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Geography Places in News Jan-2019 • Kaveri Crater • Chicxulub crater Dec-2019 • White Island volcano
• Shetrunji River • Yalu River/Amrok River/ Amnok River • Cooum River • Indravati River • Lake Urmia • Kali Sindh River • Ponnaiyar River • Danube • Ghaggar River • Kajin Sara Lake • Ken-Betwa • Kelo River Feb-2019 • Bagamoyo Port
March-2019 • Liancourt Rocks, Dokdo Islands or Takeshima Islands • Miyako Strait • Mount Sodom Salt Cave
May-2019 • Mount Agung/ Gunung Agung • Mulshi Dam • Pandoh Dam
June-2019 • Amundsen Sea • Mauna Kea
July-2019
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• Mount Elbrus • Mount Etna
Kutch Desert
Kajin Sara lake
Oct-2019
TULAGI ISLAND
Nov-2019
UNESCO Creative City
Kolleru lake
Dec-2019
Rohtang Pass: Strategic tunnel under it
Temp
Jan-2019
• Delhi Rains March-2019
• Monsoon likely to be ‘normal’ this year, says meteorological dept.
April-2019
April and May to be warmer than normal, says IMD
May-2019
Monsoon and its forecast mechanism
Oct-2019
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Monsoon Prediction
Disasters
April-2019 • El Nino • La Nina • Cyclone Vayu
Cyclone Fani gathers force, to hit Odisha
Oct-2019
Typhoon Hagibis
Nov-2019
Cyclone Maha
Solar System
Sept-2019
Perseids Meteor shower
Oct-2019
Saturn has the most numbers moons in our Solar System
Dec-2019
Solar Eclipse
• Milky Way’s violent birth decoded • Perseid Meteor Shower • Minor Planet named after ‘Pandit Jasraj’ • Annular Solar Eclipse • India, Sweden to sign MoU for polar science cooperation
World Geography Theory
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Oct-2019
Paleochannel
Nov-2019
Seismometer
Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO)
July-2019
Himalayan conclave at Mussorie
August-2019
Uranium mining New Phenomenon
• Polar Vortex- Arctic Chill • What could happen to earth if its poles flipped? • Madden Julian Oscillation • North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) • Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) • Solar tsunami can trigger the sunspot cycle • Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) • Anthropocene Epoch • Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale • Ice calving- Brunt Ice Shelf • Polar Amplification • Zero Shadow Day
Water Disputes
Single tribunal to hear water disputes
Single tribunal to settle inter-state water disputes
Inter-state water cooperation
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Aug-2019
Inter-State river water disputes
River inter-linking
Legal rights to water bodies
Miscellanous
• Millions flock to Sagar Island in Bengal for Makar Sankranti • Long Island in A&N- Development Program to be relooked
• Pepper Cultivation • Kuruvai paddy
• Bedin 1
May-2019
• Mawmluh cave and Therriaghat
• Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP) • Deep Ocean Mission (DOM) • National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT)
• Puerto Williams July-2019 • National Institute of Miners’ Health (NIMH)
• TOI 270 Aug-2019 • Gj 357 d
• Mapping of Soil Worms
Sept-2019 • K2-18b
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Oct-2019 • Scientists excavate ‘Ancient River’ in Uttar Pradesh
• The secondary monsoon: On rainfall behaviour Nov-2019 • Lightning Strikes- Odisha hit by over nine lakh
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ART AND CULTURE Festivals Jan-2019 • Indian Panorama Film Festival Feb-2019 • Bharat Rang Mahotsav March-2019 • Thakurani Jatra Festival • 12. Vijaya Utsav Festivals
• Doul Utsav • Fag Festival • Gohain Uliuwa Mela • Khelchawa Festival • Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav • Hornbill Festival Navroz Festival
Pooram Festival
Nomad film festival
HORNBILL FESTIVAL
Oct-2019
Chhath puja
June-2019
Ambubachi Mela, Assam
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Jan-2019 • Asurgarh Fort • Chowmahalla Palace • Katora Houz • Lakhon Khol • Lothal- India’s oldest port cities • Phuti Masjid • Qasr al-Farid tomb (The Lonely Castle) • Church of St. Augustine
Arts • National Museum of Indian Cinema • Nati (dance)
HISTORY • Battle of Sinhagad • National War Memorial (NWM) • Pietermaritzburg Incident • Dictionary of Martyrs of India’s Freedom Struggle (1857-1947) • Revolutionary ideas that live on • Wagon tragedy • Jallianwala Bagh massacre • Platinum Jubilee Commemoration of Battle of Kangla Tongbi April-2019
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre and India-UK relations
Reflections on a massacre
The legacy of Ambedkar
Himas or Khasi kingdoms to revisit 1947 agreements
Rare stucco statue put on show in Hyderabad
May-2019
In news: Pattachitra paintings
ASI unearths treasure at U.P. site
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Tourist footfall in Hampi down by nearly a lakh
July-2019
A demographic window of opportunity
August-2019
Indus Script
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POLITY/GOVERNANCE
State Wise Issues
• Ladakh gets divisional status • J&K ordinance cleared by Union Cabinet doesn’t tinker with 35A or 370 • J&K Reservation Bill • Karnataka Political Crisis • Odisha plans scheme for witness protection • Marathas Reservation • CM revokes Naidu’s decision, CBI can resume work in A.P. Aug-2019 • Himachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Bill, 2019 Nov-2019 • Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Bill 2019 • Sabarimala case: Larger Supreme Court bench to decide role of courts in religion
Centre State Relations Jan-2019 • Checks and balances- Center state relationship Feb-2019 • State of the Union Address (SOTU)
U.P. move to shift 17 OBCs to SC list ‘unconstitutional’
Odisha plans scheme for witness protection
Karnataka conundrum: Resignation, Disqualification and defection
Karnataka crisis: What’s a ‘whip’, and what does it do?
Dec-2019
Three Capital of Andhra Pradesh
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Kerala is in the top slot
Regional Reservations: Karnataka Students in National Law School
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Madras HC curbs L-G role in Puducherry
Govt. suspends cross-LoC trade in J&K
Suspension of cross-LoC trade
‘10 Pak.-based terrorists had role in cross-LoC trade’
Suspension of LoC trade
Supreme Court’s Sabarimala verdict
The Sabarimala review
Nov-2019
President’s Rule in Maharashtra
Floor test in Maharashtra
Amaravati finally finds a place in political map of India
Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli
June-2019
President’s rule for 6 more months in J&K
Beauracracy
All states, union territories can now set up Foreign Tribunals
Lateral Entry in Bureaucracy
Committes and Commisions
Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013
National Judicial Appointments Commission
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Nov-2019
Govt. extends 15th finance panel term
Logo, motto introduced for Lokpal
Dec-2019
Fifteenth Finance Commission
Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013
• MPs’ panel proposes legal status for SSC • Panel concerned at CBI vacancies • Northeast Autonomous Councils • National Youth Parliament Festival 2019 Launched June-2019
• Is NITI Aayog old wine in a new bottle? May-2019 • Redactive pricing audit and the CAG’s duties
Legislature/Executive • Collegium controversy March-2019 • Trickeries of the money bill Sept-2019 • No life-long bungalows or facilities to ex-CMs, says Rajasthan HC Oct-2019 • Sedition: On FIR against celebrities • Sikkim CM’s disqualification Dec-2019 • Fractured verdicts and the Governor’s role • RS MPs want more time to speak Nov-2019 • Rule 12 of the Transaction of Business Rules, 1961 • SC upholds disqualification of 17 MLAs • SC discusses ‘voluntary code of conduct’ for Cabinet Ministers
Governor's impropriety
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Trickeries of the money bill
June-2019
Securing neutrality and security of tenure for the Speaker
July-2019
Can’t be pushed into a decision: Speaker
Misuse of Money Bills
Aug-2019
How states are split into seats
Legislative Councils
Sept-2019
Impeachment
Parliamentary Budget Office a need for an hour
Dec-2019
Role of the Governor
Governor’s role during fractured verdicts
Collegium system (Part -1)
Collegium system and NJAC (Part -2)
Office of Profit
Judiciary
Judiciary • Judicial Evasion (JE) • CAT can exercise same powers as HC • Increase number of judges, CJI urges PM Feb-2019 • Post-retirement government appointments of Judges needs regulation
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• Judges must give their reasons in writing for recusing themselves March-2019 • Former staff writes to SC judges, alleges sexual harassment by CJI May-2019 • Justice Bobde panel gives clean chit to CJI in sexual harassment probe • For a full bench (Judicial Appointments) • The need for judicial restraint July-2019 • Soon, read SC judgments in your language Aug-2019 • Fast-Track Courts (FTC) • Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill, 2019 Mar-2019 • Supreme Court should reconsider setting up Benches in different States Sept-2019 • Madras High Court Chief Justice V.K. Tahilramani Transfer • Regional Supreme Court Benches Oct-2019 • CJI names Justice Bobde as successor – Appointment of CJI • IPC-A road map for Criminal Justice Reforms Nov-2019 • Maharashtra tops in justice delivery
Dec-2019 • Strength in numbers: On judge vacancies • Tele-Law and Nyaya Bandhu: Mobile Applications.
