9 Amitabh Kant Committee Report

10 Compassionate Appointments

11 Women, Business and the Law 2023

12 Judicial Majoritarianism

13 Annual Survey of Education Report 2022

14 A Decade of POCSO

15 State of the Education Report for India: Artificial Intelligence in Education

16 Competitiveness Roadmap for India@100

17 Natural Resource Accounting

18 Critical Information Infrastructure

19 Draft National Data Governance Framework Policy

20 Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Amendment Bill, 2022

21 The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill 2022

22 Draft India Data Accessibility & Use Policy 2022

23 Amendments to IAS Cadre Rules

24 Election Laws (Amendment) Bill 2021

25 NITI Aayog Pushes for Online Dispute Resolution for Speedy Access to Justice

26 Extension of BSF’s Jurisdiction: Timely Step to Boost National Security

27 Karbi Anglong Peace Accord: A Step towards “Insurgency Free Prosperous North East”

28 The Constitutional (127th) Amendment Bill 2021

29 Surveillance Laws and the Right to Privacy: The Pegasus Controversy

30 Emigration Bill 2021

31 Model Tenancy Act 2021

32 Rural Health Statistics

33 The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Act, 2021

34 New Guidelines For Digital Media

35 Draft National Strategy on Blockchain

36 Light House Projects Inaugurated for Affordable Housing

37 Human Development Report 2020

38 National Family Health Survey-5

39 Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2020

40 One Health Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance

41 Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Third Order, 2020

42 Mission Karmayogi: Ushering in the Civil Services Reforms

43 National Digital Health Mission

44 Contempt of Court

45 New Education Policy 2020

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

47 OBC sub-categorisation Commission

48 India May Miss Nutrition Targets

49 Rethinking Reservation Policy: Supreme Court Quashes 100% Quota for Tribal Teachers

50 PM Garib Kalyan Relief Package

51 15TH FINANCE COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS TABLED IN THE PARLIAMENT

52 Annual Status of Education Report Flags Poor Learning Outcomes in Schools

53 Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019: Extensive Powers but Less Responsibility

54 India Gets its First Chief of Defence Staff

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

56 Revisiting Roles of Constitutional Heads in a Democracy

57 Jal Shakti Ministry: Answer to Water Crisis?

58 Acute Encephalitis Syndrome: Litchi or Government’s Incompetency

59 Crisis of Judicial Credibility

60 Model Code of Conduct

61 Right to Vote from Prison

62 Electoral Bonds

63 Official Secrets Act, 1923

64 Contempt of Court

65 Education Qualification for Local Body Elections

66 Reconciling Tribal Rights with Biodiversity Conservation

67 Regulating Bias in Algorithms

68 Current Affairs Question

69 Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey Points at India’s Nutrition Deprived Children

