Vision Ias Monthly Magzine Current Affair April 2020
Table of Contents
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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
