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UPSC Monthly Magazine Easy to PICK – “UPSC Monthly Magazine" April-2018 APRIL 2018 PT-MAINS Easy to PICK – “UPSC Monthly Magazine" April-2018 S.No. Topics Page No. GS - 1 1 Konark Sun Temple 2 2 Smart rating of garbage free cities 4 3 World Heritage Sites 5 4 Happy Cities Summit 6 5 Madhubani Painting 7 6 Mahila Shakti Kendra Scheme 8 7 Unesco Atlas Of The World’s Languages In Danger 9 8 Swadhar Greh Scheme 10 9 Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (Pmmvy) 11 10 National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (Narss) 13 11 Gram Swaraj Abhiyan 14 12 Silappathikaram 15 13 International Buddhist Conference 16 14 Krishna Circuit 17 15 Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan 18 16 Saraswati Samman 19 17 Adopt A Heritage’ Scheme 20 18 Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan 2.0 21 19 Adilabad Dokra And Warangal Durries Get GI Tag 22 20 Bagh-E-Naya Qila 24 21 NIRF India Rankings 2018 25 22 Baisakhi 26 23 11th World Hindi Conference 27 24 Child Rape 28 25 Walmiki And Malhar, Two New Languages Discovered 30 26 National Culture Fund 31 27 Human Rights (Amendments) Bill, 2018 32 28 Kalamkari Art 33 GS - 2 1 National Safety Council 35 2 Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) 36 3 Simultaneous Elections 37 4 Zonal Council 40 5 MoU Between ICI And IGNTU 42 6 Island Development Agency 43 7 Expansion Of Scheduled Areas In Rajasthan 44 Easy to PICK – “UPSC Monthly Magazine" April-2018 8 National Commission For Minorities (NCM) 46 9 Defence Planning Committee (DPC) 48 Scheduled Castes And The Scheduled 50 10 Tribes (Prevention Of Atrocities) Act 11 National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) 52 12 EXPORT PROMOTION COUNCIL FOR HANDICRAFTS (EPCH) 54 13 Right To Convert Is A Fundamental Right 56 14 Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) 57 15 National Commission for Safai Karamcharis 58 16 National Company Law Appellate Tribunal 59 17 Fake News 60 18 Drugs Technical Advisory Board 62 19 Competition Commission of India 63 20 NCLT 64 21 Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan 65 22 Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) 66 23 Fast Track Task Force 67 24 Finance Commission To Use 2011 Census 68 25 First Woman Lawyer to be Appointed As Supreme Court Judge 70 26 Competition Commission Of India (CCI) 71 27 Niti Forum For North East 72 28 Process To Impeach The Chief Justice Of India 73 29 Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal 74 30 IMF Framework On Governance And Corruption 75 31 PIL Misuse 76 32 E-Vidhan Mission Mode Project 78 33 E-Foreigners Regional Registration Office Scheme (E- FRRO 78 34 National Register of Citizens (NRC) 79 35 ‘One Candidate, One Seat’ 80 36 South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (SASCOF) 81 37 POSHAN Abhiyaan 82 38 TRIFED 83 39 Pradhan Mantri Ujwala Yojana 84 40 Asian Premium 85 41 China Plans A Canal To Reshape Indian Ocean 86 42 Aspirational District Programme 87 43 WHO Directives Call For Support For Breastfeeding 88 44 Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use Of Data Act (Cloud Act) 89 45 African Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO) 90 46 Oxytocin 91 Easy to PICK – “UPSC Monthly Magazine" April-2018 47 Phosphorus pentoxide 92 48 Panmunjom Declaration 93 49 Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy (HELP) 94 50 DARPAN-PLI App 95 51 INDIA-WIESBADEN CONFERENCE 2018 96 52 Cabinet To Discuss Death Penalty For Rape Of Minors 97 53 INDIA-NORDIC SUMMIT 98 54 Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meet 99 55 Inter-country removal & retention of children 101 56 National Biopharma Mission 103 57 INDIA-UK Bilateral Talks 104 58 FSSAI introduces Project Dhoop 105 59 INDIA-NEPAL 106 60 Viral hepatisis 108 61 Wuhan Summit 109 62 POCSO e-Box 111 63 Integration of e-SANAD portal and NAD – National Academic Depository 112 64 Civil Services Day 113 65 e-Vidhan Project 113 66 Kishanganga Project 114 67 India-Myanmar-Thailand (IMT) Trilateral Highway 115 68 G7 foreign ministers’ summit 116 69 Peace Mission 2018 117 70 Guidelines for accreditation of journalist 118 71 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) 119 72 Regional 3R Forum 121 72 Weisbaden conference 123 73 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) 125 74 World Immunization Week 126 GS – 3 57 Economic freedom index 131 58 Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) 133 59 Inflation Targeting 134 60 Integration Of Commodity Spot And Derivatives Market 135 61 Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) 137 62 Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) framework 138 63 Algorithm Trading 139 64 Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) 140 65 RBI bars banks from dealing with virtual currencies 141 Easy to PICK – “UPSC Monthly Magazine" April-2018 66 Exemption From Angel TAX 142 67 Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 143 68 International SME Convention-2018 144 69 Reits And Invits 145 70 