Current Affairs In Focus

National Issues

1 SC Ruling on Sub-Classification of SCs & STs

2 ​Supreme Court’s Ruling on States’ Taxation of Mining Activities

3 The Great Nicobar Island Development Project

4 Right against Climate Change - A Fundamental Right

5 Parliamentary Privileges and Bribery: SC Pronouncement

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

7 Supreme Court Judgment on Electoral Bond Scheme

8 SC Verdict on Abrogation of Article 370

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

10 Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry

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

12 CAG Report on AB-PMJAY

13 Amitabh Kant Committee Report

14 Compassionate Appointments

15 Women, Business and the Law 2023

16 Judicial Majoritarianism

17 Annual Survey of Education Report 2022

18 A Decade of POCSO

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

20 Competitiveness Roadmap for India@100

21 Natural Resource Accounting

22 Critical Information Infrastructure

23 Draft National Data Governance Framework Policy

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

25 The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill 2022

26 Draft India Data Accessibility & Use Policy 2022

27 Amendments to IAS Cadre Rules

28 Election Laws (Amendment) Bill 2021

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

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

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

32 The Constitutional (127th) Amendment Bill 2021

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

34 Emigration Bill 2021

35 Model Tenancy Act 2021

36 Rural Health Statistics

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

38 New Guidelines For Digital Media

39 Draft National Strategy on Blockchain

40 Light House Projects Inaugurated for Affordable Housing

41 Human Development Report 2020

42 National Family Health Survey-5

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

44 One Health Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance

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

46 Mission Karmayogi: Ushering in the Civil Services Reforms

47 National Digital Health Mission

48 Contempt of Court

49 New Education Policy 2020

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

51 OBC sub-categorisation Commission

52 India May Miss Nutrition Targets

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

54 PM Garib Kalyan Relief Package

55 15TH FINANCE COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS TABLED IN THE PARLIAMENT

