0GST Amendment No - 122
NPAs – Non Performing Assets – (90 days)
START UP INDIA scheme - entrepreneurship
STAND UP INDIA scheme – entrepreneurship; women, SC & ST
Saras – Light Transport Aircraft
BS 6 – Bharat Stage 6 emission norms; deadline 2020
Dhanush – Naval version of Prithvi missile
Child Aadhar – Blue colour
Zozila Pass – J & K
SEBI – Securities & Exchange Board of India
IRDA – Insurance Regulatory Development Authority
Removal of SC Judge – By order of President on the grounds of proved misbehaviour or incapacity
Australia Group – to stop the spread of chemical & biological weapons
CEC – OP Rawat
Governor of RBI – Urjit Patel
CAG of India – Rajiv Mehrishi
UDAAN scheme – Regional Flight connectivity scheme
Attorney General - Indian government's chief legal advisor, and its primary lawyer in the Supreme Court of India, a Constitutional post under Article 76 of the Constitution. Whereas Attorney General for India is appointed by the President under Article 76(1) of solicitor general of India is appointed to assist the attorney general.
Varuna – Naval exercise between India & France
FRBM Act – To keep the government’s budget deficit in control
TDS – Tax deducted at source
National Judicial Appointments Commission - to replace existing ‘Collegium’ system to elect judges of higher courts. It was cancelled by Supreme court.
Cess – A tax on tax
MSP – Minimum support price (for farmers)
Ujjwala Scheme – free LPG connections
UJALA Scheme – free LED bulbs
Saubhagya Scheme – for electricity in rural areas
Mudra Scheme – for providing interest-free loans for entrepreneurship
AMRUT Scheme – for urban transformation
Ilaiyaraja – Singer / Musician
DG IMF – Christine Lagarde
Inclusive Development Index – by World Economic Forum
Ashgabat Agreement – to connect central Asia & Persian Gulf countries (India is a member)
International Solar Alliance – an alliance of 121 countries situated between Tropic of cancer & Tropic of Capricorn
Non – Proliferation Treaty – to stop the spread of Nuclear weapon (India is not a member
Paris Agreement – for slowing down climate change
Miss Universe 2017 – Demi Leigh Nel Peters
Winner, Nobel Peace Prize 2017 – ICAN (International Campaign to abolish nuclear weapons)
Rohingya community – of Myanmar (of Rakhine state)
International Atomic Energy Agency – HQs – Vienna, Austria
G 20 Summit 2017 held at – Hamburg, Germany
India – became a member of SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation)
USA – withdrew from Paris Climate Agreement
Doklam is in – Bhutan
Kyoto Protocol – to stop Greenhouse Gases
Indus water treaty – between India and Pakistan
Kishanganga & Ratle Hydroelectric Projects in – J & K
OBOR (One Belt One Road) – Development project between China and Central Asian countries
Article 21 – Right to Life and personal liberty (includes the right to privacy)
15th Finance Commission – set up to recommend distribution of taxes between centre and states. (Article 280)
Net Neutrality – means free internet without discrimination concerning user charges for specific websites.
Saubhagya Scheme – Free electricity connection to the poor
Satish Dhawan Space Centre – Sriharikota
Cartosat – Remote sensing satellite
India’s most powerful rocket for heavier satellites – GSLV M 3
Cryogenic engine – that uses air from the atmosphere to burn fuel instead of stored liquid oxygen. Used in rockets
