CUURENT AFFAIRS TOPICS 2020
1. COVID lockdown impact on economy
2. COVID lockdown impact on Migrants and Vulnerable section
3. COVID lockdown impact on Education
4. COVID lockdown impact on Domestic Violence
5. Ozone pollution increased in several cities during the lockdown
6. Environmental regulations in post-COVID world (Will there be dilution?)
7. Locust Surge & Threat to Indian agriculture
8. Failure of WHO
9. GM Seeds debate (unapproved mass sowing of GM seeds by farmers)
10. India gets its first Climate Assessment Report
11. Vizag Gas Leak
12. Cyclone Amphan and Cyclone Nisarg
13. India registered steep decline in MMR (maternal mortality ratio)
14. India’s population may peak by 2047 (Lancet report)
15. India-China issue and S. China Sea tensions; #BoycottChina; Apps ban
16. Reviving SAARC to deal with China
17. India-Iran issue (India dropped from Chabahar rail project and Farzbad Oil/Gas field project);
Iran-China increasing ties
18. India- Nepal issue (Nepal passed amendment on new map; Lord Ram birth place in Thori)
19. India-Pakistan (Kulbushan Yadhav)
20. India-EU FTA/BTIA Negotiations
21. Malabar exercise (whether Australia should be included?)
22. India-Italy: Enrica Lexie case; UNCLOS; PCA and ITLOS
23. India opting out of RCEP
24. On US proposal for G-11
25. India’s elected as Chair of the WHO’s decision-making Executive Board at its 73rd World
Health Assembly
26. 75th anniversary of end of WWII
27. Iran-China deal
28. Hong Kong protests
29. Baltic Air Bubble
30. Taliban-US deal and its impact on India Security concerns
31. Black Lives Matter protest in USA
32. Oil Market meltdown and its impact on India
33. Possibility of Cold War-II (Rising US-China Tensions)
34. Trump vs Twitter
35. Privatisation of Railways; Green Railways by 2030; Railways (Man-Animal Conflict)
36. Custodial death; Police Brutality; Need for police reforms + United Nations Convention
Against Torture
37. Criminalisation in politics
38. Hate Speech and Riots
39. Tenancy Reform in Agriculture
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40. Online Education and issues
41. Rising Fuel Prices
42. Mental Healthcare in India (Sushant Singh Suicide)
43. Missing Women
44. India’s Solar Strategy (PM Inauguration of Rewa Solar Plant in MP)
45. Rights of Disables (ARYAN RAJ vs. CHANDIGARH ADMINISTRATION case)
46. Do we need Urban NREGA?
47. Rebel MLAs; Resignation, Disqualification, Defection (Tenth Schedule; Whip; Speaker;
Judicial Review)
48. Padmanabhaswamy temple issue; Freedom of Religion
49. Parliamentary functioning during lockdowns- different models
50. State’s borrowing conditions altered
51. Language in Judiciary (Haryana Mandating use of Hindi in Subordinate Courts & Tribunals in
State)
52. Voting & Migrants (ECI testing on Aadhaar-linked voter-ID based solution to enable electors
to cast their votes digitally)
53. Committee on Criminal Law Reform
54. Do we need a Fiscal Council
55. Cauvery Waters Authority (Central Government notification on 24th April 2020 brought
CWMA under the administrative control of the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti)
56. Abolition of MPLADs
57. Link between illegal wildlife trade and other organised crimes such as modern slavery, drug
trafficking and arms trade (FATF released new report)
58. NATGRID, CCTNS
59. World Drug Report - India in top five (fourth position) in terms of seizure of opium and
‘Nasha Mukt Bharat’ or drug-free India campaign
60. Biological Weapons Convention
61. Reforms initiated in the Space sector - INDIAN NATIONAL SPACE PROMOTION AND
AUTHORIZATION CENTRE (IN-SPACe; Antrix, NSIL and ISRO)
62. Bubonic plague; G4 H1N1 Virus; Kawasaki disease; COVID airborne?
63. Arogya Setu App and Security Concerns
64. Space-X Crew Dragon - A new era in space exploration
65. IN-SPACe - New organisation created by government
66. Mega Twitter Hack
67. Patent Pool (Need for fast tracking COVID vaccine development)
68. Google’s Big Investment in India
69. Revival of MSME sector crucial in post-covid
70. Aviation Sector in post-COVID world
71. Dairy Sector of India - Cooperative Model leading to Self-reliance
72. Agricultural reforms & New Agri Markets - A 1991 moment for Agriculture?
73. Liquidity and RBI (Land, Labour, Law & Liquidity hailed as pillar for reform by PM Modi)
74. Reforms in India’s Coal Sector (Commercial Mining Opened for Private players)
75. Textile Sector & Atmanirbhar Bharat
76. Country of Origin on e-marketplace
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