70 Global Hunger Index: India Slides down to 102nd Rank

71 The Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019

72 Anti-Defection Law: Has it Lost Relevance amidst the Current Political Crisis?

73 Surgical Strike or Integration sans Integrity: The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019

74 Surrogacy Regulation Act 2019- Regulating the Rented Womb

75 Consumer Protection Act, 2019: Strengthening Consumers' Rights

76 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act (UAPA), 2019

Economic Issues

1 Amendments to FDI Policy on Space Sector

2 RBI Report on the ‘Finances of Panchayati Raj Institutions’

3 Nano DAP: Revolutionizing Agriculture with Advanced Technology

4 Logistics Ease Across Different States 2023

5 Production Gap Report, 2023

6 World Energy Outlook 2023

7 Rising Prices of Crude Oil & its Impact on Indian Economy

8 Battery Energy Storage System: Empowering the Future

9 World's Largest Grain Storage Plan in Cooperative Sector

10 Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2023 Report

11 Nano Fertilizers: Revolutionizing Indian Agriculture

12 Open Network for Digital Commerce

13 Logistics Performance Index 2023

14 Foreign Trade Policy 2023

15 NCAER Report on Farm Machinery Industry in India

16 Multi-State Co-Operative Societies

17 Regenerative Agriculture

18 World Bank Report on Financing India’s Urban Infrastructure Needs

19 GEAC Approves Commercial Cultivation of GM Mustard

20 NFSA: Need for Comprehensive Coverage

21 Ethanol Blending in India: Prospects & Challenges

22 Natural Farming

23 NITI Aayog’s Report on India’s Booming Gig and Platform Economy

24 Direct Seeding of Rice

25 Protected Cultivation

26 Oil Shock and Its Impact

27 Crop Diversification

28 Cage Aquaculture in India

29 Logistics Ease Across Different States Report 2021

30 Coal Crisis in India

31 Reforms in Urban Planning Capacity in India

32 Vehicle Scrappage Policy 2021

33 New Ministry of Co-operation: A Fillip to the Co-operative Movement

34 Inland Vessels Bill 2021

35 NITI Aayog’s Report on Connected Commerce

36 Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill 2021

37 Report of Fifteen Finance Commission

38 India Innovation Index 2020

39 Global Wage Report 2020-21

40 Atmanirbhar Bharat 3.0

41 National Authority for Recycling of Ships

42 K V Kamath Committee Report on Resolution Framework for Covid-19 Related Stress

43 Vodafone gets International Relief in Retrospective Taxation Case

44 Transparent Taxation- Honoring the Honest

45 National Strategy for Financial Education

46 Pre-Packaged Deals in Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

47 Essential Commodities Act Amended to Boost Farm Sector

48 Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan

49 Dilution of Labour Laws

50 Task Force on National Infrastructure Pipeline

51 RBI Guidelines for Regulating Payment Aggregators and Payment Gateways

52 Multiple Mega Food Parks and Integrated Cold Chain Projects Sanctioned under PMKSY

53 Government Abolishes Dividend Distribution Tax

54 National Technical Textiles Mission

55 End of Captive Coal Mining in India

56 National Strategy for Financial Inclusion

57 Transformational Organisational Restructuring of Indian Railways

58 Bharat Bond Exchange Traded Fund: A New Offer for Investors

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

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

61 Nandan Nilekani Committee: Towards Less Cash Economy

62 NBFC CRISIS

63 Surjit Bhalla Committee on Indian Trade

64 PepsiCo vs. Gujarat Farmers: Battle of Unequals

65 Fisheries Sector: Lifeline of India’s Blue Economy

66 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016

67 Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)