Open up the Supreme Court
The case for comprehensive reforms of our judicial system
CJI violated procedure by hearing own case: SC lawyers
Former SC judge A.K. Patnaik to probe ‘conspiracy’ against CJI
Need for Judicial Reforms
Judicial Review and Judicial Activism
July-2019
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EWS quota: SC to hear pleas for Constitution Bench
Soon, read Supreme Court judgments in your language
Crimes that India’s statute books have failed to define
A regrettable conviction
Nov-2019
Judicial Reforms
National Green Tribunal(NGT)
Second Judges case
India Justice Report
Dec-2019
Appointment of judges
National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT)
Elections April-2019 * M1, M2 and M3 EVMs * Rule 49MA of the Conduct of Elections Rules * Two Voter ID’s * NaMo TV * EC curbs campaigning by Yogi, Mayawati, Maneka and Azam • Plea in SC on voting rights of undertrials and convicts March-2019 • ECI collaborates with Indian Railways • Tactical Voting • Voluntary Code of Ethics for the 2019 General Election • VVPAT silence those sceptical of EVMs? June-2019 • Merger in Anti Defection Law • NPP first from NE to get national party status • One Nation, One Election
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• Report of the Committee on section 126 of the representation of the people act, 1951 submitted to the commission May-2019 • Election Visitors Programme • Lottery in elections • The Realities of Voting in India • Section 77 in the Representation of the People Act, 1951 Dec-2019 • Political Parties Registration Tracking Management System (PPRTMS) Sept-2019 • Association of World Election Bodies (A- WEB) • Electors Verification Programme (EVP) Oct-2019 • Disabled people can now vote via postal ballots • Hybrid Model’ to elect civic body heads in Rajasthan Nov-2019 • Electoral Bonds • Online Political Advertising • T. N. Seshan-The man who cleaned up the Indian electoral system
May-2019
Election Commission bans release of biopics
Issue of EVM malfunctioning: Demand for verification of 50% of VVPAT machines
‘Politicization’ of the military
State financing for fair and transparent poll funding
Weathervane of democracy
Sealed disclosure: SC order on electoral bonds
Being fair and transparent
Role of Judiciary in ensuring Free and Fair Election
Plea in SC on voting rights of undertrials and convicts
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Tendered vote
Supreme Court to deliver verdict on anonymous electoral bonds
Women activists join hands against liquor use in elections
June-2019
PM Modi invites chiefs of all parties to deliberate upon ‘one nation, one election’
Simultaneous Elections: Pros and Cons
Qualifying for Leader of the Opposition
July-2019
The limits of anti-defection
Private Bill urges state election funding
Oct-2019
The EC’s order on Sikkim CM’s disqualification
Nov-2019
Disqualification of MLAs
Electoral bonds
The Supreme Court has refused to stay the usage of Electoral bonds
Anti-defection law
Embracing Digital Governance
Voluntary model code of conduct
Political Parties Registration Tracking Management System (PPRTMS)
Dec-2019
No State-wise minority classification
Increase Lok Sabha seats
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FR’S
Tackling hate speech
SC: filthy language not criminal intimidation
July-2019
Article 370
Article 371F
The Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Bill 2019
Private member’s bill
How an Indian citizen is defined
Sept-2019
Habeas corpus judgement – Its impact on the civil society
Reasonable restriction on Freedom of speech
Jan Soochna Portal and National Judicial Data Grid: remarkable achievement in advancing RTI
Right to access internet
Right to Internet access as a fundamental right
Citizenship Bill
Citizenship amendment bill
Dec-2019
Creamy layer in SCs, STs
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RTI
RTI and Judiciary
Centre denies RTI plea on CIC appointments
Bill of Rights
Caste-based discrimination continues: Tadvi case and Thorat Committee
The Right to information(Amendment) Bill,2019
Right to Information Act
Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) under RTI Purview
RTI violations go unpunished
RTI RULES
Nov-2019
RTI Act
Chief Justice of India’s office under RTI
Dec-2019
Right to information: ‘Abuse’ of RTI
CAB
126th Constitution Amendment Bill
Citizenship Amendment Bill
Assam protests against Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB)
Protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019
Section 144: Protests against Citizenship Amendment Act & Section 144
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Local Democracy
Strengthening Local Democracy
Other Issues
SC recalls verdict diluting SC/ST anti-atrocities law
SC reverses dilution of SC/ST Act
Nov-2019
Gram Sabha to have power to ban liquor
Chhattisgarh panchayats to have disabled quota
Locals First Policy
Constitution/FR Feb-2019 • Legitimacy of the basic structure – On Basic Structure of India’s Constitution • Why no experts on RTI panels, asks Supreme Court • Right to Self-Defense • Right to Travel Abroad • Constitutional Rights, Judicial Review and Parliamentary Democracy • 10% quota for economically weaker sections • Implementation issues in 10% reservation Aug-2019 • Article 370 Abrogation of Article 370
• Giving voice sample does not violate privacy, says SC Sept-2019 • One Nation, One language • Right to Internet Access Dec-2019 • Anglo-Indians Reservations
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• Should the creamy layer norm be extended to SC/STs? • No State-wise minority classification, says Supreme Court June-2019 • Job on compassionate grounds not a right: SC Nov-2019 • A blow against punitive constitutionalism • Democracy Index
Constitution Day
Disputes Jan-2019 • Mayawati to pay for statues says SC • Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited (MVPL) • Fabrication and falsification – Data manipulation in the MGNREGA • Ayodhya Dispute • Bilkis Bano Case • Contempt of Court- Shillong Times editor gets SC relief Oct-2019 • Supreme Court recalling its verdict diluting SC/ST antiatrocities law • Why the Supreme Court must rethink capital punishment? • Court sets aside order to try juvenile as adult Nov-2019 • Should life convicts be denied remission? • Ayodhya Verdict May-2019 • Madras High Court curbs L-G role in Puducherry administration • Post-Fani, Naveen seeks special category status Social Dec-2019 • 6 years on, Lokpal is yet to get prosecution wing • Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 Oct-2019
• Affirm Affirmative Action (AA) at the crossroads • Police Commemoration Day • Vigilance Awareness Week Aug-2019
• Deliberate, don’t disrupt: On Budget session
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• Inter-State River Water Disputes (Amendment) Bill, 2019 • Polygraph, Narcoanalysis Tests
June-2019 • Triple Talaq Bill
July-2019
• Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019 • Crimes that India’s statute books have failed to define • Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Bill, 2019 • Reservation of Jobs in Private Sector • Why are Parliamentary Standing Committees necessary?
New Bills/Acts • Freedom of Literature Bill, 2018 • National Security Act • Public Safety Act March-2019 • Diary Entries’ and Evidence Act Sept-2019 • Public Safety Act
New Concepts • Ad Library • Oral Mentioning Public Safety
Dec-2019
• Arms (Amendment) Act, 2019
• Section 144 CrPC- Protest and order
Other Issues
June-2019 • Sedition and politics • Let the grassroots breathe
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• Municipal Model is broken Feb-2019
• Interim Budget
• Dealing with the thought police
March-2019 • When free speech is truly free
April-2019 • Business and Politics
• Gubernatorial Impropriety
• Khasi ‘kingdoms’ to revisit 1947 agreements
• Tender Vote May-2019 • Ashok Lavasa pulls out of poll panel meetings on model code
• HC: United Nations not a State under Article 12
• Returning Officer • Strongroom June-2019 • Leader of Opposition • Thin-skinned masters
• Unleashing the potential of urban India Sept-2019
• NCST recommends ‘tribal area’ status for Ladakh
• Childhoods lost in a troubled paradise
• Throttled at the grass roots
• Need not pick incriminatory dying declaration, rules Supreme Court
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• Credibility deficit Nov-2019
• Gubernatorial Restructuring
• At the altar of national security
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Economy NI
• Inflation targeting • GDP Debate March-2019 • India ranks 11th in gold holding July-2019 • Overestimation of India’s GDP growth • Green shoots of economic growth
Industry
Jan-2019
• Credit Guarantee Fund for Startups • Start-up challenges • Govt. plans technology centres for MSMEs • National Conclave on Technical Textiles at Mumbai • National Workshop on Agri Export Policy
• Success of e-NAM depends upon the APMC reforms • Millet Village scheme • Gems and Jewellery Domestic Council • International IP Index • FinTech Conclave 2 March-2019 • States ranking on Start-up initiatives: • Angel tax rules for start-ups changed • Lima Group • Mobility Solutions get a boost • National guidelines on responsible business conduct • National Policy on Software Products 2019
April-2019 • Sinha-led panel proposes ₹5,000 crore stressed asset fund for MSMEs • Mechanism to Deal with the Misleading Advertisements • Loss Leader in Business • UN MSME Day • IMD Competitiveness Rankings
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May-2019
• Competition Commission of India (CCI) • National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) • Pension Scheme for small shopkeepers, retail traders Oct-2019 • Khadi and Village Industries Commission • MeitY Start-up Summit
Nov-2019 • Arcelor Mittal’s takeover of Essar cleared by SC • Coal India to produce one billion tonne of coal by 2024 • Disinvestment • Global Exhibition on Services (GES) • Industrial Relations Code Bill, 2019 • IIP- Gloom deepens • Khadi gets separate unique HS code Dec-2019 • Tripura gets its first SEZ
Banking
Jan-2019
• Nilekani to head RBI panel on digital payments • Tokenization- Customers cannot be charged for availing service says RBI • Shot in the arm (Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code) • Panda bonds • Vijay Mallya becomes first person to be declared ‘fugitive economic offender’ • RBI eases norms for external commercial borrowing • Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank March-2019 • RBI governor Shaktikanta Das bats for permanent status to Finance Commission • RBI to inject liquidity via forex swaps Feb-2019 • Regulating the NBFCs • ‘95% of registered realty firms have no PAN’ April-2019 • RBI sells entire stake in NHB, NABARD to govt • RBI’s February 12 circular
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June-2019 • Payments data must be saved locally: RBI • MCA & SEBI sign MOU • RBI revises stressed asset resolution norms • SEBI sets up panel to review margins on derivatives
• Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Bill, 2018 • Conference on the Future of Indian Banking • Liquidity Premium • Public Credit Registry (PCR)
March-2019 • A SWIFT response could have saved banks • IBBI, SEBI sign MoU for better implementation of IBC
April-2019 • Fixed Maturity Plan (FMP) • Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF)
May-2019 • Banks’ association tweaks inter creditor agreement • Beyond Mayday: On bankruptcy code for aviation sector
July-2019 • Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act, 2019 • Sovereign Bonds • New Delhi International Arbitration Centre Bill, 2019
• Turnover Ratio • Merchant Discount Rate
May-2019 • Liquidity Framework guidelines for ailing NBFCs Aug-2019 • Development Banks • Merger of Banks • Bond Yields • RBI issues final norms for regulatory sandbox • RBI transfer ‘surplus’ to government • RBI’s Goldilocks cut: On repo rate cut
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• SEBI’s liberalized norms for FPIs • Portal for Affordable Credit and Interest Subvention Access (PAiSA) • US Federal Reserve’s rate cut • NBFC loan pricing under RBI lens • Task force recommends online loan sale platform • Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank Ltd (PMC Bank) • Teaser Loan • Microfinance Institutions- RBI raises lending limit • RBI rate cut • RBI panel moots tighter norms for CICs • Economic revival key to banks’ health Public Finance
Jan-2019
• NK Singh (FRBM Review) Committee • GAFA tax Feb-2019 • GST reforms needed • Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB) May-2019 • Centre expands terms of reference of direct tax law body
Agriculture
March-2019
• Farm loan waivers kill credit culture, says Rajan April-2019 • Kandhamal Haldi • Bamboo rice • Bt brinjal being illegally grown in Haryana’ • Commodity Derivatives Advisory Committee (CDAC) May-2019 • Technology Route to help Coffee growers boost yield • Assistance to Farmers for Dairy Development Programme July-2019 • Group Work shed Scheme for Power loom Sector • Scheme for Incubation in Apparel Manufacturing (SIAM) • Silk Samagra
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• Credit Cards for Fishermen • Sugar Subsidies • World Food India 2019 • Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF)
• Food Corporation of India • Centre of Excellence” for Citrus Fruit • Farm Pond • Kisan Network App • Onion Prices Rises • PM’s Economic Advisory Council reconstituted • Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maan-Dhan Yojana (PM-KMY) • GM cottonseeds approved as food by U.S. regulators • World Cotton Day • A road to economic revival runs through agriculture • Odisha Integrated Irrigation Project for Climate Resilient Agriculture • International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS) • World Congress on Rural and Agricultural Finance • Antibiotics in Crops • Seeds Bill 2019 • Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) • National Public Procurement Conclave
Reports
Jan-2019
• Asia Competitiveness Institute’s (ACI) EDB index • Baltic Dry Index International Reports • Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) • Indian Accounting Standards (IndAS) • Ease of Doing Business Index • Global Competitiveness Index • India Innovation Index 2019 • India Intellectual Property (IP) Guide • Global Gender Gap Index
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Transport
Jan-2019
• The Future of Rail Report Feb-2019 • Road Safety Week
Schemes
Jan-2019
• Khadi Gramodyog Vikas Yojana • Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan • Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Scheme • Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maandhan Scheme
Feb-2019
• Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog • Rashtriya Gokul Mission April-2019 • Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojna (PMUY) Govt Schemes
Jan-2019
Atal Jyoti Yojana
Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme (DDRS)
UDAN 3.0 (Ude Desh Ka Aam Naagrik Scheme)/ Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS)
Feb-2019
SHREYAS Scheme
North East Special Infrastructure Development Scheme (NESIDS)
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Atal Jaianusandhan Biotech MissionUndertaking Nationally Relevant Technology Innovation (UNATI)
March-2019
Transport and Marketing Assistance (TMA) Scheme
Flood Management and Border Areas Programme (FMBAP)
Yuva Vigyani Karyakram (YUVIKA)
April-2019
New Urea Policy 2015
May-2019
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PMKisan)
Honey Mission
July-2019
Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMRPY)
Stand up India Scheme
August-2019
Pradhan Mantri Laghu Vyapari Maan-dhan Yojana
NISHTHA- National Initiative for School Heads and Teachers Holistic Advancement
Samarth Scheme
Sept-2019
Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS)
Nov-2019
92 11.1. Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)
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Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY)
Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY)
Dec-2019 AMRUT Mission Antyodaya Pradhan Mantri- Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Yojana (PM-AASHA)
March-2019 • Pradhan Mantri Jl-VAN yojana Trade • India becomes net steel importer in 2018-19, first time in three years • Manganese Ore India Limited (MOIL) July-2019
• A thumbs down to unilateralism – On India- U.S.A trade relations • China stresses need for united trade front • India International Cooperatives Trade Fair (IICTF) • India, China to overtake U.S. in tech innovation: survey
Employment
Jan-2019
• Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) • Universal Basic Income
• Unemployment data • Women Livelihood Bond March-2019 • Ensure a minimum income for all • Only 3.32 lakh MSME jobs created in 4 years April-2019
• Employment and Incomes Policy • Financial Literacy and Financial Inclusion May-2019 • What does the merger of NSSO and CSO entail?
