[Week-1] IASTopper's Essay of the Week

Tulagi Island; Location of Soloman Islands; What is a waqf? What is a Waqf Board? Van Dhan Scheme; Van Dhan Vikas Kendras initiative; Food Safety Mitra (FSM) scheme; Eat Right Jacket and Eat Right Jhola; The State of the World's Children 2019; 20th Livestock Census report; Importance of Livestock rearing; Project Soli; GOAL (Going Online as Leaders); Merger of Manipur with Tripura; Rangdum monastery; etc.

IMF's World Economic Outlook (WEO); National Medical Commission (NMC); Lithium-ion battery; Global Hunger Index 2019; Nobel Economic Award 2019; Randomised controlled trial; Microbial fuel cells; “One Nation One FASTag” scheme; FASTag; RFID tagging; Booker prize; International Booker Prize; National Blindness & Visual Impairment Survey India 2015-2019; World Food Day 2019; Flora Fountain; Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue; Our Lady of Glory Church; UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation programme; Development of minor ports; Maritime States Development Council (MSDC); India-Netherland relations; Location of Netherlands; Third India Energy Forum; National Security Guard (NSG); etc.

Modi-Xi informal summit; What are informal summits? Mahabalipuram; Economic Significance of coromandal coast; Dark Grey list; Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s blacklist and grey list; What are Non-tariff measures (NTMs)? Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2019; Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report (APTIR); 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Erythropoietin; Nobel for Literature; Nobel Peace Prize; Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict; Nobel Economic Award 2019; Libra Cryptocurrency; Illegal uses of cryptocurrency; The Local Treatment of Urban Sewage Streams for Healthy Reuse (LOTUS-HR) project; World Standards Day 2019;

Pattadakal; Exercise DHARMA GUARDIAN – 2019; “mHariyali”; Coalition for disaster resilient infrastructure (CDRI); Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT); Location of Comoros; Regional Comprehensive Partnership Agreement (RCEP); First National Diabetes and Diabetic Retinopathy Survey (2015-19); Chalukya dynasty; India- Sierra Leone relations; Location of Sierra Leone; Reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC); Asian Development Bank (ADB); G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance on Technology Governance; C40 Clean Air Cities Declaration; C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group; 30th International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction; Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030); 10th National Cultural Festival; Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav; Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat programme; SARAS Aajeevika Mela; Typhoon Hagibis; Difference between “hurricane”, “cyclone” and “typhoon”; etc.