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1. POLITY AND GOVERNANCE ______4 5.6. E-waste ______48 1.1. India’s Second Voluntary National Review 5.7. Marine Plastic Pollution ______49 (VNR) ______4 5.8. Sustainable Ocean Economy for 2050 Report 1.2. The Consumer Protection Act,2019 ______6 ______51 1.3. Issue of Local Reservation in Private Sector 5.9. Cooling Emissions and Policy Synthesis Jobs ______8 Report ______53 2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______10 5.10. Virtual Water ______54 2.1. India-E.U. Relations ______10 5.11. Watershed Development ______55 2.2. Chabahar - Zahedan Railway Line ______11 5.12. Hydropower Projects in Northeast _____ 56 2.3. United Nations Convention on the Law of the 5.13. Tiger Status Report 2018 ______58 Sea (UNCLOS) ______13 6. SOCIAL ISSUES ______60 3. ECONOMY ______16 6.1. New Education Policy 2020 ______60 3.1. Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2020 6.1.1. School Education ______60 ______16 6.1.2. Higher Education ______63 6.1.3. Other Major Provisions ______65 3.2. Private Participation in Railways ______18 6.1.4. Analysis of New Education Policy-2020 ___ 65 3.3. Privatising Discoms ______19 6.2. Role of ASHAs During Pandemic ______67 3.4. Affordable Housing ______21 6.3. Lancet Study on Population Trends ______69 3.5. Special Liquidity Scheme for NBFCs and HFCs 6.4. State of Food Security and Nutrition in the ______23 World 2020 ______70 3.6. Financing of MSME Sector ______26 7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ______72 3.7. Unified Gas Price System ______27 7.1. Nano Technology in Agriculture ______72 3.8. Bundling Scheme for Round-the-clock (RTC) 7.2. Accelerate Vigyan ______73 Power Supply ______28 8. CULTURE ______74 3.9. Model Concession Agreement for BOT Model ______29 8.1. Gurjara-Pratiharas ______74 3.10. National Land Management Corporation 30 9. ETHICS ______75 4. SECURITY ______32 9.1. Social and Emotional Learning______75 4.1. Militarization of Andaman and Nicobar 10. SCHEMES IN NEWS ______78 Islands ______32 10.1. Schemes for Medical Devices ______78 4.2. Non-Personal Data ______33 11. NEWS IN SHORT ______79 4.3. Space Warfare ______35 11.1. States to be Ranked on Financial Management Index (FMI) for Rural Development ______79 5. ENVIRONMENT ______38 11.2. AIM iCREST ______79 11.3. Capital Procurement Powers to Armed Forces 5.1. Draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), ______79 2020 ______38 11.4. Operation Samudra Setu ______79 5.2. COVID-19 and Its Impact on Environment and 11.5. Fish Cryobanks ______79 Climate Change Efforts ______40 11.6. Central Zoo Authority Reconstituted ______80 11.7. Protected Areas – Dehing Patkai ______80 5.3. Decarbonising Transport ______42 11.8. KAZI 106F ______80 11.9. Black Panther ______81 5.4. Agricultural Emissions in India ______44 11.10. Germany to Become First Major Economy to 5.5. Methane Emissions ______46 Phase Out Coal, Nuclear Power ______81

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11.11. Pied Cuckoo to be Tracked in Migration, 11.23. Latent Viral Infection (LVI) ______83 Climate Change Study ______81 11.24. BelYo ______83 11.12. New Human Fingerprint on Global Drought 11.25. Yellow Fever ______83 Patterns ______81 11.26. Mars Missions ______84 11.13. Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) Launches 11.27. Asteroid 2020 ND ______84 KRCNet and Mobile App "Mausam” ______82 11.28. India’s First In-orbit Space Debris Monitoring 11.14. Initiatives for Energy Efficiency & Promoting e- and Tracking System ______84 mobility Launched ______82 11.29. Siddi Community ______84 11.15. Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan 11.30. Kashmir Saffron gets Geographical Indication Puraskar ______82 (GI) Certificate ______85 11.16. YuWaah ____