1. POLITY AND GOVERNANCE
January 2020 – Polity
1.1. Article 131 of Indian Constitution
1.2. Office of the Speaker and the Issue of Defection
1.3. SC’s Verdicts on Curbing Restrictions
1.4. Aadhar report
1.5. Enemy Properties
1.6. Regulating Minority Educational Institutions
1.7. EWS Quota in States
1.8. All India Judicial Services
1.9. Fast Track Special Courts
February 2020 – Polity
1.1. Criminalization of Politics
1.3. Job Reservations, Promotion Quotas not a Fundamental Right
1.5. Gram Nyayalayas
1.6. Inner Line Permit
1.7. 22nd Law Commission of India
1.9. National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment (NeSDA) 2019
March 2020 – Polity
1.2. Right to Property
1.3. Anti-Defection law
1.4. Draft Recommendations of ECI On Electoral Reforms
1.5. National Open Digital Ecosystem
1.6. World Happiness Report 2020
April 2020 – Polity
1.2. Role of Civil Society in Times of Crisis
1.3. COVID-19 and India’s Legal Framework
1.3.1. Ordinance to Protect Health Workers
1.4. Reservation Policy
1.6. Regulation of Government Advertisements
May 2020 – Polity
1.1. One Nation, One Ration Card
1.2. Government Advertisements on Social Media Platforms
June 2020 – Polity
1.1. Custodial Violence
1.2. Online Dispute Resolution
1.3. 5th Anniversary of Urban Missions
July 2020 – Polity
1.3. India’s second Voluntary National Review (VNR)
1.2. The Consumer Protection Act 2019
1.3. Issue of Local Reservations in the Private Sector Jobs
2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
January 2020 – International Relations
2.1. New and Emerging Strategic Technologies Division
2.2. South China Sea
2.3. Israel-Palestine
2.5. Iran-USA Standoff
February 2020 – International Relations
2.2. US-Taliban Agreement
2.3. SAARC Revival
2.4. India – Myanmar
2.5. BBIN Agreement
2.6. Brexit: UK Leaves the European Union
March 2020 – International Relations
2.1. India’s Soft Power
2.2. Multiparty Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement at WTO
2.3. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at 50
April 2020 – International Relations
2.1. Medical Diplomacy
2.2. Collective Action in the Times of COVID
2.3. Role of WHO
2.4. Trans-boundary River Water Management
May 2020 – International Relations
2.1. India- China Border Dispute
2.2. India -Taiwan
2.3. Indo-Nepal Territorial Dispute
2.5. Non-Aligned Movement
2.6. World Health Assembly (WHA)
2.7. New Security Law In Hong Kong
2.8. Open Skies Treaty
June 2020 – International Relations
2.1. India-Australia Relations
2.2. E-Diplomacy
2.3. India’s Energy Cooperation with Neighbouring Countries
2.4. India Elected Non-permanent Member of UN Security Council (UNSC)
2.5. European Union Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA)
July 2020 – International Relations
2.1. India-E.U. Relations
2.2. Chabahar – Zahedan Railway Line
2.3. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
3. ECONOMY
January 2020 – Economy
3.1. Report of the 15th Finance Commission for FY 2020-21
3.2. National Strategy for Financial inclusion
3.3. Stressed Urban Co-operative Banks to Face PCA-like Curbs
3.4. E-Commerce in India
3.5. The Mineral Laws (Amendment) Ordinance 2020
3.6. Road Infrastructure Funding
3.7. Draft Guidelines for Private Trains
3.8. Draft Scheme for Supply of Round-The-Clock (RTC) Power
3.9. North-East Gas Grid Project
3.10. Vision document – NDAP by NITI Aayog for easy access of data
3.11. World Employment and Social Outlook
February 2020 – Economy
3.1. Revitalizing SEZs
3.2. Vadhavan Port
3.3. Formation and Promotion of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)
3.6. Technical Textiles
3.8. CRR leeway for New Retail and MSME Loans
3.9. Declining Investments in P-notes
3.10. Ease of Living Index and Municipal Performance Index 2019
March 2020 – Economy
3.1. Economic Impact of COVID-19
3.2. Task Force on Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP)
