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1 JournalsOfIndia November 2020 Contact Us 9964432222 ­­­ Monthly Mains Manifesto October 2020 JournalsOfIndia com 2 INDEX AGRICULTURE International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics(ICRISAT) 08 Sahakar Pragya of the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) 08 Formation and promotion of 10,000 Farmer Produce Organizations (FPOs) 09 DISASTER MANAGEMENT Colour coded warnings of IMD for Cyclones 11 National Disaster Response Force(NDRF) 11 National Crisis Management Committee 12 ECONOMY Credit default swaps (CDS) of RBI 13 Emergency credit line guarantee scheme (eclgs) 13 India’s �irst sea plane project 14 NCAER Report 14 Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) 15 Virtual Global Investor Roundtable 15 Ropax shipping 16 IFFCO 16 Prime minister employment generation programme (PMEGP) 17 EEPC India 17 Lique�ied Natural Gas (LNG) 18 Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India(IRDAI) 18 National Hydroelectric Power Corporation(NHPC) 19 Ministry of Shipping to be renamed 19 Lique�ied Natural Gas (LNG) 20 RailTel 21 National Mineral Development Corporation(NMDC) 21 World’s largest toy museum to be set up in Gujarat 22 Infrastructure Viability Gap Funding Scheme 22 Income Tax Appellate Tribunal 23 Tax Terrorism 24 The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) 24 Capital goods 25 Insider Trading 25 Vocal for local 25 Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) 26 Policy on FDI in Digital Media 27 Floating Rate Bond and Other kinds of bonds 27 PM-FME Scheme 28 Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) 29 NSS Report: Time Use in India-2019 29 Nutraceutical industry 30 IBRD’s aid to Meghalaya Integrated Transport Project 31 Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund (FIDF) 31 National Investment and Infrastructure Fund & its Infrastructure debt �inancing platform 32 Monthly Prelims Snippets November 2020 JournalsOfIndia com 3 Virtual currency 33 Input tax credit system in India 33 Emergency credit line guarantee scheme 1.0 and 2.0 34 RE-INVEST 2020 35 International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics(ICRISAT) 08 Human Resource Management System (HRMS)of Indian railways 35 Sahakar Pragya of the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) 08 Invest India 36 Formation and promotion of 10,000 Farmer Produce Organizations (FPOs) 09 GST shortfall and the options provided by centre to the states 37 Draft Merchant shipping bill 2020 37 Motor vehicle aggregator guidelines 2020 38 Uni�ied single window clearance system for FDI 39 ENVIRONMENT Guidelines to regulate and control groundwater extraction 40 Mansar Lake Development Plan 40 Credit default swaps (CDS) of RBI 13 Environment (protection)amendment rules 2020 41 Emergency credit line guarantee scheme (eclgs) 13 Hazardous & other wastes amendment rules 2020 41 India’s �irst sea plane project 14 Pink Bloom 41 NCAER Report 14 Ganga Utsav, 2020 42 Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) 15 India ceo forum on climate change 42 Virtual Global Investor Roundtable 15 Biodiversity heritage sites 42 Ropax shipping 16 Net Zero Emissions 43 IFFCO 16 National Ambient Air Quality Standards 43 Prime minister employment generation programme (PMEGP) 17 Shivalik Elephant Reserve 44 EEPC India 17 Energy Conservation (EC) Act, 2001 44 Lique�ied Natural Gas (LNG) 18 Operation Thunder 2020 45 Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India(IRDAI) 18 Red Sandalwood 45 National Hydroelectric Power Corporation(NHPC) 19 Rohanix-alus-New genus of the Old World tree frog 46 Ministry of Shipping to be renamed 19 Jeevika 46 Lique�ied Natural Gas (LNG) 20 First Snow Leopard Census 47 RailTel 21 Geo-polymer aggregate 47 National Mineral Development Corporation(NMDC) 21 Lonar lake is a new Ramsar site 48 World’s largest toy museum to be set up in Gujarat 22 National Water Awards 2019 48 Infrastructure Viability Gap Funding Scheme 22 New species of vine snakes 49 Income Tax Appellate Tribunal 23 India’s �irst Green Energy Convergence Project 49 Tax Terrorism 24 Vulture Action Plan 2020-25 50 The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) 24 Deemed Forests 51 Capital goods 25 Regasi�ication of LNG 52 Insider Trading 25 Refuse Derived Fuel 52 Vocal for local 25 What is Biomining? 53 Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) 26 The willow warbler 53 Policy on FDI in Digital Media 27 Energy Technology Perspectives 2020 53 Floating Rate Bond and Other kinds of bonds 27 India climate change knowledge portal 54 PM-FME Scheme 28 Blue Tide 54 Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) 29 Climate Resilient Development 55 NSS Report: Time Use in India-2019 29 Nutraceutical industry 30 FOREIGN AFFAIRS IBRD’s aid to Meghalaya Integrated Transport Project 31 10% Reservation For Economically Weaker Section In Un Reserved Category 57 Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund (FIDF) 31 India-UAE High Level Joint Task Force on Investments 57 National Investment and Infrastructure Fund & its Infrastructure debt �inancing platform 32 Virtual workshop of BRICS Competition Agencies 57 Monthly Prelims Snippets November 2020 4 1st BRICS Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting 58 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action 59 Obama care 59 17th ASEAN-India Summit 60 15th East-Asia summit 61 8th BRICS STI Ministerial Meeting 61 International Atomic Energy Agency 62 Executive Board of WHO 62 3rd Annual Bloomberg New Economy Forum 63 12th BRICS Summit 63 International Maritime Organization(IMO) 64 World Fisheries Day-2020 