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PT – 365 UPDATED MATERIAL MARCH – APRIL 2018 Table of Contents 1 PT – 365 UPDATED MATERIAL MARCH – APRIL 2018 Table of Contents 1. POLITY ___________________________ 4 2.17. Videsh Aya Pradesh Ke Dwaar ______ 17 1.1. Simultaneous Elections ______________ 4 2.18. Study in India Program ____________ 17 1.2. Motion for Removal of Chief Justice of 2.19. E-Foreigners Regional Registration Office India ________________________________ 4 Scheme (e-FRRO) _____________________ 17 1.3. Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled 2.20. Exercises _______________________ 17 Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act _______ 4 2.21. Miscellaneous Titbits ______________ 18 1.4. National Commission for Minority 3. ECONOMY _______________________ 19 Education Institutions __________________ 5 3.1. RBI decides to use GDP instead of GVA 19 1.5. Special Category Status (SCS) _________ 6 3.2. Statement on Developmental and 1.6. CESS as a Revenue Raising Tool _______ 6 Regulatory Policies ____________________ 19 1.7. Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 3.3. Regional Rural Banks (RRB) __________ 20 (AFSPA) ______________________________ 7 3.4. Liberalised Remittance Scheme ______ 20 1.8. Transformation of Aspirational Districts 7 3.5. Changes in Priority Sector Lending ____ 21 1.9. Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan _______ 8 3.6. Foreign Portfolio Investment ________ 21 1.10. Arunachal’s 2-Tier Panchayati Raj ____ 8 3.7. National Financial Reporting Authority 22 1.11. e-Vidhan mission mode project ______ 8 3.8. Algorithm trading _________________ 22 1.12. E-Office _________________________ 9 3.9. Start-ups can seek exemption from angel 1.13. Competition Commission of India (Cci) 9 tax _________________________________ 22 1.14. Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems 3.10. Farm MSP Models by NITI Aayog ____ 23 (ASICS), 2017__________________________ 9 3.11. Nutrient Based Subsidy Scheme _____ 23 1.15. Prasar Bharati ____________________ 9 3.12. Integrated Management of Public 1.16. World Council on City Data Certification10 Distribution System ___________________ 24 1.17. Miscellaneous Titbits _____________ 10 3.13. City Compost Scheme _____________ 24 2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS _________ 11 3.14. Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana ___ 24 2.1. Indus Water Treaty ________________ 11 3.15. National Bamboo Mission __________ 25 2.2. Afghanistan Makes a Peace Offer to 3.16. North-East Industrial Development Taliban _____________________________ 11 Scheme (NEIDS) ______________________ 26 2.3. Commonwealth Heads of Government 3.17. Rural Electrification _______________ 26 Meet _______________________________ 11 3.18. Unnati Project ___________________ 26 2.4. Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act 3.19. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (CLOUD Act) _________________________ 12 (PMGSY) ____________________________ 27 2.5. India-Nordic Summit _______________ 12 3.20. Coal Bed Methane (CBM) __________ 27 2.6. Asian Premium ___________________ 13 3.21. Solar Rooftop Investment Program 2.7. African Asian Rural Development (SRIP) _______________________________ 28 Organization (AARDO) _________________ 13 3.22. Pilot Scheme For Procurement Of 2.8. International Tribunal for the Law of the Aggregate Power _____________________ 28 Sea (ITLOS) __________________________ 13 3.23. Pradhan Mantri Rozgar Protsahan 2.9. UN Road Safety Trust Fund __________ 14 Yojana (PMRPY) ______________________ 29 2.10. South Asia Cooperative Environment 3.24. Global Findex Report 2017 _________ 29 Program (SACEP) _____________________ 14 3.25. Energy Transition Index ____________ 29 2.11. South Asian Climate Outlook Forum 3.26. Index of Economic Freedom ________ 29 (SASCOF) ____________________________ 14 3.27. Project Jal Sanchay _______________ 30 2.12. International Energy Forum (IEF) ____ 15 3.28. Global Innovation Index ___________ 30 2.13. India-Wiesbaden Conference 2018 __ 15 3.29. Mentor India ____________________ 30 2.14. IMF World Economic Outlook _______ 16 3.30. Miscellaneous Titbits ______________ 30 2.15. UN Broadband Commission for 3.31. Errata __________________________ 31 Sustainable Development ______________ 16 4. ENVIRONMENT ___________________ 33 2.16. GSP eligibility review of India _______ 17 4.1. International solar Alliance __________ 33 1 DELHI | JAIPUR | PUNE | HYDERABAD 8468022022 4.2. SOLAR GEO-ENGINEERING __________ 33 5.15. Einstein Ring ____________________ 52 4.3. Global Commission on the Geopolitics of 5.16. Copernicus Programme ____________ 53 Energy Transformation ________________ 33 5.17. Air-Breathing Electric Thruster ______ 53 4.4. National E-Mobility Programme ______ 34 5.18. Stephen Hawking _________________ 53 4.5. Sand Mining ______________________ 34 5.19. Micro-Led: The Next-Gen