3.3. Consolidation of Public Sector Banks
3.4. Basel III Norms
3.5. Mineral Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2020
3.6. Electronics Manufacturing
3.7. Taxing Global Technology Companies
3.8. Direct Tax Vivad se Vishwas Act, 2020
3.9. Fully Accessible Route for G-Secs
3.10. LLP Settlement Scheme
April 2020 – Economy
3.1. National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP)
3.2. Revised FDI Policy
3.3. COVID-19 and Poverty
3.4. Other Reports on Various Impacts of COVID-19
3.4.1. Shared Responsibility, Global Solidarity” Report
3.4.2. ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the World of Work
3.4.3. Update of UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report
3.4.4. Global Energy Review 2020
3.5. Special Liquidity Facility for Mutual Funds (SLF-MF)
3.7. Report on Industrial Relations Code
3.8. Negative Oil Prices
3.9. WTO Peace Clause
3.10. Special Drawing Rights
3.11. Minor Forest Produce
3.12. District Mineral Foundation (DMF)
3.13. Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020
3.14. Open Market Sale Scheme (OMSS)
3.15. Atal Innovation Mission
May 2020 – Economy
3.1. Atmanirbhar Bharat: What, Why and How?
3.2. Status Paper on Government Debt
3.3. SARFAESI Act
3.4. TRIPS Flexibilities
3.5. Labour Law Reforms
3.6. Impact of Energy Efficiency Measures for the Year 2018-19 Report
3.7. Energy Transition Index Report
3.9. Draft National Fisheries Policy 2020
3.10. Rice Export Promotion Forum
June 2020 – Economy
3.2. Suspension of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC)
3.3. Banking Regulation (Amendment) Ordinance 2020
3.4. Payments Infrastructure Development Fund
3.5. Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT)
3.6. International Comparison Program of World Bank
3.7. World Investment Report 2020
3.8. Empowered Group of Secretaries and Project Development Cells
3.10. Social Stock Exchange
3.11. Indian Gas Exchange (IGX)
3.12. Real Time Market in Electricity
3.13. AGRIDEX
3.14. Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund
July 2020 – Economy
3.1. Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2020
3.2. Private Participation in Railways
3.3. Privatising Discoms
3.4. Affordable Housing
3.5. Special Liquidity Scheme for NBFCs and HFCs
3.8. Bundling Scheme for Round-the-clock (RTC) Power Supply
3.9. Model Concession Agreement for BOT Model
3.10. National Land Management Corporation
4. SECURITY
January 2020 – Security
4.1. Bodo Peace Accord
4.2. Pact to end Bru Refugee Crisis
4.3. Kuki- Naga Militants Sign Pact
4.4. Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre
February 2020 – Security
4.1. Integrated Air Defence Weapon System (IADWS)
March 2020 – Security
4.1. Draft Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2020
4.2. Fake News
April 2020 – Security
4. 4.1. Epidemics and National Security
4.2. Organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons
May 2020 – Security
4.1. Border Infrastructure and Shekatkar Committee Recommendations
4.2. Indian Army Proposes Tour of Duty
June 2020 – Security
4.1. Police Preparedness During COVID-19 Pandemic
4.2. “Lone Wolf” Attacks
4.3. Financial Action Task Force
July 2020 – Security
4.1. Militarization of Andaman and Nicobar Islands
4.2. Non-Personal Data
4.3. Space Warfare
5. ENVIRONMENT
January 2020 – Environment
5.1. Green Economy
5.2. Coral Restoration
5.3. Guidelines for Implementing Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2017
5.4. 10 New Ramsar Sites in India
5.5. Urban Lakes
5.6. Compensatory Afforestation: Green Credit Scheme
5.7. African Cheetah
5.8. State Energy Efficiency Preparedness Index 2019
5.9. Enforcement & Monitoring Guidelines for Sand Mining
5.10. Hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC)-141 b
5.11. New Monsoon Dates
5.12. Australian Bush Fire
February 2020 – Environment
5.1. CMS CoP 13
5.2. Draft Visionary Perspective Plan to Conserve Birds
5.3. Highways through Tiger Reserves and Underpasses
5.4. Ultra Mega Renewable Energy Parks
5.5. Energy- Water-Agriculture Nexus: NITI Aayog
5.6. Arsenic Contamination in Groundwater
5.8. Scientific Disposal and Utilization of Fly Ash
5.9. Locust Attack
5.10. Southern Ocean scientific expedition
5.11. Organic Agriculture trends and stats
5.12. INCOIS Launches Services for Marine-Based Users
March 2020 – Environment
5.2. Draft Environment Impact Assessment Notification 2020
5.3. Eco-Sensitive Zones
5.4. UN World Water Development Report
5.5. Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure
5.6. Living Entity
5.7. BEE: Star Rating Programme
April 2020 – Environment
5.1. COVID-19 and Disaster Management
5.2. Green Bonds
5.3. Supreme Court Relaxes BS-IV Deadline
5.4. Petcoke
5.6. Arctic Ozone Hole
5.7. Petersberg Climate Dialogue
5.8. Naming Of Tropical Cyclones
5.9. Antarctica Experiences First Known Heat Wave
May 2020 – Environment
5.1. Locust Attack
5.2. Super Year for Biodiversity
5.3. UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
5.4. Gas Leak at Vizag
5.5. State of the World’s Forests Report 2020
5.6. India’s First Dolphin Observatory
5.7. Cyclone Management in India
5.8. Climate Adaptation and Resilience for South Asia (CARE) Project
June 2020 – Environment
5.1. Climate Change and Its Impact on Indian Region
5.2. Gender, Climate & Security
5.3. Loss of Ice Cover in The Arctic Sea
5.4. Natural Barriers to Natural Disasters
5.5. Urban Flooding
5.6. One Sun One World One Grid
5.7. Extended Producers Responsibility
5.8. COVID-19 Biomedical Waste Management
5.9. Seabed 2030 project
5.10. India’s First Lichen Park
July 2020 – Environment
5.1. Draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), 2020
5.2. COVID-19 and Its Impact on Environment and
Climate Change Efforts
5.4. Agricultural Emissions in India
5.5. Methane Emissions
5.6. E-waste
5.8. Sustainable Ocean Economy for 2050 Report
5.9. Cooling Emissions and Policy Synthesis
Report
5.10. Virtual Water
5.11. Watershed Development
5.12. Hydropower Projects in Northeast
5.13. Tiger Status Report 2018
6. SOCIAL ISSUES
January 2020 – Social Issues
6.1. Income Inequality
6.2. Global Social Mobility Index
6.3. Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020
6.4. Anganwadi Workers
6.5. Adoption in India
6.6. Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2019
February 2020 – Social Issues
6.1. Permanent Commission and Command positions to Women Army Officers
6.2. Women and Digital Literacy
6.3. National Consultation on the Review of Beijing +25
March 2020 – Social Issues
6.1. Internal Migration
6.2. Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) [Phase II]
6.2.1. ODF+ and ODF++
6.3. Report on Progress of Beijing Declaration
6.4. POCSO Rules 2020
6.5. Children’s Right and their Future
6.6. Tech for Tribals
April 2020 – Social Issues
6.1. Urbanisation of Pandemics
6.2. Gender Violence and COVID-19
6.3. Global Report on Internal Displacement
6.4. Global Education Coalition
6.5. Vidyadaan 2.0
May 2020 – Social Issues
6.1. COVID 19 and Mental Health
6.2. E-Learning
6.3. Global Nutrition Report 2020 (GNR)
June 2020 – Social Issues
6.1. Urban Poor
6.2. Drug Abuse in India
6.3. Gender Dimensions of the COVID-19 Pandemic
6.4. COVID-19 and India’s Healthcare Sector
6.5. Global Education Monitoring Report 2020
6.6. National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF)
6.7. State Food Safety Index for 2019-20
6.8. Swachh Bharat Mission Phase II
July 2020 – Social Issues
6.1. New Education Policy 2020
6.1.1. School Education
6.1.2. Higher Education
6.1.3. Other Major Provisions
6.1.4. Analysis of New Education Policy-2020
6.2. Role of ASHAs During Pandemic
6.3. Lancet Study on Population Trends
6.4. State of Food Security and Nutrition in the
World 2020
7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
January 2020 – Science and Technology
7.1. Regulating Artificial Intelligence
7.3. 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
7.4. Rare Diseases
7.5. Drone Regulation
February 2020 – Science and Technology
7.1. Dark Net
7.2. National Mission on Quantum Technologies & Applications (NM-QTA)
7.3. Mapping the Indian Genome
7.4. Scientific Utilisation through Research Augmentation-Prime Products from Indigenous Cows (SUTRA PIC)
7.5. Ban on RO systems
7.6. Government Notifies Medical Devices as ‘drugs’
7.7. International Intellectual Property (IP) Index
7.8. InSight Mission
7.9. Voyager-2
March 2020 – Science and Technology
7.1.1. CoVID-19
7.1.1. Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2
7.1.2. Diagnosis
7.1.3. Treatment
7.1.4. Vaccine development
7.1.5. Steps taken by India to deal with the outbreak
7.1.6. Herd Immunity
7.1.7. Pandemic Disease
7.2. One Health
7.4. Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Industry in India
7.5. New regulatory Bodies to Cover Traditional Medicine
7.5.1. National Commission for Indian Systems of Medicine (NCIsM) Bill, 2019
7.5.2. National Commission for Homeopathy Bill, 2019
7.6. Supreme Court Lifts Curbs on Cryptocurrencies
7.7. Empowered Technology Group
7.8. Inflight Wifi
7.9. Sun Spot Cycle
April 2020 – Science and Technology
7.2. Updates on Various aspects of CoVID-19 _ 70
7.2.1. Transmission, Testing and Prevention methods
7.2.2. Vaccines and Other Treatment methods
7.2.3. Tracking and Surveillance
7.2.4. Awareness Generation and Grievance Redressal
7.2.5. Capacity Building And Promoting Innovation73
7.3. Indian Initiative on Earth BioGenome Sequencing (IIEBS)
May 2020 – Science and Technology
7.1. Blockchain Bill of Rights
7.2. Security issues with Aarogya Setu App
7.3. Private Sector in Space Activities
June 2020 – Science and Technology
7.1. COVID-19 Therapies and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
7.2. Patent Pools
7.3. Plasma Bank
7.4. India Tuberculosis Report 2020
7.5. Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe)
7.6. Joint Lunar Polar Exploration mission
July 2020 – Science and Technology
7.1. Nano Technology in Agriculture
7.2. Accelerate Vigyan
8. CULTURE
January 2020 – Culture
8.2. Ashfaqullah Khan
8.3. Cultural Festivals in News
February 2020 – Culture
8.1. Dara Shikoh
8.2. Payyanur
8.3. Guru Ravidas Jayanti
8.4. Poompuhar to be digitally Reconstructed
8.5. Kumbhabishegam Ceremony at Brihadisvara Temple
8.6. Early Humans Lived in Northern India 80,000 Years Ago
March 2020 – Culture
8.1. Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
8.2. World Heritage List for the year 2020
8.3. Chapchar Kut
April 2020 – Culture
8.1. National List for Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)
8.2. Qissa Khwani Bazaar Massacre
May 2020 – Culture
8.1. World War 2
8.2. Purandara Dasa
8.3. Geographical Indication (GI) tag
June 2020 – Culture
8.1. Heritage Management
8.2. Malabar Rebellion
8.3. Ahom Kingdom
8.4. Kushinagar
July 2020 – Culture
8.1. Gurjara-Pratiharas
9. ETHICS
January 2020 – Ethics
9.1. Death Penalty
February 2020 – Ethics
9.1. Protest in a Democracy- Rights, Issues and Responses
March 2020 – Ethics
9.1. Social Capital
9.2. Work Culture in Times of Work from Home
April 2020 – Ethics
May 2020 – Ethics
9.1. Social Media Platforms as Arbiters of Truth
June 2020 – Ethics
9.1. Ethics of Clinical Trials
July 2020 – Ethics
9.1. Social and Emotional Learning
10. NEWS IN SHORT
January 2020 – News in Short
10.1. Padma Awards
10.2. Police Commissionerate System
10.3. Postal Ballot
10.4. INI Status to the Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda
10.5. Corruption Perception Index 2019
10.6. Women, Business & The Law Report 2020
10.7. Raisina Dialogue 2020
10.8. Global Risk Report 2020
