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JOIN Us : https://targetupsc.in/ 8830115524 1 JOIN Us : https://targetupsc.in/ 8830115524 2 Contents Indian Polity Data Governance Quality Index ( DGQI ): NITI Aayog 18 New rules for postal ballot 19 Air India One 19 Lokpal and Lokayukta 20 Single SBI branch for all FCRA accounts 22 Inter-State River Water Disputes 22 Gupkar Declaration 24 Autonomous District Councils 24 Supreme Court on Right to Protest 25 New H-1B curbs 25 Google to face antitrust case in India 26 Gorkhaland Territorial Administration 26 Television Rating Points(TRP) 26 Who is a declared foreigner? 27 National Commission for Protection of Child Rights 27 Types of Political Parties 28 Right to Information (RTI) Act 29 Right to Information Act, 2005 30 Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index, 2020 32 How Election Commission decides on party symbols 33 Diminishing role of Parliament: 33 Gurkha Rights in Assam 35 Saral Jeevan Bima 35 Pradhan Mantri Jivan Jyoti Bima Yojana 36 State Water Grid to overcome flood crisis 36 National Company Law Appellate Tribunal 39 Rationalisation of Autonomous Institutions 39 Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) 41 Chapter Proceedings 41 JOIN Us : https://targetupsc.in/ 8830115524 3 Chief Information Commissioner 41 District Development Councils (DDC) 42 Election Commission sets up panel to revise Expenditure Limit for candidates 42 Integrity Pact in govt. Organisations 43 Central Vigilance Commission 44 Draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 44 Model Code of Conduct: EC 45 land laws for the Jammu and Kashmir 45 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 46 Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) 47 President’s Rule: Imposition of Article 356 47 Prevention Of Sexual Harassment ( POSH ) Law 2013 48 International Press Institute ( IPI ) 48 Public Affairs Index 2020 49 Economy Government borrowing 52 The Chardham road project 52 Dhaulasidh Hydro Project 53 PM SVANidhi Yojana 53 Monetary Policy Committee ( MPC ) 54 Sittwe Port 54 Reserve Bank of India 55 South Asia Economic Focus report 55 MODERN SLAVERY 59 New Development Bank ( NDB ) 60 Asian Development Bank (ADB) 61 SVAMITVA SCHEME 61 IND Spring Board 62 AMHUB: India’s first advanced manufacturing hub 62 RBI bans FDI establishments from Mauritius 62 JOIN Us : https://targetupsc.in/ 8830115524 4 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) 63 Round the Clock RTGS Facility 64 Long term repo operation (LTRO) 64 Goa becomes first ‘Har Ghar Jal’ State 65 Bharatmala Pariyojana 66 Skal International Asia Area (SIAA) 67 Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019: UNDRR 68 Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 69 Additional Tier-1 bonds 70 Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog 70 National Livestock Mission 72 India Energy Modeling Forum 73 NATURAL GAS MARKETING 74 ASSET RECONSTRUCTION COMPANIES (ARCs) 75 Corporatization of Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) 75 Blue Economy 76 Blue Bond 76 Rajeev Gauba Panel set up to streamline Spectrum Allocation 77 National Authority for Recycling of Ships 77 Electoral Bonds 78 Operation Greens 79 Guidelines for Digital Media Regulation 79 Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) 80 Insurance Ombudsman 81 Ayushman Sahakar Scheme 81 IFSCA introduces Framework for Regulatory Sandbox 82 Country’s first multi-modal logistic park in Assam 83 Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project 83 The Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Council) 84 Intellectual Property cooperation 85 Food Safety Compliance platform(FoSCoS) 85 Punjab Assembly Rejects Centre’s Farm Laws 87 JOIN Us : https://targetupsc.in/ 8830115524 5 Mobile Application for Geo Tagging: PMKSY 88 Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) 89 UDAN Day (21 Oct ) 91 CPI-IW Base Year Revised to 2016 91 “E-Dharti Geo Portal” launched 93 Forex Reserves 94 Injeti Srinivas Committee submits report 95 International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) 95 NITI Aayog’s Panel to reform Urban Planning Education System 97 Kisan Suryodaya Yojana: Gujarat 97 India - Australia Circular Economy Hackathon ( I-ACE ) 97 Srisailam Hydroelectric Power Plant 99 Direct Port Entry (DPE) facility 99 Compound Interest Waiver Scheme 100 U.K. to partner for developing GIFT City 100 National Program and Project Management Policy Framework’ (NPMPF) 101 Quality Council of India 101 Vivad se Vishwas scheme 101 Periodic Labour Force Survey 2019 102 Institution of Eminence Scheme ( IoE ) 104 Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project 104 Depreciation & Devaluation 105 Foreign Echange and Exchange Rate: 106 Credit default swap: 107 National Productivity Council (NPC) 107 The Amur Falcon 107 Code on Wages Act, 2019 108 What is Rural Development Fund ( RDF ) ? 