Vision IAS Monthly Current Affairs March 2019 is a monthly magazine which contains compilation of news for the month of February 2019 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 VISION IAS.

Table of Contents

1. POLITY AND GOVERNANCE ____________ 4
1.1. Unequal Representation in Indian
Democracy______________________________4
1.2. Self-Regulation of Social Media in Elections 5
1.3 Vote-Bank Politics _____________________6
1.4. Party Symbol Allocation________________7
1.5. Official Secrets Act ____________________8
1.6. Lokpal ______________________________9
1.7. Reducing Number of Tribunals _________11
2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS __________ 14
2.1. India-Russia Defence Relations _________14
2.2. Japan-India Space Dialogue ____________15
2.3. OIC Meet___________________________15
2.4. Malaysia Accedes to Rome Statute ______16
2.5. Golan Heights _______________________17
2.6. WHO Reforms_______________________18
3. ECONOMY_________________________ 21
3.1. Independent Fiscal Council ____________21
3.2. Swap Facility________________________22
3.3. Monetary Policy Transmission__________23
3.4. Swift Norms ________________________25
3.5. Offshore Rupee Markets ______________25
3.6. White Label ATMs ___________________26
3.7. Capital Gains Tax ____________________27
3.8. National Investment and Infrastructure Fund
______________________________________27
3.9. DataSmart Cities Strategy _____________28
3.10. Hydro Power Sector _________________30
3.11. Minimum Support Price for Minor Forest
Produce _______________________________31
3.12. Ind AS ____________________________32
3.13. India’s 3rd IT Corridor in China ________33
4. SECURITY__________________________ 34
4.1. Mission Shakti ______________________34
4.2. Smart Fencing on Indo-Bangladesh Border 36
4.3. Multi-Disciplinary Terror Monitoring Group
on Terror Financing in J&K ________________36

4.4. Indian Army to Undergo Major Reforms__37
5. ENVIRONMENT______________________39
5.1. Draft Indian Forest Act Amendment _____39
5.2. UNNATEE (Unlocking National Energy
Efficiency Potential) _____________________40
5.3. Star Rating _________________________41
5.4. National Mission on Transformative Mobility
and Battery Storage _____________________42
5.5. KUSUM ____________________________43
5.6. India Cooling Action Plan ______________44
5.7. Global Environment Outlook ___________45
5.8. State of The Global Climate Report______46
5.9. Frontiers Report 2018/19 _____________47
5.10. Global Energy & CO2 Status Report ____48
5.11. Hazardous and Other Wastes
(Management & Trans Boundary Movement)
Amendment Rules, 2019__________________48
5.12. Compensatory Afforestation __________49
5.13. Climate Vulnerability Maps for Himalayan
States _________________________________50
5.14. World Water Crisis __________________51
5.15. Otter _____________________________52
6. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY____________53
6.1. Women in Science ___________________53
6.2. PSLV C-45 __________________________54
6.3. AstroSat ___________________________54
6.4. Forward Search Experiment (FASER)_____55
6.5. Atmospheric Waves Experiment ________56
6.6. GRAPES-3 __________________________56
6.7. China’s Artificial Sun _________________57
6.8. New Rules for Drugs & Clinical Trials ____58
6.9. Nano-Pharmaceuticals ________________60
6.10. Global Influenza Strategy_____________61
6.11. National AIDS Control Programme-IV
(NACP-IV)______________________________62
6.12. Ban on E-Cigarettes _________________63
6.13. Cloud Seeding______________________64
6.14. Graphene _________________________64

6.15. Cabinet nod for Joining Nice, Vienna,
Locarno Agreements _____________________65
7. SOCIAL ISSUES______________________ 66
7.1. Swachh Survekshan 2019______________66
7.2. National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey _67
7.3. Cities Summit _______________________67
7.4. World Happiness Report 2019__________68
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