November-2019 Monthly Current Affairs

CONTEXT National and International Issues 1. Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership 2. Vienna Convention 3. International Civil Aviation Organisation 4. BIMSTEC 5. World Monument Watch list 6. Global Migration Report 2020 7. Accelerator Lab 8. New START Treaty 9. Budapest Convention 10. Bougainville 11. Hong Kong International Convention 12. Kimberley Process 13. OPEC + 14. Brasilia Declaration 15. India and Brazil

Polity Issues 16. Private Member’s Bill 17. Second Judges Case 18. Disqualification of MLA’s 19. Armed Forces Special Powers Act 20. Gujarat Citizen Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime (GCTOC) Bill 21. Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act (PESA) 1996 22. India Justice Report 23. Overseas of India 24. Presidents Rule 25. CJI’s office under RTI Act 26. Sabarimala Review 27. Electoral Bonds 28. Recognised State party 29. Chit Funds (Amendment) Bill, 2019 30. Supplementary Grants 31. Starred Questions in Parliamentary Proceedings 32. Horse-Trading & Role of Governor 33. Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Bill, 2019 34. Constitutional and Legal Provisions Related to PwD 35. Ethnic Communities in Manipur 36. Fundamental Duties 37. Citizenship by Registration 38. Consultative Committees 39. 250th Session of Rajya Sabha 40. Contempt of Court 41. Liberhan Commission 42. Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 43. National Integration Council 44. Pardoning powers of President

Economic and Social Issues 45. Steel Scrap Recycling Policy 46. National Health Profile 2019 47. National Health Stack 48. National Digital Health Blueprint 49. Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) 50. Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) 51. E-NAM and APMC 52. Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change 53. Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) 54. Debt Exchange Traded Fund 55. Currency Swap Arrangement for SAARC 56. National Industrial Corridor Development and Implementation Trust (NICDIT) 57. Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh (BPKK) 58. SAANS Campaign 59. ICEDASH and ATITHI 60. Elephant Bonds 61. Smart Safety Surveillance 62. Harmonised System, or simply ‘HS’

Science and Technological Issues 63. Sulphated polysaccharides 64. DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill 65. ASTROSAT 66. Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System 67. Real-time Train Information System (RTIS) 68. Glyphosate 69. Geochemical Baseline Atlas 70. Surface and atmospheric temperature of Sun 71. SeeTB 72. Cartosat 3 73. Insar 74. Generic Scheduling of Drugs 75. Aerosol Optical Depth 76. Starlink Network 77. National Agrochemicals Congress 78. HIV-1 Group M 79. Vaccine Hesitancy 80. Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) 81. Semi - Dirac Metals 82. GV-971

Environment and Ecological Issues 83. Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority 84. Reverse Osmosis 85. Ethanol Production 86. Tropical Rain Forest 87. Importance of Mangroves 88. Conversion of wasteland 89. Avian botulism 90. India’s ‘core cold wave’ zone 91. ‘Emissions Gap Report’ 92. Atapaka Bird Sanctuary 93. Smog Tower in Delhi 94. Assam Roofed Turtle 95. Sumatran Rhinoceros 96. Golden Rice 97. Living Root Bridges 98. Winter Grade Fuel in Ladakh 99. International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture 100. Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) 101. Tort Law and Polluter Pays Principle 102. Danakil Depression 103. Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)

Miscellaneous Issues