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UPSC-Monthly-Current-Affairs-Dec DECEM BER - 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) Providing citizenship to persecuted minorities Operation Twist Hyderabad Operation 2+2 Dialogue RISAT Rape-Murder Case Twist (India-US) -2BR1 Due Process vs Instant Justice TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. POLITY 01 • Partial Credit Guarantee Scheme • Arms (Amendment) Act, 2019 • Pehchan Scheme • Anglo-Indians Reservations • Phase One’ Agreement- USA and China • Political Parties Registration Tracking Management • Pronab Sen Panel System (PPRTMS) • Railway unveils a new signalling system • Section 144 CrPC- Protest and order • Railways ‘RailWire’ Wi-Fi goes Live in 5500 Railway • Strength in numbers: On judge vacancies Stations • Should the creamy layer norm be extended to SC/STs? • Remission of Duties or Taxes on Export Product • No State-wise minority classification, says Supreme (RoDTEP) Court • Rohtang Tunnel named after Vajpayee • Fractured verdicts and the Governor’s role • Seeds Bill 2019 • RS MPs want more time to speak • Stagflation • 6 years on, Lokpal is yet to get prosecution wing • Startup India Global Venture Capital Summit • Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 • Sustainable Development Cell for Environmental 2. ECONOMY 18 Mitigation Measures • Antibiotics in Crops • No extra charge on payments via RuPay, UPI from January 1 • Araku’s aroma all set to spread overseas • The neglected foot soldiers of a liberalised economy • Carbon tax waiver for coal mooted • CAG hints at massive diversion of LPG • EBkray • Audit for FDI norms must for e-com firms • Extra Neutral Alcohol (ENA) • Tech titans under watch • Global Gender Gap Index • If India has to grow faster, States have to grow faster • Green Window for Green Energy Finance • India needs a bottom-up growth model • Head on Generation (HOG) Technology • India International Financial Services Centres (IFSC) • Hybrid-Annuity Model (HAM) Authority Bill, 2019 • Independent Director’s Databank • Tripura gets its first SEZ • Infrastructure Investment Trust • Economic revival key to banks’ health • Integrated Road Accident Database (IRAD) • Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) • International Seminar on Climate Smart Farming 3. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 41 Systems • 2+2 Dialogue (India-US) • Investor Education & Protection Fund Authority (IEPFA) • Britain votes for Brexit • Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture • Bougainville- Nation #194? (MIDH) • Hand-in-Hand • National Aquifer Mapping and Management • Indra Programme • India-Japan Steel Dialogue • National Energy Conservation day • IORA nations should build a common vision for Indo- • National Public Procurement Conclave Pacific • NCLAT order- Key Takeaways • Iraq’s autumn of discontent • NITI Aayog’s index of UN goals • Mitra Shakti • Operation Twist • Red tourism • SITMEX– Singapore-India-Thailand Maritime Exercise • Climate Change Performance Index • Special Representatives (SR) dialogue • CoP 25- Madrid • Surya Kiran – XIV • Ganga council • Inauguration of development projects in the Maldives • Green Deal • Cracks in the relic: on U.S.-Turkey relations • Green Good Deeds Initiative • China, Russia and Iran hold naval drills in Gulf of Oman • India State of Forest Report (ISFR 2019) • U.S. House passes Bill seeking action over Uighur • Invasive Alien Species- Fish in troubled waters crackdown • Operation ‘Clean Art’ • An Asian engine driven by India and China • Papikonda National Park (PNP) 4. ART AND CULTURE 52 • Pollution fight: painting roads, lasers among options • Dada Saheb Phalke Award • Tadoba National Park • Hornbill Festival • Not many lessons learnt from water planning failures • Purana Qila • India tests Swedish technology to reduce stubble • Vivekananda Rock Memorial burning. • Zonal Cultural Centers • Heavy metals contaminating India’s rivers • Earliest Sanskrit inscription in South India found in A.P • Global Climate Risk Index 2020 • Tansen Samaroh • Himalayan Gold (Caterpillar Fungus) 5. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 • Houbara bustard • BRICS Remote Sensing Satellite Constellation 8. HEALTH ISSUES 75 • National Children’s Science Congress • Anti-Microbial Resistance • RISAT-2BR1 • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) • CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite) • Eat Right Mela 6. SECURITY AND DEFENCE 57 • Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) • Inner Line Permit (ILP) • Measles- 2.3 million Children in India unvaccinated • NAVARMS • NITI Aayog’s proposed 15-year plan for the Indian • Navy Day healthcare system. • National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction • ROTAVAC5D® (NAPDDR) • Snakebites • Pacific Air Chiefs Symposium • World AIDS Day • Pinaka Missile System • Packaged foods ‘breach’ salt, fat limits • Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM) • South has higher prevalence of mental disorders: • Sea Vigil-19 study • StrandHogg- Android vulnerable to cyberattack: MHA 9. SOCIAL ISSUES 84 • VC 11184 • Accessible India campaign’s deadline extended • Limit deputation of IPS officers in paramilitary at 25%: • Hunar Haat RS panel • International Day of Persons with Disabilities • Navy plans 24 submarines to strengthen fleet • Kolam Tribe • Terror in London • Konda Reddi or Hill Reddis • Special Protection Group (Amendment) Act, 2019 • Korku tribals 7. ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY 63 • Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior • Atal Bhoojal Yojana Citizens (Amendment) Bill, 2019 • Bar-Headed Goose • National Programme for Health Care of the Elderly (NPHCE) • Bandhavgarh National Park • Poshan Abhiyaan 15. PRACTICE QUESTIONS 110 • Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana 16. ANSWER KEYS 127 • Women Help Desks in Police Stations 17. MAINS PRACTICE QUESTIONS 131 • Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019 18. INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT 135 • Hyderabad Rape-Murder Case 10. GEOGRAPHY 94 • Annular Solar Eclipse • Kelo River • White Island volcano • India, Sweden to sign MoU for polar science cooperation 11. EDUCATION 97 • Ekal School Abhiyan • Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching • The many structural flaws in India’s higher education system 12. DISASTER MANAGEMENT 99 • Delhi fire Tragedy • Locust invasion 13. GOVERNANCE 101 • Good Governance Index (GGI) • GeM Samvaad • Hill Area Development Programme (HADP) • Nagpur Resolution: A holistic approach for empowering citizens • Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 • RTI ‘abuse’ led to ‘fear’ among officials: CJI 14. MISCELLANEOUS 108 • EChO Network • Gandhi Citizenship Education Prize • Human Rights Day • National Florence Nightingale Awards • North Eastern Region Community Resource Management Project (NERCORMP) • Shehri Samridhi Utsav (SSU) • Zero FIR • Afghanistan first country to recognize Indian Pharmacopoeia Click Here Click Here Click Here Click Here DECEMBER-2019 1 POLITY 1. Arms (Amendment) Act, 2019 Penal Provisions Context • The Arms Act of 1959 specifies the punishment for: • The Arms (Amendment) Act, 2019 amended some (i) dealing in un-licensed firearms, including their provisions of the Arms Act, 1959. manufacture, procurement, sale, transfer, conversion, (ii) the shortening or conversion of a firearm without a • It seeks to decrease the number of licensed firearms licence, and (iii) import or export of banned firearms. allowed per person and increase penalties for certain The punishment for these offences is between three offences under the Act. years and seven years, along with a fine. Features * The Amendment act of 2019 increases the • License for acquiring firearms: Under the Arms Act of punishment to between seven years and life 1959, a license must be obtained to acquire, possess, imprisonment, along with a fine. or carry any firearm. A person can obtain a license for • The Arms Act of 1959 punishes acquisition, possession up to three firearms (with certain exceptions, such as or carrying of prohibited ammunition without a for licensed firearms dealers). license, with imprisonment between five and ten * The Amendment act of 2019, reduces the years, along with fine. number of permitted firearms from three to one. * The Amendment act of 2019 increases the This includes licenses given on inheritance or punishment to imprisonment between seven heirloom basis. and 14 years, along with fine. A court may * It provides a time period of one year to deposit impose a punishment of lesser than seven years, the excess firearms with the officer-in-charge with recorded reasons. of the nearest police station or with a licensed • If any individual or group, involves or aids in Illicit firearm dealer as specified. Trafficking of firearms and ammunition, that individual * If the owner is a member of the armed forces, the or group shall be punishable with imprisonment for a firearm may be deposited with a unit armoury. term which shall not be less than ten years but which may extend to imprisonment for life and shall also be • The Amendment act of 2019 increases the duration of liable to fine. the validity of a firearm license from three years to five years. * “Illicit Trafficking” means the import, export, acquisition, sale, delivery, movement or transfer • Ban on firearms: The Arms Act of 1959 bans of firearms and ammunition into, from or manufacture, sale, use, transfer, conversion, testing or within the territory of India, if the firearms and proofing of firearms without license. It also prohibits ammunition are not marked in accordance with shortening of firearm barrel or conversion of imitation the provisions of this Act or are being trafficked firearms into firearms without a license. in contravention of the provisions of this Act * The Amendment act of 2019
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