VISION IAS CURRENT AFFAIRS FEBRUARY 2018 (ENGLISH MEDIUM)

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Vision IAS Monthly Current Affairs february 2018 is a monthly magazine which contains compilation of news for the month of January 2018 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
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1.1. Cauvery River Verdict__________________4 1.2. Tribal Sub Plan 5
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1.3. Human Resource for Gram Panchayats____7 1.4. Overcrowding of Prisons _______________9
1.5. Appointment to High Court Judiciary ____10 1.6. Witness Protection in India 11
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1.7. Rationalization of Autonomous Bodies 13
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1.8. NITI Forum for Northeast 13
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1.9. Corruption Perception Index 2017 ______13 1.10. Blue Aadhaar 14
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1.11. App for MPS to Track Development ____14
2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 15
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2.1. India’s Soft Power 15
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2.2. India-Canada 16
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2.3. India Joins Ashgabat Agreement ________17
2.4. India-UAE 18
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2.5. India-Oman 19
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2.6. Tapi Gas Pipeline ____________________20 2.7. India and Iran Relations 21
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2.8. Instability in Maldives ________________22 2.9. Proposal to put Pakistan on FATF Watch-List
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2.10. Trans-Pacific Partnership-11 (TPP-11) ___23 2.11. AIIB Approves Loans for Projects in India 24
2.12. New Development Bank Funded Project of Rajasthan ______________________________24
2.13. Logistics Hub in Assam _______________24
3. ECONOMY 26
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3.1. Operation Greens____________________26 3.2. Draft Pesticides Management Bill 2017 __27 3.3. Farmer Producer Companies ___________28 3.4. Amendments to NABARD Act, 1981 _____29 3.5. Commercial Mining in Coal ____________30 3.6. Draft National Mineral Policy 2018 ______31 3.7. Strategic Oil Reserves_________________33
3.8. MSME Sector 34
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3.9. National Productivity Council (NPC) _____35 3.10. Draft National Auto Policy 2018 _______36 3.11. Dry Port __________________________37
3.12. ‘Port Logistics: Issues & Challenges in India’ Report ________________________________38 3.13. State Start-Up Ranking 2018 __________38 3.14. RBI Withdraws SDR, S4A _____________39 3.15. Linking Swift to Core Banking _________40 3.16. The Ombudsman Scheme for NBFCs 41
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3.17.  Banning  of  Unregulated  Deposit  Schemes
Bill and Chit Funds (Amendment) Bill, 2018___42
3.17.1.  The  Banning  of  Unregulated  Deposit
Schemes Bill, 2018 _________________________ 42 3.17.2. The Chit Funds (Amendment) Bill, 2018 __ 43

3.18.  Government  Abandons  Revenue  Deficit
Targeting ______________________________43 3.19.  Centralized  Communication  Scheme  2018
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3.20. Minimum alternate tax 45
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3.21. Urban Infrastructure finance 45
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3.22. National Urban Housing Fund (NUHF)___46 3.23. Champion Sectors in Services _________47 3.24. Better Regulatory Advisory Group _____48 3.25. KUSUM 48
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3.26.  Prime  Minister’s  Employment  Generation
Programme ____________________________49 3.27. Gobardhan Yojana __________________49
4. SECURITY 50
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4.1.  Anti-Narcotics  Scheme  Gets  A  3  Year
Extension 50
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4.2. Missile Tests 51
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4.3. Rustom-2 Drone 52
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4.4. Indo-Seychelles Joint Army Exercise-Lamitye
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4.5. Paschim Lehar Exercise 53
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5. ENVIRONMENT 54
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5.1. India State of Forest Report 2017 _______54 5.2. No  Tribal to  be  Evicted  from  Tiger  Reserves
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5.3. Doubling of Protected Areas ___________56
5.4.  Draft  Rules  for
Compensatory Afforestation Act, 2016 ______56 5.5. Floating Treatment Wetland ___________58 5.6. Olive Ridley Nest at Rushikulya _________58 5.7. Red Sanders 59
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5.8. Sustainable Biofuels 59
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5.9.  World  Sustainable  Development  Summit 2018 60
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5.9.1.  Energy  Transitions  Commission  India  (ETC India) ____________________________________ 60
5.10. Ash Track 61
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5.11. Heat Wave 61
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5.12. Dust Mitigation Plan ________________63 5.13. Green Skill Development Programme___63
6. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 65
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6.1. Three Parents Baby __________________65 6.2. Women in Stem Careers 65
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6.3. Secondary Patents ___________________66 6.4. Supercritical CO2-Brayton Cycle ________67 6.5. Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients ______67 6.6. Svalbard Global Seed Vault 68
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6.7. Spacex’s Flacon Heavy Launched________68 6.8.  Prime  Minister’s  Research  Fellowship Scheme 68
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6.9. Digital Therapeutics or Digiceuticals _____69
6.10. Village Resource Centres _____________69

6.11.  International  Intellectual  Property  Index 2018 70
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7. SOCIAL 71
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7.1. NHPS 71
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7.2. Urban Nutrition in India 72
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7.3. Need to Focus on Newborns 73
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7.4. Healthy States, Progressive India Report _74
7.5. India Health Fund 75
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7.6. Institute of Eminence (IOE) ____________76 7.7.  Technical  Education  Quality  Improvement Programme (TEQIP)______________________77 7.8.  Revitalization  Infrastructure  and  Systems  in Education 77
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7.9. Education Development Impact Bond____78 7.10. National Achievement Survey _________78 7.11. Khap Panchayats ___________________79
7.12.  Pradhan  Mantri  Kaushal  Vikas  Yojana  2.0:An Assessment 80
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7.13. Swajal Yojana ______________________81

7.14. Social Media Centres 81
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7.15. Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana________81
8. CULTURE 83
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8.1. Mahamastakabhisheka 83
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8.2. World Cities Cultural Forum 83
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8.3.  More  than  40  Languages  in  UNESCO’s Endangered List _________________________83
9. ETHICS 85
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9.1. Ethics and Encounter Killings ___________85
9.2. Ethics and Acid Attack 86
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10. MISCELLANEOUS 87
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10.1.  India’s  First  Ever  Highway  Capacity
Manual (Indo-HCM)______________________87 10.2. Switzerland Tops Financial Secrecy Index 87 10.3.  National  Human  Rights&nb

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