68 Threat of Monoculture in Crop Production

69 Government Panel for Raising Minimum Wage

70 We Need a Leap in Healthcare Spending

71 How Social Protection Systems Support Growth Process

72 Current Affairs Quiz

73 SDG India Index: Baseline Report 2018

74 Climate Vulnerability Assessment

75 Gender Gap Index 2018

76 Ten Big Factors Causing Farmers’ Distress

77 Gas-based Economy

78 ICAR Calls for Climate-Smart Farming

79 Support & Outreach Initiatives for MSMEs

80 Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas

81 Andaman: Balancing Development and Tribal Identity

82 Global Education Monitoring Report 2019

83 Living Planet Report

84 Risks of Nitrogen Pollution Increasing

85 Data Localisation

86 English: The Language of Supreme Court of India

87 Why we Don’t have Hurricanes in India

88 EU Ban on Antibiotic Use in Animals Wake-up Call for India

89 Collision of Three Geographies and the New World Order

90 Weakening RTI Structure

91 Unelected Bodies’s Role in Democracy

92 India Innovation Index

93 Government Aims to Push Entrepreneurship in MSME Sector

94 PayPal Working on Data Localization in India

95 Bio-fuels

96 Redesigning the Minimum Wage

97 The Menace of Unregulated Deposits

98 New Economic Capital Framework

99 Bank Consolidation Drive Results in Merger of Ten Public Sector Banks

100 Ailing Power Supply Chain

101 New Fiscal Reforms

World Affairs

1 India and Greece to Strengthen Bilateral Ties

2 India-Myanmar: Scrapping ‘Free Movement Regime’

3 Red Sea Crises: Impact on Global Trade

4 India-U.S. 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue

5 2nd Voice of the Global South Summit

6 ILO Monitor on the World of Work Report

7 The State of the World’s Children 2023

8 United Nations World Water Development Report 2023

9 Marine Spatial Planning Framework

10 Global Risks Report 2023

11 17th G20 Summit

12 United in Science 2022

13 14th BRICS Summit

14 Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity

15 Fourth India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue

16 14th India-Japan Annual Summit

17 India-France Roadmap on Blue Economy and Ocean Governance

18 First India-Central Asia Summit

19 Global State of Democracy Report 2021

20 G20 Summit 2021: Towards A New Horizon

21 India-Australia: Inaugural 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue

22 BRICS Agriculture and Environment Ministers’ Meetings

23 SCO Defence Ministers’ Meeting

24 G7 Summit 2021

25 G-7 agrees to 'Historic' Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate

26 Blockage of Suez Canal

27 Military Coup in Myanmar

28 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Enters Into Force

29 China's New Export Control Law Comes into Effect

30 UN Adopts India Sponsored Resolutions on Nuclear Disarmament

31 India and the USA Sign BECA Agreement

32 IBSA Foreign Minister’s Meet

33 Supply Chain Resilience Initiativea in Resilience Initiative

34 India-Nepal to hasten India-aided Development Projects

35 Chabahar Rail Project

36 India-UK Free Trade Agreement

37 India-Australia: Comprehensive Strategic Partnership

38 India-China Flare Up

39 Oil Prices Nosedive

40 US Halts Funding to WHO

41 Revival of SAARC

42 Trump’s India Visit: Bonhomie in Indo-US Relations on Display but Muted Outcome

43 Deepening India-Brazil Ties

44 India-Australia Mutual Logistics Support Agreement Nears Completion

45 16th India-ASEAN Summit: Catalysing Regional Economic Growth with ASEAN

46 11th BRICS Summit: Boost to Multilateralism

47 India-Sri Lanka-Maldives: Neighborhood still Remains First

48 Asia-Pacific Group Supports India’s UNSC Non-permanent Membershipc

49 G-20 (Group of 20)

50 CTBTO Invites India to be an Observer at Meetings

51 US –India Trade Issues

52 US Ends Waiver Granted On Iran Oil

53 India Creates an Indo-Pacific Division

54 Mueller Report Released in the US

55 India’s Latest Move to Impose Sanctions on Masood Azhar Foiled

56 US-North Korea second summit meeting inconclusive

57 New Zealand Terror Attack

58 India – Maldives Ministerial Meet

59 Importance of Maldives for India

60 Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)

