May Monthly Current Affairs Magazine

• Be N By IAS, Delhi
• 11, Oct 2021

GENERAL STUDIES-I

History

• UNESCO World Heritage Sites
• Reclining Buddha
• Chalukya King Pulakeshin II Victory Over Harshvardhana
• Thomas Hickey’s 19th Century Painting and Smallpox in British India

Geography

• Lebanese Qaraoun Lake
• Sudan Peace Deal
• Winchcombe Meteorite
• Cyclone Tauktae in Arabian Sea
• Total Lunar Eclipse and Supermoon

Society

• WHO-ILO Study Links Long Work Hours to More Deaths

Editorial

• Capitalism and TRIPS Regime - Covid Vaccine Crisis

GENERAL STUDIES-II

Polity and Constitution

• Reservation to Maratha Community
• Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC)
• Legal Child Adoption in India
• State Legislative Council-Bengal wants Upper House back
• Appointment of a CBI Chief
• Centre vs States - IAS officer’s Central Deputation

Editorial

• The SC Ruling on Identifying Backward Classes
• National Tribunals Commission - Restructuring the tribunals system
• Goods and Services Tax (GST) – Political Economy, Cooperative Federalism and Fiscal Federalism

Governance

• TRIFED’s Sustainable Livelihoods for Tribal Households in India
• State of Working India 2021- One Year of Covid-19
• Jal Jeevan Mission – Puducherry becomes ‘Har Ghar Jal’ UT
• SWAMIH Investment Fund – Real Estate Sector
• One-Stop Centres (OSC) – For Gender Based Violence
• Midday-Meal Scheme

Editorial

• A National Health Service in India
• Social Media and Safe Harbour - Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code
• Lakshadweep Island Development Plan – Significance and Criticism

Social Justice

• Growth of Young Smokers in India and The world

International Relations

• Special 301 Report - US Puts India on Priority Watch List
• India UK Virtual Summit - Roadmap 2030 to Strengthen Bilateral Ties
• India and European Union Free Trade Agreement
• India-EU Meeting in EU+27 Format
• Christchurch Call to Action to Eliminate Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online
• Vienna Conventions - Diplomatic Immunity
• 17+1 - China and Central and Eastern Europe Countries (CEEC) initiative
• Open Skies Treaty
• Switzerland Rejects an Overarching EU Treaty
• UAE’s Golden Visa

Editorial

• The Rising Sun in India-Japan Relations
• India and Russia Look For a Reset
• India Britain Ties - Could Modi-Johnson Meet Improve Unsteady Indo-Brit Ties
• A COVID blot on India’s Foreign Policy Canvas
• Cracks in China’s New Silk Road-Belt and Road Initiative
• India China Relation-Evaluate the Ladakh crisis, keep China at Bay
• America’s Exit from Middle East and Afghanistan and Impact on Indian Subcontinent
• India, Israel and Palestine
• West Asia’s Diplomatic Resets
• Indian Diplomacy in Africa – China Factor
• Afghanistan 2.0 – With USA, India and China

GENERAL STUDIES-III
Economic Development

• E-grocery Market – BigBaske Tata Digital Deal
• Scheme for Special Assistance to States for Capital Expenditure for 2021-22
• Codex Committee on Spices and Culinary Herbs and Codex Alimentarius Commission
• Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI)
• Production Linked Incentive Scheme for the Food Processing Industry
• Network for Greening The Financial System (NGFS)
• RBI’s Rs 50,000 Crore Fund to Emergency Health Services and Liquidity Push
• Government Securities Acquisition Programme (G-SAP) - Moderate Bond Yield
• Model Insurance Villages
• National Payments Commission of India (NPCI) not to Ban Cryptocurrency Transactions in India
• Digital Financial Inclusion -Report on ‘Connected Commerce - Creating a Roadmap for a Digitally Inclusive Bharat’
• SEBI’s Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR)
• S. Janakiraman Advisory Group for Regulations Review Authority
• New SEBI Rule For Fund Manager Compensation
• Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2021-22
• National Programme on Advanced Chemistry Cell Battery Storage (NPACC)
• Inflation- Wholesale Price Index – WPI
• Retrospective Tax Dispute - Cairn Energy Suing Air India
• Anti dumping Duty - India launches probe against China, Thailand and Vietnam
• Fertiliser Subsidy - Increased subsidy on DAP
• Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPIs) to be Interoperable
• RBI to Transfer Surplus Funds to Government
• E-way Bill Integration With FASTag, RFID
• Insolvency Resolution Process for Personal Guarantors
• Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
• National Mission on use of Biomass in Coal Based Thermal Power Plants
• $200-million Bangladesh- Sri Lanka Currency Swap
• 43rd GST Council Meeting - GST Amnesty Scheme

Editorial

• Universalisation of Social Security for Informal Workers
• Critical Infrastructure and Its Protection From Cyber Attack
• Environmental Tax (Eco Tax) Subsidies - Environmental fiscal reforms
• Employment and Livelihood Crisis in Covid Pandemic

Environment and Bio-diversity

• Climate Change and Its Impact on Earth’s Axis
• Xylophis Deepaki
• LaCONES and Covid to Asiatic Lions
• Hoolock Gibbon Species.
• NITI Aayog’ s Great Nico bar Development Plan
• Indian Pangolin and Chinese Pangolin
• Red-Eared Slider Turtle
• ‘Mice Rain’ in Australia and Poison - Bromadiolone
• Common Crane in Ireland After 300 Years
• Asian Gracile Skink - Subdoluseps Nilgiriensis – A New Skink Species From Western Ghats
• Coelacanth Fish – Four Legged Fossil Fish of Dinosaurs Age
• Iceberg A-76 - World's Largest Iceberg Breaks off of Antarctica
• Sunderlal Bahuguna - The Leader of Chipko Environmental Movement
• Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) – Arctic Ecosystem
• COP 28 - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR)
• Jayanti (Indimimus) - New Spider Cricket Species
• Tasmanian Devils

Science & Technology

• Galaxy - Pox 186 and Gemini Telescope
• Department of Telecommunications Approves 5G Trials
• NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex Mission
• Iron Dome Air Defence System
• Space Debris - China’s Long March 5B Rocket Falls in Indian Ocean
• Arctic Science Ministerial (ASM3)
• Mucormycosis in COVID-19 Patients
• Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genome Sequencing Consortia – INSACOG
• Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS) Technology
• Google’s Project Starline
• Cryptocurrency Market Crash
• Genome Sequencing - Genomic Consor tia (INSACOG) and Covid Virus
• Tardigrades and Baby Squid to International Space Station
• Tianzhou-2 Cargo Spacecraft

Editorial

• TRIPS Waiver - Intellectual Property Waiver for Covid-19 Vaccine

Disaster management

• How are Tropical Cyclones Named

GENERAL STUDIES-IV

Ethics

• Edu Tech Needs an Ethics Policy