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