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

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

58 India Gets its First Chief of Defence Staff

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

60 Revisiting Roles of Constitutional Heads in a Democracy

61 Jal Shakti Ministry: Answer to Water Crisis?

62 Acute Encephalitis Syndrome: Litchi or Government’s Incompetency

63 Crisis of Judicial Credibility

64 Model Code of Conduct

65 Right to Vote from Prison

66 Electoral Bonds

67 Official Secrets Act, 1923

68 Contempt of Court

69 Education Qualification for Local Body Elections

70 Reconciling Tribal Rights with Biodiversity Conservation

71 Regulating Bias in Algorithms

72 Current Affairs Question

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

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

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

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

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

78 Surrogacy Regulation Act 2019- Regulating the Rented Womb

79 Consumer Protection Act, 2019: Strengthening Consumers' Rights

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

Economic Issues

1 India-US Semiconductor Fabrication Agreement

2 India’s DeepTech Startups

3 Amendments to FDI Policy on Space Sector

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

5 Nano DAP: Revolutionizing Agriculture with Advanced Technology

6 Logistics Ease Across Different States 2023

7 Production Gap Report, 2023

8 World Energy Outlook 2023

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

10 Battery Energy Storage System: Empowering the Future

11 World's Largest Grain Storage Plan in Cooperative Sector

12 Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2023 Report

13 Nano Fertilizers: Revolutionizing Indian Agriculture

14 Open Network for Digital Commerce

15 Logistics Performance Index 2023

16 Foreign Trade Policy 2023

17 NCAER Report on Farm Machinery Industry in India

18 Multi-State Co-Operative Societies

19 Regenerative Agriculture

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

21 GEAC Approves Commercial Cultivation of GM Mustard

22 NFSA: Need for Comprehensive Coverage

23 Ethanol Blending in India: Prospects & Challenges

24 Natural Farming

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

26 Direct Seeding of Rice

27 Protected Cultivation

28 Oil Shock and Its Impact

29 Crop Diversification

30 Cage Aquaculture in India

31 Logistics Ease Across Different States Report 2021

32 Coal Crisis in India

33 Reforms in Urban Planning Capacity in India

34 Vehicle Scrappage Policy 2021

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

36 Inland Vessels Bill 2021

37 NITI Aayog’s Report on Connected Commerce

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

39 Report of Fifteen Finance Commission

40 India Innovation Index 2020

41 Global Wage Report 2020-21

42 Atmanirbhar Bharat 3.0

43 National Authority for Recycling of Ships

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

45 Vodafone gets International Relief in Retrospective Taxation Case

46 Transparent Taxation- Honoring the Honest

47 National Strategy for Financial Education

48 Pre-Packaged Deals in Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

49 Essential Commodities Act Amended to Boost Farm Sector

50 Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan

51 Dilution of Labour Laws

52 Task Force on National Infrastructure Pipeline

53 RBI Guidelines for Regulating Payment Aggregators and Payment Gateways

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

55 Government Abolishes Dividend Distribution Tax

56 National Technical Textiles Mission

57 End of Captive Coal Mining in India

58 National Strategy for Financial Inclusion

59 Transformational Organisational Restructuring of Indian Railways

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

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

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

63 Nandan Nilekani Committee: Towards Less Cash Economy

64 NBFC CRISIS

65 Surjit Bhalla Committee on Indian Trade

66 PepsiCo vs. Gujarat Farmers: Battle of Unequals

67 Fisheries Sector: Lifeline of India’s Blue Economy

68 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016

69 Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)

