Vision Ias Monthly Current Affair June 2020
Table of Contents
- POLITY AND GOVERNANCE _____________4
1. Custodial Violence ____________________4
1.2. Online Dispute Resolution ______________5
1.3. 5th Anniversary of Urban Missions _______7
2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ____________9
2.1. India-Australia Relations _______________9
2.2. E-Diplomacy ________________________10
2.3. India’s Energy Cooperation with
Neighbouring Countries __________________11
2.4. India Elected Non-permanent Member of UN
Security Council (UNSC) __________________13
2.5. European Union Vietnam Free Trade
Agreement (EVFTA)______________________14
3. ECONOMY _________________________ 16
3.1. Monetization of Deficit _______________16
3.2. Suspension of Insolvency and Bankruptcy
Code (IBC) _____________________________17
3.3. Banking Regulation (Amendment) Ordinance
2020 __________________________________19
3.4. Payments Infrastructure Development Fund
______________________________________21
3.5. Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) _______21
3.6. International Comparison Program of World
Bank__________________________________23
3.7. World Investment Report 2020 _________24
3.8. Empowered Group of Secretaries and Project
Development Cells ______________________24
3.9. Commercial Coal Mining ______________25
3.10. Social Stock Exchange _______________26
3.11. Indian Gas Exchange (IGX) ____________27
3.12. Real Time Market in Electricity ________28
3.13. AGRIDEX __________________________29
3.14. Animal Husbandry Infrastructure
Development Fund ______________________29
4. SECURITY__________________________ 31
4.1. Police Preparedness During COVID-19
Pandemic ______________________________31
4.2. “Lone Wolf” Attacks__________________32
4.3. Financial Action Task Force ____________34
5. ENVIRONMENT _____________________ 36
5.1. Climate Change and Its Impact on Indian
Region ________________________________36
5.2. Gender, Climate & Security ____________38
5.3. Loss of Ice Cover in The Arctic Sea_______39
5.4. Natural Barriers to Natural Disasters ____40
5.5. Urban Flooding______________________42
5.6. One Sun One World One Grid __________43
5.7. Extended Producers Responsibility ______45
5.8. COVID-19 Biomedical Waste Management46
5.9. Seabed 2030 project _________________48
5.10. India’s First Lichen Park ______________48
6. SOCIAL ISSUES______________________ 50
- 1. Urban Poor _________________________50
6.2. Drug Abuse in India __________________52
6.3. Gender Dimensions of the COVID-19
Pandemic ______________________________55
6.4. COVID-19 and India’s Healthcare Sector__56
6.5. Global Education Monitoring Report 2020 58
6.6. National Institutional Ranking Framework
(NIRF) _________________________________60
6.7. State Food Safety Index for 2019-20 _____61
6.8. Swachh Bharat Mission Phase II ________62
7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY____________64
7.1. COVID-19 Therapies and Antimicrobial
Resistance (AMR) _______________________64
7.2. Patent Pools ________________________65
7.3. Plasma Bank ________________________66
7.4. India Tuberculosis Report 2020 _________67
7.5. Indian National Space Promotion and
Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) ___________68
7.6. Joint Lunar Polar Exploration mission ____69
7.7. Quantum Key Distribution_____________69
7.8. Fifth State of Matter _________________70
7.9. Annular Solar Eclipse _________________71
8. CULTURE ___________________________73
8.1. Heritage Management________________73
8.2. Malabar Rebellion ___________________75
8.3. Ahom Kingdom______________________76
8.4. Kushinagar _________________________77
9. ETHICS _____________________________79
9.1. Ethics of Clinical Trials ________________79
10. NEWS IN SHORT ____________________81
10.1. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) Global Trends Report_______________ 81
10.2. Strategic Sector ______________________ 81
10.3. Kisan Credit Cards (KCC) Campaign Launched for
1.5 crore Dairy Farmers ____________________ 81
10.4. The Urban Learning Internship Program (TULIP)
Launched _______________________________ 82
10.5. Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results
for States Program (STARS) _________________ 82
10.6. CHAMPIONS Technology Platform _______ 82
10.7. SWADES (Skilled Workers Arrival Database for
Employment Support) _____________________ 82
10.8. Skills Build Reignite (SBR) and Skills Build
Innovation Camp (SBIC) ____________________ 82
10.9. Sahakar Mitra _______________________ 83
10.10. World Competitiveness Index __________ 83
10.11. State of World Population Report 2020 __ 83
10.12. NITI Aayog Launches Behaviour Change
Campaign ‘Navigating the New Normal’________ 83
10.13. Food Safety Compliance System (FoSCoS)
launched by FSSAI_________________________ 84
10.14. World Food Prize 2020 _______________ 84
10.15. Oil Spill in Russia’s Arctic Region ________ 84
10.16. Environmental Performance Index (EPI) __ 84
- 17. Nagar Van Scheme ___________________85
10.18. 2020 Desertification and Drought Day (June
17) _____________________________________85
10.19. Sukhna Lake Declared as Wetland _______85
10.20. SATYABHAMA (Science and Technology Yojana
for Aatmanirbhar Bharat in Mining Advancement)
Portal ___________________________________86
10.21. YUKTI (Young India combating COVID with
Knowledge, Technology and Innovation) 2.0 Web
Portal ___________________________________86
10.22. Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian
Medicine & Homoeopathy (PCIM&H) __________86
10.23. AarogyaPath ________________________86
10.24. Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD)
Deficiency________________________________86
10.25. Assistance to Disabled persons for
Purchasing/Fitting of Aids/Appliances (ADIP) Scheme
________________________________________87
- 26. Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence
(GPAI) __________________________________ 87
10.27. Data Lake and Project Management Software
_______________________________________ 87
10.28. Gold Nanoparticles (GNPs) ____________ 87
10.29. Portable UV Light Device to Kill Corona Virus
_______________________________________ 87
10.30. Extreme Helium Star (EHe) ____________ 88
10.31. Khelo India State Centres of Excellence __ 88
10.32. Ramon Magsaysay Awards ____________ 88
10.33. Gairsain ___________________________ 88
10.34. Bimal Julka Committee _______________ 88
11. SCHEMES IN NEWS __________________89
11.1. PM Street Vendor’s Atmanirbhar Nidhi (PM
SVANidhi) _______________________________ 89
11.2. PM Formalization of Micro Food Processing
Enterprises Scheme _______________________ 89
11.3. Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan (GKRA) ______ 90