10.9. Blue Corner Notice
10.10. Libya Summit
10.11. GTCI (Index)
10.12. W E S P Report
10.13. No Imports in ‘Others’ Category Without HSN Code
10.14. WEF’s Reskilling Revolution
10.15. Global consortium for Governance of Digital Currency
10.16. NSE knowledge Hub
10.17. Track and Trace Platform for businesses
10.18. National Startup Advisory Council
10.19. Purvodaya Scheme
10.20. Arogya Sanjeevani Policy
10.21. Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR)
10.22. Youth Co: Lab
10.23. Operation Turtshield
10.24. One Trillion Trees Initiative
10.25. Tropical Forest Alliance 2020
10.26. Hargila
10.27. Banning sun cream ‘Reef Toxic’
10.28. Archaea
10.29. Bhuvan Panchayat V 3.0
10.30. DRDO Young Scientists Laboratories
10.31. Swarna Jayanti Fellowships
10.32. Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC)
10.33. Indian Data Relay Satellite System (IDRSS)
10.34. Government Owned Contractor Operated (GOCO) Model
10.35. Sukhoi Jets
10.36. Saksham 2020
10.37. Swachh Survekshan League 2020 (SS League 2020)
10.38. Nari Shakti Puraskar
10.39. Buddhist Monasteries in News
10.40. Iran’s Cultural Heritage
10.41. Classical Language
February 2020 – News in Short
10.1. 9th Schedule of Indian Constitution
10.2. Bill to Include More Tribes in Scheduled Tribe Category
10.3. Himachal Pradesh Achieves 100% LPG Coverage
10.4. India Ports Global Limited (IPGL)
10.5. Maldives rejoins Commonwealth
10.6. MoUs for Establishing Addu Tourism Zone
10.7. African Union (AU)
10.8. Direct Tax Vivad se Vishwas Bill, 2020
10.9. Financial Secrecy Index (FSI) – 2020
10.10. FDI Policy in Insurance Sector
10.11. Market Intelligence and Early Warning System Portal
10.12. SPICe+ Web Form
10.13. Light Combat Helicopters (LCH)
10.14. Pranash Missile
10.15 Exercises
10.16. Biofuel from Microorganisms
10.17. Northern European Enclosure Dam (NEED)
10.18. Flame Throated Bulbul
10.19. Arth Ganga
10.20. Singchung Bugun Village Community Reserve
10.21. Largest Subterranean Fish
10.22. Mt. Aconcagua
10.23. Danakil Depression
10.24. National Conference (CDRR&R)
10.25. BIMSTEC DMEx 2020
10.26. Madhya Pradesh Radio-tags Rescued Pangolins
10.27. Storm Dennis
10.28. Parsi Population
10.29. Multicellular Animal Without Mitochondrial DNA
10.30. 5G Hackathon
10.31. Epidemic Preparedness (CEPI)
10.32. Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics (BISAG(N))
10.33. National Science Day
10.34. National Deworming Day
10.35. Acid (PTA)
10.36. Four-fold Jump in Li-ion Battery Imports Since 2016
10.37. ICosDiTAUS-2020
10.38. UNESCO World Heritage Site Jaipur
10.39. Surajkund International Crafts Mela
10.40. Neolithic Age Siva Linga Discovered
March 2020 – News in Short
10.1. Freedom in the World 2020 Report
10.2. World Cities Summit 2020
10.3. Facebook Pragati
10.4. Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching (ARPIT)
10.5. Institutional Mechanism for National Technical Textiles Mission
10.6. Kisan Rail Scheme
10.7. Jeevan Kaushal Curriculum to Upgrade Life Skills
10.8. Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI)
10.9. Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)
10.10. Svalbard Seed Vault
10.11. Biological Weapons Convention
10.12. Ultium Lithium-ion Batteries
10.13. Conference (ICONSAT)
10.14. Fuel Cell Technology for Disaster Management
10.15. HantaVirus
10.16. MAC-Binding
10.17. Methane Oxidizing Bacteria (Methanotroph)
10.18. Asteroid 2020 AV2
10.19. Global Hyperloop Pod Competition
10.20. National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) bill
10.21. ARCI developed a Cost-Effective Solar Receiver Tube Technology
10.22. Sodium Hypochlorite (NaOCl)
10.23. Huntington Disease
10.24. Blissful Hygiene Offering to God (BHOG)
10.25. Gormati Art
10.26. Lalit Kala Akademi Awards 2020
10.27. Pyramid of Djoser Reopened
10.28. Central Sanskrit Universities Act
10.29. Kavutheendal Ceremony
10.30. Tribal Lockdown Rituals
10.31. Navroz
10.32. Errata
April 2020 – News in Short
10.1. Issue of nomination of Maharashtra Chief Minister
10.2. Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD)
10.3. Press Freedom Index
10.4. India remains on U.S. Priority Watch List
10.5. Certificate of Origin
10.6. Bank of Schemes, Ideas, Innovation & Research Portal
10.7. Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2019 Report by SIPRI
10.8. Global Terrorism Index
10.9. UN75
10.10. EIA Notification Amended For Production Of Bulk Drugs
10.11. Global Groundwater Maps
10.12. Rare Snow Leopards Spotted in Uttarakhand
10.13. Great Barrier Reef’s Mass Bleaching
10.14. Daporijo bridge
10.15. Anak Krakatau
10.16. New Model to Predict Ionospheric Electron Density
10.17. Bharat Padhe Online
10.18. Latest UGC guidelines
10.19. Hospital Empanelment Module (HEM) Lite
10.20. China to Launch Communication Satellites Named after Wuhan
10.21. Tianwen-1
10.22. SunRise Mission
10.23. DEMO-2 Mission
10.24. Digital Geological Map of Moon
10.25. Lithium Rich Giant Stars
10.26. Fomalhaut B
10.27. Kepler-1649c
10.28. June Almeida
10.29. Sodium Hypochlorite
10.30. Cytokine Storms
10.31. Anthurium
10.32. Self-Service Blockchain Track and Trace Platform for Businesses
10.33. Maze Ransomware
10.34. Exercise NCC Yogdan
10.35. Stranded in India Portal
10.36. Festivals in News
10.37. Nihangs
10.38. Dekho Apna Desh
May 2020 – News in Short
10.1. Diamer-Basha Dam
10.2. United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
10.3. Provisioning of Loans
10.4. CHAMPIONS Portal
10.5. For the first time, India has more rural net users than urban
10.6. Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance (UMANG)
10.7. Industry Status to Sports
10.8. Amery Ice Shelf (AIS)
10.9. Sample Registration System (SRS) Bulletin Released
10.10. Under-5 Mortality Rate (U5MR) Halved from 2000 to 2017
10.11. “Lost at Home” Report (UNICEF)
10.12. 600 Universities, 25,000 Colleges are not Accredited in India
10.13. National Migrant Information System (NMIS)
10.14. Suraksha Store Initiative
10.15. GOAL (Going Online as Leaders) Programme
10.16. Khudol (gift) Initiative in Manipur
10.17. Defence Testing Infrastructure Scheme
10.18. Operation SamudraSetu
10.19. VandeBharat Mission
10.20. Magnetic field
10.21. Electric Field Structure in Magnetosphere of earth
10.22. Venusian Atmosphere rotation
10.23. Artemis Accords” for Responsible Space Exploration
10.24. Biomedical Consortium (NBRIC)
10.25. Project CARD
10.26. Government Response Stringency Index
10.27. COBAS 6800 Testing Machine
10.28. Operation Warp Speed
10.29. African Swine Fever (ASF)
10.30. NPCI Launches Pai
10.31. National Artificial Intelligence Portal (www.ai.gov.in)
10.32. EventBot Mobile Banking Trojan
10.33. GARUD (Government Authorisation for Relief Using Drones) Portal
10.34. Rht14 and Rht18
10.35. Thrissur Poorama
10.36. Florence Nightingale
10.37. Iran’s New Currency
June 2020 – News in Short
10.1. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Global Trends Report
10.2. Strategic Sectors under Atmanirbhar package
10.3. Kisan Credit Cards (KCC) Campaign Launched for 1.5 crore Dairy Farmers
10.4. The Urban Learning Internship Program (TULIP) Launched
10.5. Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for States Program (STARS)
10.6. CHAMPIONS Technology Platform
10.7. SWADES (Skilled Workers Arrival Database for Employment Support)
10.8. Skills Build Reignite (SBR) and Skills Build Innovation Camp (SBIC)
10.9. Sahakar Mitra
10.10. World Competitiveness Index
10.11. Population Report 2020
10.12. Navigating the New Normal campaign
10.13. FoSCoS by FSSAI
10.14. World Food Prize 2020
10.15. Oil Spill in Russia’s Arctic Region
10.16. Environmental Performance Index (EPI)
10.17. Nagar Van Scheme
10.18. 2020 Desertification and Drought Day (June 17)
10.19. Sukhna Lake Declared as Wetland
10.20. SATYABHAMA for Aatmanirbhar
10.21. YUKTI 2.0 Web Portal
10.22. PCIM&H
10.23. AarogyaPath
10.24. G6PD Deficiency
10.25. ADIP Scheme
10.26. Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI)
10.27. Data Lake and Project Management Software
10.28. Gold Nanoparticles (GNPs)
10.29. Portable UV Light Device to Kill Corona Virus
10.30. Extreme Helium Star (EHe)
10.31. Khelo India State Centres of Excellence
10.32. Ramon Magsaysay Awards
10.33. Gairsain
10.34. Bimal Julka Committee
July 2020 – News in Short
10.1. States to be Ranked on Financial Management
Index (FMI) for Rural Development
10.2. AIM iCREST
10.3. Capital Procurement Powers to Armed Forces
10.4. Operation Samudra Setu
10.5. Fish Cryobanks
10.6. Central Zoo Authority Reconstituted
10.7. Protected Areas – Dehing Patkai
10.8. KAZI 106F
10.9. Black Panther
10.10. Germany to Become First Major Economy to
Phase Out Coal, Nuclear Power
10.11. Pied Cuckoo to be Tracked in Migration,
Climate Change Study
10.12. New Human Fingerprint on Global Drought
Patterns
10.13. Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) Launches
KRCNet and Mobile App “Mausam”
10.14. Initiatives for Energy Efficiency &
Promoting emobility Launched
10.15. Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan
Puraskar
10.16. YuWaah
10.17. Aatamanirbhar Skilled Employee-Employer
Mapping (ASEEM) Portal
10.18. Himachal Pradesh: First State with 100% LPG
Connections
10.19. Lead Poisoning in children
10.20. Human Growth Hormone (hGH)
10.21. Winter Diesel
10.22. BlackRock Android Malware
10.23. Latent Viral Infection (LVI)
10.24. BelYo
10.25. Yellow Fever
10.26. Mars Missions
10.27. Asteroid 2020 ND
10.28. India’s First In-orbit Space Debris Monitoring
and Tracking System
10.29. Siddi Community
10.30. Kashmir Saffron gets Geographical Indication
(GI) Certificate
10.31. Indigenous Mango Heritage Area
10.32. Hagia Sophia, Turkey
10.33. Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative Bill
10.34. Mahalanobis Award
11. GOVERNMENT SCHEMES IN NEWS
January 2020 – Govt schemes
11.1. Scheme for Integrated Textile Park
11.2. Aspirational Districts Program
February 2020 – Govt Schemes
11.1. Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman
March 2020 – Govt Scheme
11.1. Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana
Apil 2020 – Govt Schemes
11.1. PM-CARES Fund
11.2. Intensification of Research in High Priority Areas (IRHPA)
11.3. E-NAM Platform
May 2020 – Govt Schemes
11.1. Atal Pension Yojana
11.2. Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP)
June 2020 – Govt Schemes
11.1. PM Street Vendor’s Atmanirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi)
11.2. PM Formalization of Micro Food Processing Enterprises Scheme
11.3. Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan (GKRA)
July 2020 – Govt Schemes
11.1. Schemes for Medical Devices
12. FIGHTING COVID-19
12.1. Global Best Practices
12.2. Domestic Best Practices
ATMANIRBHAR BHARAT ( May 2020)
12.1. Measures taken for Health and Education in the package
12.2. Measures announced for Migrants and Urban Poor
12.3. Measures Announced for Rural Development, Agriculture and Allied Sectors
12.3.1. Steps taken so far
12.3.2. Significant Measures Announced in the Package
12.3.3 Other Initiatives Announced in the Package
12.4. Industrial Sectoral reforms announced in the package
12.4.1. Significant Measures Announced
12.4.2. Policy Reforms Announced for Other Sectors
12.5. Measures Announced for Businesses in General (including MSMEs)
12.5.1. Significant Measures Announced
12.5.2. Reforms and Enablers Announced for Ease of Doing Business
12.6. Measures Announced Exclusively for MSME Sector
12.6.1. Significant Measures Announced
12.7. General Policy Reforms Announced as Part of the Economic Package
12.7.1. Significant Measures Announced
12.7.2. Other Policy Measures