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• MGNREGA-Government to peg wages to inflation • Factoring in safety: on stronger worker safety law • Code on Occupational Safety, Health (OSH) and Working Conditions Bill, 2019 • Yuwaah Youth Skilling Initiative • Draft Wage Rules • Code on Wages, 2019
Prices • Inflation pressure eases • Government revamps WPI revision team • Consumer Protection Bill, 2019
GI Tag
• Coffee gets GI certification • Erode’s turmeric gets a GI tag • 26.Namma Kolhapuri chappal gets GI boost • Tirur Vettila obtains GI tag • GI Tag to new Products • Kashmir’s famed saffron gets GI tag
• GI Tag
Other Issues
March-2019
May-2019
• Potato IPR violation
June-2019
• PM to head committee on economic growth • Economic Slowdown • Going down together: On IMF’s slowdown warning • What can India do to overcome the global slowdown? • Asia’s remarkable economic transformation • GDP growth plunges to 4.5%, lowest since 2012 • The problem with re-basing GDP estimates
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• India’s Global Trade July-2019
• From baby steps to giant strides, GST gains momentum
• Global Innovation Index (GII)
• Pradhan Mantri Laghu Vyapari Maan-dhan Yojana • Mukhya Mantri Krishi Ashirwad Yojna • PM Ujjwala Yojana- Cooking with gas, not wood • Mochi Swabhimaan Initiative • Atal Bimit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana (ABVKY) • Automotive Mission Plan (AMP) • Mochi Swabhimaan Initiative
• United Nations Convention on International SettlementAgreements (UNISA) • UNWFP
Aug-2019
• Pashmina Products Receive BIS Certification • Sabka Vishwas-Legacy Dispute Resolution Scheme, 2019
• CSR: On Companies Act amendments
• Rajaswa Gyan Sangam • ANUBHAV Awards, 2019
• FDI Policy Reform- Tinkering for optics • Increasing investment to stimulate growth
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Sept-2019
• CHC Farm Machinery App
• Corporate Tax
• Ethanol Blended Petrol Programme (EBP Programme)
• NERAMAC (North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation) Limited
• Govt. unveils package to boost exports, revive housing sector
• India among top 10 nations in gold reserves
• PACEsetter Fund programme
• Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report
• USA- China Trade War • Registration of steel and iron imports, a must
Oct-2019
• GDP is a means, not an end
• Nobel for Abhijit (Economics of poverty)
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• Creating jobs for young India
• It is still an amber light for road safety
• A tax policy that could work
• Apprenticeship Pakhwada • Authorized World Skills India Training Centers (AWSITC)
• ‘Nirvik scheme may give fillip to export credit’
• Firm steps to ease the fiscal federalism tension
Nov-2019
• Amended Finance Act: Supreme Court strikes down rules on tribunal postings • Gold is third-most popular investment
Dec-2019
• Investor Education & Protection Fund Authority (IEPFA)
• Partial Credit Guarantee Scheme
• Remission of Duties or Taxes on Export Product (RoDTEP)
• Stagflation
• Startup India Global Venture Capital Summit
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• Audit for FDI norms must for e-com firms
• Tech titans under watch
• If India has to grow faster, States have to grow faster • India needs a bottom-up growth model
• India International Financial Services Centres (IFSC) Authority Bill, 2019
Digital Payments • Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPIs) • Banning of Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2019
Jan-2019
• Aber • Atal Setu • Beveridge curve/ UV curve • Byorung Bridge • Carnot Prize • CPRI Regional Testing Laboratory at Nashik • Diffo Bridge • DIPP rechristened to include internal trade • E commerce Rules • Global Commission on Future of Work • Indus Food 2019 • Inter-State Disparities • Joint Supply • Kadaknath chicken/ Kali Masi - Madhya Pradesh • Partnership Summit • Petrotech • Recombinant Elisa Kits • Repugnant market • Survey on Retail Payment Habits of Individuals (SRPHi) • Swap Ration • Transport Subsidy Scheme • Trinitea
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• UK Sinha Committee • Justice delayed is markets stymied • Panel pulls up govt. for diverting coal cess • Shape of the slowdown (Chinese Economy Slowdown) • Pune-Secunderabad Shatabdi is India’s cleanest train • E-comm talks: India must stand firm • Removing the roots of farmers’ distress – On agrarian distress
Feb-2019
• Regional Standards Conclave Held in Odisha • Sela Tunnel Foundation • Sikaria Mega Food Park • Srinagar- Alusteng – Drass- Kargil – Leh transmission line • Subarnarekha Port • SWAYATT and Start-up Runway • National Electronics Policy • 1st Aqua Mega Food Park • International Vision Zero Conference • Bhavantar Yojana • External Benchmarking • LADIS – Least Available Depth Information System • Mega Silk Even • PCS1x March-2019 • Coffee Blockchain Initiative • Country-by-country (CbC) reports • EASE Reforms Index • Public Disclosure Norm • Quality Assurance Scheme for Basic Composite Medical Laboratories • Regulatory Sandbox • Cross-LoC trade suspended after ‘misuse by arms, drugs smugglers’ • INC22
• Nice Agreement, Vienna Agreement, Locarno Agreement
April-2019 • NuGen Mobility Summit 2019 • Court questions PIL pleas challenging every tender • Anti-dumping duty put on saccharine
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• Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Brucellosis • Ilkal Saree • India and China sign protocol for Export of Indian Chilli Meal • Koyna Dam • Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI) • Under Rent Act, the tenant has a protected status: SC
• Nilekani Panel • Aluminium Scrap Dumping • Beekeeping Development Committee • Bond Vigilante • Building confidence, BIT by BIT • Central ATFM Complex • Complaint Management System (CMS) • Counter Vailing Duty (CVD) on radial tyres imported from China • India to actively curb ‘conflict’ diamonds • Libra Cryptocurrency
• Locusts • Odisha is origin of Rasagola • Plan Bee • Utkarsh 2022 Oct-2019
• PFRDA permitted now Overseas Citizen of India to enroll in NPS at par with Non-Resident Indians • Model Tenancy Act, 2019 • National E-assessment Centre (NeAC) • Title Insurance • Sahyatri Mobile App • Youth Co: Lab • Rethinking Water Management Issues • PRAKASH Portal • DPIIT launches website and mobile app for IPR
Sept-2019 • Agroecology
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• ANGAN (Augmenting Nature by Green Affordable Newhabitat) • Common Digital Platform for Issuance of Electronic Certificates of Origin • Global SME Business Summit • Insurers can tweak health products • National Animal Disease Control Programme (NACDP) Nov-2019
• Nationwide Artificial Insemination Programme (NAIP) • National Milk Day • Sabka Vishwas (Legacy Dispute Resolution) Scheme, 2019 • SMART Accreditation • Steel Scrap Recycling Policy • Sisseri River Bridge • Telecom Industry Crisis • Thumbs down: On Moody’s negative rating • Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) • National Agrochemicals Congress • Sustainable Alternative towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) • Zeroing • Road accidents and deaths • Documentation Identification Number (DIN) system • Draft Social Security code • Golden Leaf Award • Hong Kong International Convention • Kimberley Process Certification Scheme
Dec-2019 • Araku’s aroma all set to spread overseas • Carbon tax waiver for coal mooted • EBkray • Extra Neutral Alcohol (ENA) • Green Window for Green Energy Finance • Head on Generation (HOG) Technology • Hybrid-Annuity Model (HAM) • Independent Director’s Databank • International Seminar on Climate Smart Farming Systems • National Aquifer Mapping and Management Programme • NCLAT order- Key Takeaways • NITI Aayog’s index of UN goals • Operation Twist
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• Pehchan Scheme • Phase One’ Agreement- USA and China • Pronab Sen Panel • Sustainable Development Cell for Environmental Mitigation Measures • No extra charge on payments via RuPay, UPI from January 1 • The neglected foot soldiers of a liberalised economy • CAG hints at massive diversion of LPG • Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO)
Status Paper on Government Debt
Technical Textiles
National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP
Uranium Requirements in India
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PMKISAN)
Policy Bias Against Rainfed Agriculture
National Mineral Policy 2019
Draft E-Commerce Policy
National Policy for Software Products
National Policy on Electronics, 2019
Setting up of India Post Bank as Payment Bank
Ombudsman Scheme for Digital Transactions (OSDT)
National Minimum Wage
PM Shram-Yogi Maandhan Yojana (PMSYM)
Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) of The NSSO
Public Sector Undertaking
Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT)
Draft National Logistics Policy
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River Information System
New Angel Tax Rules
Fame India Phase II
Printing Presses Declared as Public Utility
International Financial Services Center Authority Bill
Pricing of Drugs
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Independent Fiscal Council
Swap Facility
Monetary Policy Transmission
Swift Norms
Offshore Rupee Markets
DataSmart Cities Strategy
Ind AS
India’s 3rd IT Corridor in China
Middle Income Trap
RBI's 'Vision 2021' Document on Payment Systems
RBI Removes Charges on NEFT and RTGS _
Delayed Recognition of Bad Loans Leading to Divergence
Government Clears Restructuring of Statistical System
Report on Project/Program Management
UN’s Decade of Family Farming
DISCOM Debt to Return to Pre-Uday Levels
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Indian Statistical System
Capital Account Liberalisation
Small Finance Banks
Ways & Means Advances
Circular Trading
Changes in E-Way Bill System
Municipal Bonds
Draft National Urban Policy Framework
Asian Tea Alliance
Leverage Ratio
Base Erosion and Profit Shifting
Food Grain Management in India
Solar Manufacturing in India
National Investment and Manufacturing Zones
Infrastructure/Energy Feb-2019 • Pahari Dam Modernization Project • Asian Infrastructure Finance 2019 report • Aviation Conclave 2019 • Kerala to get country’s 2nd longest rail tunnel • “Reforms in Exploration and Licensing Policy for enhancing domestic exploration and production of oil and gas” • Various programs/schemes for promotion of grid interactive renewable energy • In Northeast, air links shrinking (Infrastructure: Airways) • Technology Support and Outreach (TECH-SOP) • Rail Drishti Dashboard • Hydroelectric policy • India Energy Modelling Forum (IEMF)
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• National Mineral Policy 2019 • How to achieve 24x7 power for all
• How is India driving to electric mobility? • Tubachi-Bableshwar Lift Irrigation Scheme • Yamuna Water Taxi Project • 33.Steps Taken to Reduce Train Accidents • Jet Airways Crisis • JNPT awarded ‘Best Port of the year (Containerised)’ at the 4th India Maritime Awards • Kaleshwaram Irrigation Project • Dispute Resolution Mechanism for solar/wind sector • India needs a Solar Manufacturing Strategy • Ethanol bio refinery to come up in Vidarbha • Privatisation of Indian Railways • Jal Jeevan Mission • Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019 • Uber for tractors • UDAN -Giving wings to better air connectivity • State Rooftop Solar Attractiveness Index (SARAL) • World Biofuel Day • Longest Electrified Rail Tunnel • National Infrastructure Pipeline • VAHAN Database • What is the economics behind e-vehicle batteries? • Futile fines: On traffic violation penalties • Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Guidelines and Specifications
Dec-2019 • Infrastructure Investment Trust • Integrated Road Accident Database (IRAD) • National Energy Conservation day • Railway unveils a new signalling system • Railways ‘RailWire’ Wi-Fi goes Live in 5500 Railway Stations • Rohtang Tunnel named after Vajpayee
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Health
Clean environment
Nov-2019
NSO survey debunks Swachh Bharat ODF claims
SWACHH – NIRMAL TAT ABHIYAAN .
Oct-2019
OPEN-DEFECATION FREE (ODF)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared India “open defecation-free”
Sept-2019
Air Pollution and health risks
10-year sanitation plan
Endemic Diseases
• Malaria Control • Swine Flu Feb-2019 • Leprosy • Leptospirosis/ Weil’s disease April-2019 • Integrate TB services with primary health system: Lancet May-2019
• Measles • Dolutegravir
• Ebola • UNAIDS • Kalaazar
June-2019
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ILS develops antibodies against Chikungunya infection
Global measles cases up by 300%, says WHO
Battling malaria
How South-East Asian countries spearheading the global push to end TB
May-2019
What a new Lancet study reveals about HIV and ART?
