1. POLITY AND CONSTITUTION ___________ 4
1.1. Article 370 __________________________4
1.2. Contempt of Court ____________________7
1.3. Sub-categorization of Other Backward
Classes (OBCs) ___________________________9
1.4. Demand for Sixth Schedule status_______12
1.5. National Recruitment Agency __________14
2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS __________ 16
2.1. India-Maldives Bilateral Relations_______16
2.2. India-Vietnam_______________________17
2.3. Abraham Accord_____________________19
2.4. Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI) __21
3. ECONOMY_________________________ 23
3.1. National Strategy for Financial Education
(NSFE) 2020-2025 _______________________23
3.2. Rules of Origin ______________________25
3.3. Transparent Taxation – ‘Honouring the
Honest' Platform ________________________27
3.4. Export Preparedness Index (EPI) 2020 ___28
3.5. Agricultural Exports __________________31
3.6. Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF) ____33
3.7. Agricultural Education ________________34
4. SECURITY__________________________ 37
4.1. Draft Defence Production and Export
Promotion Policy (DPEPP) 2020 ____________37
4.2. National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) ____38
5. ENVIRONMENT_____________________ 40
5.1. Agrometeorology in India _____________40
5.2. Protected Agricultural Zone____________41
5.3. Emission Norms for Thermal Power Plants 42
5.4. Carbon Capture, Utilisation & Storage (CCUS)
______________________________________44
5.5. Urban Forestry ______________________46
5.6. Sea Level Rise _______________________47
5.7. Landslides __________________________49
5.8. Floods in Bihar and Assam_____________50
5.9. Flash Droughts ______________________52
5.10. Boreal Summer Intra Seasonal Oscillation
______________________________________53
5.11. Mangrove Ecosystem ________________53
5.12. Snow Leopard______________________56
6. SOCIAL ISSUES ______________________58
6.1. Rethinking Social Security _____________58
6.2. National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) _59
6.2.1. Draft Health Data Management Policy ____ 62
6.3. National Council for Transgender Persons 63
6.4. Tribal Health And Nutrition ____________65
6.5. Menstrual Leave_____________________66
6.6. Child Labour ________________________68
6.7. Students’ Learning Enhancement Guidelines
______________________________________70
6.8. Remote Learning Reachability Report____71
6.9. Swachh Survekshan 2020______________72
7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY____________74
7.1. DNA Technology (Use and Application)
Regulation Bill, 2019 _____________________74
7.2. International Thermonuclear Experimental
Reactor (ITER) __________________________75
8. CULTURE ___________________________78
8.1. Lingaraj Temple _____________________78
9. ETHICS_____________________________79
9.1. Vaccine Development and Distribution __79
10. SCHEMES IN NEWS __________________81
10.1. Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana__________81
10.2. AMRUT Scheme ____________________81
11. NEWS IN SHORTS ___________________83
11.1. NCC expansion________________________ 83
11.2. ARIIA 2020 ___________________________ 83
11.3. 2nd Edition of Student Entrepreneurship
Programme (SEP) __________________________ 83
11.4. Gramodyog Vikas Yojana _______________ 83
11.5. National GIS-enabled Land Bank System
launched by Ministry of Commerce and Industry _ 83
11.6. Kavkaz 2020__________________________ 84
11.7. One Sun, One World, One Grid (OSOWOG)
Initiative _________________________________ 84
11.8. Nationally Determined ContributionsTransport Initiative for Asia (NDC- TIA) _________ 84
11.9. Agriculture Machinery Emissions _________ 84
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11.10. India Water Resources Information System 85
11.11. Harit Path___________________________ 85
11.12. South Atlantic Anomoly _______________ 85
11.13. Earth’s inner core ____________________ 85
11.14. Mount Sinabung Volcano ______________ 86
11.15. Mauritius Struggles To Contain Oil Spill ___ 86
11.16. Swachh Bharat Mission Academy (SBMA)
launched by Ministry of Jal Shakti _____________ 86
11.17. Trifood Project of Tribal Cooperative
Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED)
________________________________________ 86
11.18. Fit India Youth Clubs __________________ 87
11.19. India's First International Women's Trade
Centre ___________________________________ 87
11.20. World's 'first' COVID-19 vaccine out in Russia
________________________________________ 87
11.21. PAN-India 1000 Genome sequencing of SARSCoV-2 completed successfully ________________ 87
11.22. COVID-19 Biorepositories ______________ 87
11.23. Indo-US Virtual Networks for COVID-19___ 87
11.24. Centre for Bio-Pharma Analysis _________ 88
11.25. UK launches £3 million innovation challenge
fund in India ______________________________ 88
11.26. World Health Organization (WHO) certified
African regionfree of wild polio _______________ 88
11.27. Dr Vikram Sarabhai ___________________ 88
11.28. Dwarf Planet Ceres given status of an “ocean
world” ___________________________________ 89
11.29. Chemosynthesis aids Microbes survival ___ 89
11.30. Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge- Innovate
Solutions for Aatmanirbhar Bharat ____________ 89
11.31. Super apps __________________________ 89
11.32. Warli Paintings ______________________ 89
11.33. Nuakhai Juhar _______________________ 90
11.34. Thumbimahotsavam 2020 _____________ 90
11.35. World Urdu Conference _______________ 90
