Vision Ias Monthly Current Affair October 2020 English Medium

Vision Ias Monthly Current Affair October 2020

Table of Contents

1. POLITY AND CONSTITUTION ___________ 4
   1. Elections during COVID times ___________4
   1.2. Data Governance Quality Index__________5
   1.3. Integrity Pact ________________________6
   1.5. National Program and Project Management
   Policy Framework ________________________8
   1.6. Foreign Contribution (Regulation)
   Amendment Act, 2020 ____________________8
   1.7. Global Protests ______________________10
   1.8. Television Rating in India______________11
   2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS __________ 13
   2.1. India-Central Asia Dialogue ____________13
   2.2. India and the Quad___________________14
   2.3. World Food Programme ______________16
   2.4. United Nations Human Rights Council ___16
   2.5. India US defence agreement ___________18
   2.6. Armenia Azerbaijan conflict ___________20
   3. ECONOMY_________________________ 22
   3.1. Poverty and Shared Prosperity _________22
   3.2. Nobel Prize in Economics______________23
   3.3. Asset Reconstruction Companies _______24
   3.4. SWAMITVA Scheme __________________25
   3.5. Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme
   (AIBP) _________________________________27
   3.6. Natural Gas Marketing________________28
   3.7. Coastal Shipping Bill, 2020_____________30
   4. SECURITY__________________________ 31
   4.1. Role of Technology in Border Management
   ______________________________________31
   5. ENVIRONMENT_____________________ 33
   5.1. National Green Tribunal (NGT) _________33
   5.2. World Energy Outlook, 2020 ___________34
   5.3. Green Buildings _____________________36
   5.4. Managing Urban Water Bodies _________38
   5.5. Pesticides Management Bill, 2020_______40
   5.6. Sulphur Dioxide Pollution _____________41
   5.7. UN Biodiversity Summit_______________42
2. 8. Blue Flag ___________________________43
   5.9. Seagrasses _________________________43
   5.10. Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement
   Project ________________________________44
   5.11. Cyclone Warning System _____________45
   5.12. Circular Bioeconomy ________________46
   5.13. Disengaging Premier green institutions _47
   6. SOCIAL ISSUES ______________________49
   6.1. Women and Trade: The Role of Trade in
   Promoting Women’s Equality______________49
   6.2. Modern Slavery _____________________50
   6.3. Elderly Population in India_____________52
   6.4. Global Hunger Index 2020 _____________54
   6.5. World’s Women 2020: Trends and Statistics
   Report ________________________________55
   6.6. STEM Career Opportunities for Women in
   India __________________________________56
   6.7. Annual Status of Education Report 2020 _58
   6.8. Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results
   for States (STARS) Project_________________59
   6.9. Minimum age for Girls Marriage ________60
   7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY____________62
   7.1. Genome Sequencing _________________62
   7.2. Nobel Prize in Chemistry ______________63
   7.3. Nobel Prize in Medicine _______________64
   7.4. Nobel Prize in Physics_________________65
   7.5. Draft Space Based Communication Policy –
   2020 __________________________________67
   7.6. Superconductivity at Room Temperature_68
   7.7. Aquaponics _________________________68
   7.8. Global TB Report 2020 ________________69
   8. CULTURE ___________________________71
   8.1. Evidence of Dairy Production in the Indus
   Valley Civilization (IVC) ___________________71
   8.2. 350th Jayanti of Baba Banda Sing Bahadur 72
   8.3. Nobel Prize in Literature ______________73
   9. ETHICS_____________________________74
   9.1. Pandemic and Behavioral Change _______74
3. SCHEMES IN NEWS _________________ 76
   10.1. Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) ___76
   11. NEWS IN SHORT ___________________ 77
   11.1. Right to protest in Public Space __________ 77
   11.2. Global NGO Amnesty International (AI) Shuts
   Operations in India_________________________ 77
   11.3. Centre amends land laws in Jammu & Kashmir
   (J&K) ____________________________________ 77
   11.4. Public Affairs Index (PAI), 2020___________ 77
   11.5. India Joins UK-led Campaign Against Encrypted
   Social Media Messages _____________________ 77
   11.6. 10th India-UK Economic & Financial Dialogue
   (EFD) ____________________________________ 78
   11.7. Ministry of Labour revises base year of the
   Consumer Price Index (CPI)-Industrial Workers (IW)
   ________________________________________ 78
   11.8. Ministry for Social Justice and Empowerment
   (MoSJE) Launches Ambedkar Social Innovation &
   Incubation Mission (ASIIM) __________________ 78
   11.9. Union Education Minister Launches KAPILA
   Campaign and Institution Innovation Council 3.0 _ 79
   11.10. India gets its first ever Brand & Logo for its
   Cotton on 2nd World Cotton Day (7th October)__ 79
   11.11. Panna Tiger Reserve Included in World
   Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR)under MAB
   Programme _______________________________ 80
   11.12. Asan Conservation Reserve (ACR) becomes
   Uttarakhand’s first Ramsar Site _______________ 80
   11.13. Third Assembly of the International Solar
   Alliance (ISA) held Virtually __________________ 81
4. 14. Cabinet ratified ban of Persistent Organic
   Pollutants (POP’s) listed under Stockholm Convention
   _________________________________________ 81
   11.15. Biopesticides ________________________ 82
   11.16. Global Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Budget Released
   by Global Carbon Project (GCP) _______________ 82
   11.17. Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for
   the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) __________ 82
   11.18. Fishing Cat __________________________ 83
   11.19. National Butterfly Status_______________ 83
   11.20. Rare Brahma Kamal Flower_____________ 83
   11.21. New Species of Plants Discovered in Western
   Ghats____________________________________ 84
   11.22. Anti-radiation missile- Rudram__________ 84
   11.23. SLINEX-20___________________________ 84
   11.24. INS Kavaratti ________________________ 84
   11.25. NAG Missile _________________________ 84
   11.26. India COVID-19 Emergency Response and
   Health System Strengthening Project (ESMF) ____ 84
   11.27. Antisera ____________________________ 85
   11.28. New Research Sheds Light on Declining Star
   Formation in Milky Way Galaxy _______________ 85
   11.29. New Shepard ________________________ 85
   11.30. Shyamji Krishna Varma ________________ 85
   11.31. Zozila Tunnel ________________________ 85
   11.32. Tech for Tribals ______________________ 85
   11.33. National Productivity Council (NPC) ______ 86
   11.34. India Energy Modelling Forum __________ 86
   11.35. New Norms for Awarding Bodies, Assessment
   Agencies _________________________________ 86
   11.36. 100 years of Jamia Millia Islamia ________ 87