State prepares to battle dengue
Aug-2019
Measles
Drug resistant TB
Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) & Extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB)
Cardiovascular disease burden (CVD)
Oct-2019 out of 3 wild poliovirus strains have been eradicated
Mizoram is top State with HIV prevalence rate
TB cases see decrease in India
Anthrax
Screening for communicable diseases
Controlling the hepatitis B virus calls for universal vaccination of new borns
MEASLES, RUBELLA
Salmonella
Madhya Pradesh miners demand treatment for Silicosis
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Two from Araku test positive for Anthrax
Vaccine trials started to check Tuberculosis spread
Ebola outbreak a global health emergency: WHO
• Anaemia • Dementia • Leukemia • Ranitidine • Silicosis • ‘TB Harega Desh Jeetega’ Campaign • Measles- Vaccine Hesitancy • Genomic Grid for India-Specific Cancer Research • Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria • International Sign Language Day • Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study • UMMID and NIDAN Kendras • World Heart Day
Regular Diseases
June-2019
• Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) • Cyberchondria • Encephalitis and Meningitis • Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) • Monkeypox scare
• Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) • Lymphatic Filariasis/ Elephantiasis • National Policy for Treatment of Rare Diseases (NPTRD) • Non-communicable diseases top killers: WHO Feb-2019 • Celiac Disease (Gluten-Sensitive Enteropathy) • Crohn’s disease March-2019 • West Nile fever April-2019 • Bubble Boy Disorder
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• Candida Auris • H5N1 Virus May-2019 • Pulmonary hypertension • Quick, cheap diagnostic test for Haemophilia A • West Nile fever Aug-2019
Notifiable disease
Every child to get Rotavirus vaccine
Oct-2019
Cataract major cause of blindness above 50
Nov-2019
Alzheimer Disease
Anaemia
Cancer Care facilities
Pneumonia, diarrhoea still a big threat
Diabetes
Diabetes Atlas
Dec-2019
Anaemia: Nearly 3 out of 5 babies and children in India are anaemic
National Genomic Grid (cancer)
TOBACCO
Sept-2019 e-cigarettes
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The ban on e-cigarettes
Tobacco Quitline
Oct-2019
Indian lungs under extreme stress
Nov-2019
TOBACCO BOARD OF INDIA
Dec-2019
Bill banning e-cigarettes passed
Law to ban making, sale of e-cigarettes
• Plain Tobacco Packaging • Tobacco companies targeting children: Study
Nutrition
Oct-2019
Education of mothers directly linked to better nutrition for children
NATIONAL MILK SAMPLE SAFETY QUALITY SURVEY
Ban proposed on sale, ads of junk food in schools
Food Standards & Safety
CSE has alleged excessive and “dangerous” level of salt
Sept-2019
Eat Right India Movement
Malnutrition
National nutrition survey
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July-2019
Don’t blame the litchi: On deaths in Bihar
The malaise of malnutrition
Adding egg or milk can reduce stunting in young children: study
For a malnutrition-free India
May-2019
National Institute of Nutrition
Pan-India scale up of food fortification: Steps taken and Challenges
March-2019
• Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’s (FSSAI) directive
April-2019
• EAT-Lancet Commission report • For a malnutrition-free India (Government Interventions) • Food safety is everyone’s business: WHO
July-2019
• Colistin banned in animal food industry
• Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey • Eat Right India Campaign • Gooseberry candy rescues Assam nutrition drive • India Iodine Survey 2018- 19 • Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey • Food Safety Mitra (FSM) Scheme • Eat Right Mela • Packaged foods ‘breach’ salt, fat limits
Health Schemes
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Maternity scheme performance
Oct-2019
SURAKSHIT MATRITVA AASHWASAN (SUMAN)
PM-JAY health scheme
India State Level Disease Burden Initiative (ISLDBI)
Poshan Abhiyaan: Merely 30% of the funds used after 3 years
Sept-2019
One year of Ayushman Bharat — the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM- JAY)
PM-JAY
Ayushman Bharat
Implementation
Aug-2019
National Medical Commission (NMC)
National Medical Commission(NMC)bill 2019
National Essential Diagnostics List (NEDL)
Aug-2019
PM-JAY
Jan Aushadhi Sugam
Fit India Movement
NREGA 3.0: Part I
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• SUGAM • Mobile Apps Lauched Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare Feb-2019 • Global Digital Health Partnership Summit • National Deworming Programme • One Health India Conference 2019 • Will Ayushman Bharat hurt the spirit of cooperative federalism?
Other Issues
Jan-2019
• Zearalenone • Think differently about healthcare Feb-2019 • Rodenticides March-2019 • Troponin • World Hearing Day • World Kidney Day • World Tuberculosis Day April-2019 • Address the innovation deficit in neglected diseases’ • Data theft bid hits Ayushman Bharat • Impetigo May-2019
• Telangana addresses maternal mortality • The cost of resistance • WHO for eliminating industrially produced trans fats by 2023 • Chlorpyrifos • Doctors appearing in ads for hospitals may face action • Kerala to de-link ICU care from organ donation • Microbes in body could help predict future health • Pregnancy and Infant Cohort Monitoring and Evaluation (PICME)
National Health Profile (NHP) 2019
MPs grill officials on DNA Bill
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Health emergency declared in the Capital
Maternal death rate declining
Dec-2019
World AIDS day
Sept-2019
UMMID
National anti-microbial resistance hub
Plogging
Healthcare’s primary problem
A WASH for healthcare
Healthcare system needs more healing hands
Loosening strength in anti-AIDS march
Health of a nation: Need for a effective UHC
A manifesto for health
Mortality malady
Universal access to public healthcare
May-2019
Why medical devices need their own law?
New clinical trials rules will help patients
India might soon have the most Caesarean births
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Drugs
Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP)
Government in process of finalising OTC drug policy
Vaccination for rotavirus
Measles-Rubella Vaccination
The cost of antimicrobial resistance
‘Display information on 7 common antibiotics’
WHO says one in 10 children did not get vaccinated in 2016
Drug-resistant diseases could kill 10 million a year by 2050
• Yellow Fever Vaccine • HC stays ban on online sale of drugs Feb-2019 • e-AUSHADHI portal • India Pharma 2019 & India Medical Device 2019. • Regulating drug prices • Price Monitoring and Research Unit (PMRU) • The correct prescription (The legality of e-pharmacies) March-2019 • Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019 • Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) • Janaushadhi Diwas • Spurious Drugs April-2019 • Drug-resistant diseases could kill 10 million a year by 2050 • WHO says one in 10 children did not get vaccinated in 2016 • Echidna- Antibiotic-Resistant Bacterial Strains
Issues/Problems • Midday meal controversy in Karnataka • The lowdown on blood transfusions
Lifestyle
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Feb-2019
• Benchmarks for Training in Yoga • Blood Regulation- Every drop matters • Kerala takes the lead in tackling trans-fat hazard • Lifestyle Diseases • What yoga can teach us Aug-2019
How yoga can boost exports
Anti-microbial resistance
July-2019
Self care in India: Miles to go
June-2019
Importance of Yoga
Bio-Tech Feb-2019 • NDM-1 gene found in pristine Arctic
Worldwide Intiatives
• Homoeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Bill, 2019 • Medical services hit as doctors’ agitation spreads • Niti Aayog Health Index • World Food Safety Day • AWaRe- WHO Tool
Miscellanous • National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill
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• Smoking e-cigarettes is more injurious to health Aug-2019
• Fit India Movement
• Janaushadhi Sugam
• Ayushman Bharat PMJAY Start-Up Grand Challenge
• National Essential Diagnostics List • No formalin found in fish imported to Goa: minister • PET bottles have no toxic Chemicals • The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019 • The risks of legalising cannabis Sept-2019
• Tobacco
Oct-2019
• Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) • eDantseva website
• Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria • Global Tuberculosis (TB) Report • Ranitidine • United to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis • Polio-2 out of 3 wild poliovirus strains have been eradicated, says WHO • With nine cases a day, Mizoram is top State with HIV prevalence rate
• ‘Cataract major cause of blindness above 50’
• National Digital Health Blueprint (NDHB) • National Health Profile (NHP) 2019 • Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study
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• WHO India Country Cooperation Strategy 2019–2023 • For a happy childhood • Central Council of Health and Family Welfare (CCHFW)
Nov-2019
• National Health Profile • Madhya Pradesh mohalla clinics to be paperless, hi-tech
• Pneumonia, diarrhoea still a big threat • Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP)
• ‘3.7% food samples unsafe, 15.8% sub-standard’ • Junking fast food
• Anaemia among men a major public health issue • Getting organ donation to tick again • India’s cancer care facilities ‘highly inadequate’
• WHO initiative to boost insulin access
• Fusing traditional medicine with the modern
Dec-2019
• Anti-Microbial Resistance • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) • Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) • Snakebites • South has higher prevalence of mental disorders: study
• ROTAVAC5D® • World AIDS Day • Measles- 2.3 million Children in India unvaccinated • NITI Aayog’s proposed 15-year plan for the Indian healthcare system.
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International Relations
Trump raises tariffs on Chinese goods
China – US Trade War
May-2019
Iranian oil dilemma for China, Turkey and India as US ends waiver
US-China tariff war: An opportunity for India
Israeli and Pakistan relations
Trade tensions between the US and China
US- TALIBAN PEACE TALKS
June-2019
Quad one way to fix regional issues: Australian envoy
India to actively curb ‘conflict’ diamonds
Weathering the incoming geopolitical storm
‘Iran made a very big mistake by shooting down U.S. drone’- Trump
Aug-2019
US says China manipulates Yuan
New Brexit deal
Russian intervention in Syrian civil war
U.S. threatens 100% tariffs on French goods
Ukraine – Trump issue
Israel Palestine issue (Part-1)
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International Org
‘FATF may blacklist Pak. due to lobbying by India’
May-2019
Asia-Pacific to grow 5.7% this year: ADB
WTO issues: Talking fair trade in Delhi
CTBTO invites India to be an observer
Revitalizing IBSA
Setting up of Indo-Pacific wing in the MEA
FATF warns Pak., but keeps it off the blacklist
54 nations back India for UNSC non-permanent seat
Meetings on the Sidelines of G20
Way forward for RCEP
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
India refuses to join RCEP
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
SACEP
India’s Agenda in UNSC
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) report to Xinjiang on Uighurs
BRICS Foreign ministers meet
RCEP negotiations
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ASEAN-US Maritime Exercise (AUMX)
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
Talking trade with the EU
Eastern Economic Forum (EEF)
First Global Refugee Forum (GRF)
UNICEF: Ensure Child Rights
Financial Action Task Force (FATF): Grills Pakistan
Venezuela wins seat on UN Rights Council
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC): Pakistan to host OIC meet on Kashmir, CAA
U.S. International Commission on Religious Freedom (USCIRF)
Intenational Nuclear
Iran says it will not honour nuclear curbs
New clouds over the Persian Gulf: Iran threatens to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal
Hypersonic Weapons: Russia becomes the first country to deploy it
International Political
Serial blasts across Sri Lanka
India and U.S. resolve to work through their trade differences
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U.S. wants fair and reciprocal trade with India, says State Department
Pompeo to pave way for Modi-Trump meet
Aug-2019
Iran-West tensions
July-2019
Hong Kong protests undermine rule of law, social order: China
Rise of China
New Constitution calls Kim head of state instead of ‘supreme leader’
One China Policy
Protests in Chile and Lebanon
Capacity-building programme for Afghan diplomats
Bolivia Crisis
Constitutional crisis in Sri Lanka
Nationwide protests in Iran
U.S. Senate passes Hong Kong rights Bill
Hong Kong protests
Uighur issue
France Protest
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Finland gets world’s youngest PM
79 Power of Siberia
President Impeachment: US President Trump to be impeached
China, Iran and Russia: held joint naval drills in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Oman
Biggest parliamentary majority for Boris Johnson ( BREXIT)
What UK poll result means for Brexit?
