April-2020 Monthly Current Affairs for UPSC CSE

CONTENTS National and International Issues 1. Why oil prices fell below zero? 2. Global Education Coalition 3. Annual Special 301 Report 4. CARES Programme 5. Countries of Particular Concern 6. Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 7. Global Basava Jayanthi 8. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) 9. Khudai Khidmatgar Movement 10. World Press Freedom Index, 2020 11. Operation Sanjeevani 12. ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work 13. Global Energy Review 2020 14. Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) 15. Global Report on Internal Displacement, 2020 16. WTO status Economic and Social Issues 1. National Infrastructure Pipeline 2. SVAMITVA scheme 3. Operation Twist 4. impact of Covid-19 on migration and remittances 5. COVID-19 need better legal safeguards 6. SWAYAM Prabha and SWAYAM 7. Exchange Rate 8. International Monetary and Finance Committee (IMFC) 9. Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGBs) 10. e-NAM platform 11. The Industrial Relations Code, 2019 12. Special Drawing Rights 13. 'certificate of origin’ (CO) 14. countercyclical capital buffers (CCyB)
15. New Development Bank 16. Dollar Swap Agreement 17. Corona Bonds Polity and Governance 1. Minority Institutions 2. e-Gram Swaraj 3. Basic Structure of Constitution 4. Press Council of India (PCI) 5. constitutional crisis 6. reservation benefits 7. Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 8. Floor Test 9. Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme 10. Price Monitoring & Resource Unit (PMRU) Science and Technology 1. Covid-related disease 2. Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) Vaccine 3. Alzheimer's inhibitor 4. Human Challenge Trials (HCTs). 5. PRACRITI 6. What are deep nudes? 7. Antiviral Nano-Coatings 8. Reverse Vaccinology 9. classical swine fever 10. CovidIndiaSeva 11. Sepsivac 12. e-Raktkosh portal 13. Lithium abundance in interstellar space 14. gamma-ray flux variability 15. Software Technology Parks of India 16. Compact Solid-State Sensor 17. ‘Kisan Rath’ mobile application (app) 18. inactivated virus vaccine 19. Pool Testing 20. Sahyog App 21. CollabCAD 22. SATYAM programme 23. Bharat Padhe Online Campaign and YUKTI web-portal 24. Ebola death 25. Swachhata-MoHUA App 26. Plasma Therapy 27. SAMADHAN 28. Hydroxychloroquine 29. VidyaDaan 2.0 30. silent and silenced disease 31. post-intensive care syndrome 32. Classifying coronaviruses 33. Geo-Fencing 34. TriboE Mask 35. Artificial Neural Networks based global Ionospheric Model (ANNIM) Environment and Ecology 1. New List of Names of Tropical Cyclones 2. 11th Petersberg Climate Dialogue 3. Jal Shakti Abhiyan 4. Hydrogen Fuel Bus and Car Project 5. Ozone Layer Hole 6. Dehing Patkai elephant reserve 7. Devanahalli Pomelo 8. Biomedical Waste Management Rules, 2016 9. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Report 10. Earth Day 11. National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) 12. Earth’s seismic noise 13. Madhuban Gajar 14. Indian Initiative on Earth BioGenome Sequencing (IIEBS)

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