Vision Ias Monthly Magzine Current Affair April 2020 English Medium

Vision Ias Monthly Magzine Current Affair April 2020

Table of Contents

1. POLITY & CONSTITUTION _______________4
   1. Panchayats and Pandemic ______________4
   1.2. Role of Civil Society in Times of Crisis _____6
   1.3. COVID-19 and India’s Legal Framework ___8
   1.3.1. Ordinance to Protect Health Workers _____10
   1.4. Reservation Policy ___________________11
   1.5. Online Justice Delivery________________12
   1.6. Regulation of Government Advertisements
   ______________________________________14
   2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS __________ 17
   2.1. Medical Diplomacy___________________17
   2.2. Collective Action in the Times of COVID __18
   2.3. Role of WHO________________________20
   2.4. Trans-boundary River Water Management23
   3. ECONOMY _________________________ 26
   3.1. National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP)____26
   3.2. Revised FDI Policy ___________________28
   3.3. COVID-19 and Poverty ________________30
   3.4. Other Reports on Various Impacts of COVID-
   19 ____________________________________32
   3.4.1. Shared Responsibility, Global Solidarity” Report
   ________________________________________32
   3.4.2. ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the World of Work
   ________________________________________33
   3.4.3. Update of UNCTAD’s Trade and Development
   Report __________________________________34
   3.4.4. Global Energy Review 2020 _____________36
   3.5. Special Liquidity Facility for Mutual Funds
   (SLF-MF)_______________________________36
   3.6. Public Utility Service _________________37
   3.7. Report on Industrial Relations Code _____38
   3.8. Negative Oil Prices ___________________39
   3.9. WTO Peace Clause ___________________41
   3.10. Special Drawing Rights_______________42
   3.11. Minor Forest Produce _______________43
   3.12. District Mineral Foundation (DMF) _____44
   3.13. Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020 45
   3.14. Open Market Sale Scheme (OMSS) _____47
   3.15. Atal Innovation Mission______________48
   4. SECURITY__________________________ 49
2. 1. Epidemics and National Security ________49
   4.2. Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical
   Weapons ______________________________50
   5. ENVIRONMENT______________________52
   5.1. COVID-19 and Disaster Management ____52
   5.2. Green Bonds________________________53
   5.3. Supreme Court Relaxes BS-IV Deadline___55
   5.4. Petcoke ____________________________56
   5.5. Uranium Contamination ______________58
   5.6. Arctic Ozone Hole____________________59
   5.7. Petersberg Climate Dialogue ___________59
   5.8. Naming Of Tropical Cyclones ___________60
   5.9. Antarctica Experiences First Known Heat
   Wave _________________________________61
   6. SOCIAL ISSUES ______________________62
   6.1. Urbanisation of Pandemics ____________62
   6.2. Gender Violence and COVID-19_________63
   6.3. Global Report on Internal Displacement__66
   6.4. Global Education Coalition ____________66
   6.5. Vidyadaan 2.0_______________________67
   7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY____________69
   7.1. BCG Vaccine and COVID-19 ____________69
   7.2. Updates on Various aspects of CoVID-19 _70
   7.2.1. Transmission, Testing and Prevention methods
   _______________________________________ 70
   7.2.2. Vaccines and Other Treatment methods __ 71
   7.2.3. Tracking and Surveillance ______________ 72
   7.2.4. Awareness Generation and Grievance
   Redressal _______________________________ 72
   7.2.5. Capacity Building And Promoting Innovation73
   7.3. Indian Initiative on Earth BioGenome
   Sequencing (IIEBS)_______________________74
   8. CULTURE ___________________________75
   8.1. National List for Intangible Cultural Heritage
   (ICH) __________________________________75
   8.2. Qissa Khwani Bazaar Massacre _________76
   9. ETHICS _____________________________77
   9.1. Social Stigma: COVID-19 ______________77
   10. NEWS IN SHORT ____________________79
3. 1. Issue of nomination of Maharashtra Chief
   Minister _________________________________79
   10.2. Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) __79
   10.3. Press Freedom Index___________________79
   10.4. India remains on U.S. Priority Watch List ___80
   10.5. Certificate of Origin____________________80
   10.6. Bank of Schemes, Ideas, Innovation & Research
   Portal ___________________________________80
   10.7. Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2019
   Report by SIPRI ___________________________80
   10.8. Global Terrorism Index _________________80
   10.9. UN75 _______________________________81
   10.10. EIA Notification Amended For Production Of
   Bulk Drugs _______________________________81
   10.11. Global Groundwater Maps _____________81
   10.12. Rare Snow Leopards Spotted in Uttarakhand
   ________________________________________82
   10.13. Great Barrier Reef’s Mass Bleaching______82
   10.14. Daporijo bridge over Subansiri river ______82
   10.15. Anak Krakatau_______________________83
   10.16. New Model to Predict Ionospheric Electron
   Density __________________________________83
   10.17. Bharat Padhe Online__________________83
   10.18. UGC Guidelines on Examinations and
   Academic Calendar for the Universities_________83
   10.19. Hospital Empanelment Module (HEM) Lite 83
4. 20. China to Launch Communication Satellites
   Named after Wuhan_______________________ 84
   10.21. Tianwen-1 _________________________ 84
   10.22. SunRise Mission_____________________ 84
   10.23. DEMO-2 Mission ____________________ 84
   10.24. Digital Geological Map of Moon ________ 84
   10.25. Lithium Rich Giant Stars_______________ 85
   10.26. Fomalhaut B________________________ 85
   10.27. Kepler-1649c _______________________ 85
   10.28. June Almeida _______________________ 85
   10.29. Sodium Hypochlorite_________________ 86
   10.30. Cytokine Storms_____________________ 86
   10.31. Anthurium _________________________ 86
   10.32. Self-Service Blockchain Track and Trace
   Platform for Businesses ____________________ 86
   10.33. Maze Ransomware __________________ 87
   10.34. Exercise NCC Yogdan _________________ 87
   10.35. Stranded in India Portal_______________ 87
   10.36. Festivals in News ____________________ 87
   10.37. Nihangs ___________________________ 88
   10.38. Dekho Apna Desh ___________________ 88
   11. GOVERNMENT SCHEMES IN NEWS _____89
   11.1. PM-CARES Fund______________________ 89
   11.2. Intensification of Research in High Priority Areas
   (IRHPA) _________________________________ 90
   11.3. E-NAM Platform______________________ 90