Vision IAS Current Affairs – Monthly Magazine May 2021 – English Medium

Vision IAS Current Affairs – Monthly Magazine May 2021 – English Medium

1. POLITY AND GOVERNANCE ____________ 3
   1. Tribunals ____________________________3
   1.2. Member of Parliament Local Area
   Development Scheme _____________________5
   1.3. Island Developmental Strategy __________6
   2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS __________ 10
   2.1. Debt Trap Diplomacy ________________ 10
   2.2. India’s Tibet Policy __________________ 13
   2.3. India’s Palestine Policy _______________ 16
   2.4. India-UK Relations __________________ 18
   2.5. Farzad-B Gas Field___________________ 20
   3. ECONOMY _________________________ 23
   3.1. State Finances ______________________ 23
   3.2. RBI Surplus Transfer _________________ 25
   3.3. Unemployment in India ______________ 27
   3.4. Land Banks ________________________ 30
   3.5. Social Stock Exchange________________ 32
   3.6. COVID-19 Vaccine and IP Waiver _______ 34
   3.7. Food Processing Industry _____________ 36
   3.8. Fertiliser Subsidy____________________ 38
   3.9. Pulses_____________________________ 41
   4. SECURITY __________________________ 44
   4.1. Cyber Security in India _______________ 44
   5. ENVIRONMENT _____________________ 47
   5.1. Climate-Smart Public Private Partnerships 47
   5.2. Protected Planet Report 2020 _________ 49
   5.3. Global Methane Assessment __________ 50
   5.4. New Fly Ash Utilization Rules For Coal And
   Lignite Based Thermal Power Plants________ 52
   5.5. Snow Leopard ______________________ 53
   5.6. Used Cooking Oil Based Biodiesel ______ 54
   5.7. Tropical Cyclones in India_____________ 56
   6. SOCIAL ISSUES ______________________ 59
   6.1. Social Security for Informal Workers____ 59
   6.2. Mid-Day Meal (MDM) Scheme ________ 61
   6.3. Global Report on Food Crises__________ 64
   6.4. Persons with Disabilities _____________ 64
   6.5. Child Adoption _____________________ 67
   6.6. Tobacco Use in India_________________ 69
   7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ___________ 72
   7.1. Nuclear Technology in Space Missions __ 72
   7.2. Artemis Accords ____________________ 74
   7.3. Neglected Tropical Diseases___________ 75
   7.4. Mucormycosis______________________ 76
   8. CULTURE __________________________ 79
   8.1. Tentative List of UNESCO World Heritage
   Sites _________________________________ 79
   8.2. Reclining Buddha ___________________ 81
   9. ETHICS ____________________________ 82
   9.1. International Ethics__________________ 82
   10. GOVERNMENT SCHEMES IN NEWS ____ 85
2. 1. Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PMKISAN) _________ 85
   10.2. Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana _______ 86
   11. NEWS IN SHORTS ___________________87
   11.1. Cabinet Approves Proposal for Creation of
   Legislative Council in West Bengal_____________ 87
   11.2. Formation of New Districts______________ 87
   11.3. Selection of CBI Chief __________________ 87
   11.4. Districts Empowered to Grant Citizenship __ 87
   11.5. Infrastructure Status for Exhibition and
   Convention Centres ________________________ 88
   11.6. RBI Governor Announces Measures to Tackle
   2nd COVID Wave __________________________ 88
   11.7. SC: Personal Guarantors Liable for Corporate
   Debt ____________________________________ 88
   11.8. MoF and Ministry of Labour & Employment
   (MoLE) Announced COVID-19 Relief Measures Under
   Various Schemes __________________________ 88
   11.9. Network for Greening the Financial System_ 89
   11.10. Information Technology (Intermediary
   Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules,
   2021 come into effect ______________________ 89
   11.11. India Participates in the 3rd Arctic Science
   Ministerial (ASM3) _________________________ 90
   11.12. Global Electric Vehicles (EV) Outlook _____ 90
   11.13. World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks Off in
   Antarctica ________________________________ 90
   11.14. Five Deeps Expedition_________________ 91
   11.15. AIM-ICDK Water Innovation Challenge ___ 91
   11.16. Banni Grassland Reserve_______________ 91
   11.17. Tribes in News_______________________ 91
   11.18. Gholvad Sapota (chikoo)_______________ 92
   11.19. SWAMIH Fund_______________________ 92
   11.20. Migration and Development Brief _______ 92
   11.21. E-Way Bill Integrated with FASTag, RFID __ 92
   11.22. Sun Halo ___________________________ 93
   11.23. Shifting of Earth Axis__________________ 93
   11.24. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Begins Journey Back to
   Earth ____________________________________ 94
   11.25. China Completes Historic Mars Spacecraft
   Landing __________________________________ 94
   11.26. World’s Largest Satellite Image Database _ 94
   11.27. Variants and Strains of SARS-CoV-2 ______ 94
   11.28. Ribonucleic Acid Interference___________ 95
   11.29. Dried Blood Spot Testing for Doping _____ 95
   11.30. World Health Organization Global Sodium
   Benchmarks for Different Food Categories ______ 96
   11.31. WHO BioHub Initiative ________________ 96
   11.32. Global Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic
   Intelligence_______________________________ 96
   11.33. Monoclonal Anti-Body Therapy _________ 96
   11.34. 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG)______________ 97
   11.35. SPOT (Scalable and Portable Testing)_____ 97
   11.36. ‘Sick-building syndrome’ (SBS) __________ 97
   11.37. Mayflower 400 ______________________ 97
   11.38. Climate Change Affecting World’s Oldest Cave
   Art___________________________________ 97