Vision Ias Monthly Current Affair November 2020

Vision Ias Monthly Current Affair November 2020

Table of Contents

1. POLITY AND CONSTITUTION ___________ 4
1.1. Simultaneous Elections ________________ 4
1.2. Right to Recall _______________________ 5
1.3. Regulating Over-the-top (OTT) platforms _ 6
1.4. Legalising Betting in India ______________ 8
1.5. 3 Capitals for Andhra Pradesh __________ 9
1.6. Forest Rights Act ____________________ 10
2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS __________ 13
2.1. Regional Comprehensive Economic
Partnership (RCEP) and India ______________ 13
2.2. 17th ASEAN-India Summit ____________ 14
2.3. BRICS _____________________________ 17
2.4. G20 _______________________________ 19
2.5. Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) 21
2.6. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC)________________________ 23
2.7. India and Nuclear Disarmament________ 25
2.8. India’s Civil Nuclear Co-operations______ 27
2.9. India’s Development Efforts in Afghanistan
______________________________________ 29
2.10. India- Nepal Ties ___________________ 31
3. ECONOMY_________________________ 33
3.1. Changes in Bank Licensing framework ___ 33
3.1.1. Banking License to large corporate houses 33
3.1.2. Banking License for NBFCs _____________ 34
3.2. GST Tussle _________________________ 35
3.3. Inflation Targeting ___________________ 37
3.4. Liquidity Trap _______________________ 40
3.5. MSP and Procurement _______________ 40
3.6. Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme 42
3.7. Solar Manufacturing in India __________ 44
3.8. Hybrid Renewable Energy_____________ 46
3.9. Model Tenancy Act, 2019 _____________ 47
4. SECURITY__________________________ 50
4.1. India’s Annual Resolution On Counter Terrorism_______
4.2. Bio-Terrorism_______________________ 51
5. ENVIRONMENT_____________________ 54

5.1. Environmental impact of Agricultural
Subsidies ______________________________ 54
5.2. Hydrogen Based Energy _______________ 55
5.3. Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods (GLOFs) ___ 57
5.4. La Niña ____________________________ 59
6. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY____________61
6.1. Manned Space Mission _______________ 61
6.2. Venus Orbiter Mission: Shukrayaan _____ 62
6.3. Geospatial Technology________________ 64
6.4. Draft Data Centre Policy 2020 and India as a
Global Data Centre Hub __________________ 66
6.5. C.V. Raman _________________________ 67
7. SOCIAL ISSUES ______________________69
7.1. Paternity leave ______________________ 69
7.2. Manual Scavenging __________________ 70
7.3. Malnutrition in India _________________ 72
7.4. SDG Investor Map for India ____________ 75
7.5. Integration of Traditional Medicine and
Traditional Medicine _____________________ 77
8. CULTURE ___________________________80
8.1. All India Trade Union Congress _________ 80
9. ETHICS_____________________________81
9.1. Nudging____________________________ 81
10. SCHEMES IN NEWS __________________83
10.1. Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam
Utthaan Mahabhiyan (PM-KUSUM) Scheme __ 83
11. NEWS IN SHORTS ___________________84
11.1. Election Commission of India (ECI) Removed
Congress Leader Kamal Nath from the Party’s list of
Star Campaigners.__________________________84
11.2. Pakistan Grants Provisional Provincial Status to
Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) ________________________84
11.3. Framework Arrangement on Cyber and CyberEnabled Critical Technologies Cooperation ______84
11.4. Motor Vehicle Aggregator Guidelines Issued 85
11.5. Brahmos Supersonic Cruise Missile________85
11.6. Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QRSAM)
System __________________________________85
11.7. Scorpene Class Submarine Vagir __________85
11.8. Military Exercises______________________85
11.9. TX2 Tiger Conservation Awards (TTCA) given 86

11.10. Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate
Change (MoEFCC) Launched Vulture Action Plan
2020-25 _________________________________ 86
11.11. State of Food and Agriculture 2020 Report
Released by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
________________________________________ 86
11.12. World Wide Fund (WWF) Water Risk Filter 87
11.13. Luhri Stage-1 Hydro Power Project ______ 87
11.14. Four more Biodiversity Heritage Sites (BHS)for
Karnataka _______________________________ 87
11.15. India Climate Change Knowledge Portal __ 88
11.16. Country’s First Convergence Project _____ 88
11.17. Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-01)_____ 88
11.18. Starlink ____________________________ 88
11.19. Discovery of Pulsars __________________ 89
11.20. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) Detected in the Milky
Way for the First Time _____________________ 89
11.21. One Health Global Leaders Group on
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) ______________ 89
11.22. Great Barrington Declaration __________ 89

11.23. First Ever Vaccine Listed Under WHO
Emergency Use Listing (EUL) _________________90
11.24. Kala-azar or Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) ___90
11.25. Global Center for Traditional Medicine ___90
11.26. Interstate Migrant Policy Index (IMPEX)
released by India Migration Now (IMN)_________90
11.27. United Nations (UN) Launched the Sanitation
and Hygiene Fund (SHF) _____________________91
11.28. Academic Freedom Index ______________91
11.29. Athena SWAN Charter_________________91
11.30. National Portal for Transgender Persons __91
11.31. Scotland Became the First Country to Make
Sanitary Products Free ______________________92
12. APPENDIX _________________________93
12.1. Mitigation and Management of COVID-19-
Practices from Indian States and Union Territories
______________________________________ 93