| Indian Culture Topics |
- Kondane cave art depicts myth and daily life Stone age culture evidences in Kerala
- Buddhist inscription found in Gadag district Ancient temples in Mandya district unearthed
- UNESCO ‘Award of Excellence’ 2015 for the remarkable conservation efforts of the majestic Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple in Kerala.
- HRIDAY PRASAD
- Jallikattu
- Bodhgaya to be developed as spiritual capital International yoga day
- National Unity Day (Rashtriya Ekta Diwas) was observed on 31 October 2015 to commemorate the Sardar Vallabhai Patel’s birth anniversary.
- Centre for World Natural Heritage Management and Training for Asia-Pacific region to be setup in Dehradun IS damages ancient Temple of Bel in Syria’s Palmyra
- Haryana government to constitute board to preserve Saraswati Heritage Area Santhara
- Chettinad Cotton Saree gets Indian Handloom tag Sahapedia
Festivals in news:Top 500 Current Affairs Topics List Prelims Pdf 2016
- Millennium’s first Nabakalebar Rath Yatra in Puri
- Sinhastha Kumbh Mela
- Hundred Drums Wangala Festival at Asanang in West Garo Hills
- ‘Festival of Flowers’ (Bathukamma) in Telangana
- Odisha celebrated the agrarian festival of Nuakhai
- Tendong Lho Rum Faat Festival of ethnic Lepcha tribe of Sikkim celebrated
- Losar festival beings in Ladakh region of J&K
- Traditional Chapchar Kut festival celebrated across Mizoram
- Sajibu Cheiraoba festival celebrated in Manipur with religious fervor
- Celebration of weeklong Ladakh Festival begins at Leh
- Medaram Sammakka Sarakka
- Myoko festival
- Chinakkathoor Pooram
Awards in news:Top 500 Current Affairs Topics List Prelims Pdf 2016
- Noted artist Sayed Haider Raza conferred with France’s de la Lgiond Honneur
- Kerala Tourism gets PATA Award
- Ramachandra Guha chosen for Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize 2015
- Kerala Tourism’s Muziris Heritage Project wins 2015 PATA Award
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| Environment Topics UPSC Prelims 2016 |
Top 500 Current Affairs Topics List Prelims Pdf 2016
- Green Climate fund
- International symposium on Antarctic Earth sciences
- USA unveils clean power plan
- Climate change – effect on Antarctic ice – sheet
- CoP 21 draft : ‘Paris Agreement
- International solar alliance (ISA)
- EI – Nino and warm winter
- Climate engineering solutions (geo-engineering or climate intervention)
- India INDC
- World Bank launches ambitious Climate Change Action Plan
- CO2 levels hit record high – WMO
- Earth Hour
- Blue Carbon
- Indian model to aid future IPCC reports
- About Like – Minded Developing Countries (LMDC)
- Climate special science express
- Carbon tax
- Green bond market
- Meaning of green finance
- IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) – Red list
- ESZ around okhla bird sanctuary notified
- Thane creek declared as flamingo sanctuary by Maharashtra government
- Kikiki Huna (A genus of fairyfly, know from Hawaii, Costa Rica, and Trinidad world smallest insect)
- Sikkim declared as Organic state: about organic farming
- Depletion of Kudremukh National Park
- Kasturiranjan report on western Ghats
- National mission for a green India
- Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) Bill 2015
- Agasthyamala biosphere reserve among 20 UNESCO world biosphere reserve
- Vulnerability of tea industry with reference to the climate change
- NGT asks centre & states to protect wetlands
- Loss of polar bear habitat
- Artificial breeding of Great Indian Bustard
- First ever leopard census in India
- Yellow – throated bulbul under Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species
- Doyand lake – Nagaland attract amur falcorn
- Biodiversity database for Urban-India
- South Indian states to constitute Inter-State Coordination Council to resolve forest-related issue –Top 500 Current Affairs Topics List Prelims Pdf 2016
- Diclofenac and Vulture extinction
- India’s forest & tree cover increased by 5, 081 Sq km: ISFR 2015
- Wildlife Rescue Centre
- MoEFCC declares Wild pig as vermin for year in Uttarakhand
- Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation
- South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network
- Global Tiger population increased for the first time in 100 years by 22%: WWF & GT
- World’s first White Tiger Safari opens in Madhya Pradesh
- India’s first Dolphin Community Reserve will be established in West Bengal
- NWAF (National Wildlife Action Plan) Draft unvieled
- Coconut Tree removed from Goa Preservation of Trees Act
- Centre for World Natural Heritage Management and Training
- school Nursery Yojana
- Increasing no. of migrating birds in coringa sanctuary
- Constitution on biodiversity finance initiative begins
- Bharat stage VI norms by 2020
- Policy on promotion of city compost
- IMD SAMAR –Top 500 Current Affairs Topics List Prelims Pdf 2016
- Air pollution in Indian cities
- Flex fuel policy of Government to curb pollution worry automakers
- New E-waste management Rules 2016
- New plastic waste management Rules 2016
- Solid waste management rules
- Red alert on pollution declared in Beijing
- National Air Quality Indices
- Four Colour Classification Scheme for industries based on Pollution Index
- Union Government notifies stricter standards for Coal Based Thermal Power Plants
- Paper waste turned into non-toxic green Aerogel
- Impact of use of firewood for cooking in rural areas
- About Particulate Matter
- Environmental impacts of fly-ash
- Polluters pay model
- E-vehicles to curb pollution
- The Public Liability Insurance (PLI) Act, 1991
- National off-shore wind energy policy
- NGT and its different orders for conservation of Environment
- India and Sendai agreement for disaster reduction
- Environmental crime in India
- Indian long term ecological observatories (I-LTEO)
- National renewable energy bill 2015
- Project Green Ports launched” by Ministry of Shipping
- TSR Subramanian report
- Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
- India to join International Energy Agency – Ocean Energy Systems (IEA-OES)
- Initiatives under Namami Gange programme
- Antarctica influencing weather in tropics
- Deep sea planktons as effective carbon sinks
- Ballast water bringing invasive species to Indian coasts: Scientists
- Indian ocean warming and its consequences
- Revised standards for CETPs to minimize water pollution
- IPBES Report On Pollinator
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| Important Topics related To Agriculture |
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- Fertiliser subsidy
- Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
- Krishi kalyan cess
- e-NAM
- Model Act for farm land lease by NITI Ayog
- National Energy Efficient Agriculture Pumps Programme.
