Book excerpt: Index Economy (Page No- 1 to 14) 1. Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) 2. Ratnagiri Oil Refinery 3. Anji Khad Bridge 4. J Slab Track System 5. Maitree Super Thermal Power Plant (MSTPP) 6. Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) granted Navratna Status 7. Go First’ Files for Voluntary Insolvency 8. G20 TechSprint 9. Switching on India’s smart electricity future 10. Project- SMART 11. Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) 12. Troubles of India’s Aviation Industry 13. Harit Sagar Guidelines 2023 14. Greenwashing 15. London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) 16. Fertilizer Subsidy 17. Doubled outlay on PLI for IT hardware 18. Pension Sector in India 19. International Credit Card come under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) 20. RBI Withdraws Circulation of 2000 Notes 21. Period Poverty/ Tampon Tax 22. Smart Cities Mission 23. Angel Tax 24. US Debt Ceiling Crisis International Relationship (Page No- 15 to 22) 1. China’s Anti-Espionage Law 2. India hands over two naval vessels for Maldives 3. EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act 4. Kaladan Multimodal Project 5. Washington Declaration 6. Syria's return to the Arab League 7. Persona Non Grata 8. California Anti-Caste Bill (SB 403) 9. Kaliningrad 10. Rasht-Astara Railway 11. Rohingya Refugees in India 12. Papua New Guinea-US Security Pact Environment (Page No- 23 to 31) 1. Black Tiger (Melanistic Royal Bengal Tiger) 2. New York to phase out gas stoves and furnaces 3. King Cobra 4. Petersberg Climate Dialogue 5. Scalloped Hammerhead Shark (Spjyrna Lewini) 6. Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update 7. Permafrost 8. Oxford University’s WildCRU, Panthera join forces for Africa’s lions 9. Ganga Prahari 10. Wolf-dog Hybridisation 11. Axolotls 12. People’s Biodiversity Register (PBR) 13. Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism 14. Himachal Pradesh’s Green Hydrogen Policy 15. Shrinking of Lakes 16. Reports on Global Warming of 1.5 °C 17. Chytridiomycosis Science & Tech. (Page No- 32 to 43) 1. Bluesky 2. Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) 3. Space Science and Technology AwaReness Training (START) 4. Molecular Motor 5. IBM’s New Geospatial Foundation Model 6. iDrone Initiative 7. Carbon Dating, Radiometric Dating & Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating 8. Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy (MRT) 9. Gaganyaan 10. Sanchar Saathi Initiative 11. Aadhaar- enabled Payment System (AePS) 12. Human PanGenome Project 13. Spitzer Resurrector Mission 14. Narco And Polygraph Tests 15. Fastest Supercomputers 16. New NavIC Satellite 17. DISEASE X 18. PARAS Telescope 19. XPoSat Polity (Page No- 44 to 53) 1. Meiteis 2. Divorce can be granted on ‘grounds of irretrievable breakdown’: Supreme Court 3. Prevention of Sexual Harassment (Posh) Act, 2013 4. Amendment in Prevention of Money Laundering Act,2002 (PMLA) 5. Anti-Conversion Legislation In India 6. Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) 7. Appointment of New CBI Director 8. Adopting father’s surname in matrilineal Meghalaya 9. Forest Rights Act, 2006 10. Delhi govt’s ordinance & the dispute over control of services 11. Forum Shopping 12. Telangana-Andhra Pradesh Water Dispute Defence (Page No- 54 to 57) 1. Asean India Maritime Exercise (AIME-2023) 2. MiG-21 Crash 3. Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) 4. Indo-Thai CORPAT 5. Storm Shadow Missiles 6. Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) & Mission DefSpace 7. NIA’s Operation Dhvast 8. Volt Typhoon Art and culture (Page No- 58 to 64) 1. Thrissur Pooram 2. Buddha Purnima 3. Mridangam 4. Saint Samarth Ramdas 5. Santiniketan to get UNESCO World Heritage Site Tag 6. Kohinoor 7. Sengol Geography (Page No- 65 to 66) 1. Gum arabic 2. Economics of India’s Population Growth 3. Why India is heating up slower than the world average? 4. Pir Panjal valley Health (Page No- 67 to 76) 1. Psychedelic Substances 2. Organ Donation Policy in India 3. Non- Communicable Diseases (NCDs) 4. Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana 5. Preterm Births 6. Mpox 7. Pratima Murthy Committee 8. Hysterectomy 9. 75/25 initiative (Hypertension) 10. WHO Warns Against Artificial Sweeteners 11. Spurious Liquor 12. Dengue 13. Arsenic Contamination in Groundwater 14. Joint Malnutrition Estimates 15. Hysterectomies Govt. Scheme (Page No- 77 to 79) 1. Vivad se Vishwas Scheme 2. Poshan Bhi, Padhai Bhi Scheme 3. Saksham 4. Amrit Bharat Station Scheme 5. Smart Cities Mission 6. Sanchar Saathi Initiative Education (Page No- 77 to 79) 1. CU-Chayan Portal Term in News (Page No- 80) 1. Laundromat’ Countries 2. De-dollarisation 3. Mission LiFE Place of News (Page No- 80 to 81) 1. Yanomami Territory 2. Galapagos Islands Committee (Page No- 81) 1. Sapre Committee Some Important Facts (Page No- 81) Miscellaneous (Page No- 82 to 85) 1. Doha Diamond League 2. 25 years of Kudumbashree 3. International Booker Prize 4. Census 5. Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) 6. New Parliament Building 7. Foucault pendulum 8. Rs 75 Coin Launched to mark inauguration of New Parliament 9. VANDE BHARAT EXPRESS 10. Fezolinetant to Prevent Hot Flashes 11. Patch Reporting App 12. Sagar Parikrama Yatra Phase-V 13. Navegaon Nagzira Tiger Reserve 14. Dotted Lands in Andhra Pradesh 15. Zorawar Light Tank 16. Death Cap Mushroom