August-2019 Current Affairs for Prelims

AUGUST-2019 TOPIC FOR PRELIMS MONTHLY CURRENT AFFAIRS www.iasabhiyan.com

Contents National and International Issues 1. No First Use Nuclear Doctrine 2. INF Treaty 3. UNSC Resolution 47 on Kashmir 4. UN Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 5. UNSC Closed Consultation 6. One Country Two System Policy 7. Project-75I 8. Shillong Declaration 9. Mekong-Ganga Cooperation 10. Group of Seven-G7 11. The Gulf War 12. United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements 13. Time Release Study

Economic and Social Issues 14. Negative Rate Policy 15. Institute of Eminence 16. Currency Manipulation 17. Prevention of Money Laundering Act 18. Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment Act) 19. Exchange Traded Fund 20. Regulatory Sandbox 21. Pradhan Mantri Laghu Vyapari Maan-Dhan scheme 22. Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) 23. Revised Economic Capital Framework 24. Swatantrata Sainik Samman Yojana 25. Child Wellbeing index 26. Development Banks 27. Social Stock Exchange 28. Project SURE 29. SANKALP Scheme
30. Janaushadhi Sugam 31. NISHTHA 32. SARAL– ‘State Rooftop Solar Attractiveness Index’ 33. Geographical Indication (GI) tags

Polity Issues 34. Chief of Defence staff 35. Federalism 36. Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill, 2019 37. Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Act, 1951 38. Constitution Bench 39. Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Act, 1956 40. Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order 2019 41. Honour Killing 42. Article 371 43. Delimitation of Constituencies 44. Legislative Council 45. D Voters 46. Citizenship in India 47. Fast-track courts 48. Haryana Administrative Tribunal

Science and Technology Issues 49. MDR-TB and XDR-TB 50. Sulphur Dioxide Emission in India 51. Genome India Initiative 52. Immuvac and VPM 1002 Vaccine Trials 53. Xenotransplantation 54. Kala Azhar 55. Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile 56. Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients 57. Common Service Centres 58. Rotavirus 59. National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) 60. Reusable rocket 61. Notifiable Diseases 62. National Essential Diagnostic List 63. Tardigrade 64. NASA – AURA Spacecraft 65. Lunar Orbit Insertion 66. McrBC 67. James Webb Space Telescope 68. Mitra Crater 69. Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research (FEDOR) 70. Hydrothermal Carbonization 71. Environment and Ecological Issues

Environment and Ecological Issues 72. Tarantula 73. Nematodes 74. IPCC Report 75. Komodo Dragon 76. Canine Distemper Virus (CDV) 77. Deep Sea Mining 78. Aquaponics 79. Environmental and Social Management Framework 80. CITES 81. Mercury Accumulation in Fish 82. Biodiesel plants 83. Perseids Meteor Shower 84. New Species of Freshwater Fish 85. New Species of Semi Acquatic Insects 86. UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) 87. Star tortoises and Small-clawed otters 88. “Special Report” on oceans and Earth’s frozen zones 89. Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan (PM Kusum) Scheme 90. Gogabeel

Miscellaneous Issues