March Monthly Current Affairs Magazine

• Be N By IAS, Delhi
• 11, Oct 2021

GENERAL STUDIES-I

Art and Culture

• Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav 2021
• What are Sattras?

Geography

• National Institute of Oceanography- Genomes Mapping in the Indian Ocean

Society

• QS World University Rankings 2021

GENERAL STUDIES-II

Polity and Constitution

• Global Freedom Watchdog Report-2021
• Internet Imperialism-Digital Media Regualtion
• Reservation - 50 Percent Limit on Quota
• National Population Register
• Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act
• ‘Disha’ Bill
• NOTA-Electoral Reforms
• Anti-Defection Law - Nominated Rajya Sabha MP
• Sixth Schedule Area: No Panchayat in Assam
• Chief Justice of India: Justice N.V. Ramana as 48th CJI
• Judicial Vacancies - Judicial Appointment
• Permanent Commission For Women in Armed Forces
• Article 244 (A)-Autonomous State v. Sixth Schedule

Editorial

• India as Surveillance State
• Overseas Citizens of India and India’s Experiment With Dual Citizenship
• A Factory for the Quad and World - India’s Manufacturing Ability
• Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991- Status quo in Places of Worship
• Reservations in Local - State Jobs - Sub Nationalism
• Centre v. Delhi-Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• Electoral Bonds- Significance, Criticism and Way Forward
• Election Commission of India - Since Independence to 2021
• Delcine of Parliamnet
• Uniform Civil Code

Governance

• Ease of Living Index: Bengaluru ‘Most Liveable’ City
• Lateral Entry Into Bureaucracy: Reason, Process, and the Controversy
• National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) and Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development
• National Non-Ferrous Metal Scrap Recycling Framework, 2020
• Research Ecosystem: Country’s First Engineering Research & Development (ER&D) Policy
• OTT Rules Lack Teeth': Supreme Court
• Restrictions on OCI Cardholders
• City Innovation Exchange (CiX)
• Jal Shakti Abhiyan ‘Catch The Rain’
• ‘LinkedIn Opportunity Index 2021’ Report
• Swachhta Saarthi Fellowship: Waste to Wealth Mission
• Food Waste Index Report 2021: UNEP
• Mullaperiyar Dam-Rule Curve’
• Orunudoi scheme
• Food Security- Ration card cancellation-Public Distribution System (PDS)
• Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020
• World Happiness Report 2021
• Ken Betwa River Linking Project
• Marine Aids to Navigation Bill
• Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) Scheme

Editorial

• Government Regulation for Digital Content, Social Media and OTT Platforms
• Revising National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013
• Municipal Budgets as Citizen’s Budget-Urban Local Self Government
• New Rules for Social Media and Over-The-Top (OTT) Platforms

International Relations

• West Container Terminal-India and Japan Back in New Sri Lanka Port Project
• Chabahar Port in International North South Transport Corridor
• China’s Polar Silk Road’ in Arctic Ocean
• First Downstream Dams on Brahmaputra by China
• 'Maitri Setu' as ‘New Trade Corridor' Between India and Bangladesh
• AsterX-France Conducts First Military Exercises in Space
• First Quad Summit
• Quad’s First Leader Summit for ‘Open, Free’ Indo-Pacific
• Permanent Indus Commission (PIC) and Indus Waters Treaty
• India-Sri Lanka and UNHRC
• Exercise Desert Flag-VI: UAE
• Vaccine Passport
• Russia’s Peace Conference for Afghanistan
• Digital Green Certificates by the European Commission
• Istanbul Convent ion - Counci l of Europe Convention on Violence Against Women
• Whitsun Reef: Philippines- China Dispute
• India Abstains in UNHRC Vote on Sri Lanka
• Suez Canal
• Heart of Asia -I stanbul Process (HoA- IP) Ministerial Conference
• India on Afghan and Taliban in Heart of Asia – Istanbul Process