Display 4.6. Brazzaville Declaration _____________ 36 Technology __________________________ 54 4.7. Conservation Assured | Tiger Standards 5.20. Cold Fusion Reactor _______________ 55 (CA|TS) _____________________________ 37 5.21. Vaterite - Rare Minerals in Plants ____ 55 4.8. Rise in Rhino Population in Kaziranga 5.22. Gallenene _______________________ 56 National Park ________________________ 37 5.23. Rydberg Polarons: A New State of 4.9. Animal Welfare Board of India _______ 38 Matter ______________________________ 56 4.10. One Planet One City Challenge of WWF38 5.24. Scientists Found Rare 'Ice-VII' on Earth 56 4.11. Eighth Regional 3R Forum __________ 38 5.25. Malwares _______________________ 56 4.12. Persistent Organic Pollutants _______ 39 5.26. Data Encryption __________________ 57 4.13. E-Waste (Management) Amendment 5.27. Crypto-Currency as Legal Tender ____ 57 Rules, 2018 __________________________ 39 5.28. India’s First Blockchain-Based Network58 4.14. Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, 5.29. Defence Planning Committee _______ 58 2018 _______________________________ 41 5.30. Defence Industrial Corridor _________ 59 4.15. Plastic Waste Management 5.31. Protected Area Permit _____________ 59 (Amendment) Rules, 2018 ______________ 42 5.32. Left Winge Extremism _____________ 60 4.16. National Biogas and Manure 5.33. Newton-Bhabha Fund _____________ 61 Management Programme ______________ 43 5.34. Indian Science, Technology and 4.17. Floating Laboratory Over Loktak Lake 43 Engineering Facilities Map (I-STEM) ______ 61 4.18. Climate Resilient Agriculture _______ 43 5.35. Virtual Library ___________________ 61 4.19. Quake Prone Indian Cities__________ 44 5.36. Miscellaneous Titbits ______________ 62 4.20. Forest Fires and their management in 6. SOCIAL __________________________ 63 India _______________________________ 44 6.1. Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan _ 63 4.21. Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early 6.2. NIRF India Rankings 2018 ___________ 63 Warning System ______________________ 45 6.3. Sustainable Action For Transforming 4.22. Swell waves _____________________ 46 Human Capital- In Education (SATH-E) Project63 4.23. Western Ghats reveal world’s smallest 6.4. Unnat Bharat Abhiyan 2.0 ___________ 64 land fern ____________________________ 46 6.5. National Academic Depository (NAD) _ 64 4.24. Reports ________________________ 46 6.6. Child Marriage Numbers Drop Sharply _ 65 4.25. Miscellaneous Titbits _____________ 47 6.7. Partnership For Maternal, Newborn And 4.26. Errata __________________________ 47 Child Health (PMNCH) Forum ___________ 65 5. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY _________ 48 6.8. LaQshya Program__________________ 66 5.1. E-Cigarettes ______________________ 48 6.9. Suvidha _________________________ 66 5.2. Assisted Reproductive Technology 6.10. Gender Vulnerability Index _________ 66 (Regulation) Bill ______________________ 48 6.11. UN Commission on Status of Women 5.3. Project Dhoop ____________________ 48 (CSW) _______________________________ 66 5.4. Earth Bio-Genome Project (EBP) ______ 49 6.12. Women Entrepreneurship Platform 5.5. Irradiation of Food ________________ 49 (WEP) ______________________________ 67 5.6. FoSCoRIS system __________________ 49 6.13. Van Dhan Scheme ________________ 67 5.7. Interstitium ______________________ 50 6.14. Gram Swaraj Abhiyan _____________ 68 5.8. Disease 'X' _______________________ 50 6.15. Passive Euthanasia _______________ 68 5.9. Mobile Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent 6.16. World Happiness Report 2018 ______ 69 Assay (MELISA) _______________________ 50 7. CULTURE ________________________ 70 5.10. Ban on Oxytocin _________________ 51 7.1. Madhubani Painting _______________ 70 5.11. IRNSS-1I Satellite _________________ 51 7.2. Saora Paintings ___________________ 70 5.12. GSAT-6A ________________________ 51 7.3. Konark Temple ____________________ 70 5.13. Sounding Rocket: RH-300 MKII ______ 52 7.4. Kuthiyottam ______________________ 71 5.14. Very Short-Range Air Defence Systems 7.5. Madhavpur Mela __________________ 71 (VSHORAD) __________________________ 52 7.6. Adilabad Dokra And Warangal Durries _ 72 2 8468022022 DELHI | JAIPUR | PUNE | HYDERABAD 7.7. Krem Puri Caves __________________ 72 7.14. National Culture Fund _____________ 74 7.8. Incredible India 2.0 Campaign _______ 72 7.15. World Heritage Sites ______________ 74 7.9. National Mission on Manuscripts _____ 73 7.16. Unesco Atlas of the World’s Languages in 7.11. Adarsh Monuments ______________ 73 Danger ______________________________ 75 7.12. Deendayal Hastkala Sankul _________ 73 7.17. Miscellaneous Titbits ______________ 75 7.13. Indian Council of Historical Research Conference __________________________ 73 Copyright © by Vision IAS All rights are reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or
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