- MGNREGA
- Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana
- Concept of Modern Terminal Markets
- New Urea Policy announced
- Initiatives for development of fertilizers
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| Important Topics related To Bills |
Top 500 Current Affairs Topics List Prelims Pdf 2016
- Maharashtra factories (Amendment) Bill, 2015
- real estate (regulation and development bill),2016
- Bureau of Indian standards bill, 2015 4. Negotiable instruments (Amendment) ordinance, 2015
- Arbitration and conciliation bill, 2015
- Consumer Protection Bill, 2015
- The Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Bill, 2015
- Indian Trusts (Amendment), Bill 2015
- Labour Laws (Gujarat Amendment) Bill, 2015
- The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2015
- The Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015
- The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Bill, 2015
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| Military Exercises |
- INDIA-SRI LANKA JOINT TRAINING EXERCISE “MITRA SHAKTI- 2015”
- INDO-CHINA JOINT MILITARY EXERCISE HAND-IN-HAND 2015
- INDIA-INDONESIA MARITIME EXERCISE
- Indo- China hand in hand 2015
- Indo, US, Japan Malabar exercise
- Indo- Russia Indra 2015
- ‘Sahayog-Kaijin 2016’- Indo- Japan joint coast guard exercise
- Indio- France military exercise Shakti 2016
- India-Mongolia joint military training Exercise ‘Nomadic Elephant – 2016’
- Naval Exercise IBSAMAR 2016 between India, South Africa, Brazil
- India Thailand Cobra Gold 2016
- YudhAbhyas: India-US Joint Military Training Exercise
- Mitrashakti 2015 – joint military exercise between india and srilanka
- ‘Sahayog – Kaijin 2016’
- IBSAMAR-2016
- Ausindex15
- Slinex 15
- Kuverin 2015- joint military exercise of india& Maldives
- Joint military exercises conducted by India- suryakiran(indo-nepal)
- ‘SundarbanMaithri’ in sunderbans
- Indo-Seychelles Joint Training ‘Ex Lamitye’
- Multinational Field Training Exercise (FTX) – Exercise FORCE 18, involving ASEAN Plus countries
- South Asian Annual Disaster Management Exercise” (SAADMEx) – 2015
- IAF’s annual exercise, Exercise Livewire
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| Important Issues Topics |
- NEPAL ADOPTS FIRST DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION
- NDB
- INDIA RE-ELECTED AS MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL MARITIME COUNCIL
- AFGHANISATAN JOINS WTO
- India and Pak become members of SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION (SCO)
- ECI Hosts Executive Board Meeting of Association of World Election Bodies (A-Web)
- Marshall Islands sue Britain, India and Pakistan over nuclear weapons.
- India, Pakistan reject call to give up nuclear weapons
- Indian Ocean has to remain a zone of peace: Ajit Doval
- Indian N-facilities under IAEA Safety Umbrella
- Palestine submit documents to join ICC
- Nepal to join Silk Road Economic Belt through Tibet
- Collapse of Oil Economies may Affect India
- Htinkyaw : 1st elected president of Myanmar
- Salma Dam Project in Afghanistan
- Border haat opens in Sipahijala district of Tripura
- Raxaul-Amlekhgunj oil pipeline
- Agartala-Akhaura railway link Project
- CPEC project
- P8I maritime surveillance aircraft deployed by India to Seychelles
- TAPI pipeline construction begins
- E-tourist visa to Chinese nationals
- The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) created
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| International Topics related to Diaspora |
Top 500 Current Affairs Topics List Prelims Pdf 2016
- Sunita Viswanath honoured with Champion of Change
- Great immigrants award 2015 in US
- Darshan Jain receives US Presidential Award
- Swati Dandekar appointed as US Director of ADB
- Rakesh K. Jain selected for National Medal of Science-2015
- Australia’s highest civilian award for 3 PIOs
- Harpal Singh Kumar knighted
- Non-NATO ally status to Tunisia
- Pakistan becomes associate member of CERN
- Moscow declaration by BRICS
- UNESCO – New world heritage sites BY UNESCO
- UNESCO World Heritage Site Status for Meiji Period Sites of Japan
- Sylvie Lucas appointed as Chair of IGN of UNSC Reforms
- India to join the International Energy Agency – Ocean Energy Systems
India collaborates with Japan on Andamans project
- India and the U.S. have agreed “in principle” on a logistics support agreement
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