108 Draft model Act on land titles 108 Environment JOIN Us : https://targetupsc.in/ 8830115524 6 Zombie Fire or Holdover fires 111 Pipeworts 112 Report Confronting Carbon Inequality 112 Inadequate Compensatory Afforestation 113 CBD Oil 113 Madhuca diplostemon 114 Zoological Parks 114 Yuddh Pradushan Ke Virudh 115 Indian Gazelle ( Chinkara ) 115 Fishing Cat 115 Temporary Shelters for Migratory Birds: Sambhar Lake 115 United Nations Biodiversity Summit 116 New Emission Norms of Tractors and Construction Vehicles 117 Ecosystem Services 118 My Ganga My Dolphin campaign 119 Dolphins in Pearl River Estuary 120 Project Dolphin 121 Stockholm Convention on POPs 122 Arctic Amplification 124 LEED 126 Taro Vegetable 127 Circular Bioeconomy: 127 Earthshot Prize 128 Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) 128 “Ranking the World’s Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Hotspots: 2019-2020”. 129 Skinks of India 129 Buldhana Pattern of water conservation 130 Tree Transplantation Policy 130 National butterfly 131 Indigenous varieties of Calcium Nitrate and Boronated Calcium Nitrates 131 Brahma Kamal 133 Synedrella Yellow Vein Clearing Virus 133 JOIN Us : https://targetupsc.in/ 8830115524 7 World Migratory Bird Day(10 Oct) 134 Nitrous Oxide (N2O) 136 Smog Tower 136 Aquaponics Facility 136 Common Leopard (Panthera pardus) 138 Fly Ash 138 Impact-based cyclone warning system 139 Thattekkad Bird Sanctuary 140 Passage of the Animals: SC 140 Nandankanan Zoological Park (NZP) 141 State of Climate Services Report of WMO 141 Bioremediation Mechanism for Oil Spills 142 Asan Conservation Reserve 143 Delhi Air Pollution 143 Heeng Cultivation Project in India 144 National Green Tribunal (NGT) 144 State of Global Air 2020: HEI 147 International Snow Leopard Day ( 23 Oct ) 147 Two New Ramsar Sites 149 Himalayan brown bears 150 Yellow Dust (Asian Dust) 150 INCOIS 150 GoI to create a permanent body to control air pollution in Delhi 151 National Action Plan for Vulture Conservation 151 Particulate Matter 152 Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas 152 Translocation of Corals in Mumbai 153 Shivalik Elephant Reserve , Uttarakhand 155 The Olive ridley turtles 156 What is Naturopathy 158 Science & Technology JOIN Us : https://targetupsc.in/ 8830115524 8 Decarbonization and Energy Transition Agenda 158 Mutation 158 SHUKRAYAAN: ISRO’s Venus Mission 158 World’s First Asteroid Mining Robot will be Launched by China 159 CSIR Technologies for Rural Development 159 iMediX- A Telemedicine System 160 AYUSH GRID Project 162 Purified Antisera treatment for COVID-19 163 Diffie–Hellman key exchange 164 RT-PCR Test 164 The S.S. Kalpana Chawla Cygnus 166 Polygraph or Lie Detector Test 166 Narcoanalysis Test 166 Brain Mapping Test or P-300 test: 167 Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum 167 National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy 167 National Maritime Domain Awareness Centre (NMDAC) 168 Graphene 168 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 2020 168 Nobel Prize for Physics 2020 169 Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2020 169 Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 170 Outer Space Treaty 170 CEPI to include India for COVID-19 Vaccine Testing 171 What is an Adjuvant ? 172 Nuclear Weapons & India 172 High security registration plate (HSRP) 174 CAWACH 174 India’s fastest AI Super Computer: PARAM Sidhi-AI 174 Draft Spacecom Policy 175 Fluoride & Iron Removal technology of CMERI 175 World Space Week ( 4th-10th Oct ) 177 JOIN Us : https://targetupsc.in/ 8830115524 9 Gyan Circle Ventures 178 The International Barcode of Life (iBOL) 178 Vigyan Jyoti 178 Engage with Science 179 IIT Delhi’s Study on Ultrafine Particles 179 Lepidoptera 180 The ‘Feluda’ test for Covid-19 180 About different masks 180 MOSAiC Expedition 181 Kerala: First State in country to become Digital in Public Education 181 C-DAC’s MoUs on Supercomputing 181 Mars Opposition 182 Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) 183 Novichok nerve agents 183 5,000 remote villages to receive Internet using ISRO satellites 183 STARS Project 184 Holographic Imaging Based Method 185 New Shephard 186 ENFUSER (Environmental information FUsion SERvice) 186 SILAM 186 Regional Raw Drug Repository for AYUSH launched 187 Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) 187 Cloud Innovation Centre 188 ICT Grand Challenge 188 Bepi Colombo Spacecraft reaches Mercury in its journey towards Venus 188 International Solar Alliance: Solar Awards presented for the first time 189 Sustainable Solid Waste Processing Facility developed by CSIR-CMERI 190 India International Science Festival 2020 ( IISF ) 190 Aditi Urja Sanch 191 OSIRIS-REx 192 COVIRAP : A Quick Covid-19 Test 193 India’s first seaplane project 194 JOIN Us : https://targetupsc.in/ 8830115524 10 What is infodemic? 194 CuRED 194 Monoclonal Antibodies for Covid-19 194 Tubarial salivary glands 195 Soil-Transmitted Helminths 196 South Asian Flash Flood Guidance System 196 First room-temperature superconductor 197 World Polio Day 2020 ( 24 Oct ) 198 Polio 198 IndiGenomes Resource