Editorial

• Quad-Strategic Opportunity or Quagmire?
• USA New Peace Plan For Afghanistan
• Quad v. Brics-India’s Strategic Autonomy
• Geopolitics of Electricity Trade in South
• Asia
• India - Bangladesh: Joined by History and Future
• India - Pakistan - Geoeconomics and Geopolitics
• Defence Exports By India-Brahmos- Role of Regional Security Provider

GENERAL STUDIES-III

Economic Development

• ‘TRIPS Waiver for Vaccines Key to Growth’
• Maritime India Summit-Ports Infrastructure
• Inflation Target at 4 Per Cent
• Cairn-India Dispute-New York Convention and Permanent Court of Arbitration
• New Umbrella Entities (NUES) - Digital Payments/E-Payments
• National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and Insolvency of Corporate Debtors
• Cooking Energy Access Survey 2020
• RBI’s Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) and Capital Infusion
• SEBI’S New AT1 Bond/Additional Tier-1 Bonds
• Maritime India Summit 2021
• Merchant Digitization Summit 2021
• Purple Revolution Under Aroma Mission
• Technology and Innovation Report 2021: UNCTAD
• Udyog Manthan
• Atmanirbhar Niveshak Mitra
• Telecom licensing conditions amended
• Msme Credit Health Index
• IRENA’s World Energy Transitions Outlook- 1.5°C Pathway
• Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2021
• Singapore International Arbitration Centre-Amazon-Future Group Disputes
• Insurance (Amendment) Bill, 2021- to Increase FDI in Insurance
• Corporate Governance - Tata - Mistry feud - SC overruled NCLAT
• Commercial Coal Mining

Editorial

• Disinvestment-The Distress Sale of Public Sector Enterprises is Unwise
• Evaluation of Inflation Targeting Policy in India

Environment and Bio-diversity

• Snow Leopards in Himachal Pradesh
• Zero – Emission Technology to Recycle Ewaste
• Himalayan Serow
• Simlipal Biosphere Reserve Forest Fire
• Independent Environment Regulator
• Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Synthesis Report: UNFCCC
• Black-browed Babbler
• Dumping Inert Waste in Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary
• Red Sanders
• Seabuckthorn Plantation in the Cold Desert
• Commission for Air Quality Management
• Country’s Biggest Floating Solar Power Plant
• Great Indian Bustard
• IQ Air’s World Air Quality Report, 2020
• Tiger Relocation Project
• African Elephants
• New Seaweed Species-Hypnea Indica and Hypnea Bullata
• New Butterfly Species in Agasthyamala

Science & Technology

• Mass Spectrometry Using Nano Sheets
• Spectrography-Aries Devasthal Faint Object
• Spectrograph & Camera (ADFOSC)
• Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (SFDR) Technology
• Women Technology Parks (WTP)
• LUPEX Mission-India Japan Joint lunar Polar Exploration
• A Mosquito Protein-AEG12
• PSLV-C51 launch- First Dedicated Mission of ISRO’s Commercial Arm, New Space India Ltd
• Right to Repair: European Union
• Global Bio-India-2021
• CSIR Floriculture Mission
• Equine Herpes Virus Outbreak in Europe
• Synthetic Aperture Radar
• Aluminium - Air Technology / Metal - Air Technology Based Battery
• Pusa-Farm SunFridge (Pusa-FSF) - On Farm Green Energy Refrigeration System
• International Pulsar Timing Array and Upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT)
• NISAR- Joint Earth-Observing Mission of NASA and ISRO
• Culex or Common House Mosquitoes

Editorial

• Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI)- Fourth Industrial Revolution

Disaster management

• Indonesia’s Sinabung Volcano
• Bhadar Dam: Gujarat
• International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)

Security

• Cyber Volunteer Programme and Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C)
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Report on Arms Import
• Ultimate Military Strength Index- Military Direct Report

Editorial

• Challenges to India’s Cybersecurity