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IASBUZZ MARCH 2020 EDITION BrainyIAS (84594-00000) Contents GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY ............................................................................................................... 4 Why wildlife consumption became popular in China? .............................................................................................. 4 Ajodhya Hills Hydel Project ........................................................................................................................................ 5 India Host to Large Migratory Species ....................................................................................................................... 6 Eravikulam National Park ........................................................................................................................................... 7 YOUNGLE BLUE HOLE (YBH)....................................................................................................................................... 8 POLITY AND GOVERNANCE .......................................................................................................................................... 10 EASE 3.0 Reforms for Public Sector Banks ............................................................................................................... 10 National Technical Textiles Mission ......................................................................................................................... 11 Media Access Control (MAC)-binding ...................................................................................................................... 12 Virtual Currency Ban removed by SC ....................................................................................................................... 13 What is Curative Petition? ....................................................................................................................................... 15 ACTS AND BILLS ........................................................................................................................................................... 16 Direct Tax Vivad Se Vishwas Bill 2020 ...................................................................................................................... 16 Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 ................................................................................................................................... 17 Surrogacy Regulation Bill 2020 ................................................................................................................................ 18 The Central Sanskrit Universities Bill, 2019 ............................................................................................................. 19 SCHEMES AND POLICIES OF GOVERNMENT ................................................................................................................ 21 Yes Bank Crises ........................................................................................................................................................ 21 National Sports Development Fund ........................................................................................................................ 22 ECONOMY .................................................................................................................................................................... 23 Road Network in India ............................................................................................................................................. 23 Inequality And Poverty ............................................................................................................................................ 25 Unemployment in India ........................................................................................................................................... 30 Poverty Estimates in India ....................................................................................................................................... 33 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of India ................................................................................................................... 36 Understanding Inflation ........................................................................................................................................... 38 Banking Reforms In India ......................................................................................................................................... 41 The Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) .................................................................................................... 46 Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) ......................................................................................................................... 49 India To Set Aside Fiscal Policies To Cope With COVID19 Pandemic ....................................................................... 52 Kerala seeks loan from NABARD .............................................................................................................................. 54 International Monetary Fund (IMF) ......................................................................................................................... 57 www.brainyias.com BrainyIAS (84594-00000) Parallel Economy in India......................................................................................................................................... 59 Airports Authority of India to raise $300 million ..................................................................................................... 61 What are AT-1 Bonds? ............................................................................................................................................. 62 Predatory Pricing in India ........................................................................................................................................ 63 AGRICULTURE .............................................................................................................................................................. 66 Electronic National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) Platform ..................................................................................... 66 Khola chilli gets GI tag .............................................................................................................................................. 68 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................................................................ 71 Henneguya Salminicola: Anaerobic Parasite ........................................................................................................... 71 Electronic Waste Recycling in India ......................................................................................................................... 71 WaxWorm- Plastic Eating Caterpillar ....................................................................................................................... 73 India shares SARS-CoV-2 genome ............................................................................................................................ 74 WHO declared SARS-CoV-2 a pandemic .................................................................................................................. 75 COVID-19 Virus ........................................................................................................................................................ 76 RaIDer-X ................................................................................................................................................................... 78 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND GLOBAL ISSUES .......................................................................................................... 80 Oil Price Diplomacy .................................................................................................................................................. 80 USA- Taliban Deal Breakdown ................................................................................................................................. 82 Deal signed between the US and Taliban ................................................................................................................ 85 HISTORY AND CULTURE ............................................................................................................................................... 86 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman .......................................................................................................................................... 86 UNESCO World Heritage Site 2020, India bats for inclusion of Dholavira & Deccan Sultanate Monuments .......... 87 www.brainyias.com BrainyIAS (84594-00000) GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY Why wildlife consumption became popular in China? Relevancy G.S. Paper 2 and 3 COVID-19 outbreak, reasons and role of China Why in news? Due to miscommunication and false rumors on internet, many people believe that eating non-veg can result in Coronavirus and thus avoiding it. China is blamed for their consumption of wildlife which might have resulted in Corona outbreak. Background China, a country of 1.4 billion people, has been the epicentre of several deadly global outbreaks in recent years like, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), bird flu, and now the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).