Current Affair Topics for IAS Preliminary 2016

Current Affair Topics for IAS Preliminary 2016

Current affairs topics have seen variation in number in prelims examination. Sometimes there number increase to 10 and in some years they are completely absent from the prelims examination paper. However they are very important for the prelims exam for the following two reasons:

1. They might come in big number, which will make or break your exam.
2. Other important reason is that current affairs also tells what are extremely important topics in conventional topics.

Because of the above mentioned two reasons current affairs should be prepared nicely. In this article we are giving the list of topics which we think are important for the prelims 2016. We have taken current from October 2015 till June 2016. Here we are just mentioning the topics, these are all covered in our The Gist, daily and weekly current affairs.

List of important topics are given below:

1. Third India-Africa Forum Summit in Delhi
2. NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the Delhi government and the four northern States of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh to check the bi-annual menace of thick smog due to stubble burning.
3. IMPacting Research INnovation and Technology ‘IMPRINT India'
4. Microsoft has chosen the Varanasi as the venue for a project to fund local entrepreneurs aiming to build devices that can overcome India's bandwidth crunch.
5. Google received permission from the Indian government earlier this month to provide Internet using large balloons that float 20 km above the earth's surface.
6. Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill
7. OROP Scheme
8. Trans pacific partnership
9. The Agriculture Ministry has moved a proposal to create a buffer stock of 3.5 lakh tonnes of lentils during the current 2015-16 crop year through domestic purchase or imports to prevent a further price rise in pulses.
10. Price stabilisation fund
11. the Gold Monetisation Scheme, Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme and Gold Coin and Bullion Scheme.
12. UDAY Scheme
13. APEC
14. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap report.
15. GSAT-15
16. Heart of Asia conference
17. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
18. Antibiotic resistance
19. Justice A.K. Mathur, Chairperson of the Seventh Central Pay Commission has recommended an overall increase of 23.55 per cent in pay, allowances, and pension for government employees.
20. India has the highest number of pneumonia and diarrhoea deaths among children globally, reports the International Vaccine Access Centre (IVAC).
21. India- Nepal Border
22. G-20 meet in Turkey
23. Thirteenth Asean-India and the tenth East Asia summit held together in kualalampur.
24. China’s currency, the yuan, joined the elite group of global reserve currencies when the International Monetary Fund's (IMF).
25. New Urea policy
26. Aditya, India’s first dedicated scientific mission to study the sun
27. Barak- NG from Israel
28. Scientists at the Rice Research Station of Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) at Vyttila have developed a new variety of paddy tolerant to saline intrusion, a major challenge faced by farmers in the lowlands.
29. ASEAN 27th Meet
30. COP 21
31. Operation Indradhanush for banks
32. Non performing assets
33. Fifty-seven-year-old and the oldest serving aircraft career, INS Viraat , Indian Navy’s flagship for over a decade before another aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya was commissioned in 2013, is being offered to States to be converted into a national maritime museum
34. International solar Alliance
35. Nairobi meet of WTO
36. Advanced air defence system
37. Forest survey of India report, 2015
38. Haryana Panchayat rule changes
39. Kerala is expected to be declared the first digital State in the country shortly, on the strength of its digital infrastructure and e-governance initiatives.
40. “Out of Step 2015” report on TB policies in 24 countries, including India, was presented recently at the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Cape Town, South Africa.
41. Real estate regulation bill
42. The National Waterways Bill, 2015
43. Changes in Juvenile justice act
44. ISRO launched six Singapore satellite in PSLV C-29
45. World Bank supports Swachh Bharat campaign
46. Hubble Space Telescope
47. Logistic support agreement with USA
48. Financial stability report RBI
49. Non Performing assets by Banks and Basel- III Norms
50. Eminent Gujarati novelist, poet and critic Raghuveer Chaudhary has been chosen for the prestigious Jnanpith Award for 2015.
51. Euro V & VI norms
52. smartphone-based 3D printer
53. China ends one child policy
54. Ramadi and Mosul cities
55. H1B and L1 visas
56. Air quality index
57. North-South Transport Corridor
58. Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets)
59. Free basics
60. Trade Facilitation Agreement
61. Lodha committee report for cricket reforms
62. Drought prone area
63. Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP)- The DPP 2016
64. Crab-Pulsar
65. Start-Up India
66. Stand-Up India
67. National Family Health Survey-4
68. HDI ranking
69. Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS)
70. Rosetta
71. Smart City mission
72. IMF reforms
73. Zika Virus and Microcephaly
74. Senior IPS officer Archana Ramasundaram was appointed Director General of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), the first woman to head a paramilitary force.
75. Trans Pacific partnership
76. New IPR Policy
77. National Policy on Capital Goods
78. Britain's exit from EU
79. Nuclear suppliers group
80. MTCR
81. Forest Fire
82. Economic Survey
83. Budget 2015-16
84. US Presidential Election
85. Myanmar Political Change
86. Small savings schemes
87. NATIONAL BIOTECHNOLOGY POLICY
88. Odd-Even Scheme
89. PADMA AWARDS AND GALLANTARY AWARDS
90. LIGO
91. INDIGO
92. National Civil aviation policy
93. Reusable launch Vehicle by ISRO
94. Also look for places in news like Syria, Turkey, Mediterranean sea, Africa, Saudi Arabia, Europe, Afghanistan, South-east Asia and important points like neighbours, mountains, water bodies around them.

Click Here to Join Online Nano Course for UPSC PRE Exam

Buy Printed Study Material for IAS Pre General Studies (Paper-1)

Buy Printed Current Affairs for IAS (UPSC) Preliminary 2016 Exam