RESULTS Incredible results in IAS 2013 5 Ranks 62 Ranks in Top 50 Ranks in the final list Rank 9 Rank 12 Rank 23 Rank 40 Rank 46 Divyanshu Jha Neha Jain Prabhav joshi Gaurang Rathi Udita Singh We broke our past record in IAS 2014 6 Ranks 12 Ranks 83 Ranks in Top 50 in Top 100 Overall Selections Rank 4 Rank 5 Rank 16 Rank 23 Rank 28 Rank 39 Vandana Rao Suharsha Bhagat Ananya Das Anil Dhameliya Kushaal Yadav Vivekanand T.S We did it again in IAS 2015 5 Ranks 14 Ranks 162 Ranks in Top 50 in Top 100 In The Final List Rank 20 Rank 24 Rank 25 Rank 27 Rank 47 Vipin Garg Khumanthem Chandra Pulkit Garg Anshul Diana Devi Mohan Garg Agarwal And we’ve done it yet again in IAS 2016 8 Ranks 18 Ranks 215 Ranks in Top 50 in Top 100 In The Final List Rank 2 Rank 5 Rank 12 Rank 30 Rank 32 Anmol Sher Abhilash Tejaswi Prabhash Avdhesh Singh Bedi Mishra Rana Kumar Meena And we’ve done it yet again in IAS 2017 5 Ranks 34 Ranks 236 Ranks in Top 10 in Top 100 In The Final List Rank 3 Rank 6 Rank 8 Rank 9 Rank 10 Sachin Koya sree Anubhav Saumya Abhishek Gupta Harsha Singh Sharma Surana Ashima Abhijeet Varjeet Keerthi Utsav Gaurav Abhilash Vikramaditya Vishal Mittal Sinha Walia Vasan V Gautam Kumar Baranwal Singh Malik Mishra Rank-12 Rank-19 Rank-21 Rank-29 Rank-33 Rank-34 Rank-44 Rank-48 Rank-49 Sambit Bodke Akshat Jagdish Hirani Swapneel Jyoti Pushp Amol Mishra Digvijay Govind Kaushal Chelani Adityavikram Paul Sharma Lata Srivastava Rank-51 Rank-54 Rank-55 Rank-57 Rank-60 Rank-64 Rank-75 Rank-80 Rank-83 Prateek Amilineni Sangh Rahul Kathawate Vaibhava Videh Plash Shilpa Jain Bhargav Teja Priy Shinde Mayur Ashok Srivastava Khare Bansal Singh Rank-86 Rank-88 Rank-92 Rank-95 Rank-96 Rank-98 Rank-99 Rank-112 Rank-116 Deepanshu Saurabh Abhimanyu Akash Abinash Sameer Jyeshtha Aaditya Ram Khurana Sabhlok Manglik Bansal Kumar Saurabh Maitrei Mishra Prakash Rank-120 Rank-124 Rank-128 Rank-130 Rank-139 Rank-142 Rank-156 Rank-158 Rank-162 Mainak Archit Virendra Ankit Saurabh Kritika Nahar Pranay Siddhant Shubham Nikita Ghosh Rank-183 Chandak Yadav Gupta Jain Prakash Jain Agarwal Khattar Rank-184 Rank-191 Rank-192 Rank-197 Rank-199 Rank-201 Rank-202 Rank-208 Kruti M Smit Deepesh Ankit Saurabh Rajat R Harsh Ghuge Rohan Bharat Patel Lodha Kedia Jain Baranwal Chaturvedi Singh Bapurao Mittal Rank-218 Rank-219 Rank-221 Rank-222 Rank-235 Rank-237 Rank-244 Rank-249 Rank-256 Dinesh Kumar Govind Shanu Shiv Narayan Sanjay Nikhil Tuhin Vijaypal Shubhank Yadav Mohan Dimri Sharma Kumar Singh Sinha Bishnoi Mishra Rank-257 Rank-260 Rank-270 Rank-278 Rank-279 Rank-280 Rank-281 Rank-290 Rank-291 Shakti Mohan Lavanya Jagtap Gagdish Chetan Amandeep Budumajji Satya Aman Mohd Nooh Apurv Avasthy Gupta Shankar Sharma Dhanoa Prasad Bishla Siddiqui Chauhan Rank-296 Rank-298 Rank-304 Rank-305 Rank-311 Rank-313 Rank-314 Rank-326 Rank-328 JULY-2018 1 CONTENT CHAPTER TITLE PAGE 1 Polity 7 • Braille-enabled Voter IDs launched by EC • cVigil • CIC bilingual Mobile app • Delhi be given statehood? • DISHA dashboard • Electoral reforms • Fake News • Gambling should be allowed but regulated says law commission • Judicial Appointments: In need of a practical plan • L-G bound by ‘aid and advice’ of Delhi govt., says Constitution Bench • Live streaming of court proceedings can be undertaken Center to S • No Confidence Motion/ No-Trust Motion • Pending Cases in Court • Polavaram Project • Police Chiefs will be appointed after consultation with UPSC • Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill, 2018 • Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2018 • Rule of Law Index • Witch-Hunt bill cleared by President kovind • Uttarakhand HC declares animal kingdom a legal entity • Aspirational districts- Govt. deploys 800 IAS officers for village outreach Call or WhatsApp 09980837187 for guidance JULY-2018 2 2 ECONOMY 20 • Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement • Central Motor Vehicles Rules • Cities Investment to Innovate, Integrate and Sustain (CITIIS) Challenge • Champion Services Sectors • Coal Mine Surveillance & Management System (CMSMS) • Companies Act, 2013 • Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) • E-Commerce Task Force • Ease of Doing Business- rankings of States in India • EV30@30 Campaign • FDI Confidence Index • Global Mobility Summit • GST day • IFFCO iMand • Jute Sector • India now sixth-largest economy, squeezing past France • ‘Khan Prahari’ App • Minimum Support Price for paddy hiked • Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region (MOVCDNER) • NAMASYA • Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Bill, 2017 • Purvanchal Expressway • Shram Suvidha Portal (SSP) • Solar import duty to drive costs- Boon or Bane • Startup India Yatra • Sunil Mehta Committee • World Customs Organization (WCO) • World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaties • World’s largest mobile manufacturing plant in Noida • Alternative cereals can save water • Government