Vision IAS Monthly Current Affairs JUNE 2018 is a monthly magazine which contains compilation of news for the month of MAY 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
1.1. Lateral Entry _________________________ 4
1.2. Reservation in Promotion ______________ 5
1.3. Statehood for Delhi ___________________ 6
1.4. Cauvery Water Management Scheme, 20188
2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ___________ 10
2.1. Indo-Pacific _________________________ 10
2.2. India China Water Relations ___________ 11
2.3. India-China-Nepal Relations ___________ 13
2.4. India-Seychelles Relations _____________ 14
2.5. India-Maldives_______________________ 15
2.6. India Mongolia ______________________ 17
2.7. US Extraterritorial Sanctions ___________ 18
2.8. Shanghai Cooperation Organization _____ 19
2.9. IBSA Declaration for South-South Co-op__ 21
2.10. Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons (OPCW)________________________ 22
2.11. AIIB Annual Meeting at Mumbai_______ 23
2.12. Singapore Summit___________________ 23
3. ECONOMY __________________________ 25
3.1. Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code________ 25
3.2. Amalgamation of Regional Rural Banks __ 27
3.3. Government Owned NBFCs ____________ 29
3.4. Urban Cooperative Banks to Transition into
Small Finance Banks______________________ 29
3.5. SEBI to Integrate Departments for Efficiency
_______________________________________ 30
3.6. Draft of National Voluntary Guidelines on
Social, Environmental and Economic
Responsibilities of Business _______________ 31
3.7. Power Asset Revival through Warehousing
and Rehabilitation (Pariwartan) ____________ 32
3.8. Status of Power System Transformation 2018
_______________________________________ 33
3.9. Three Year Action Plan: Agricultural
Education ______________________________ 35
3.10. Krishi Kalyan Abhiyan________________ 36
3.11. First Freight Village __________________ 36

4. SECURITY ___________________________ 37
4.1. Hawala Transactions _________________ 37
4.2. More Financial Powers to DRDO ________ 37
4.3. Defence Ministry Issues New Guidelines for
Start-Ups_______________________________ 38
4.4. NSG Commandos to be Drafted in J&K ___ 38
4.5. Exercise Malabar 2018 ________________ 39
5. ENVIRONMENT ______________________ 40
5.1. Composite Water Management Index ___ 40
5.2. Plastic Ban __________________________ 42
5.3. Nitrogen Emission____________________ 44
5.4. Dead-Zone__________________________ 45
5.5. Environmental Refugee _______________ 46
5.6. Fiscal Costs of Natural Disasters ________ 48
5.7. National Disaster Risk Index ___________ 49
5.8. Off-Shore Wind Power ________________ 50
5.9. Electric Vehicles _____________________ 51
5.10. Sand Imports_______________________ 52
5.11. Dam safety Bill 2018_________________ 53
5.12. South Asia’s Hotspots: World Bank Report
_______________________________________ 54
5.13. Ensemble Prediction Systems (EPS) ____ 55
5.14. Google for Water Resource Management55
5.15. Blue Flag Certification _______________ 56
5.16. Rare Spider rediscovered _____________ 57
6. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ___________ 58
6.1. Artificial Intelligence for Inclusive Growth 58
6.2. India’s First Lithium Ion (Li-ion) Battery
Project_________________________________ 59
6.3. Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine_________ 60
6.4. Science-Based Targets ________________ 61
6.5. Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating
Research (AWSAR)_______________________ 61
6.6. Dry Sorbent Injection (DSI) ____________ 62
6.7. Artificial Leaf to Reduce Carbon Footprint 62
6.8. Plan to Prevent Asteroid Attack ________ 63
6.9. Exoplanet Discovered by India _________ 63

6.10. India’s First Robotic Telescope ________ 64
6.11. Robinsects _________________________ 64
7. SOCIAL _____________________________ 66
7.1. Non-Communicable Diseases___________ 66
7.2. National Health Profile-2018 ___________ 67
7.3. Nutrition Security ________________