Vision Ias Monthly Current Affair October 2020
Table of Contents
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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