70 Threat of Monoculture in Crop Production

71 Government Panel for Raising Minimum Wage

72 We Need a Leap in Healthcare Spending

73 How Social Protection Systems Support Growth Process

74 Current Affairs Quiz

75 SDG India Index: Baseline Report 2018

76 Climate Vulnerability Assessment

77 Gender Gap Index 2018

78 Ten Big Factors Causing Farmers’ Distress

79 Gas-based Economy

80 ICAR Calls for Climate-Smart Farming

81 Support & Outreach Initiatives for MSMEs

82 Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas

83 Andaman: Balancing Development and Tribal Identity

84 Global Education Monitoring Report 2019

85 Living Planet Report

86 Risks of Nitrogen Pollution Increasing

87 Data Localisation

88 English: The Language of Supreme Court of India

89 Why we Don’t have Hurricanes in India

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

91 Collision of Three Geographies and the New World Order

92 Weakening RTI Structure

93 Unelected Bodies’s Role in Democracy

94 India Innovation Index

95 Government Aims to Push Entrepreneurship in MSME Sector

96 PayPal Working on Data Localization in India

97 Bio-fuels

98 Redesigning the Minimum Wage

99 The Menace of Unregulated Deposits

100 New Economic Capital Framework

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

102 Ailing Power Supply Chain

103 New Fiscal Reforms

World Affairs

1 UN Pact for the Future: Towards A New Era of Global Governance

2 India-Singapore: Strengthening Bilateral Cooperation

3 ​India-Austria: Boosting Bilateral Partnership

4 United Nations Global Principles for Information Integrity

5 New WIPO Treaty

6 India-Oman Partnership: Charting New Paths

7 India and Greece to Strengthen Bilateral Ties

8 India-Myanmar: Scrapping ‘Free Movement Regime’

9 Red Sea Crises: Impact on Global Trade

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

11 2nd Voice of the Global South Summit

12 ILO Monitor on the World of Work Report

13 The State of the World’s Children 2023

14 United Nations World Water Development Report 2023

15 Marine Spatial Planning Framework

16 Global Risks Report 2023

17 17th G20 Summit

18 United in Science 2022

19 14th BRICS Summit

20 Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity

21 Fourth India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue

22 14th India-Japan Annual Summit

23 India-France Roadmap on Blue Economy and Ocean Governance

24 First India-Central Asia Summit

25 Global State of Democracy Report 2021

26 G20 Summit 2021: Towards A New Horizon

27 India-Australia: Inaugural 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue

28 BRICS Agriculture and Environment Ministers’ Meetings

29 SCO Defence Ministers’ Meeting

30 G7 Summit 2021

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

32 Blockage of Suez Canal

33 Military Coup in Myanmar

34 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Enters Into Force

35 China's New Export Control Law Comes into Effect

36 UN Adopts India Sponsored Resolutions on Nuclear Disarmament

37 India and the USA Sign BECA Agreement

38 IBSA Foreign Minister’s Meet

39 Supply Chain Resilience Initiativea in Resilience Initiative

40 India-Nepal to hasten India-aided Development Projects

41 Chabahar Rail Project

42 India-UK Free Trade Agreement

43 India-Australia: Comprehensive Strategic Partnership

44 India-China Flare Up

45 Oil Prices Nosedive

46 US Halts Funding to WHO

47 Revival of SAARC

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

49 Deepening India-Brazil Ties

50 India-Australia Mutual Logistics Support Agreement Nears Completion

51 16th India-ASEAN Summit: Catalysing Regional Economic Growth with ASEAN

52 11th BRICS Summit: Boost to Multilateralism

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

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

55 G-20 (Group of 20)

56 CTBTO Invites India to be an Observer at Meetings

57 US –India Trade Issues

58 US Ends Waiver Granted On Iran Oil

59 India Creates an Indo-Pacific Division

60 Mueller Report Released in the US

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

62 US-North Korea second summit meeting inconclusive

63 New Zealand Terror Attack

64 India – Maldives Ministerial Meet

65 Importance of Maldives for India

66 Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)

