April Monthly Current Affairs Magazine

• Be N By IAS, Delhi
• 11, Oct 2021

GENERAL STUDIES-I

Art and Culture

• Dadasaheb Phalke Award to Rajinikanth
• Shigmo or Shigmotsav Festival
• AICTE Lilavati Awards

Geography

• Chenab Arch-World’s Highest Railway Bridge

Society

• WEF’s Global Gender Gap Report
• E9 Countries and E9 Initiative

GENERAL STUDIES-II

Polity and Constitution

• Chief Justice of India-Judicial Appointment
• SUPACE-Supreme Court Portal for Assistance in Court's Efficiency
• Tribunals Reforms (Rationalisation and Conditions of Service) Ordinance, 2021
• Chief Election Commissioner
• Ad-hoc Judges-Appointment of Judges

Editorial

• Delhi - Centre (Lt. Governor) Tussle on GNCTD Act
• Changes in Quran (Religious Scriptures) - Criticism, Need and Supreme Court
• Sexual Harassment-MeToo Movement
• Lok Adalats - Alternative dispute resolution Mechanism
• Elect ion Commi ss ion of India -A Super Government
• State and Religion - State’s Control on Temples
• Free Temple Movement - State’s control on Temples - State and Religion

Governance

• Committees On Occupational Safety
• “Sankalp se Siddhi” - Village & Digital Connect Drive under TRIFED
• National Policy for Rare Diseases, 2021
• Network Survey Vehicle
• Rajya Sabha Election and Election Commission
• MANAS - Mental Health and Normalcy Augmentation System
• UNFPA State of World Population Report 2021
• National Internet Exchange of India
• DuroKea Series
• Food Security and Aadhar Issues
• National Pension System
• Chandler Good Government Index (CGGI)

Editorial

• Third layer of Governance- Panchayati Raj
• Civil Servants and Role in Development
• Vaccination For All

International Relations

• India Pakistan Trade- Ban lifted by Pakistan
• BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation)
• Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA)-US and IRAN
• Multinational Military Exercise SHANTIR OGROSHENA 2021 (Front Runner of Peace)
• La Pérouse- France-Led Military Exercise
• The State of the World’s Human Rights - Amnesty International Report 2020-21
• India-Seychelles and SAGAR
• Freedom of Navigation Operations and India’s Exclusive Economic Zone
• Raisina Dialogue 2021
• Council of the European Union’s Policy on Indo-Pacific
• World Press Freedom Index-2021
• U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)
• SIPRI Report on Defence Expenditure-India Third Highest Military Spender in 2020
• Project DANTAK
• Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI)

Editorial

• Indo-Pak and Indo-Bangladesh - A Tale of Two Relationships
• Nato and European Powers - Foreign Policy of India
• Why India Needs a ‘Feminist’ Foreign Policy
• Italian Marines Case and Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)
• India’s Refugee Problem
• India and the Great Power Triangle of Russia, China and USA
• BIMSTEC- From Low-Profile to International Limelight
• India and China- Why Less May be More
• Decentralised International Order / World Order

GENERAL STUDIES-III

Economic Development

• Inflation Target to be Retained at 4 Percent by Monetary Policy Committee
• Small Savings Instruments
• Grameen E-stores of Common Service Centres
• Spices Board India – Use of Blockchain Technology
• RBI’s Monetary Policy Meeting – Repo Rate Unchanged
• PLI Scheme for White Goods and 'National Programme on High Efficiency Solar PV Modules'
• Government Securities Acquisition Programme (G-SAP)
• DGFT Trade Facilitation App
• India Energy Dashboards (IED) Version 2.0
• e-SANTA
• The Hydrogen Economy – New Delhi Dialogue 2021
• Regulatory Review Authority-RRA 2.0
• Wholesale Price Index (WPI)
• Eudiscopus Denticulus-India’s First Bamboo-Dwelling Bat
• Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs)
• Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS)
• Subsidy for Production of Urea Through Coal Gasification
• RBI’s Ways and Means Advances (WMA)
• RBI and Digital Currency - Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021
• Groundwater Depletion to Reduce Winter Cropping Intensity
• RBI’s Cybersecurity Norms for Payment Services
• Corporate Governance- Appointment in Private Sector Banks
• Agriculture Infrastructure Fund
• PowerGrid Infrastructure Investment Trust (PGInvIT)
• ‘Large Area Certification’ Scheme and Organic Certification Support Scheme

Editorial

• Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate- Global coordination of Corporate Taxation

Environment and Bio-diversity

• Bandhavgarh National Parke
• Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier or Doomsday Glacier
• Dolphin Boom in Odisha’s Chilika Lake
• Indus and Ganges River Dolphins- Two different Species
• Indian Rhino Vision 2020
• Monkeydactyl-The Flying Reptile
• Azhdarchid Pterosaurs
• National Task Force for Air Pollution Monitoring
• Rewaconodon Indicus-Cynodonts-20-Million-Year-Old Rat-like Creatures
• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• Net Zero Producers Forum

Editorial

• Climate Change and Global Warming - Net-Zero Emission by 2050

Science & Technology

• World’s Biggest Underwater Neutrino Telescopes- Baikal-GVD (Gigaton Volume Detector)
• Chaff Rocket-Critical Technology
• Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP)-Disease Surveillance
• National Super Computing Mission (NSM)
• Vaccine for Classical Swine Fever (CSF) and Sheep Pox Diseases
• INS Sarvekshak- A Hydrographic Survey Ship
• Particle Physics-Muon g–2
• NASA's Odyssey Spacecraft
• Nano Sniffer- A Microsensor Based Explosive Trace Detector
• NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter and Perseverance Rover
• An Electronic Nose to Detect Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S)
• ARIES Facility for Aditya-L1
• International Space Station (ISS) Programme
• Crew-2 Mission Under Commercial Crew Program
• MOXIE under NASA’s Perseverance Mission-Produced Oxygen on Mars
• Single Crystal (SX) Components Under Indigenous Helicopter Development Programme
• Integrated Solar Dryer and Pyrolysis pilot plant - Program ‘2+2 Projects’ and Project ‘Pyrasol’
• NavIC- Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS)
• Tianhe or “Heav enly Harmony” Module - China’s Permanent Space Station
• MACS 1407 – High Yielding and Pest Resistant Variety of Soybean

Editorial

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Young Generations

Disaster management

• STATE of the Global Climate 2020 Report
• Assam Earthquake and Himalayan Frontal Thrust

Security

• Cybercrime Volunteer Programme

GENERAL STUDIES-IV

Ethics

• Chimaera Species-Human cel ls grown in monkey embryos sparked ethics debate

Editorial

• Environmental Ethics-Climate Change and Climate Injustice
• Freedom of Protest in Olympic Games