Brexit: Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB)
US and China: ‘Phase One’ agreement
US Space Force: China raises objection
Terrorism
The Global ‘War on Terror’: Not a right approach to fight terrorism
UN Security Council designates Masood Azhar as global terrorist
International Reports
Global Peace Index 2019
Developing a shared vision for SDGs in South Asia
International Summits
INFORMAL SUMMITS
Mamallapuram Summit
KARTARPUR SAHIB CORRIDOR AGREEMENT
Operationalisation of the Kartarpur Corridor
Eighth Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) ministerial meeting
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18th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit (Part-1)
18th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit (Part-2)
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
Other Issues
New points-based green card system
COMCASA
Data Protection: Importance, Global debate, India’s stand
Data localization
In economic growth, Bangladesh leads South Asian group
Asia’s remarkable Economic Transformation
Arctic Region: Recent developments & India’s position
Bhashan Char island
Chile pulls out from hosting climate and trade summits
Nov-2019
A victory for the dairy sector
Mutual logistics agreement
GENERAL SECURITY OF MILITARY INFORMATION AGREEMENT (GSOMIA)
ICJ
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U.S. to cut spending on NATO budget
Tunisian rap song that triggered Arab Spring has suddenly become relevant again
Bougainville
Chagos Islands
GLOBAL MIGRATION REPORT 2020
Dec-2019
USMCA trade deal
African Continental Free Trade Area
Russian Led Resolution on Cybercrime Treaty
Global Migration Report 2020
International
Russia-China Relations and India
RCEP and India’s Experience with Free Trade Agreements
BRICS
WTO Ruling Against Indian Subsidies ____
Dispute Settlement System of WTO _____
India- ASEAN: Review of Free Trade Pact _
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Japan-India Space Dialogue
India-UK Relations
India - German Relations
India- Sri Lanka Relations
India and Japan 2+2 Ministerial Meeting
International
Jan-2019
International Nuclear • Agreement on Prohibition of Attacks against Nuclear Installations and Facilities
International Relations
• American pullout from Afghanistan • Huawei’s CFO is arrested in Canada for ‘violating U.S. sanctions on Iran’ • Israel and Saudi Arabia increasing intimacy
International Org • Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA)
Other Issues • Hard Power Imperative • Henley Passport Index • Kuril Islands • Manbij • Panj Tirath • Christchurch Massacre
• Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal (CSAT) • How India’s Republic Day Chief Guest is chosen?
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IFS • India-South Africa relations • India- Norway Relations • Powering South Asian integration (India- South Asia) March-2019 • Africa-India Joint Field Training Exercise (AFINDEX-19) • India – Croatia relations • India-Indonesia Coordinated Patrol (Ind-Indo Corpat) • President of India visits Bolivia • MoU between India and Indonesia
International Political • Still nothing to show for (The Economic Crisis in Pakistan) • A failed coup in Venezuela (Crisis in Venezuela) Imp Keywords
• Arun-3 hydro project • Brexit • Ex Al Nagah 2019 • Golan Heights • Mitra Shakti • Sirsi Supari • Ujjwala Didi • White Label ATMs (WLAs) • Yield Curve
IFS
India-Bangladesh
Joint River Commission: Bangladesh gives a miss
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India-USA
India and U.S. resolve to work through their trade differences
U.S. wants fair and reciprocal trade with India, says State Department
Pompeo to pave way for Modi-Trump meet
U.S. State Department approves $2.6 billion chopper sale to India
U.S. ends waiver for India on Iran oil
India-US ties face tough terrain
India’s rising stature in global trade: Conflict with US
India to impose retaliatory tariffs on 29 American goods
Nov-2019
Industrial Security Annex (ISA): Signed between India and USA
INDIA-US: H-1B, H-4 visas
India-Russia
Sept-2019
India-Russia bilateral ties
India-Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka seeks enhanced military training from India
India-Maldives
Oct-2019
India – Maldives
India-Iran
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India may stop oil imports from Iran
US sanctions and the end of cheap oil
Sept-2019
India discusses Chabahar with Iran
India-China
India-China Relations: Second Belt and Road Forum (BRF)
PM hits out at trade protectionism; Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
India-China informal summit
India-China informal summit 2.0
India-Pak
India’s perilous obsession with Pakistan
Visa-free year-long access for pilgrims to Kartarpur Sahib
Sept-2019
India-Pak: Putting the skids under border trade
India-Libya
Indians in Libya told to be careful
May-2019
India-Canada: Concerns and Potential
India intensifying its naval engagements in South Asia
Putting Taiwan on India’s diplomatic priority
India-Japan Strengthening relationships
India-kazakasthan
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Modi, Xi meet in Bishkek, agree to speed up boundary talks
Bishkek lessons
India and Middle East
Modi, Imran exchange pleasantries at Bishkek
India-International Org
India and RCEP
Reviving SAARC
India-G7
India-Bhutan
Bhutan on relations with India and China
Aug-2019
India-Bhutan
Nov-2019
India-Bhutan
India-Afghan
Indo-Afghan trade chokes on U.S. curbs
India-Israel
Netanyahu expected in Delhi
India-Behrain
India-Bahrain ties
India-North Korea
Sept-2019
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India and South Korea
Other Issues
Foreign Policy Challenges
Reclaiming the Indo-Pacific narrative
Kulbhushan Jadhav case and ICJ ruling
A shot at economic logic
India's foreign policy needs rework in the next five years
Know India programme (KIP)
Letting the pearl on the Silk Road shine brighter
Sept-2019
Act Far East
Indian Diaspora
Fortifying the Africa outreach
Motihari-Amlekhganj Pipeline
Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG)
BIMSTEC Ports’ Conclave
BRICS 2020: 11th BRICS Summit
BRICS meet
Kalapani
Kalapani issue
Tiger Triumph
‘TIGER TRIUMPH’
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Palestine-India techno park
HAJ 100 Land Boundary agreement
September-2019
India-Mongolia
India-Pacific Islands
OIC asks India to revoke actions on Kashmir
Oct-2019
India-Bangladesh ties to move to the next level
Brazil intends to allow Indians without visas
INDIA - SAUDI ARABIA RELATIONS
China’s role in Bangladesh while shaping its ties with Dhaka
Pakistan continues to be on the Grey List of FATF
Nov-2019
INDIA GERMANY RELATIONS
India-Chile double taxation avoidance treat
ENVIRONMENT
Climate Change
Jan-2019
• Africa Centre for Climate and Sustainable Development • Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) • National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) • Cow urine may be adding to global warming • Emission levels rising faster in Indian cities than in China
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• Climate vulnerability index for India • Cool Spots” and “Hot Spots • Global Energy & CO2 Status Report
International Conferences • International Conference on Energy and Environment • International Dam Safety Conference
POLLUTION
• Galapagos Island bans noisy fireworks • Mandal Dam project • Rag Rag Mein Ganga • Rat-Hole Mining – Institutional Flaws • Renuka Multipurpose Dam Project • Yamuna River Pollution • Parliamentary committee irked by States’ insensitivity to Western Ghats • Exotic trees eating up Western Ghat’s grasslands • ‘Plastic waste imports to India go up’ • Half done (Plastic Waste Management) • Bandi River • Supreme Court on Aravali March-2019 • Aves island- Laws amended by Environment Ministry
Animal In News
• Cinereous Vulture • Green – Ag • Great Indian Bustard • Golden Langur/Trachypithecus geei • International Stock Taking Conference on Tiger Conservation • Sarus Crane • Seno Ballena Fjord • Starling • Turtle Excluder Device • Asian Elephant Alliance • Aspergillus Fumigatus • Bramble Cay Melomys
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• Great Hornbill • Hydrothermarchaeota • Indus Dolphin • Megachile Pluto / Wallace’s Giant Bee
• Bumphead Parrotfish • Purple Frog/ Pig Nose Frog/ Nasikabatrachus Sahyadrensis • Komodo Dragon • New Delhi Declaration- Rhinos without borders
New Concepts or Phenomenon • Biological Immortality • SALSA (Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access)
Parks/Sanctuaries in News • Sipahijola Wildlife Sanctuary • Wayanad sanctuary • Protest against proposed bird sanctuary in Manipur • Jumbos to patrol Odisha’s Satkosia Tiger Reserve • In Maharashtra, protecting a sanctuary • Netravali Wildlife Sanctuary • Bannerghatta National Park’s Eco-Sensitive Zone curtailed • Sundarban Wetlands
Other Issues • Survey spots 3 new bird visitors • NITI Aayog’s “Strategy for New India@75” • 9th International Conference on micro irrigation to be held at Aurangabad • Status of trace and toxic metals in Indian rivers 2018’ • Thane Creek • Thwaites Glacier • World Pangolin Day • World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) • Indian Birding Fair
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Forest Issues Feb-2019
• Bandipur, Wayanad forests face fire fury • Forest Rights Act 2006
Wastes
June-2019
Sportswear giant set to tap Indian firms’ PET project to cut virgin plastic use
G20 agrees to tackle ocean plastic waste
Biodegradable Plastics
Plastic Pollution
Degradation of plastics
CPCB pulls up 52 firms over handling of waste
Picking out plastic: on recycling and waste management
REPLAN (Reducing plastic in Nature)
India’s first e-waste clinic will come up in Bhopal
Waste to Wealth: Cooking oil-to-biodiesel
Waste Recycling
NGT directs Army to shift ammunition dump
Waste
Need for a waste management policy
Solar e-waste
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Scientists track Indian Ocean’s plastic
SDG
Reversing the scale of priorities: Balancing Sustainable development
Bio Tech
The mysterious case of GM Brinjal cultivation
WHO writes new prescription to prevent misuse of antibiotics
BD
Fani’s fury creates four new mouths in Odisha’s Chilika Lake
May-2019
Bleaching hits world’s southernmost coral reef
Worldwide Enviroment Programs
Earth Hour and World Wide Fund for Nature
Global Deal for Nature
Conservation minus the people?
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
The Politics of the Climate crisis and People’s movement
India to host UN meet on land degradation in September
Air Pollution/Global Warming/Climate Change
Close polluting units in critical areas: NGT
Reducing Carbon emissions from road transport
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Bitcoin use causing huge CO2 emissions: Study
Sulphur dioxide Pollution
How govts set climate targets
Climate Change and Nationalist Ideology
Bonn Challenge
The Amazon forest fire – Consequences from global warming and climatic change
Carbon Tax – New approach to mitigate global warming
Climate movements.
Climate change action an hour of need
Climate change action
Nov-2019
Air pollution in Delhi (part 1)
Air pollution in Delhi (part 2)
Paris climate pact
Zero Carbon Law
Radio channel to guide farmers on climate change
Climate change is harming health of children
GERMANY’S CLIMATE PROTECTION ACT
Action to combat global warming inadequate: UNEP
2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference
COP25
Global Climate Risk Index 2020
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Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI)
COP25: Longest climate talks end
CoP 25: Climate Emergency
Air Pollution
State of Global Air 2019
Towards a lower GHG future
Committee constituted to oversee clean air programme
Temperature
Nations are doing less to lower 1.5 degree Celsius
Why the world needs to deal with climate change, now? .
Global Warming
Himalayan glaciers are melting twice as fast since 2000: study
Ecological perils of discounting the future
Warming threatens Greenland’s archaeological sites, says study
Water Problems/Pollution
A water clinic for elephants opens on the banks of the Yamuna
Water Crisis in the making
Things to do to avoid another water crisis
Water governance strategies
India’s water scarcity challenge
Composite Water Management Index 2.0
A jan andolan for water
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Water regulation
River Pollution
July-2019
Bengal port records country’s highest sea level rise in 50 years
National Green Tribunal (NGT) committee on illegal construction on the floodplains
National Ganga Council (NGC)
The seas have less oxygen now
Water-grid project in Maratwada
‘Blue Flag’ challenge for Indian oceans
Amazon Wildfires
Why Amazon fires are worrying
Lake Conservation
Marine Fisheries Regulation and Management (MFRM) Bill 2019
Dec-2019
OPERATION CLEAN ART
Water Pollution
Oil consuming bacteria found below ocean
Ganga has higher proportion of antibacterial agents: study
Tannery industries shut to prevent their effluents from contaminating the Ganga
How to deal with India’s imminent water crisis?
May-2019
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Only 10 of 100 Ganga sewage projects completed
Gujarat facing massive water crisis
NATIONAL PARKS IN NEWS
Wildlife Sactuary in news: Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary
Protected area in news: Horsley Hills
May-2019
Tiger Reserve in news: Rajaji Tiger Reserve, Uttarakhand
Wildlife Sanctuary in news: Balukhand-Konark
NATIONAL PARKS IN NEWS
National Parks in news: Pench National Park in Madhya Pradesh and Bandipur wildlife sanctuary in Karnataka
Animals in News
Asiatic Golden cat wears new colours
Assam temple bids adieu to rare turtle hatchlings
International Whaling Commission (IWC)
Honour for ‘Plan Bee’ that helped save jumbos
Speed restrictions and sound alerts mooted for protection of dolphins
Conservation efforts to revive gharial population
Tiger census
Man-made highlands come to rescue of animals during floods
Giant parrots
Tardigrades
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Translocation of Wild Buffaloes
Conservation of Otters
Animal in news: Mussels
Vulture Conservation
Tiger Conservation
AVIAN BOTULISM
Vulture conservation centre in U.P.
Drone cameras threatening Nilgiris wildlife
National Tiger Conservation Authority(NTCA)
Mountain gorillas
Animal In News
Spider research yet to pick up pace in India
Animal in news: Yangtze giant softshell turtle
Antarctic penguins suffer huge breeding failure
Animal in news: Horsfield’s Bronze Cuckoo, Zappey’s Flycatcher and Javan Pond Heron
Sighting of news species on the Andaman island chain increased.
Animal in news: Olive Ridley hatchlings make their way into sea
May-2019
Animal in news: grizzled giant squirrel
DNA database coming up for Indian rhino
Animal in news: Slender Loris
Extinction
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April-2019 million species risk extinction due to humans: draft UN report
May-2019 million species at risk of extinction: UN
Scorching heat forces animals out
Forest
Protecting forest fringes
Protect the protectors of the forest
Humanise the law: draft Indian Forest Act
World’s forests are ‘in emergency room’: study
Other Issues
August-2019
Draft national resource efficiency policy
Coal Plants and green norms
Coastal zone management
Centre unveils plan for coastal zone management
Report by IPCC
Arctic wildfires
Paddy stubble burning
Sept-2019
DESERTIFICATION
Afforestation – Step towards green initiative
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National Centre for Clean Coal Research and Development (NCCCR&D)
Green bonus- Integrating mountains with the mainstream
New IPCC report warns of dire threat to oceans
SC order demolition of Maradu blocks violating CRZ regulations
Oct-2019
Humans pollute more than volcanoes
Multidisciplinary drifting observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition
HINDU-KUSH-HIMALAYAN (HKH) REGION
Aarey milk colony controversy
Invasive weeds threatening tiger habitats in Adilabad, Telangana
‘Foreign’ plastic invades Great Nicobar Island
PLOGGING
2019 ozone hole is the smallest on record
Ramgarh dam
Rise in stubble burning cases in Punjab
PMO tells States to address stubble burning issue
Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP)
Climate change is prompting a habitat change in Himalayas
NH 766
PLASTIC PARKS
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India’s first Geochemical Baseline Atlas released in Hyderabad
Stubble Burning
Centre, Punjab at odds over stubble burning
EcoClub Programme: To sensitize children about Environmental issues
Red sand boa snake: Rare Snake rescued in Madhya Pradesh
Bandhavgarh Forest: Gets its first Elephant Colony
GANGETIC DOLPHINS
INFRASTRUCTURE/ENERGY
How to achieve 24x7 power for all?
Making India energy robust
Improper planning, lack of monitoring defeating aim of green power, says CAG
June-2019
India’s first solar cruise vessel to be rolled out soon
August-2019
Solar energy-KUSUM scheme
State rooftop solar attractiveness Index (SARAL)
Renewable hybrid energy systems as a game changer
Sept-2019
Gandhi Solar Park
June-2019
The 5G Wave
TRAI asked to revisit spectrum auction recommendations
Government to work on relief package for Telecom sector
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Nov-2019
TRAI fixes ring timings for mobiles, landlines
Kerala on its way to achieve 100% Internet penetration
Dec-2019
Delhi to get 11,000 hotspots across city
National Broadband Mission
Digital Communications Commission (DCC): Approves auction of Spectrum
Bharatnet Project: Free WiFi to all villages
June-2019
Kaleshwaram project inaugurated in Telangana
Oct-2019
Many hydropower projects could face closure
Kudankulam Power Plant
Kudankulam plant&‘dtrack’ malware
Transport
July-2019
Going electric
Electric Buses
Railway reforms
Oct-2019
Delhi-Lucknow Tejas Express
PRAKASH PORTAL
VANDE BHARAT EXPRESS
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ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) CHARGING GUIDELINES
Aug-2019
Electric Vehicles
Nov-2019
World’s first CNG port terminal
Winter-grade diesel
Coal bed Methane
ROAD ACCIDENTS IN INDIA-2018
Dec-2019
Shipping Ministry approves Loktak Inland Water ways project
Train18
Turf battle derails future of Train 18
Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS): Railway Board Restructuring
FASTags deadline extended
Other Issues
May-2019
EVs are an idea whose time is yet to come
Empowering Indian Cities
September-2019
Petronet – Tellurian deal
Oct-2019
Hover-taxis
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Nov-2019
Etalin Hydroelectric Project
NuGen Mobility Summit-2019
Dec-2019
Mahadayi Project: Goa gets relief
Catcher: Device to contain nuclear accidents
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Science and Technology
Jan-2019
Rare Diseases
Leprosy in India
Gas Hydrates
International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements
Young Scientist Programme
Unispace Nano satellite Assembly & Training programme (UNNATI)
Feb-2019
Defining Minorities in India
Development and Welfare Board for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-nomadic Communities
Operation Digital Board
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March-2019
AstroSat
Forward Search Experiment (FASER)
Atmospheric Waves Experiment
GRAPES-3
China’s Artificial Sun
New Rules for Drugs & Clinical Trials
Nano-Pharmaceuticals
Global Influenza Strategy
Cloud Seeding
Cabinet nod for Joining Nice, Vienna, Locarno Agreements
April-2019
NASA Detects Universe’s First Molecule
Parent baby
Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights (PPV&FR)
May-2019
India Adopts New Definition of Kilogram
Superconductivity at Room Temperature
Initiative to Control Livestock Diseases
Golden Rice
June-2019
Data Localization
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Food Fortification
Proton Therapy
Optoelectronics
Short Wave Radio Transmission
July-2019
Gaganyaan
Biological Research data
Use of Antibiotics in Animal Food
Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
Innovation Ecosystem
Aug-2019
Gravitational Lensing
Srinivas Ramanujan
Hydrothermal Carbonisation
Sept-2019
Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR)
Vaccine Hesitancy
Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
NaVIC
Quantum computing
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Indigenous Fuel Cell
Ceramic Membranes
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for 2019
Oct-2019
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Physics
National Digital Health Blueprint
Edge Computing
Geotail
Microbial Fuel Cells
Polio
Global Tuberculosis Report
Lymphatic Filariasis
Nov-2019
Traditional Medicine
Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine
Space-Based Internet
Ultima-Thule Renamed as Arrokoth
Geochemical Baseline Atlas of India
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IT
Jan-2019
• Artificial Intelligence- India ranks third • Sino-Indian Digital Collaboration Plaza (SIDCOP) Feb-2019 • Signal chip unveils India’s first indigenous semiconductor chips for 4G/LTE and 5G NR modems April-2019 • 5G services
Space Jan-2019 • Chang’e-4 lunar probe • UNNATI (UNispace Nanosatellite Assembly & Training by ISRO) • Microsat-R and Kamalsat Feb-2019 • GSAT-31 • Radio Astronomy • Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (SFDR) March-2019 • GRAPES-3 (Gamma Ray Astronomy PeV EnergieS phase-3) • Emisat mission / PSLV-C45 • Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) April-2019 • Titan- Saturn May-2019 • RISAT-2B • SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites
Bio-Tech Jan-2019 • DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill, 2018 • Gene-Editing Feb-2019 • Foundation day of Department of Biotechnology
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April-2019 • Cell-Based Meat/ Clean Meat /Cultured Meat • Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB)
Science Jan-2019 • Indian Science Congress Feb-2019
• BEL Launches Atmospheric Water Generator safe Drinking Water
• Helicopter SATCOM Solutions • India’s first indigenous semiconductor chips • The Table that defines chemistry turns 150
Biotech
Potato farmers cry foul as PepsiCo sues them—april-2019
Enzyme to curb bacteria cell growth discovered plans genome sequencing to map population diversity
China draws up tighter rules on human gene and embryo trials
Magic milk: fighting infections with a clue from the echidna
CCMB working on cell-based meat or ‘Clean Meat’
Bt brinjal being grown in Haryana: activists
Genes of climate-resistant chickpea varieties identified
Cancer cell detection ‘dots’ developed from coal
Scientists decode genome of ‘miracle plant’
Chimera
Genome India initiative
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Xenotransplantation
Space
Seeking the next frontier: anti-satellite (ASAT) test (Mission Shakti)
India’s anti-satellite test a game-changer?
Indian space debris may have doubled after Mission Shakti
Is India gets surveillance satellite
ISRO to launch a string of ‘defence’ satellites from May month
What makes PSLV-C45 special?
Outer Clarity: On India’s space programme doctrine
Mars base simulator unveiled in Gobi desert
First photograph of a black hole
CSIR
China announces plan to build moon station in 10 years
India’s second moon mission: Chandrayaan-2
Chandrayaan-2 will carry 14 payloads from India
New agency to develop space warfare weapon systems
India will have its own space station, says ISRO chief Sivan
India as a space power student satellites may fly to space as India turns 75
NASA to send a drone to Saturn’s largest moon
NASA tests launch-abort system for its moon mission
Expanding India’s share in global space economy
ISRO’s lunar touchdown has dry run on soil fetched from Tamil Nadu
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India set for new lunar trophy hunt
IAF to adopt ASRAAM missile for fighter fleet
Chandrayana-2
Space Commerce
Parker Solar Probe
Van Allen Probes mission
Submarine propulsion system test a success
Nov-2019
GAGAN – GPS aided geo-augmented navigation
NavIC
Starlink network
Cartosat-3
Cartosat-3: Editorial
Solar Eclipse
ISRO uses satellite data to gauge N. Korea’s 2017 nuclear test impact
FREE FASTAGS
FASTags
Golden Rice
Transport
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Udhampur-Baramulla highway ban and its impacts
IT
Report reveals growing risk to cloud platform
‘MANAV: Human Atlas Initiative’
Artificial Intelligence and its disastrous consequences
Amitabh’s Twitter data put on dark web
Libra is Facebook’s cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrencies to be banned
Ban or regulate crypto currency?
Cyber security - Agent Smith
Hyperloop
Reusable Launch System
Rooting AI in ethics
Other Issues
June-2019
National mission on natural language translation soon
July-2019
Lithium-ion giga units mooted
August-2019
Akademik Lomonosov
Fedor
Sisir Kumar Mitra
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September-2019
Water on Exoplanet
Oct-2019
Pyrofuse
PHOSPHORESCENCE
IndiGen initiative
SYCAMORE
IMD WORLD TALENT RANKING
Dec-2019
Battling anti-microbial resistance
Sexed Semen
World Malaria Report 2019
Chandrayaan 2
Didymos
RISAT
Electric commercial aircraft
Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi)
Fog Pass
Pyrolysis
Odisha students develop smart water dispenser
Hydrogen cell technology (Fuel Cell Technology)
Concrete Maturity Meter: To measure the strength of concrete
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Electro-kinetic streaming: To produce energy from flowing or stagnant water
Indian State of Forest Report 2019 (ISFR)
Internet rights: Internet shutdown in India
SnowEx: To assess how much water does snow contain
US astronaut Christina Koch
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DEFENCE/INTERNAL SECURITY/SECURITY
Assam Issues
Jan-2019
• Clause 6 of Assam Accord Feb-2019
• Assam Rifles granted power to arrest anyone in the Northeast
Staff
Chief of Defence Staff
Office of the Chief of Defence Staff
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS): Union Cabinet gives approval
Chief of Defence Staff: Gen. Rawat Appointed as first CDS
Sept-2019
Chief of Defence Staff: Going forward
Bills/Ordinances/Amendments
National Investigation Agency (NIA) (Amendment) Bill, 2019
Opposition to privatization of Ordinance Factory
June-2019
Defence Preparedness in India
Dec-2019
Arms Amendment Bill, 2019
Missiles
BrahMos Missile: Latest upgrades
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Operation Prahar: Started by Haryana Police to fight Organised Crime
Dolphin’s Nose: Joint Operation to crackdown on Espionage racket
Apache attack helicopters: India to import more from USA
Pinaka missile system successfully flight-tested
Panel finalises role of Chief of Defence Staff
DRDO to develop naval fighter jet
Sub-sonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’ successfully test-fired
DRDO gets clearance for missile test facility in A.P.
