PRE-Cure (Relevant Current Affairs for UPSC Civil Services Examination) Weekly Compilation for 1st & 2nd Week of March 2021 (1st March to 13th March) Visit our website www.sleepyclasses.com or our YouTube channel for entire GS Course FREE of cost Also Available: Prelims Crash Course || Prelims Test Series T.me/SleepyClasses Table of Contents 1. Geography ..............................................................................................................1 1.1.West Container Terminal offer to India- Japan and Sri Lanka ..................................1 1.2.Uighurs Muslims .....................................................................................................................2 1.3.International commission on Large Dams (ICOlD) .......................................................4 1.4.International Centres for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) ..............................4 1.5.River Beas ................................................................................................................................4 1.6.Japan Protests after Two Chines Coast Guard Ships Enter Islands In east China Sea 5 1.7.Sitandi Udanti Tiger Reserve ..............................................................................................5 1.8.Declining Rainfall in Cherrapunji .......................................................................................6 1.9.Carbon Watch App ................................................................................................................6 1.10.National Hydrogen Energy Mission ................................................................................6 1.11.What is Species Recovery Program ................................................................................7 1.12.Swachhta Saarthi Fellowships .........................................................................................7 1.13.PM- STIAC .............................................................................................................................8 1.14.City Innovation Exchange (CIX) ......................................................................................9 1.15.Aroma Mission .....................................................................................................................9 1.16.North East Cane and Bamboo Development Council (NECBDC) ..........................9 1.17.Restructured Bamboo Mission ........................................................................................10 1.18.Maritime India Summit 2021 ..........................................................................................10 1.19.GM Crops ...............................................................................................................................10 1.20.Minning in Aravalis .............................................................................................................11 1.21.National River Rejuvenation Mechanism .....................................................................11 1.22.Lands Ports Authority Of India (LPAI) ...........................................................................12 1.23.Hirakund Dam/Mahanadi ................................................................................................12 1.24.Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) .......................................................................................14 1.25.Nag River ...............................................................................................................................14 1.26.Ease of Living Index (EOLI) ...............................................................................................14 1.27.Municipal Performance Index 2020 ..............................................................................15 1.28.Hazaras ..................................................................................................................................15 1.29.Freedom In the World 2021 Report ...............................................................................15 1.30.International North South Transport Corridor ............................................................16 1.31.Countries Biggest Floating Solar Power Plant .............................................................17 1.32.Godavari River .....................................................................................................................17 1.33.Van Dhan Vikas Kendras Initiative .................................................................................17 1.34.Maitri Setu Inaugurated ....................................................................................................17 www.sleepyclasses.com Call 6280133177 1.35.Ports In Bangladesh ............................................................................................................19 1.36.Bashar Chan Island .............................................................................................................19 1.37.Pench Tiger Reserve of Maharastra ...............................................................................19 1.38.International Lunar Research Station ...........................................................................20 1.39.Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary ......................................................................................21 1.40.Chabahar Port ......................................................................................................................21 1.41.Bangladesh - Bhutan -India- Nepal Motor Vehicles Agreement .............................22 1.42.Sasec - (BBIN - MMS) .........................................................................................................23 1.43.Sub-Mission of Agroforestry Scheme .............................................................................23 1.44.CSIR Floriculture Mission ..................................................................................................23 1.45.FSI Report on Forest Fires .................................................................................................24 1.46.China Plans to Build Downstream Dams on Brahmaputra .....................................25 1.47.China -Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) 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Polity & International Relations .....................................................................28 2.1.Haryana’s Quota Law ...........................................................................................................28 2.2.Government amends Insurance Ombudsman Rules ....................................................29 2.3.Expressing views different from govt’s not sedition-SC ...............................................30 2.4.Reservation of seats for SCs, STs and OBCs in local bodies ........................................31 2.5.Government planning to establish All-India judicial service ......................................32 2.6.Freedom in the World 2021: Democracy under Siege .................................................33 2.7.International North South Transport Corridor ..............................................................34 2.8.India reaffirms Lanka defence ties .....................................................................................35 3. Economy .................................................................................................................37 3.1.The US 2021 President’s Trade Agenda and 2020 Annual Report .........................37 3.2.What are spectrum auctions ...............................................................................................37 3.3.Cess, surcharge share doubles to 19.9% of central taxes in FY21: Report .............38 3.4.OPEC+ move to hit recovery ...............................................................................................39 3.5.Bangladesh receives UN recommendation for graduating from LDC ......................40 3.6.Govt announces ‘One District One Focus Produce’ programme ...............................41 3.7.MP, WB, Odisha top in land records digitisation: NCAER study ...............................41 3.8.UNGA adopts India-sponsored resolution, declares 2023 as International Year of Millets .........................................................................................................................................42 3.9.Jharkhand tables the “First Outcome-Based Budget” .................................................43 3.10.Draft paper on blue economy ...........................................................................................44 3.11.First anniversary of the Central Sector Scheme on "Formation & Promotion of 10,000 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)" ..........................................................................45 3.12.PM-KUSUM: Focus shifts from pump to agri feeder ..................................................45 3.13.NITI Aayog's proposal to revise National Food Security Act 2013 .......................46 T.me/SleepyClasses 3.14.India presses for waiver of TRIPS proposal at WTO ..................................................47 3.15.Inclusion of fuel under GST could prove beneficial ....................................................48 www.sleepyclasses.com Call 6280133177 T.me/SleepyClasses 1. 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