December-2017 (Topic for Prelims-2018)

All important relevant topics covered from the standard sources like TH/IE/PIB/BS/ET/TOI/DTE for Prelims-2018. Contents: International Importance 1. Kimberley Process-2017 2. International Organisation for Migration 3. WHO certifies Gabon as polio-free 4. Buenos Aires Declaration 5. BIMSTEC Festival of Buddhist Heritage 6. India and Israel 7. International North-South Transport Corridor 8. Vigilant Ace 9. is Wassenaar Arrangement important to India? 10. JERUSALEM Issue 11. ICAN receives Nobel Peace Prize 12. Border Protection Grid 13. UAE, Saudi Arabia to form new economic partnership group 14. International Maritime Organisation 15. Hwasong-15 16. HOT PURSUIT & SURGICAL STRIKE 17. Arogya 2017 18. H-1B VISA 19. G5 SAHEL 20. IMT highway

ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND GOVERNMENT SCHEMES 1. Pare Hydroelectric Plant 2. STRIVE PROJECT 3. Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project 4. Tuirial Hydro Electric Power Project 5. SRISTI Scheme 6. SABLA 7. Sakhi scheme 8. Legatum Prosperity Index 2017 9. Special and Differential Treatment (S&DT) in the WTO 10. Merchant Discount Rate 11. National Rail and Transport University 12. Modified Special Incentive Package Scheme 13. MINING SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM 14. Bharatiya Nirdeshak Dravya (BND-4201) 15. The State of the World’s Children 2017 16. World Inequality Report-2018 17. India’s 1st pod taxi 18. Ministry of Labour & Employment during the Year 2017 19. India’s nuclear doctrine 20. The lowdown on diphtheria and its resurgence 21. Darpan 22. Methanol Economy Fund 23. Soil Health Card Scheme & Soil Health Card 24. Directorate of Revenue Intelligence 25. Financial System Stability Assessment (FSSA) and Financial Sector Assessment (FSA) 26. Two Crucial Bridges in Eastern Arunachal Pradesh 27. India’s first EMC is coming to Andhra Pradesh 28. World Economic Situation and Prospects 2018’ report 29. Legatum Prosperity Index 2017 30. PILLAR RANKINGS 31. TIGR2ESS 32. Repo Rate Unchanged 33. Strategy on Resource Efficiency 34. Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana 35. WTO: India resolute on food security 36. Quantitative easing 37. Purchasing Managers' Index 38. GLOBAL EDUCATION MONITORING REPORT 2017-18 39. UNIFIED PAYMENTS INTERFACE & BHIM 40. SHe Box 41. RESERVATION FOR GUJJARS AND OTHER NOMADIC COMMUNITIES IN RAJASTHAN 42. RASHTRIYA MAHILA KOSH 43. Serious Fraud Investigation Office 44. REVISED NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL PROGRAMME 45. Spurt in rape cases, with M.P., U.P. leading the table 46. Floating Solar Power Plant 47. Tax Evasion V/s Tax Avoidance 48. Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank 49. SANKALP 50. Global Innovation Index 51. ISHAN UDAY 52. National Service Scheme 53. Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana 54. Mission “SAMPARK” 55. Asian Harmonization Working Party 56. SRISTI 57. National Nutrition Mission

POLITY 1. The Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill of 2017 2. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Second Amendment) Bill, 2017 3. National Medical Commission Bill, 2017 4. U.P. becomes first State to endorse Centre’s triple talaq draft bill 5. BCI mulls ban on practice by lawmakers 6. Arbitrary and irrational 7. ‘Muzrai’ Act 8. SC agrees to examine plea to bar politicians from contesting from two seats 9. Gram panchayat certificate no proof of citizenship: SC 10. Article 167 of the Constitution 11. PRE-CONCEPTION AND PRE-NATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES (PCPNDT) ACT 12. Article 167 of the Constitution 13. PRE-CONCEPTION AND PRE-NATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES (PCPNDT) ACT 14. Way to remove poll commissioners vague 15. Jallikattu issue to go to Constitution Bench 16. India’s first social audit law

