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The following were lucidly compiled along with facts corner of the month.
National & International Importance
- MARPOL & SOLAS
- ‘Trans-pacific pact could hurt India’
- India and Vietnam
- Delhi Declaration
- India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway
- India admitted to Australia Group
- Budapest Convention
- What is Global Entry Programme?
- Haj subsidy
- New Delhi International Arbitration Centre
- Bangladesh lifts ban on hilsa exports
- What is consular access?
- VAT introduced for the first time by Saudi Arabia, UAE
- Iceland and Unequal Pay Based On Gender
POLITY ISSUES
- Office of Profit
- Should euthanasia be allowed?
- Dual duty: on the twin responsibilities of States
- Members of Parliament: Qualifications and Disqualification
- Public Safety Act in Jammu and Kashmir (J and K)
- Laws in the Indian Constitution against Animal-Killing
- The Malimath Committee
- Joseph Shine v. Union of India
- Inserting new Section in IPC was discussed
ECONOMIC, SOCIAL & GOVERNMENT SCHEMES
- Litecoin: Whаt It Iѕ & Hоw It Wоrkѕ
- NITI Aayog initiates the first course on Sustainable Urban Planning
- Forced labour highest in India: Report
- Pulse Polio Programme for 2018
- announces 4 new schemes to promote young scientists
- Centre determined to stabilise population growth
- Recalculating ease of doing business
- INSPIRE
- Inclusive Development Index 2018
- Unknown facts about Adhaar
- Left behind: on the right to free, compulsory education
- Operation Digital Board
- What is Composition Scheme under GST?
- Saksham-2018
- What is Virtual ID, and how is it different from Aadhaar?
- N. children severely malnourished: report
- Taxable savings bonds
- Zero Budget Natural Farming
- The age of crypto-economics
- How single-origin coffees in India disappeare
- Food poisoning, a common outbreak in 2017
- Three cryptocurrencies you need to know about
- Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
- Gross Value Added, GDP & Base Effect
- Jal Mahotsav
- Jal Marg Vikas Project
- What is the Ghogha-Dahej ro-ro ferry?
- What is the term ‘Channel Stuffing’ in Business?
- What does the term ‘Time correction’ mean in Finance?
- What is an electoral bond and how do we get one?
- Online Portal ‘NARI’
- Ujh Project
- What is Zojila tunnel in J&K?
- Photovoltaic road tested in China
- Electoral Bonds for political donations
- Ministry of Railway launches SFOORTI Application
- Government Process Re-engineering (GPR)
- Schemes for Children Born With Low Birth Weight
- Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan
- Under-Five Child Mortality
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES
- Black Hole Eclipse
- The many things that Lamin B2 can do
- Blue Moon
- Bacteria at war
- Bone morphogenetic proteins
- Adverse Events Following Immunisation
- Blue Moon, Super Moon and Blood Moon
- Rare ‘super blood blue moon’
- Mosquitoes can recall hosts’ smells, swats
- Yttria-Stabilised Zirconia
- HPV vaccine gets immunisation nod
- First India-designed vaccine passes WHO test
- Secrets of longevity protein revealed
- Seasonal affective disorder
- Calcium Sensor Protein (STIM1)
- Meltdown and Spectre explaine
- Building blocks of life seen in meteorites that fell in 1998
- National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme
- A pioneer in biotechnology
- Why were prime numbers in the news recently?
- What are Mersenne primes?
- India unveils Pratyush
- Expanding the donor pool
- Unknown microbes identifiied in space
- What does ‘learned non-use’ mean in the field of medicine?
- What is tetanus?
- Vitamin C improves the efficacy of TB drugs
ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY & GEOGRAPHICAL ISSUES
- Oil moratorium at Belize Barrier Reef
- The langurs south of Assam’s Aie
- Red alert on the green index
- A new type of virus found in our oceans
- Mysterious ‘hot Jupiter’
- Environmental Performance Index
- A turtle recovery plan
- North-East India (Excluding-Brahmputra) Rivers Profile
- Don’t judge a snake by its colour
- CAC adopts Codex norms for three spices
- A quiz on plants and all things green
- Researchers unravel floral biodiversity
- Sustainable farming and Hydroponics
- A new weapon in the carbon fight
- Chinese ‘rainbow dinosaur’
- State prepares ground for nesting of Olive Ridley
- Elephants are irreplaceable seed dispersers
- Goa bird festival
- Sahara Desert
- Mankidia denied habitat in Simlipal
- India jumps to fourth place in computing capacity for weather forecasting
- What is ‘bomb cyclone’ and why is it freezing USA?
- Barren island
- What are bosons and how did they get their name?
- What are asteroids and how are they grouped?
- Tabby’s star
- ‘Lucy’ walked upright
- Albania is losing its national bird to rampant poaching
- Come July, label mandatory for food certified as ‘organic’
- Agasthyarkoodam trek
- Nilambur teak and Geographical Indication (GI) tag
- WHO okays Bharat Bio typhoid shot
- Arunachal declared open defecation-free State
- Humpback whale in Kerala
- Warming may turn quarter of Earth arid
- Malabar sanctuary home to new night frog species
- New species of reptile found in Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary
- Three nests of rare vulture species spotted in Cambodia
- New endemic ants from the Andamans
- Two new Ginger species found in the northeast
OTHER PRELIMS RELATED ISSUES
- Lala Lajpat Rai
- Scorpene-class submarine Karanj
- Stone tools offer insights into history of human evolution
- What is the ‘moving sofa problem’?
- First Slaughter of Chittorgarh by Allauddin Khilji in 1303
- Archaeological foundation unearths Chola era temple
- Who built the Indus Valley civilisation?
- Tamil Sangam poetry
- Rogan art in Kutch
- Vikrant
- Agni-5 ballistic missile
- Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav-2018
- World’s biggest flooded cave found in Mexico
- Historians oppose Monuments Bill
- Dharma-Dhamma Traditions
- ISRO successfully launches 42nd PSLV with Cartosat-2
- Cartosat-2 satellite launched
- Akash missile
- INS Arihant
- Zuma mission
- Hwasong-15, North Korea’s latest missile
- What is SOFIA? NASA’s eye in the sky
- Bilateral Defence Exercise
- NASA to launch two missions to explore nearest space
- The Konyaks
- N.’s role in Quit India movement
- P-8I long range maritime patrol aircraft
- In democracy, what is ‘primary goods’?
- What is the ‘Sarick effect’ in Psychology?
- NCST Protection of Jarawa Tribes
- How a British war memorial became a symbol of Dalit pride
- Defence Acquisition Council
- Mission to ‘touch’ sun on NASA’s 2018 list
- UNESCO enters Turkey’s endangered ‘bird language’ in Intangible Cultural Heritage list