64 Guidelines to regulate and control groundwater extraction 40 15th G20 Leaders’ Summit 65 Mansar Lake Development Plan 40 United Nations Population Award 66 Environment (protection)amendment rules 2020 41 Hazardous & other wastes amendment rules 2020 41 GEOGRAPHY Pink Bloom 41 SPIRAL GALAXIES 67 Ganga Utsav, 2020 42 Luhri hydro power project 67 India ceo forum on climate change 42 Exoplanets and Goldilocks Zone 67 Biodiversity heritage sites 42 Collision between Space Junk and monitoring of Junk 68 Net Zero Emissions 43 Leonid meteor showers 68 National Ambient Air Quality Standards 43 Cyclone Nivar 69 Shivalik Elephant Reserve 44 Energy Conservation (EC) Act, 2001 44 GOVERNANCE Operation Thunder 2020 45 Shri Shakti Challenge 70 Red Sandalwood 45 Academic Freedom Index (AFI) 70 Rohanix-alus-New genus of the Old World tree frog 46 Public Affairs Index-2020 71 Jeevika 46 International version of UMANG App 72 First Snow Leopard Census 47 Geo-polymer aggregate 47 HISTORY Lonar lake is a new Ramsar site 48 All india trade union congress 73 National Water Awards 2019 48 Acharya J B Kripalani 73 New species of vine snakes 49 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 74 India’s �irst Green Energy Convergence Project 49 Birsa Munda 74 Vulture Action Plan 2020-25 50 Bhai Dooj 75 Deemed Forests 51 Chhath puja-2020 75 Regasi�ication of LNG 52 Rani Lakshmibai 76 Refuse Derived Fuel 52 Lachit Borphukan 76 What is Biomining? 53 Guru Tegh Bahadur 77 The willow warbler 53 Energy Technology Perspectives 2020 53 LAW AND POLICY India climate change knowledge portal 54 The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine Bill, 2019 78 Blue Tide 54 The Indian Medicine Central Council (Amendment) Bill, 2020 79 Climate Resilient Development 55 The National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions Bill, 2020 79 Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2020 80 Standing Committee report on virtual courts 80 Nyay koushal e-resource centre 81 ROSHNI ACT of Jammu and Kashmir 81 The Criminal Law(Amendment) Act, 2018 81 Monthly Prelims Snippets November 2020 JournalsOfIndia com 5 International virtual election visitors programme 2020 (ievp) 82 Star campaigner 82 Shreya Singhal vs Union of India case key judgements 83 Differential licencing in Telecom 83 Draft model tenancy act 84 Committee to review Guidelines on Television Rating Agencies in India 84 Inspire scheme 85 Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) 85 Over The Top(OTT) platforms 86 Aatmanirbhar Bharat Rozgar Yojana 86 Digital Life Certi�icate through Postman 87 New Chief Information Commissioner of India 87 Draft rules under the Code on Social Security-2020 88 Recusal of Judge 89 Supreme Court’s interpretation of Article 32 of the Indian Constitution 90 Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India 90 Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) approach in education 91 Virtual courts 92 Ananda- Atmanirbhar Agents New Business Digital App 92 Maternity bene�its for second child 93 Nyaya Bandhu app 94 ADIP scheme 94 All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) 95 SCIENCE AND TECH VAIBHAV Summit 96 D614G mutation in coronavirus 96 Herd immunity for covid-19 96 Enhanced version of pinaka rocket system 97 Immunoglobulins 97 Kepler Spacecraft 98 PSLV-C49/EOS-01 Mission 98 AIM–Sirius Innovation Programme 3.0 99 India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2020 99 Fire Detection and Suppression System (FDSS) 100 Polygraph Test 100 mRNA Vaccine 100 Thirty Meter Telescope(TMT) 101 P�izer’s COVID vaccine-BNT162b2 102 Pneumonia and Diarrhoea Progress Report by IVAC 103 CSIR’s Emergency Retrieval System (ERS) 103 Hepatitis C drugs shown to inhibit coronavirus enzyme 104 COVAXIN 104 Monthly Prelims Snippets November 2020 JournalsOfIndia com 6 Swarnajayanti Fellowship 105 Duchenne muscular dystrophy 105 International virtual election visitors programme 2020 (ievp) 82 India’s AI supercomputer Param Siddhi 106 Star campaigner 82 Oversight body for Arti�icial Intelligence 106 Shreya Singhal vs Union of India case key judgements 83 Immune system and COVID 19 107 Differential
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    T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S Glimpses of Jhansi's History Jhansi Through The Ages Newalkars of Jhansi What Really Happened in Jhansi in 1857? Attractions in and around Jhansi Jhansi Fort Rani Mahal Ganesh Mandir Mahalakshmi Temple Gangadharrao Chhatri Star Fort Jokhan Bagh St Jude’s Shrine Jhansi Cantonment Cemetery Jhansi Railway Station Orchha I N T R O D U C T I O N Jhansi is one of the most vibrant cities of Uttar Pradesh today. But the city is also steeped in history. The city of Rani Laxmibai - the brave queen who led her forces against the British in 1857 and the region around it, are dotted with monuments that go back more than 1500 years! While thousands of tourists visit Jhansi each year, many miss the layered past of the city. In fact, few who visit the famous Jhansi Fort each year, even know that it is in its historic Ganesh Mandir that Rani Laxmibai got married. Or that there is also a ‘second’ Fort hidden within the Jhansi cantonment, where the revolt of 1857 first began in the city. G L I M P S E S O F J H A N S I ’ S H I S T O R Y JHANSI THROUGH THE AGES Jhansi, the historic town and major tourist draw in Uttar Pradesh, is known today largely because of its famous 19th-century Queen, Rani Laxmibai, and the fearless role she played during the Revolt of 1857. There are also numerous monuments that dot Jhansi, remnants of the Bundelas and Marathas that ruled here from the 17th to the 19th centuries.