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES 1. Kepler-90i 2. Cochlear Implant Surgery 3. IIT-H: E-skin for motion monitoring 4. What is magnetic cooling? 5. Recycle thermocol using orange peel 6. The Hindu’s most read science stories in 2017 7. International Vaccine Institute 8. electronic- Human Resource Management System 9. What is a superbug? 10. What is FASTag? 11. New form of matter ‘excitonium’ discovered 12. RNAi 13. India Hypertension Management Initiative 14. Drinking Water and Other Waters Bacterial Testing (Fecal / Total Coliform) 15. Noxeno 16. What a DNA blueprint can achieve in crimebusting? 17. Why the vaccine against cervical cancer is not such a simple shot 18. HIV drug elvitegravir lowers the efficiency of immune system 19. DNA fingerprinting or DNA profiling 20. India now free of infective trachoma 21. SAICON 2017 22. Low cost Vibration Sensors 23. Hepatitis B and C 24. Particle accelerator for art revs up 25. Net Neutrality 26. HPV Virus 27. ENDOSULFAN 28. 19th International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices 29. Study of individual DNA can translate into better healthcare 30. Functional Living Ink (Flink) 31. Water Hyacinth

ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY & GEOGRAPHY ISSUES 1. ECO-NIWAS 2. Global E-waste Monitor 2017 3. Solar Storms and its Causes 4. India’s first energy-efficient railway 5. New endemic ants from the Andamans 6. Species we lost in 2017 7. Underground power station plans in Western Ghats raise concern 8. Oldest plesiosaur was a strong swimmer: study 9. Biodiversity under alien attack 10. Zealous frog fathers guard eggs against ‘cannibals 11. Tiny scorpion packs a punch 12. New species of blind fish discovered inside Meghalaya cave 13. What is the lowdown on re-curving cyclones? 14. A rare bird sighted at the city lake 15. Department of Space during the year 2017 16. India’s ewaste report card 17. What is Wakaleo schouteni? 18. Neighbour star system may have mini Earth-like planets 19. Two kiwi species no longer endangered 20. International Solar Alliance 21. A cyclone called Ockhi 22. Geminid meteor shower 23. Solar storms and L1 point 24. IUCN updates red list 25. CITES’ certificate to India for efforts in combating illegal wildlife trade 26. Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event 27. Narcondam Hornbills 28. Odisha keen to translocate tigers from M.P. 29. How homestays are saving snow leopards in Ladakh 30. Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve 31. National Board for Wildlife 32. UN Ocean conference 33. Majuli Island 34. National Adaptation Fund for Climate Change

OTHER PRELIMS RELATED 1. Losar Festival 2. Naseem Al Bahr 3. Press in India 2016-17 4. EKUVERIN Exercise 2017 5. Scorpene-class submarine Kalvari 6. World’s largest amphibious aircraft AG600 7. First Indian City to have a logo on its own 8. UNESCO intangible cultural heritages from India-Updated 9. Indian Coast Guard Ship “Sujay” 10. Sentinel- 5P satellite 11. Akash missile 12. Neapolitan pizza-twirling wins UNESCO honour 13. Intaglio (printmaking) 14. Kumbh Mela Intangible Cultural Heritage 15. Jayadeva’s Geetagovinda 16. Puppetry in Odisha 17. 10 New Iconic sites identified under Swachh Iconic Places 18. Rukhmabai Raut 19. First Namami Barak festival 20. Four sub-schemes under Umbrella Scheme 21. Rajasthan conversion Bill returned by Centre 22. Sagar Kavach 23. USTTAD scheme 24. Sampriti 2017 25. INS Sarvekshak a hydrographic survey ship 26. MISSION SEVEN SUMMITS 27. CENTRAL INDUSTRIAL SECURITY FORCE 28. SAKHI 29. HIGH INCIDENCE OF ANAEMIA AMONG TRIBALS IN COONOOR 30. Bharatavani 31. Indigenous GPS 32. Declaration of Begumpuri Masjid and Sarai Shahji Monuments in Delhi as Protected Monuments 33. SAMEEP 34. Harissa Festival 35. UDAVADA FESTIVAL 36. Ajeya Warrior 2017 37. Rashtriya Aavishkar Abhiyan 38. Kangri

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