67 India at OIC

68 India-Pakistan Conflict: Role of SCO

69 Saudi Crown Prince’s Visit to India

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

71 PM’s Visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

72 Visit of PM of Bangladesh to India

73 India-EU High Level Dialogue on Migration and Mobility

74 NAM Ministerial Meeting Held in Caracas, Venezuela

75 India and the Baltic Cooperation

76 The Significance of Indian Diaspora

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

78 74th UNGA Session Held

Environmental Issues

1 ​Indian Carbon Market: Fulfilling Obligations of Paris Agreement

2 ​Climate Finance Taxonomy: Mobilising Investments towards a Sustainable Future

3 ​Carbon Farming: Path to Sustainable Agriculture & Decarbonization

4 ​IUCN’s First Global Mangrove Assessment

5 Heat Action Plans: Tackling Heat & Its Impacts

6 Plastic Waste Management : New Rules

7 Pradhan Mantri Matsya Kisan Samridhi Sah-Yojana

8 India's National Framework for Climate Services

9 India’s Groundwater Depletion: UNU-EHS Report

10 Preserving the Amazon Rainforest: A Call to Action

11 Coastal Aquaculture Authority: (Amendment) Bill, 2023

12 Marine Heat Waves: Threatening Ocean Ecosystems

13 Bonn Climate Change Conference

14 Role of Cities in Tackling Climate Change

15 The Coastal Aquaculture Authority (Amendment) Bill 2023

16 LiFE Lessons from India

17 National Geospatial Policy 2022

18 World Bank Report on Air Pollution

19 Emissions Gap Report 2022

20 Air Quality and Health in Cities

21 Indian Antarctic Bill, 2022

22 Environmental Performance Index 2022

23 Lancet Report on Pollution and Health

24 WHO’s Air Quality Database 2022

25 River Rejuvenation through Forestry Interventions

26 World Sustainable Development Summit 2022

27 India State of Forest Report 2021

28 SOLAW 2021 Synthesis Report: Systems at Breaking Point

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

30 UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2021

31 IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020

32 IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report

33 EU Introduces ‘Fit for 55’ Legislation

34 Deep Ocean Mission

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

36 Water Quality Monitoring Framework Rolled Out by Jal Shakti Ministry

37 Sustainable Development of Little Andaman Island

38 India bets Big on Seaweeds

39 Carbon Capture Technology Behind Track to Reduce CO2 Emissions

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

41 New Research Identifies 'Triple Trouble' for Mangrove Coasts

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

43 A New Push for Namami Gange Programme

44 Microplastic Pollution: An Oceanic Menace

45 India's Second Voluntary National Review

46 New EPR Framework for Plastic Waste Management

47 India Faces Worst Locust attack

48 Visakhapatnam Gas leak: An Avoidable Tragedy

49 Coronavirus: Impact on Environment

50 UN Report: Map and Monitor Peatland Degradation

51 Centre to Form National Interlinking of Rivers Authority

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

53 Understanding the New Forest Report 2019

54 COP25 Climate Talks CrashedOver Green Climate Fund

55 First National Ganga Council toSave the Ganges Dolphin

56 Avian Botulism Kills Migratory Birds in Sambhar Salt Water Lake

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

58 Gujarat – Drought Crisis

59 UK, Republic of Ireland Declares Climate Emergency

60 U20 Leaders Call on G20 to Accelerate SDG Goals Progress

61 State of the Global Climate in 2018

62 Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment

63 Colombo Declaration

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

65 India’s Progress towards the SDGs

66 Amazon Fires: Turning Forests to Ashes

67 National Resource Efficiency Policy

Science & Tech Issues

1 Digital Agriculture Mission: A Step towards Transforming Farmers’ Lives

2 Global Innovation Index 2024

3 Underground Coal Gasification Pilot Project: Transforming India’s Energy Landscape

4 ​FGD Technology: Combating Environmental Pollution

5 Supreme Court’s Ruling on Same-Sex Marriages

6 Global Innovation Index 2023

7 The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023

8 Chandrayaan-3 Mission: Reaching for the Moon

9 National Quantum Mission

10 Artemis I Mission

11 Global Innovation Index 2022

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

13 India Innovation Index 2022

14 Draft Battery Swapping Policy for Electric Vehicles

15 Artemis I Mission

16 National Strategy on Additive Manufacturing

17 Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance Report

18 Parker Solar Probe Touches the Sun

19 Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission

20 Indian Space Association (ISpA)

21 Two Years of Chandrayaan 2 Orbiter

22 Major Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Achieved

23 Human Genome Editing: WHO’s New Recommendations

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

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

26 Genome Mapping in Indian Ocean

27 Liberalized Rules on Geospatial Data

28 Bird Flu Outbreak in India

29 Green Hydrogen: Fuel of the Hour

30 Unregulated Use of Facial Recognition Systems

31 First Observation of Fast Radio Burst in Galaxy

32 Noble Prize in Physics

33 Noble Prize in Chemistry

34 Noble Prize in Medicine

35 National Sero Survey 2.0

36 Impending Threat from Sunspot Activity&Solar Flares

37 Covaxin: Indigenous Vaccine for COVID-19

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

39 First Merger of Unequal-mass Binary Black Holes

40 NASA’s Mars 2020 Mission

41 India Hops on Quantum Supremacy Bandwagon with NM-QTA

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

43 A Breakthrough Against Antimicrobial Resistance

44 IndiGen Project: Sequencing Indian Genes

45 Maharashtra Farmers Defy Ban to Plant GM Cotton

46 NASA’s Artemis

47 Groundbreaking Malaria Vaccine under Test

48 PM-STIAC Identifies Nine Missions

49 China to Complete Artificial Sun Device This Year

50 Scientists Discover Massive Mountains under Earth’s Crust

51 The Mystery of Moving North Pole

52 Current Affairs Questions

53 2019 Nobel Prizes in Sciences

54 Space Race 2.0: Creating Debris

55 PRETOMANID: New Drug for Drug-Resistant TB

56 India’s Deep Ocean Mission

57 Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR)