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May 2021 Iasbaba Monthly Magazine MAY 2021 IASBABA MONTHLY MAGAZINE IPC REFORMS REFORMS NEEDED IN WHO VIOLENCE BETWEEN ISRAEL- PALESTINE MYANMAR POLITICAL INSTABILITY 5TH GENERATION BANKING REFORMS WWW.IASBABA.COM P a g e | 1 PREFACE With the present shift in examination pattern of UPSC Civil Services Examination, ‘General Studies – II and General Studies III’ can safely be replaced with ‘Current Affairs’. Moreover, following the recent trend of UPSC, almost all the questions are issue-based rather than news- based. Therefore, the right approach to preparation is to prepare issues, rather than just reading news. Taking this into account, our website www.iasbaba.com will cover current affairs focusing more on ‘issues’ on a daily basis. This will help you pick up relevant news items of the day from various national dailies such as The Hindu, Indian Express, Business Standard, LiveMint, Business Line and other important Online sources. Over time, some of these news items will become important issues. UPSC has the knack of picking such issues and asking general opinion based questions. Answering such questions will require general awareness and an overall understanding of the issue. Therefore, we intend to create the right understanding among aspirants – ‘How to cover these issues? This is the 72nd edition of IASbaba’s Monthly Magazine. This edition covers all important issues that were in news in the month of MAY 2021 which can be accessed from https://iasbaba.com/current-affairs-for-ias-upsc-exams/ VALUE ADDITIONS FROM IASBABA • Must Read and Connecting the dots. • Also, we have introduced Prelim and mains focused snippets and Test Your Knowledge (Prelims MCQs based on daily current affairs) which shall guide you for better revision. • ‘Must Read’ section, will give you important links to be read from exam perspective. This will make sure that, you don’t miss out on any important news/editorials from various newspapers on daily basis. • Under each news article, ‘Connecting the dots’ facilitates your thinking to connect and ponder over various aspects of an issue. Basically, it helps you in understanding an issue from multi-dimensional view-point. You will understand its importance while giving Mains or Interview. Must Read Articles: We have not included them in the magazine. Those following DNA on daily basis may follow it- https://iasbaba.com/current-affairs-for-ias-upsc-exams/ “Tell my mistakes to me not to others, because these are to be corrected by me, not by them.” www.IASbaba.com P a g e | 2 CONTENTS HISTORY/CULTURE/GEOGRAPHY ........................................................................ 7 Putola Nach ........................................................................................................................................... 7 Lineament among four factors behind frequent earthquakes in northern Assam .............................. 7 New sites added to India’s tentative list of UNESCO world heritage sites ........................................... 8 Dahanu Gholvad Sapota........................................................................................................................ 8 Governing board of the Kalakshetra Foundation ................................................................................. 8 POLITY/GOVERNANCE ........................................................................................ 9 Supreme Court’s Maratha quota verdict ............................................................................................ 10 Decentralisation and COVID................................................................................................................ 11 Idea of placing convicts under house arrest ....................................................................................... 12 Learning from Politicians .................................................................................................................... 12 Article 311 of the Indian Constitution................................................................................................. 13 Prioritising the right to life .................................................................................................................. 13 U.P. Sunni Waqf Board ........................................................................................................................ 14 Politicisation of Providing Security Cover ........................................................................................... 15 Panel constituted to suggest reforms to IPC ...................................................................................... 16 Renaming of Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) ........................................................................... 16 SOCIAL ISSUE/WELFARE .................................................................................... 18 Pandemic & Inequality in Digital World .............................................................................................. 18 Rural Imperative in the wake of COVID crisis ..................................................................................... 18 Child Marriages and Pandemic ........................................................................................................... 19 Rural Areas & Second Wave ............................................................................................................... 20 MoU signed for Digital Transformation of Tribal Schools ................................................................... 20 Employment & Recovery of Indian economy ..................................................................................... 21 Indian Prisons ...................................................................................................................................... 22 HEALTH ISSUE ................................................................................................... 23 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) .......................................................................................................... 24 Medical Oxygen Crisis in India ............................................................................................................ 24 Computed Tomography Scan .............................................................................................................. 25 Frequent Hospital Fires in India .......................................................................................................... 26 Challenge ahead in vaccinating India .................................................................................................. 26 www.IASbaba.com P a g e | 3 Shortage of anti-fungal injection, Amphotericin B ............................................................................. 27 Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use .............................................................................. 27 Covid-19 infections being reported among the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) ........ 28 Biologics offer revolutionary approach to treating diseases .............................................................. 28 New Naming System For Virus Variants ............................................................................................. 29 India’s health worker brain drain ........................................................................................................ 29 States asked to declare Mucormycosis an epidemic .......................................................................... 30 Airborne Transmission of SARS-COV-2 Virus ...................................................................................... 31 GST on Imported Oxygen Concentrator unconstitutional: Delhi HC .................................................. 31 Rebuilding Public Health Infrastructure .............................................................................................. 31 Launch of Ayush Clinical Case Repository (ACCR) portal and Ayush Sanjivani App ............................ 33 GOVERNMENT SCHEMES .................................................................................. 33 India’s Broken Sanitation System........................................................................................................ 34 New framework for implementation of the SVAMITVA Scheme ....................................................... 35 Unique Disability ID (UDID) ................................................................................................................. 35 Section 142 of the Social Security Code – 2020 .................................................................................. 35 SWAMIH completes its first residential project. ................................................................................. 36 Scheme in news: One Stop Centre scheme (OSCs) ............................................................................. 37 Launch of SeHAT OPD portal ............................................................................................................... 37 Monetary assistance as component of Mid-day-Meal (MDM) Scheme ............................................. 37 INTERNATIONAL ............................................................................................... 38 Launch of Operation Samudra Setu-II ................................................................................................. 39 India invited as guest to G7 meeting .................................................................................................
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