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Vision Ias Monthly Current Affair August 2020
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Table of Contents
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
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