Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. A bacterium species capable of breaking down plastic — poly(ethylene terephthalate), or PET — has been identified by a team of Japanese researchers.
2. Forest Rights Act
3. Pentagon organization is experimenting with 'micro-drones' which could one day take to the sky like a like a swarm of robotic locusts.
4. Amazon Air
5. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin
6. Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE).
7. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited has commissioned the second 500 MW thermal unit at Anpara-D Thermal Power Plant (TPP) in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh.
8. "Bio blitz" surveys by the National Trust have found a number of rare species along our coastline
9. Japanese great tits use calls in specific orders to convey complex messages.
10. Biologists have discovered a new species of "rock snot" that is unique to a half mile stretch of the Farmington River in Connecticut.