61 India at OIC

62 India-Pakistan Conflict: Role of SCO

63 Saudi Crown Prince’s Visit to India

64 Terrorism: What should be India’s Strategy against Nuclear-Armed Pakistan?

65 PM’s Visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

66 Visit of PM of Bangladesh to India

67 India-EU High Level Dialogue on Migration and Mobility

68 NAM Ministerial Meeting Held in Caracas, Venezuela

69 India and the Baltic Cooperation

70 The Significance of Indian Diaspora

71 India Convinces ASEAN to Review India-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (FTA)

72 74th UNGA Session Held

Environmental Issues

1 Plastic Waste Management : New Rules

2 Pradhan Mantri Matsya Kisan Samridhi Sah-Yojana

3 India's National Framework for Climate Services

4 India’s Groundwater Depletion: UNU-EHS Report

5 Preserving the Amazon Rainforest: A Call to Action

6 Coastal Aquaculture Authority: (Amendment) Bill, 2023

7 Marine Heat Waves: Threatening Ocean Ecosystems

8 Bonn Climate Change Conference

9 Role of Cities in Tackling Climate Change

10 The Coastal Aquaculture Authority (Amendment) Bill 2023

11 LiFE Lessons from India

12 National Geospatial Policy 2022

13 World Bank Report on Air Pollution

14 Emissions Gap Report 2022

15 Air Quality and Health in Cities

16 Indian Antarctic Bill, 2022

17 Environmental Performance Index 2022

18 Lancet Report on Pollution and Health

19 WHO’s Air Quality Database 2022

20 River Rejuvenation through Forestry Interventions

21 World Sustainable Development Summit 2022

22 India State of Forest Report 2021

23 SOLAW 2021 Synthesis Report: Systems at Breaking Point

24 GRII: A Global Model to Assess Resilience to Climate Risks

25 UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2021

26 IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020

27 IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report

28 EU Introduces ‘Fit for 55’ Legislation

29 Deep Ocean Mission

30 Protected Planet Report 2020: Equity and Effectiveness are Crucial Post-2020

31 Water Quality Monitoring Framework Rolled Out by Jal Shakti Ministry

32 Sustainable Development of Little Andaman Island

33 India bets Big on Seaweeds

34 Carbon Capture Technology Behind Track to Reduce CO2 Emissions

35 Honey Gate: 10 Out of 13 Honey Brands Fail Purity Test

36 New Research Identifies 'Triple Trouble' for Mangrove Coasts

37 Commission for Air Quality Management in the NCR & Adjoining Areas Ordinance 2020

38 A New Push for Namami Gange Programme

39 Microplastic Pollution: An Oceanic Menace

40 India's Second Voluntary National Review

41 New EPR Framework for Plastic Waste Management

42 India Faces Worst Locust attack

43 Visakhapatnam Gas leak: An Avoidable Tragedy

44 Coronavirus: Impact on Environment

45 UN Report: Map and Monitor Peatland Degradation

46 Centre to Form National Interlinking of Rivers Authority

47 India marks the beginning of “Super Year of BioDiversity” with CMS COP

48 Understanding the New Forest Report 2019

49 COP25 Climate Talks CrashedOver Green Climate Fund

50 First National Ganga Council toSave the Ganges Dolphin

51 Avian Botulism Kills Migratory Birds in Sambhar Salt Water Lake

52 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought Observed on June 17

53 Gujarat – Drought Crisis

54 UK, Republic of Ireland Declares Climate Emergency

55 U20 Leaders Call on G20 to Accelerate SDG Goals Progress

56 State of the Global Climate in 2018

57 Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment

58 Colombo Declaration

59 Palau: 76th Signatory Country to Join the International Solar Alliance (ISA)

60 India’s Progress towards the SDGs

61 Amazon Fires: Turning Forests to Ashes

62 National Resource Efficiency Policy

Science & Tech Issues

1 Supreme Court’s Ruling on Same-Sex Marriages

2 Global Innovation Index 2023

3 The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023

4 Chandrayaan-3 Mission: Reaching for the Moon

5 National Quantum Mission

6 Artemis I Mission

7 Global Innovation Index 2022

8 Preserving Progress on Nutrition in India: Poshan Abhiyan in Pandemic Times

9 India Innovation Index 2022

10 Draft Battery Swapping Policy for Electric Vehicles

11 Artemis I Mission

12 National Strategy on Additive Manufacturing

13 Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance Report

14 Parker Solar Probe Touches the Sun

15 Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission

16 Indian Space Association (ISpA)

17 Two Years of Chandrayaan 2 Orbiter

18 Major Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Achieved

19 Human Genome Editing: WHO’s New Recommendations

20 CAR T-cell Therapy: Heralding a New Era in Cancer Treatment

21 Protein-Antibody Conjugates (PACs): A Major Breakthrough in Cancer Research

22 Genome Mapping in Indian Ocean

23 Liberalized Rules on Geospatial Data

24 Bird Flu Outbreak in India

25 Green Hydrogen: Fuel of the Hour

26 Unregulated Use of Facial Recognition Systems

27 First Observation of Fast Radio Burst in Galaxy

28 Noble Prize in Physics

29 Noble Prize in Chemistry

30 Noble Prize in Medicine

31 National Sero Survey 2.0

32 Impending Threat from Sunspot Activity&Solar Flares

33 Covaxin: Indigenous Vaccine for COVID-19

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

35 First Merger of Unequal-mass Binary Black Holes

36 NASA’s Mars 2020 Mission

37 India Hops on Quantum Supremacy Bandwagon with NM-QTA

38 New T-cell Discovered: Universal Cancer Therapy in the Offing?

39 A Breakthrough Against Antimicrobial Resistance

40 IndiGen Project: Sequencing Indian Genes

41 Maharashtra Farmers Defy Ban to Plant GM Cotton

42 NASA’s Artemis

43 Groundbreaking Malaria Vaccine under Test

44 PM-STIAC Identifies Nine Missions

45 China to Complete Artificial Sun Device This Year

46 Scientists Discover Massive Mountains under Earth’s Crust

47 The Mystery of Moving North Pole

48 Current Affairs Questions

49 2019 Nobel Prizes in Sciences

50 Space Race 2.0: Creating Debris

51 PRETOMANID: New Drug for Drug-Resistant TB

52 India’s Deep Ocean Mission

53 Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR)