Vision Ias - Current Affairs - June 2020 - English Medium - Notesindia

Vision IAS Monthly Current Affairs (English Medium ) June 2020 is a monthly magazine which contains compilation of news for the month of May 2020 bearing relevance to Civil Service Examination. News and events from all domain i.e. National, Business, International etc. have been dealt in brief. The magazine is brought out monthly by renowned Delhi based IAS coaching institute

Table of Contents

1. POLITY AND GOVERNANCE _____________4
1.1. Custodial Violence ____________________4
1.2. Online Dispute Resolution ______________5
1.3. 5th Anniversary of Urban Missions _______7
2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ____________9
2.1. India-Australia Relations _______________9
2.2. E-Diplomacy ________________________10
2.3. India’s Energy Cooperation with
Neighbouring Countries __________________11
2.4. India Elected Non-permanent Member of UN
Security Council (UNSC) __________________13
2.5. European Union Vietnam Free Trade
Agreement (EVFTA)______________________14
3. ECONOMY _________________________ 16
3.1. Monetization of Deficit _______________16
3.2. Suspension of Insolvency and Bankruptcy
Code (IBC) _____________________________17
3.3. Banking Regulation (Amendment) Ordinance
2020 __________________________________19
3.4. Payments Infrastructure Development Fund
______________________________________21
3.5. Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) _______21
3.6. International Comparison Program of World
Bank__________________________________23
3.7. World Investment Report 2020 _________24
3.8. Empowered Group of Secretaries and Project
Development Cells ______________________24
3.9. Commercial Coal Mining ______________25
3.10. Social Stock Exchange _______________26
3.11. Indian Gas Exchange (IGX) ____________27
3.12. Real Time Market in Electricity ________28
3.13. AGRIDEX __________________________29
3.14. Animal Husbandry Infrastructure
Development Fund ______________________29
4. SECURITY__________________________ 31
4.1. Police Preparedness During COVID-19
Pandemic ______________________________31
4.2. “Lone Wolf” Attacks__________________32
4.3. Financial Action Task Force ____________34
5. ENVIRONMENT _____________________ 36
5.1. Climate Change and Its Impact on Indian
Region ________________________________36
5.2. Gender, Climate & Security ____________38
5.3. Loss of Ice Cover in The Arctic Sea_______39
5.4. Natural Barriers to Natural Disasters ____40
5.5. Urban Flooding______________________42
5.6. One Sun One World One Grid __________43
5.7. Extended Producers Responsibility ______45
5.8. COVID-19 Biomedical Waste Management46
5.9. Seabed 2030 project _________________48
5.10. India’s First Lichen Park ______________48
6. SOCIAL ISSUES______________________ 50

6.1. Urban Poor _________________________50
6.2. Drug Abuse in India __________________52
6.3. Gender Dimensions of the COVID-19
Pandemic ______________________________55
6.4. COVID-19 and India’s Healthcare Sector__56
6.5. Global Education Monitoring Report 2020 58
6.6. National Institutional Ranking Framework
(NIRF) _________________________________60
6.7. State Food Safety Index for 2019-20 _____61
6.8. Swachh Bharat Mission Phase II ________62
7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY____________64
7.1. COVID-19 Therapies and Antimicrobial
Resistance (AMR) _______________________64
7.2. Patent Pools ________________________65
7.3. Plasma Bank ________________________66
7.4. India Tuberculosis Report 2020 _________67
7.5. Indian National Space Promotion and
Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) ___________68
7.6. Joint Lunar Polar Exploration mission ____69
7.7. Quantum Key Distribution_____________69
7.8. Fifth State of Matter _________________70
7.9. Annular Solar Eclipse _________________71
8. CULTURE ___________________________73
8.1. Heritage Management________________73
8.2. Malabar Rebellion ___________________75
8.3. Ahom Kingdom______________________76
8.4. Kushinagar _________________________77
9. ETHICS _____________________________79
9.1. Ethics of Clinical Trials ________________79
10. NEWS IN SHORT ____________________81
10.1. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) Global Trends Report_______________ 81
10.2. Strategic Sector ______________________ 81
10.3. Kisan Credit Cards (KCC) Campaign Launched for
1.5 crore Dairy Farmers ____________________ 81
10.4. The Urban Learning Internship Program (TULIP)
Launched _______________________________ 82
10.5. Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results
for States Program (STARS) _________________ 82
10.6. CHAMPIONS Technology Platform _______ 82
10.7. SWADES (Skilled Workers Arrival Database for
Employment Support) _____________________ 82
10.8. Skills Build Reignite (SBR) and Skills Build
Innovation Camp (SBIC) ____________________ 82
10.9. Sahakar Mitra _______________________ 83
10.10. World Competitiveness Index __________ 83
10.11. State of World Population Report 2020 __ 83
10.12. NITI Aayog Launches Behaviour Change
Campaign 'Navigating the New Normal'________ 83
10.13. Food Safety Compliance System (FoSCoS)
launched by FSSAI_________________________ 84
10.14. World Food Prize 2020 _______________ 84
10.15. Oil Spill in Russia’s Arctic Region ________ 84
10.16. Environmental Performance Index (EPI) __ 84

10.17. Nagar Van Scheme ___________________85
10.18. 2020 Desertification and Drought Day (June
17) _____________________________________85
10.19. Sukhna Lake Declared as Wetland _______85
10.20. SATYABHAMA (Science and Technology Yojana
for Aatmanirbhar Bharat in Mining Advancement)
Portal ___________________________________86
10.21. YUKTI (Young India combating COVID with
Knowledge, Technology and Innovation) 2.0 Web
Portal ___________________________________86
10.22. Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian
Medicine & Homoeopathy (PCIM&H) __________86
10.23. AarogyaPath ________________________86
10.24. Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD)
Deficiency________________________________86
10.25. Assistance to Disabled persons for
Purchasing/Fitting of Aids/Appliances (ADIP) Scheme
________________________________________87

10.26. Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence
(GPAI) __________________________________ 87
10.27. Data Lake and Project Management Software
_______________________________________ 87
10.28. Gold Nanoparticles (GNPs) ____________ 87
10.29. Portable UV Light Device to Kill Corona Virus
_______________________________________ 87
10.30. Extreme Helium Star (EHe) ____________ 88
10.31. Khelo India State Centres of Excellence __ 88
10.32. Ramon Magsaysay Awards ____________ 88
10.33. Gairsain ___________________________ 88
10.34. Bimal Julka Committee _______________ 88
11. SCHEMES IN NEWS __________________89
11.1. PM Street Vendor’s Atmanirbhar Nidhi (PM
SVANidhi) _______________________________ 89
11.2. PM Formalization of Micro Food Processing
Enterprises Scheme _______________________ 89
11.3. Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan (GKRA) ______ 90