Uttarakhand’s second mega food park at Udham Singh Nagar 146 71 Mutual Agreement Procedure 147 72 National Bamboo Mission 148 73 Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) 150 74 ‘Samridhi – the virtual assistant’ 151 Foreign Portfolio Investment 152 1 Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) 153 2 Statement On Developmental And Regulatory Policies 155 Leisang in Manipur 157 1 Uniform Road Tax 158 2 RBI Decides To Use GDP Instead Of GVA 159 3 PMGSY 160 4 FAME scheme 161 5 RURAL ELECTRIFICATION 163 6 SEBI amends norms for REITs 166 7 National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) 167 8 Oil And Gas Exploration 168 9 UDAN – RCS 169 10 Char Dham project 170 11 Exploration Of Coal Bed Methane (CBM) 171 12 Bharatmala Programme 172 13 Sentinel-3B Satellite 176 14 IMF World Economic Outlook 174 15 GLOBAL FINDEX REPORT 2017 174 Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat 175 16 Transport (InSight) 17 GSP Eligibility Review Of India 177 18 US Currency Watch List 178 19 Hubble captured first image of surviving companion to supernova 179 20 Security Exercises 180 21 Indian Ocean Naval Symposium 180 22 Resource Prospector mission 181 23 Priority watch list 182 24 National Intellectual Property (IP) Award 2018 183 25 Key Accord Against Cyber Attacks 184 Easy to PICK – “UPSC Monthly Magazine" April-2018 26 ESA’s Space Observatory Gaia 185 27 Containing Left Wing Extremism 186 28 Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Service (INCOIS) 188 29 Amendments To Prevention Of Money Laundering Act 189 30 Bureau of Indian Standards 190 31 Lunar ‘Gateway’ space station 191 32 Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) 191 33 Defence Planning Committee 192 34 IRNSS-1I 194 35 IIT-Delhi launches first 5G radio lab 195 36 Parker Solar Probe 196 37 World’s Smallest Land Fern 197 38 Newly discovered antibiotic class, Odilorhabdins 198 39 2018 State Of The World’s Birds Report 199 40 BIS Act 2016 201 41 Icarus- farthest star 202 42 Task Force On Biomass Management 203 43 Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) 205 44 Asia Pacific Regional Workshop Of UNCCD 206 45 Point Nemo 208 46 Solar Geo-Engineering 210 47 Remove Debris System 211 48 Greenco Rating 214 49 Commonwealth Innovation Index 215 50 International Energy Forum (IEF) 216 51 Global Commission On The Geopolitics Of Energy Transformation 217 52 Atal Tinkering Labs 218 53 Water Scarce Cities 219 54 Earth BioGenome Project 221 55 Forest Fires And Their Management In India 222 56 Project Dhoop 225 57 Einstein Ring 226 58 ESA’S GAIA MISSION 227 59 Bhabha Kavach 228 60 LYRID 2018 228 GS – 4 1 INEQUALITY 230 Easy to PICK – “UPSC Monthly Magazine" April-2018 PT POINTERS 1 India’s Longest Elevated Road 233 2 India Is Now Second Largest Mobile Phone Producer 233 3 “Thank You India” Campaign 2018 233 4 Malaysia Approves Law Against Fake News 234 5 Fimbristylis Agasthyamalaensis 234 6 India Pips Japan, Becomes Second Largest Manufacturer Of Crude Steel 235 7 Samta Diwas 235 8 National Maritime Day 236 9 Gaganshakti-2018 236 10 ‘Chakravat’ 237 11 What is underwriting rule? 237 12 HARIMAU SHAKTI 2018 238 13 Sagar Kavach 238 14 India Highest Recipient Of Remittances 238 15 Madras HC To Introduce E- Court Fee Payment 239 16 First Indian IT Company To Touch 100 Billion Dollar Market Value 239 17 Kayakalp awards 239 18 Film Friendly Award 240 19 Babur cruise missile 240 20 India Mobile Congress – 2018 241 21 Defence, Aerospace SME Fund 241 22 Ratnagiri Mega Refinery 242 23 Equatorial Guinea 242 24 Delhi’s IGI airport among the top 20 busiest airports 243 25 World’s First Microfactory To Help Tackle E-Waste Hazard 244 26 Sugar tax comes into effect in the UK 244 27 “Desert Tiger 5” 245 28 Railway Link Between India And Nepal 245 29 Sahyog – Hyeoblyeog 2018 245 30 India’s First Insect Museum Opens In Tamil Nadu 246 31 Surat Becomes First District To Have 100% Solar Powered Health Centres 246 32 ‘Print Biennale India 2018’ 246 33 World Tuberculosis Day 2018 247 34 World’s Longest Sandstone Cave Discovered In Meghalaya 248 35 Naipunya Ratham 248 36 BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile 249 37 Fluorimeter 250 38 First Indian Sign Language Dictionary of 3000 Words Launched 250 Easy to PICK – “UPSC Monthly Magazine" April-2018 251 39 World’s first brass futures contract 40 Okhla Bird Sanctuary 251 41 Gulf Shield 1 252 42 Plastic Park to be set up in Deoghar District, Jharkhand 252 43 106th Indian Science Congress to be held in Bhopal 253 44 Varuna-18 253 45 ICGS C-437 253 46 New species of water strider found in Nagaland 254 47 Maharashtra To Ban Plastic 255 48 8th Theatre Olympics 256 49 World Hindi Secretariat 256 50 The Delhi End TB Summit 257 51 Bidya Devi Bhandari, Nepal’s 1st female president, wins second term 257 52 C-17 Globemaster 258 53 Places in News- Tel Aviv 259 54 Country’s ‘tallest’ flag unfurled in Belagavi 259 55 MILES-18 260 56 Reciprocal logistics support deal 260 57 National Legislators Conference 261 58 ‘Ex Samvedna’ 261
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