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www.iasgawww. Vetriiias.comtewayy.com / www.iasgatewayy.com Daily044 Current-26265326/9884421666/9884472636 Affairs | Month ly Magazines | Online Tests 1 | P a g e 1. ECONOMICS 1. RBI introduces “Fully Accessible Route (FAR)” 2. MGNREGA Labourers Wage Hike 3. Centre Plans Classes in Distance Mode 4. RBI Plans for an Fraud Oversight Wing 5. Corona Bonds 6. Retail Inflation 7. Helicopter Money 2. ECONOMICS SNIPPETS 1. RBI introduces “Fully Accessible Route (FAR)” 2. Core Sector Registers Growth at 5.5% 3. ICAR issues Advisory to farmers for Rabi Crops 4. New Features of e-NAM platform 5. Round-Tripping 6. Dollar Swap Agreement 7. Long-term repo operations (LTROs) 8. Renewable Energy Certificates 9. Foreign Contribution to PM-CARES Fund 2. ENVIRONMENT 1. Cytokine Storm 2. Wildlife Panel Holds Virtual Conference 2.1. ENVIRONMENT SNIPPETS 1. Lifeline Udan 2. India switches to BS VI Norms 3. First-ever Heatwave in Antarctica 4. Agasthyavanam Biological Park 5. Exercise NCC Yogdan 6. Starving Herons 7. Mahua flowers 8. Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary 9. Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary www.iasgawww. Vetriiias.comtewayy.com / www.iasgatewayy.com Daily044 Current-26265326/9884421666/9884472636 Affairs | Month ly Magazines | Online Tests 2 | P a g e 3. POLITY & GOVERNANCE 1. Medical Devices notified as Drugs from 1st April 2. Electronic Manufacturing Scheme 3. India’s Defence Export -Import 4. Centre Defines J&K Domicile Rules 5. Geo-fencing App to locate Quarantine Violators 6. E-way Bills 7. Aarogya Setu App and Privacy Concerns 8. National Security Act, 1980 9. Restrictions on Court Hearings Lawful, says Supreme Court 10. Indian Migrants Across India 11. MPLADS gets Suspended for 2 Years 12. Smart City Missions Integrated Data Dashboard 13. Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) 14. Problems in Villages amid COVID-19 Outbreak 15. PCPNDT Act 16. Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya (PM-JAY) 17. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Expenditure 18. Supreme Court Orders to Release Prisoners 3.1. POLITY & GOVERNANCE SNIPPETS 1. ‘Stranded in India’ Portal 2. Section 269 and 270 of IPC 3. Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA) 4. Price Monitoring & Resource Unit (PMRU) 5. National Corona Survey 6. Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) 7. NCC cadets start serving people during COVID-19 8. Essential Commodities Act 1955 9. iGOT e-learning Platform 10. TRIFED 11. AYUSH Reiterates Immunity Boosting Measures 12. Operation SHIELD www.iasgawww. Vetriiias.comtewayy.com / www.iasgatewayy.com Daily044 Current-26265326/9884421666/9884472636 Affairs | Month ly Magazines | Online Tests 3 | P a g e 13. Revamp of Swachhata App 14. Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) 15. YUKTI - Young India Combating COVID with Knowledge, Technology and Innovation 16. National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) 17. NRLM Self Help Group 18. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) 19. CollabCAD tool to create 3D Computer Aided Designs 4. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 1. Cauvery becomes Clean due to COVD-19 Lockdown 2. Sodium Hypochlorite: The Chemical in the Spray 3. Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) 4. COVID-19 outbreak: What Does It Take to Build a Ventilator 5. COVID-19: Measures by RBI 6. COVID-19 and the Orphan Drug Act 7. How Bats Carry Viruses but Don’t Fall Ill Themselves 8. Diseases of Animal and Forest Origin 9. Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow on (GRACE-FO) 10. Government shifts to ‘Large Outbreak Containment’ 11. COVID-19 and Anosmia 12. India lifts ban on export of Hydroxy-chloroquine 13. Cyber-attacks on Health Care Institutions 14. Department of Pharma warns scarcity of Drugs and Medical Devices 15. Funding of WHO 16. Success of a Local Shutdown: Agra Model 17. Ebola Death in Democratic Republic of Congo 18. CM Fund Contributions to Not Qualify as CSR Spend 19. COVID-19 and its Effects on Measles Immunisation Program 20. ICMR recommends Testing of Pooled Samples 4.1. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SNIPPETS 1. SunRISE Mission. 2. COVID-19 virus: Three types of quasi sub-species of Circulation in India www.iasgawww. Vetriiias.comtewayy.com / www.iasgatewayy.com Daily044 Current-26265326/9884421666/9884472636 Affairs | Month ly Magazines | Online Tests 4 | P a g e 3. Patriot Air Defence Missiles (MIM-104) 4. Hybrid Reactor that Turns CO2 into Useful Molecules 5. NASA’s Mars Helicopter - Perseverance program 6. Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination 7. Artemis Base camp 8. Transmission of COVID-19 from Mother to Child 9. Space Mining 10. Biofortified Carrot 11. COVID 19 - Reproduction Rate 12. Asymptomatic Virus Carriers 13. Ivermectin Drug 14. NASA’s VIPER mission 5. ART AND CULTURE MISCELLANEOUS 1. Remembering Jallianwala Bagh 5.1. ART AND CULTURE MISCELLANEOUS SNIPPETS 1. South China Sea 2. JEEVAN - Low Cost Ventilator 3. Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) 4. Anak Krakatau 5. Meru Jatra Festival 6. Pattachitra Painting 7. Yanomami Tribe 8. The Nihangs 6. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1. India and China marks 70 years of Diplomatic Relations 2. Battle to Set Oil Prices 3. Operation Sanjeevani 4. Global Economic Impacts of COVID-19 5. Financial Action Task Force (FATF) 6. Why Everyone should Wear Masks? www.iasgawww. Vetriiias.comtewayy.com / www.iasgatewayy.com Daily044 Current-26265326/9884421666/9884472636 Affairs | Month ly Magazines | Online Tests 5 | P a g e 7. SAARC 2.0 8. Rise in Gender Based Violence 9. G20 Extraordinary Energy Ministers Meeting 10. Oil Price War & Implications 11. ADB Assures Covid-19 Support Package 12. Developing country Status in WTO 13. International Monetary Fund (IMF) 6.1. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SNIPPETS 1. Coronavirus and Humidity 2. World Health Day 3. Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID) 4. Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) www.iasgawww. Vetriiias.comtewayy.com / www.iasgatewayy.com Daily044 Current-26265326/9884421666/9884472636 Affairs | Month ly Magazines | Online Tests 6 | P a g e 1. ECONOMY 1. RBI introduces “Fully Accessible Route (FAR)” Why in News? • In the Union Budget, it has been announced that certain specified categories of government securities would be opened fully for non-resident investors without any restrictions. • As a follow up of the announcement, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has introduced a separate channel called “Fully Accessible Route (FAR)” to enable non-residents to invest in specified Government of India dated securities. • ‘Specified securities’ shall mean Government Securities as periodically notified by the Reserve Bank for investment under the FAR route. Key Points: • FPI consists of securities and other financial assets passively held by foreign investors. • The RBI has said that all new issuances of Government securities (G-secs) of 5-year, 10- year, and 30-year tenors will be eligible for investment as specified securities. • Non Resident investors can invest in specified government securities without being subject to any investment ceilings. • This scheme shall operate along with the two existing routes: The Medium Term Framework (MTF) for Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI) in Central Government Securities (G-secs) and State Government Securities (SDLs), which was introduced in October 2015. The Voluntary Retention Route (VRR) encourages Foreign Portfolio Investors to undertake long-term investments in Indian debt markets. 2. MGNREGA Labourers Wage Hike Why in News? • The Central Government has approved a double-digit hike in the wages of manual labourers under Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). The workers will get a wage hike from Rs. 13 to Rs. 34. www.iasgawww. Vetriiias.comtewayy.com / www.iasgatewayy.com Daily044 Current-26265326/9884421666/9884472636 Affairs | Month ly Magazines | Online Tests 7 | P a g e Highlights: • The average per day wage rate for unskilled work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme will rise 11 per cent from ₹182 to ₹202 for the fiscal year 2020-21. • For 2019-20, the average wage rate was almost unchanged, with a rise of just 1.6 per cent. • Although the MGNREGA wage notified for 2020-21 is substantially higher, it continues to be 40-50 per cent lower than the minimum wages paid to unskilled agricultural workers. • The minimum wages are revised twice a year by the chief labour commissioner, when the variable dearness allowance is adjusted to changes in the consumer price index.'' • The prevailing rates for unskilled agricultural workers are between ₹347-383 per day, depending on the region of employment. www.iasgawww. Vetriiias.comtewayy.com / www.iasgatewayy.com Daily044 Current-26265326/9884421666/9884472636 Affairs | Month ly Magazines | Online Tests 8 | P a g e CPI-linked Changes: • The MGNREGA wage revision is linked to the changes in the Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Workers (CPI-AL). • A committee set up by the government had recommended using CPI-Rural (CPI-R) instead of the existing CPI-AL for revising MGNREGA wages every year. • There is a big variation in the wages paid to MGNREGA workers across States. MGNREGA: • MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) is the largest work guarantee programme in the world. • It was enacted in 2005 with the primary objective of guaranteeing 100 days of wage employment per year to rural households. • It aims at addressing causes of chronic poverty through the ‘works’ (projects) that are undertaken, and thus ensuring sustainable development. Funding: • Funding is shared between the centre and the states. • There