Quick reaction surface-to-air missiles (QRSAM)
Army gets Dhanush artillery guns
C-295 plane deal in final stages
Army to build tunnels to store ammunition
International Fleet Review
Army invokes emergency powers for missile deal
Apache helicopters
Centralised Technology Vertical (CTV)
Astra missile
Tejas
INS Khanderi
DRDO conducts maiden test of hypersonic technology demonstrator
Navy to build 6 submarines
Sarvatra Kavach: Indigenously developed Bullet-proof jacket
Disaster Management
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT Cyclone Jan-2019 • Cyclone Pabuk Feb-2019 • Cyclone Idai: India reaches out to Mozambique May-2019 • Cyclone Fani
Other Disasters May-2019 • Kerala govt. readies new action plan to handle disasters • Tripura Flash Floods June-2019 • Surat fire Tragedy • Kerala Landslides • Bihar Rain • Coastal Flood Warning System app for Chennai (CFLOWSCHENNAI) Dec-2019 • Delhi fire Tragedy
Awards
Jan-2019 • Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar May-2019 • Sasakawa Award 2019
Geo Disasters
June-2019 • Europe Heatwave • Mumbai marooned • Ulhas River • Boat tragedy exposes serious safety lapses Dec-2019 • Locust invasion
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International Efforts
Feb-2019 • International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure May-2019 • Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) June-2019 • Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Joint Exercise on Urban Earthquake Search & Rescue (SCOJtEx)
June-2019 • First Resilient Kerala Program • Flood Hazard Atlas • Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)
July-2019
Funding Disaster Management
Big boost for disaster management
Dam Safety Bill
National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM)
Nov-2019
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)
August-2019
National Crisis Management Committee
World Youth Conference on Kindness
Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)
Cyclone Fani: Odisha evacuates over 11 lakh
U.N. listing of Azhar
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GEMINI system to warn fishermen of danger
Flood risk
International Excercises
India, U.K. in talks to build a naval super-carrier
US and China account for half of world’s military spending
Navy joins exercises in South China Sea
EXERCISE SURYA KIRAN – XIV
Exercise INDRA 19’: India-Russia Trilateral Exercise
EXERCISE HAND-IN-HAND-2019
News from States
Maoist-prone Odisha districts put on alert
Plea to remove dual control of Assam Rifles
Lost lives: on Gadchiroli naxal attack
AFSPA in Nagaland extended
Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN)
Naga Peace Process
Chasing peace in Nagaland
J&K and the world
Manipur, Arunachal wants to be kept out of Naga peace deal
NAGA Peace talks
IT/Mob Lynching
Not a bloodless option for India (Cyber Attacks)
The growing power of the lumpen
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Bills to curb Mob lynching
Mob lynching
Role of media in fake news dispersal
‘Pegasus’ spyware and Data security
Cyber security (Part-1)
Nod for Data Protection Bill
Tech firms facing antitrust issues
Merger of BSNL and MTNL
Telecom sector and (Adjusted gross revenue) AGR
Crimes/Terrorism
Police station in Satara tops SMART police survey
The terrorist tag
Army’s first Integrated Battle Groups
INTERPOL’S RED NOTICES
Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA)
Oct-2019
Annual Crime in India Report 2017
Crime in India report
Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime (GCTOC) Bill’
Other Issues
Aug-2019
Dixon Plan of 1950
Privacy no longer supreme
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Oct-2019
Information Fusion Centre-Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR)
India formally received the first Rafale fighter jet
Project Beehive
DOXXING
Nov-2019
PEGASUS
Dharma Guardian-2019
Lone wolf attacks
DUSTLIK-2019
Dhanush regiment
SCO joint exercise
Rise and Fall of ISIS (PART 1)
Rise and Fall of ISIS (PART 2)
SAMUDRA SHAKTI
CBI 183 NATGRID
SPECIAL PROTECTION GROUP (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2019
US to sell $1 billion worth defence equipment to India
Bodoland
EXERCISE MITRA SHAKTI-VII: 2019
Dec-2019
Blue Water Force
Strandhogg
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Low Sections Development Schemes
Reservation in Private Jobs
Prandhan Mantri Laghu Vyapari Maan-dhan Yojana (PMLVMDY)
National Commission for Minorities (NCM)
Go Tribal campaign
88 manual scavenging deaths in 3 years
Worker safety code Bill gets Cabinet approval
SC to decide if illegal migrants can be given the status of refugees
Urbanise India to eliminate poverty
The ‘Kerala Model’ is unsustainable
Reservations in Chhattisgarh
June-2019
In the absence of good law
Centre set to roll out ‘Jal Shakti’ scheme for water-starved areas
July-2019
Drug Menace
The taproot of conservation justice
Reconstituting and Reforming the Law Commission of India
Oct-2019
Nobel laureate Michael Kremer’s India Link
Jailed Uighur intellectual wins EU rights award
Dec-2019
PISA test
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Human Rights Day
Accessible India campaign
National Strategy for Suicide Prevention under discussion
Tabrez Ansari case
Mochi Swabhimaan Initiative
Why we need socialism today?
GOVERNMENT SCHEMES
A scheme for farmers that has not reached most farmers
Private funds needed for Swachh Bharat
Green light for rural roads
Centre, Assam move SC for sample re-verification of NRC
Supreme Court questions the need for re-verification of NRC
National Medical Commission Bill
An unbalanced view of the technical interventions in MGNREGA
Aug-2019
NISHTHA
National Digital Library(NDL)
Swachh Survekshan Grameen
Tax Administration
Sabka Vishwas Scheme
Ordnance factory Board (OFB)
Swatantra Sainik Samman Pension Scheme
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Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF)
Angikaar campaign
OCEAN ENERGY
Giving wings to better air connectivity
Sept-2019
Language Subtitling – Remarkable benchmark for the TV channels
Jan Soochna Portal
NEAT Scheme
NIRVIK scheme
National Recruitment Agency
Sept-2019
KAYAKALP AWARDS
LIVER TRANSPLANT REGISTRY
Motor Vehicles bill 2019
FASTags will work as Aadhaar, track vehicles
Second round of Smart Cities, AMRUT may roll out in 2020
Nurture the Future
Unnat Bharat Abhiyan
Amaravati start-up area pact cancelled
Nov-2019
SC’s judgment in Essar Steel insolvency case
JAL JEEVAN MISSION (JJM)
Forest Act of 1927
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Dec-2019
Mission Parivar Vikas (MPV)
Call for Universalisation of Pradhan MantriMatruVandanaYojana(PMMVY)
Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY): sharp spike in discom losses
Atal Bhujal Yojana (ATAL JAL)
MGNREGA: fewer jobs since July, wider demand-supply gap
GOVERNMENT SCHEMES
Why capping stent prices is no cure?
Shanta Kumar Committee Report: Analysis
In news: FCRA
ETHICS
India's twisted moral compass
Ethics
Jan-2019
Sensitizing Youth Towards Gender Issues
Feb-2019
Social Accountability
March-2019
Campaign Ethics
April-2019
The Ethics of Voting
May-2019
Ethical Dilemmas in Abortion
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June-2019
Addressing prejudices in the society
July-2019
Surveillance Society
August-2019
Right to Dissent
September 2019
Climate Change and Ethics
Oct-2019
Legislation as a Source of Ethical Behaviour
Nov-2019
Need of Scientific Temper
Dec-2019
Vigilante Justice
National Issues
Social Issues
Women Issues Jan-2019 • Karnataka Devadasis (Prohibition of Dedication) Act of 1982 • Menstrual Hygiene for Adolescent girls Schemes • Web- Wonder Women Campaign Feb-2019 • Various women safety initiatives will be launched by Union Home Minister • Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative
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March-2019 • Women in the police 4 56 • National Women Livelihood Meet -2019 April-2019 • Sex on false promise of marriage is rape: Supreme Court May-2019 • Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, 1971 • Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act of 1994 • In joint family, brother-in-law has liability to pay maintenance to domestic violence victim: SC • India among countries where women face most violence by partner • The gender ladder to socio-economic transformation June-2019 • Cyber Crime Prevention against Women and Children (CCPWC) • Govt has taken several steps to increase enrolment of girls • Kathua Rape Case • Nirbhaya Fund • Squandering the gender dividend • Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Gender Index July-2019 • Making national legislatures more gender-balanced • Nearly half of sex offence cases not being investigated in time Nov-2019 • Maternal deaths on the decline: report • Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (OCSAE) Prevention/Investigation Unit • Operation MASOOM (Mitigation of Adolescent Sexually Offensive Online Material) • Marriage not ‘good enough’ to quash rape FIR: Delhi HC
Aug-2019 • Unnao Rape Case • UP, Delhi and Rajasthan among worst performers in breastfeeding • Why is age of marriage different for men and women? • Women Transforming India Awards
Dec-2019 • Women Help Desks in Police Stations • Hyderabad Rape-Murder Case
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• Beyond Gender Binaries • Forensic laboratory constitutes special team for POCSO cases Dec-2019
• Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana
Child Issues April-2019 • Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) May-2019 • Children of today better off than 20 years ago June-2019 • Human Trafficking Report • World Day Against Child Labour Aug-2019 • Child Well-Being Index • Finding the data on missing girls • Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2019 Jan-2019 • Left out, abused (Neglect of child care institutions) June-2019 • 31.4% of Indian children will be stunted by 2022: report Sept-2019 • National Nutrition Month (Poshan Maah) • Saharia children battle malnutrition • Two out of three child deaths due to malnutrition: report July-2019 • Schools turn nutrition gardens in Mizoram district Oct-2019 • National Council on India’s Nutrition Challenges Nov-2019
• India’s food basket must be enlarged Dec-2019 • Poshan Abhiyaan
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Tribes
Jan-2019 • Narikuravas (Jackal Catchers) Feb-2019 • Mala Arayas Tribe April-2019 • Deori Tribe May-2019 • Kolam Tribe • Sahariya Tribe Dec-2019 • Kolam Tribe • Konda Reddi or Hill Reddis • Korku tribals Nov-2019 • Rabha Tribe
Lynching Jan-2019 • Anti-lynching law by Manipur Aug-2019 • Anti-Lynching Laws June-2019 • Tabrez Ansari Case- Lynching, not murder
Backward castes Jan-2018 • Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill, 2018 June-2019 • Go Tribal Campaign • MEA rejects U.S. report on state of religious freedom in India July-2019 • Who can include castes in SC list? August-2019 • World Tribal Day
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Disabled Jan-2019 • Capable even if disabled (Disability Rights) Oct-2019 • Deendayal Upadhyaya Institute for the Physically Handicapped June-2019 • Global Disability Summit Dec-2019 • International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Schemes • Jiban Sampark • Khonds/Kondh/Kui • Khushi Scheme
Issues/Problems
Jan-2019
• Dancing around the Supreme Court – on ban imposed by the Maharashtra government on dance performances in bars Feb-2019
• Telangana villagers ostracised for ignoring caste while voting Aug-2019
• Honor Killing Sept-2019 • Live-in Relationships April-2019
• TikTok ban in India Feb-2019
• Muzaffarpur Shelter Case
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March-2019
• Septic Tank Deaths
July-2019
• 376E of the Indian Penal Code- Ignoring the proportionality principle
Transgender
April-2019
• Challenges for Transgender-inclusive Sanitation in India Aug-2019
• The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019 Dec-2019
• Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019
Senior Citizens
Feb-2019
• Assam to cut pay of staff who neglects parents March-2019
• Govt. issues model guidelines for development & regulation of retirement homes Dec-2019
• Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens (Amendment) Bill, 2019 • National Programme for Health Care of the Elderly (NPHCE) June-2019
• Major initiative to make life easy for Pensioners
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Sanitation
• Uptick for India on sanitation in UN report Oct-2019
• Miles to go before becoming open defecation-free
Programs
Jan-2019
• AHTUs & WHDs in States across the Country • Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh (BPKK) • Credit-linked Subsidy Services Awas Portal (CLAP)
Awards and Honours
May-2019• Vayoshreshtha Samman March-2019• Nari Shakti Puraskar, 2018 Sept-2019• Rashtriya Bal Puraskar Oct-2019• Vayoshreshtha Sammans
