Vision IAS Monthly Current Affairs August 2017 is a monthly magazine which contains compilation of news for the month of July 2017 bearing relevance to Civil Service Examination. News and events from all domain i.e. National, Business, International etc. have been dealt in brief. The magazine is brought out monthly by renowned Delhi based IAS coaching institute VISION IAS.

Table of Contents
1. POLITY AND CONSTITUTION ___________ 4
1.1. Right to Privacy ______________________4
1.2. Marital Rape_________________________6
1.3. Article 35A of the Indian Constitution_____7
1.4. DNA Based Technology (Use and Regulation)
Bill, 2017 _______________________________8
1.5. Jharkhand’s Anti-Conversion Bill_________9
1.6. Nabard (Amendment) Bill, 2017 _________9
1.7. Amendments to Whistle Blower Protection
Act ___________________________________10
1.8. Push for Law to Ensure Transparency Rules
______________________________________11
1.9. The Dilemma of Delimitation __________12
1.10. Making India Hub of Arbitration _______13
1.11. NRIS Permitted to Vote through Proxy __14
1.12. New Rating System for Bureaucrats ____15
2. INTERNATIONAL/INDIA AND WORLD ___ 16
2.1. US New Afghan Policy ________________16
2.2. India-Nepal _________________________17
2.3. India-China _________________________17
2.4. India and Philippines Counterterrorism
Cooperation____________________________18
2.5. India and Sweden____________________18
2.6. India-Israel _________________________19
2.7. TAPI Gas Pipeline ____________________19
2.8. Regional Comprehensive Economic
Partnership (RCEP) ______________________20
2.9. Uranium bank in Kazakhstan ___________21
2.10. Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) _21
2.11. 15th Ministerial Meeting of BIMSTEC ___22
3. ECONOMY_________________________ 23
3.1. Women in Agriculture ________________23
3.2. National Agricultural Higher Education
Project ________________________________24
3.3. Long Term Irrigation Fund _____________25
3.4. Essential Commodities Act ____________25
3.5. E-Rakam Portal for Selling Agri-Produce__26
3.6. Agri Udaan _________________________27
3.7. Disinvestment ______________________27
3.8. Financial Data Management Centre _____28
3.9. Public Credit Registry _________________29
3.10. Medium-Term Expenditure Framework
Statement (MTEF) _______________________29
3.11. Bharat-22 _________________________30
3.12. Panel setup to Review Norms on Unfair
Trade Practices _________________________30
3.13. New Metro Rail Policy 2016___________30
3.14. Aajeevika Grameen Express Yojana (AGEY)
______________________________________32
3.15. E-Shakti Initiative of Nabard __________32
3.16. India Maritime Trade ________________33
3.17. Draft Pharmaceutical Policy 2017 ______34
3.18. Foreign Direct Investment in India _____36
3.19. Ease of Doing Business_______________37
3.20. Directorate General of Goods and Service
Tax Intelligence _________________________38
3.21. Committee set up to Frame a New National
Mineral Policy __________________________39
3.22. Parliamentary Committee on RERA ____39
3.23. Report on Review of the National
Electricity Policy ________________________40
4. SECURITY___________________________42
4.1. Army Reforms_______________________42
4.2. Accountability in Defence Procurements _43
4.3. Need to Regulate UAV in India _________43
4.4. National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC)
______________________________________44
4.5. Delegation of Powers to Border Roads
Organisation ___________________________44
4.6. India and China to Jointly Hold Navy Exercise
______________________________________45
4.7. The Importance of Pangong Tso Lake ____45
5. ENVIRONMENT______________________47
5.1. Floods in India ______________________47
5.2. Combating Desertification _____________49
5.3. Guidelines for Diverting Forest Land_____49
5.4. Genetically Modified Crops ____________50
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5.5. Ecosystems Service Improvement Project 51
5.6. Elephant Census _____________________52
5.7. Artificial Reefs to Save Sinking Islands ___53
5.8. Earth Overshoot Day _________________54
5.9. Ban On the Use Of Chemicals in Firecrackers
______________________________________54
5.10. Black Carbon in Stratosphere _________55
5.11. EL Nino Aided in Massive Carbon Dioxide
Release________________________________56
5.12. Renewable Energy Generation:
Discrepancies between Guidelines__________56
5.13. Exploration of Polymetallic Nodules ____57
5.14. Moss as a Cheap Bioindicator _________58
6. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY___________ 59
6.1. Big Data ___________________________59
6.2. Project Brainwave ___________________60
6.3. Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite_________60
6.4. Launch of ISRO’s IRNSS 1H Unsuccessful__61
6.5. Water as Propellant in Cubesat _________61
6.6. India’s First Private Missile Production
Facility Unveiled ________________________61
6.7. INCOIS Unveils Ocean Forecasting System 62
6.8. Nanomaterials: Combating Climate Change
and Prevent Pollution ____________________63
6.9. NHAI Launches Mobile App Myfastag and
Fastag Partner __________________________64
6.10. New Tectonic Plate Discovered ________64
6.11. Perseid Meteor Shower ______________65
6.12. Draft Guidelines for Stem Cell Research _65
6.13. US Approves Gene Therapy ___________66
6.14. IIT Team Makes “Implantable Pancreas” 66
7. SOCIAL____________________________ 67
7.1. SC Ruling on Triple Talaq ______________67
7.2. Voluntary National Review Report: SDGS_68
7.3. Swatch Bharat Abhiyan _______________69
7.4. OBC Reservation_____________________70
7.5. Location-Specific Mergers of Schools ____71
7.6. Madhyamik and Uchchtar Shiksha Kosh __72
7.7. The National Assessment and Accreditation
Council (NAAC): Revised Rules _____________73
7.8. Price Cap on Knee Implants ____________73
7.9. Intensified Mission Indradhanush _______74
7.10. Infant Mortality Rate ________________75
7.11. Family Participatory Care_____________77
7.12. Surrogacy Bill ______________________77
7.13. Minimum Wage Under Mgnrega_______79
7.14. Champions of Change Initiative________79
8. CULTURE ___________________________80
8.1. 75th Anniversary of Quit India Movement 80
8.2. Promotion of Traditional Sports ________80
8.3. Buddha Statue at Ghantasala __________81
9. ETHICS_____________________________82
9.1. Medical Ethics ______________________82
9.2. Ethics of Winning in Election at All Costs _82
10. MISCELLANEOUS ___________________84
10.1. Olympic Task Force _________________84
10.2. National Sports Talent Portal _________84
10.3.