March-2020-Current Affairs

CONTENTS A. National and International 1. India to Join Solidarity Trials 2. Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal 3. Operation Namaste: Indian Army 4. Virtual G20 Leaders’ Summit 5. aIndia and Belgium 6. India-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) 7. COVID-19 Now Pandemic: WHO 8. India and Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) 9. Marakkarext 10. Germany’s Kurzarbeit scheme 11. Indo-U.S. Fellowship for WISTEMM 12. Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

B. Economy and Social Issues 13. Fully Accessible Route (FAR) 14. PM - CARES Fund 15. A measure of volatility via prism of markets 16. Moratorium on Repayments of Loans 17. Rebate of State and Central Taxes and Levies (RoSCTL) 18. The Invest India Business Immunity Platform 19. Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMC2.0) Scheme 20. Annual Refresher Programme In Teaching (ARPIT) 21. Mahatma Gandhi Bunkar Bima Yojana 22. Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana (RVY) 23. National Guidelines on Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) 24. Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram 25. Payment Aggregators and Gateways 26. ‘ROPAX” Service 27. Additional Tier-1 (AT-1) bonds 28. National Creche Scheme 29. KIRAN Scheme 30. AYUSH Grid and NAMASTE Portal 31. Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package 32. Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action Plan 13

C. Policy and Governance 33. How an MP is suspended from Lok Sabha by the Speaker 34. Finance Bill, 2020 35. Aircraft (Amendment) Bill, 2020 36. Indian Systems of Medicines (NCIM) Bill, 2019. 37. Article 142 of the Constitution 38. Nidhi Amendment Rules 2019 39. The Mineral Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2020 40. Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 41. National Judicial Pay Commission 42. Court Documents Accessibility to Third-Party 43. Rules for Filing Complaints with Lokpal Notified 44. Delimitation Commission 45. The right of an accused to be defended 46. What is Section 188 IPC 47. National Interlinking of Rivers Authority (NIRA) 48. The Central Sanskrit Universities Bill, 2019 49. Major Port Authorities Bill 2020 50. Coal Bed Methane Policy

D. Science and Technology 51. Portable UltraViolet (UV) Sanitiser 52. COVID-19 National Teleconsultation Centre (CoNTeC) 53. COVID-19 and ‘Force Majeure’ 54. Laser Surface Micro-Texturing 55. MACS 4028 Wheat Variety 56. Anosmia and Ageusia 57. Mission Raksha Gyan Shakti 58. ICMR Recommends Use of Hydroxy-Chloroquine 59. Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) Initiative 60. National Mission on Quantum Technologies and Applications (NMQTA) 61. Schemes Approved to Promote Drug Manufacturing 62. Huntington Disease 63. How lipids play critical roles in infectious diseases 64. Real-time Train Information System 65. Nanocomposite Coatings 66. Lopinavir and Ritonavir 67. Starch-based ‘hemostat’ material 68. Superhydrophobic Coating 69. Nix-TB 70. Methane-oxidizing bacteria 71. ICONSAT 2020 72. RaIDer-X 73. ExoMars mission

E. Environment and Climate Change 74. Earth Hour 75. COVID-19 and Kaveri river 76. Himalayan Ibex 77. World Happiness Report 2020 78. National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI 79. National Aquifer Mapping and Management Programme 80. GreenCo Rating System 81. National Biopharma Mission (NBM) 82. Sahyadri Megha: New Paddy Variety 83. CMS- COP 13 84. Three flagship marshland species found in Odisha's Chilika lake 85. Global Coalition for Biodiversity 86. State Disaster Response Fund 87. Carissa carandas (the Great Hedge of India) 88. What is hantavirus?

F. Miscellaneous Issues