Transgenders
Bill to help Transgender introduced in Lok Sabha
Gender Equality
Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019
Global Gender Gap Index, 2020(India has ranked 112th among 153)
Intersex Person: Call for National ban on unnecessary medical surgeries
Dec-2019
Transgender Persons’ Bill, 2019
Economy
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Consumer Protection Bill
Consumer protection bill 2019
Prevention of money laundering act (PMLA)
Competition Law Review
Dec-2019
GST compensation
The International Financial Services Centres Authority Bill
Social Media
Aadhaar-social media profile linking
Sept-2019
ECI cell to monitor Social Media
Oct-2019
Regulation of Social Media
Dec-2019
GIMS or Government Instant Messaging System
Digitalisation
One Nation-one Ration Card scheme
One Nation, One Ration Card (ONORC)
Aadhaar – social media link
Countrywide National Register of Citizens (NRC)
Many denied PDS rice due to non-seeding of Aadhaar
Language
Sept-2019
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Oct-2019
One nation one language
Dec-2019
Personal Data Protection Bill
Population
Sept-2019
SURVEY OF INDIA (SoI)
CENSUS 2021
Oct-2019
Inter-State portability for ration cards launched
Nov-2019
National Register of Citizens
Illegal non-citizens
Dec-2019
National Register of Indian Citizens
National Population Register (NPR): West Bengal Opts out of the exercise
National Population Register (NPR): Census will be conducted in 2021
Unique Identification Authority of India(UIDAI) drops Monitoring agency plan
Population
Census 2021
Sex-ratio at birth
Fertility rate
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Child well-being index
UN Population report
Population control
Disputes/Cases
Oct-2019
INDIAN PENAL CODE (IPC)
Custodial interrogation & INX media case
Dec-2019
Zero FIR
Defamation Case
NHRC seeks report on assault cases
Governance
Good Governance Index (GGI)
Doorstep delivery of public services scheme
Other Issues
Sept-2019
Sanjay Mitra Committee
Oct-2019
Commutation
Statistical report for general election 2019
Freedom of Press
Nov-2019
NRC exercise
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Ministry forms expert committee to review Sports Code
Doctrine of Essentiality
Dec-2019
Mapathon Keralam
PM-AASHA scheme
IS 10500:2012
Education
National Institution Ranking Framework (NIRF) for 2019-april-2019
Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN)
Visiting Advanced Joint Research Faculty (VAJRA) scheme
Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC)
June-2019
Better implementation of the Right to Education Act
The draft National Education Policy, 2019
Dec-2019
School Categorisation by Arunachal Pradesh
Indian Skill Development Service (ISDS)
Indian Education system: Rote learning
Kerala bagged the top spot on the School Education Quality Index (SEQI)
NITI Aayog's Education Index
DHRUV Programme
Mother tongue for preschool
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National Education Policy 2019 (Part 1)
UGC-AICTE merger
Saakshar Bharat Mission (SBM)
QS Rankings: 8 India universities in Asia top 100
National Institute of Design (Amendment) Bill
YUWAAH
It’s time to act, not do more research: On National Education Policy
Lessons from Bhutan
27% of children with disabilities have never been to school: UNESCO
How not to educate India
Measures to improve quality of Education
Institutions of Eminence
Resource Assistance for Colleges with Excellence (RACE)
Fundamental Leaning skills – Focus for the students/children
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Higher Education Bill
WOMEN ISSUE
Jurisdiction no bar in dowry harassment case
SC to decide on entry of women into mosques
Special kits to probe sexual assault cases
Empowering women through safe water
May-2019
Factors responsible for poor participation of women in the workforce
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June-2019
Declining female employment
Women Empowerment in New India
Justice that heals: Why cases under POCSO law should deploy restorative justice
‘SHE Team’ on the patrol in Odisha
August-2019
Surrogacy (regulation) bill, 2019
The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019
Abortion
Nov-2019
Surrogacy Bill
Sept-2019
Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)
Oct-2019
Rape and sexual crimes law in India
Andhra Pradesh Disha Bill, 2019
Oct-2019
SARAS Aajeevika Mela
CHILDREN ISSUE
Early brain function affected in poor kids
July-2019
Karnataka offers quota for girl children of trafficked women
Nearly half of sex offence cases not being investigated in time
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Outlay for child welfare sees a meagre increase
Death penalty for child abuse
Oct-2019
Commission for Protection of Child Rights
EDUCATION Jan-2019 • Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2018 April-2019 • Dilution of the Right to Education Act • IIT-Madras tops Centre’s higher education rankings • India needs a world class higher education system: Vice President May-2019 • Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme July-2019 • Draft National Education Policy 2019 • Transformation of Higher Education in India Oct-2019 • School Education Quality Index (SEQI) Nov-2019 • Should we do away with subsidies for higher education? Dec-2019 • The many structural flaws in India’s higher education System Teachers July-2019 • Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Bill, 2019 • Global Teacher Status Index April-2019 • Professors of Practice - IIT Delhi Aug-2019 • NISHTHA (National Initiative for School Heads and Teachers Holistic Advancement) • TechEx Sept-2019 • National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE) Dec-2019 • Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching
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Schemes Jan-2019 • Government announces hike in research fellowship June-2019 • Central Sector Interest Subsidy Scheme July-2019 • Scheme for Trans-disciplinary Research for India’s Developing Economy (STRIDE) Aug-2019 • ‘Samagra Shiksha-Jal Suraksha’ Drive Dec-2019 • Ekal School Abhiyan
New Ideas Jan-2019 • 70-point grading index • App for Odia-medium school students • Jan Shikshan Sansthans April-2019 • Competing for the best June-2019 • For more inclusive private schools under RTE • National Testing Agency (NTA) July-2019 • Digital Platforms by MHRD • Paramarsh Aug-2019 • Shagun • Urkund Sept-2019 • Curriculum for Life Skills (Jeevan Kaushal) • Institutions of Eminence status • National Educational Alliance for Techonology (NEAT) Scheme Oct-2019 • Tenure Track System (TTS) in IIT’s Nov-2019 • Shaala Darpan portal
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Scams Oct-2019 • NEET Examination Scam Nov-2019 • The false allure of English medium schooling
Governance Jan-2019 • Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill 2018
• Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)
• DTH Regulations
Feb-2019 • All India Citizens Survey of Police Services March-2019 • Police Encounters • Torture in Police Stations
Feb-2019 • Inclusive Internet Index 2019
• National e-Governance Awards, 2019 March-2019 • Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (FINE)
• Lokpal
• Officers with six months’ tenure can be named DGP: Supreme Court • The Official Secrets Act
• Swachh Survekshan 2019
April-2019 • ‘RTI scrutiny will ruin judicial independence’ • Orders RBI to Disclose Annual Inspection Reports of Banks under RTI
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May-2019 • Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2019
March-2019 • One Nation One Card May-2019 • Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) • Automated Multi-modal Biometric Identification System (AMBIS)
May-2019 • Aid to relative for buying property not a benami transaction: SC
• Conjugal Visits in Prison
• Non-Functional Upgradation (NFU)
• What is India’s stand on data storage?
• Compulsory Retirement
• Prasar Bharati Act
• Prison Statistics India 2016
• SMART Police • Why policemen kill themselves?
• FCRA violation case against Indira Jaising’s NGO
• World Press Freedom Index
Sept 2019 • Fake News
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• Illegal Hoardings • India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX) • Jan Soochna Portal (JSP) Oct-2019 • ‘FASTags will work as Aadhaar to track vehicles’ • ‘Mo Sarkar’ initiative launched
• RTI- NGOs getting ‘substantial’ government grant fall within: SC
• Village Secretariat System • National Panchayat Awards 2019
• SARAS Aajeevika Mela Inaugurated Nov-2019 • RTI -Supreme Court’s ruling on CJI’s office
• Hackathon on Data-driven Innovation for Citizen Grievance Redressal • Vigilance Awareness Week
• Cramped Prisons
• Casting the Net wide
• Clash between Lawyers and Police Dec-2019 • 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 HISTORY Jan-2019 • Pietermaritzburg Incident • National Salt Satyagraha Memorial in Dandi
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Miscellanous Jan-2019
• Atang Ane
• Bharat Ratna
• Global Misperceptions Index
• Labelling theory
• M2M/ IoT Conference
• National conference on “Prison Design”
• Paint Your Toilet
• Roshni App
• Sustainable Catchment Forest Management (SCATFORM)
• Shehri Samridhi Utsav
• Shishir Saras
• Rural housing achieves only 66% target
• Unique variety of pumpkin developed
• Private FM channels permitted to carry all India radio news
Feb-2019
• Aarohan Social Innovation Awards
• Absher App
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• Bir Bikram Kishore Debbarman
• Darwaza Band – Part 2’ Campaign
• DD Arunprabha
• Ethical Intuitionism
• India inks contract for 72,000 assault rifles
• 7 islands in Andamans, Lakshadweep identified for seaplane operations
• Missed target (International Olympic Committee (IOC) to revoke Tokyo 2020 Olympics qualification status)
• MOU for training 1800 Bangladesh civil servants in National Centre For Good Governance Philip Kotler Presidential award
• Sarojini Mahishi Committee
• Social Hostilities Index
• Sulwade Jamphal Kanoli Lift Irrigation Scheme
• Vat Cau Festival
• VIVID 2019 March-2019
• Abel Prize
• Centre for Disability Sports
• Construction Technology India (CTI)
• Karnataka has most number of stolen artefacts
• Mercer’s index of most liveable cities
• World Happiness Index
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• YONO Cash April-2019
• ‘Café Scientifique’
• CII Foundation Women Exemplar Awards
• Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI)
• Japanese Era Name
• Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G. Ramachandran Central Railway Station
• Two Bengal govt. schemes win UN awards May-2019
• Darbar move
• Private, public and political morality
• Equator Prize
• Liberals need to think again
• Solanum Plastisexum
• World Giving Index
• Europe Heatwave
• Mumbai marooned
• Ulhas River
• Why Assam is prone to floods and what’s the solution? Aug-2019
• Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award
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• Underground Bunker Museum
• World Youth Conference on Kindness Sept-2019
• ERSS- Dial 112, ‘E-Beat Book’ System and ‘E-Saathi’ App
• Global Goalkeepers Award
• Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
• Naga Chilli
• National Service Scheme
• Ramanujan prize for U.K. mathematician
• National Geosciences Awards • Sardar Patel National Unity Award • Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar and National Safety Awards
• Swachh Mahotsav 2019
• World’s Most Liveable Cities
• New Bill wants engineers to register, follow ethics code
• Livestock ‘traffic’ fine transforms Arunachal’s dirtiest village
• Giant earthworm found at the foot of Western Ghats Oct-2019
• Fit India Plog Run
• Military Nursing Service (MNS) Raising Day
• National Corporate Social Responsibility Awards (NCSRA)
• Nayi Taleem
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• Nobel Peace Prize
• Poison Fire Coral fungus
• India is home to Asia’s oldest bamboo
• North East Handloom and Handicraft Exhibition in Aizawl
• Kayakalp Awards
• World Standards Day
• Prahari scheme Nov-2019
• Global Housing Technology Challenge-India (GHTCIndia)
• Jalajapam
• National Entrepreneurship Awards 2019
• National Startup Awards
• NITI Aayog–DRC Dialogue
• Suranga Bawadi
• Radio channel to guide farmers on climate change
• Lok Sabha passes Bill to regularise Delhi colonies Dec-2019
• EChO Network
• Gandhi Citizenship Education Prize
• Human Rights Day
• National Florence Nightingale Award • North Eastern Region Community Resource Management Project (NERCORMP)
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• Shehri Samridhi Utsav (SSU)
• Zero FIR
• Afghanistan first country to recognize Indian Pharmacopoeia
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