forms panel to upgrade norms for state, district level economic data collection • RBI flags States fiscal stress • Trade War: China sees towards India for Pharmacy • Sustainability and energy security: A clean cooking strategy • Moody’s survey shows oil prices as the main risk to India’s economy Call or WhatsApp 09980837187 for guidance JULY-2018 3 3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 32 • Africa visit by PM • BRICS- Regional Aviation Partnership • Girinka • Immigration Visa Foreigners Registration & Tracking (IVFRT) • Israel’s ‘Nation State’ Law • Joint Exercises conducted by Airforce • Joint Exercises conducted by Army • Joint Exercises conducted by Navy • Long-Term Visas (LTVs) • Mattala Airport • Pakistan Elections • Project Amad • Resolution 2427 • Return of Prisoners to place of Origin • UNHRC and human rights • Delhi, Seoul signed 11 MoUs and agreements between them • South Korean President Moon Jae four-day visit to India • United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) • India-U.K. bilateral ties- Lack of Trust in relationship 4 SOCIAL ISSUES 42 • Adoption of Children • Adultery must remain a punishable offence, Centre tells Supreme Court • Anti-Trafficking Bill Draft • Baiga • Commission for de-notified, semi-nomadic, nomadic tribes • Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) questioned by SC • India Smart Cities Fellowship (ISCF) Program • Jeeja Ghosh & Anr v Union of India & Ors (2012) case • Lynching: Create separate laws says SC to Union and statesWomen in Prisons • Malnourished children underreported in Odisha • Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention • National Workshop on Skill Development for Persons with Disabilities • National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) • Pardhi community • Sabarimala temple bar unreasonable: SC • Section 377 • Swachh Survekshan Grameen (SSG) 2018 • Smart Urbanization is the need of the hour Call or WhatsApp 09980837187 for guidance JULY-2018 4 5 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 51 • Brainy Skin • Center of Excellence (CoE) for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence by NASSCOM • Crew Interactive Mobile Companion, or CIMON • DNA Profiling Bill • Gravitational Waves Observatory • Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) • Long March-9 rocket /Changzheng rocket • Net Neutrality • Pad Abort Test by ISRO • Parker Solar Probe • Space Wars • Scientific Research Infrastructure for Maintenance and Networks (SRIMAN) • TRAI - ‘Users own data, not entities storing them • Vikas Engine 6 SECURITY AND DEFENSE RELATED 57 • BrahMos tested in extreme weather conditions • Counter-drone strategy for country’s airports • Drug Laws in India need changes • Jammu Kashmir Police can book Army Personnel? SC to decide • Kargil Vijay Diwas • People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PRePaK) • Reang tribe (Brus in Mizoram) • RIMPAC • Social Media Communication (SMC) hub • Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act - A flawed Legislation Call or WhatsApp 09980837187 for guidance JULY-2018 5 7 ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY 63 • Bandipur National Park • Blacktip Shark • Black Soft-shell Turtle • Central Institute of Plastics Engineering &Technology (CIPET) • Dhole/ Asiatic Wild Dog/ Indian Wild Dog/ Red Dog • Dry Sorbent Injection (DSI) system • Formalin in Fish • Furadan • Ganga Praharis • Ganga Vriksharopan Abhiyan • IndARC • Indian Pangolin/ Thick-tailed Pangolin • Kanha National Park • Koalas • MSTrIPES • National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research renamed • Neelakurinji/ Strobilanthes kunthiana • Nilgiri Tahr • Online Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems (OCEMS) • Red Panda/ Lesser Panda/ Red Cat-bear • Salicornia • Southeast Asian Narrow-headed Softshell Turtle/ Chitra chitra • Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Inventories in Asia (WGIA) • Mercenary Conservation: wildlife private conservancy • Belize’s reef, an underwater wonder, may be out of risk 8 HEALTH ISSUES 69 • Antara and Chhaya • Eat Right Movement • Medical Tourism • National Health Stack (NHS) • Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine • TB- Turning the tables 9 EDUCATION 72 • IISc, IIT-D chosen for special grants • INSPIRE Awards-MANAK • Meritocracy in China • National Council for Teacher Education (Amendment) Bill Call or WhatsApp 09980837187 for guidance JULY-2018 6 10 ART AND CULTURE 75 • Aanayoottu • Advaita, Dvaita and Visishtadvaita • Badshahi Ashoorkhana • Behdienkhlam Festival • Bengei Nacha • Burra Katha • Gonds Painting • India Tourism Mart • Madhubani/ Mithila Painting – Bihar 11 DISASTER MANAGEMENT 80 • Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) • Ensemble Prediction Systems • Global Centre for Disaster Statistics (GCDS) • National Disaster Risk Index • Operation Nistar • Flood of despair: