01/02/15 Sunday

1. AAP manifesto promises full statehood for Delhi
2. DBT can plug PDS leakages: study
3. A textbook launch
4. Smart City Challenge
5. Mastakabhisheka concludes
6. Sushma’s China visit will test India’s multi-vectored diplomacy
7. Preamble row: academics, political scientists disconcerted
8. Massive anti-austerity march in Madrid
9. Romney bows out of presidential race
10. Centre proposes major changes to Tea Act
11. How about Ma Bachao?
12. Beyond cure

31/01/15 Saturday

1. CIL sale garners Rs. 22k cr., retail investors lukewarm
2. H1N1 may have taken mutant form: experts
3. Games from today
4. Human rights group slams India’s record
5. FDI inflows beat global trends, surge 26%
6. AFSPA, a hurdle in BJP-PDP alliance
7. Indigenous fighter plane on track: ADA
8. Madrid hospital uses stem cell therapy to treat damaged hearts
9. A village in Rajasthan yields artefacts of yore
10. New China-Myanmar oil pipeline bypasses Malacca trap
11. Sri Lanka appoints Tamil as Chief Justice
12. A breakthrough on trade
13. Nuclear deal no cause for celebration
14. Food insecurity acts
15. Climate change deniers
16. Fiscal deficit overshoots budget target
17. Base year change pushes GDP growth to 6.9% in 2013-14
18. Device to detect dengue from saliva in 20 minutes
19. Previously unrecorded birds spotted in Myanmar
20. Previously unrecorded birds spotted in Myanmar

30/01/15 Friday

1. Land Acquisition Ordinance faces greater opposition
2. Fatally wrong to remove ‘secular’: Congress
3. Coal unions to protest disinvestment
4. Annual abortion rate doubles in Pak.
5. Raul calls for an end to U.S. embargo
6. Obama and religious freedom
7. Sending the right signal
8. Over 38,000 Somali children facing starvation: UN
9. ‘Not ready for full capital account convertibility’
10. Two U.P. MLAs disqualified
11. Climate change is crucial to all of us: Ghosh
12. The science of saving tigers
13. Science Congress gets under way
14. India to get its first elephant sanctuary
15. Bird flu outbreak confirmed in 11 Nigerian states
16. Beijing smog makes city unliveable : Mayor
17. New education policy: Government invites suggestions
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29/01/15 Thursday

1. Now, German help for smart cities
2. Urban health mission launch next month
3. SC cracks down on search engines
4. ‘Sacrilegious insult’ to Constitution: Congress
5. Govt to dovetail Swachh Bharat and Digital India
6. Omission an insult to the statute: Congress
7. Impeached Sri Lankan Chief Justice reinstated
8. Bangladesh government to act tough against Khaleda
9. The new entente with the U.S.
10. Poverty and electoral priorities
11. The dynamics of inequality
12. SEBI, exchanges step up surveillance
13. Jute packaging for sugar, foodgrains made mandatory
14. Astronomers find oldest known star
15. Brain’s control centre for thirst found
16. Drones’ key roles in precision farming
17. New primitive human species discovered?

28/01/15 Wednesday

1. Task forces set up for smart cities
2. Right to shelter law planned in Cong.-ruled States
3. Centre to launch services sector push on April 23
4. Wage code to replace all related laws
5. Satavahana site to be explored again
6. Two Harappan sites being excavated
7. Greek PM Tsipras names anti-austerity Cabinet
8. Hung Parliament predicted in U.K.
9. A new chapter of openness
10. Securing a future for ‘Digital India’
11. India appeals to DSB over import of U.S. farm products
12. The India-U.S. business summit
13. It’s 70 years since Auschwitz liberation
14. Deadly attack on Ukraine city could be war crime: UN

27/01/15 Tuesday

1. ‘Common Man’ creator no more
2. Radical left wins Greece polls
3. Obama, Manmohan discuss n-deal progress
4. No changes to civil liability law, says Sujatha Singh
5. Rosetta proves comets give us shooting stars
6. New anti radiation drug tested
7. Mountain-sized asteroid to skim by earth
8. Four years since Arab Spring, Saudi Arabia is the last regional power standing
9. Stick to austerity, Brussels warns Athens
10. Strategy is to pit India against China
11. BCCI monopoly and judicial review
12. Concern over climate, compromise on nature
13. The deadlock in Nepal
14. Warm ocean melting East Antarctica’s largest glacier
15. ONGC clears hurdle for Cairn India in Rajasthan oil block
16. Primary market revival will confer all round benefits
17. `More Japanese firms prefer India for future expansion

26/01/15 Monday

1.‘Online voting not possible in the near future’
2. Database for access to blood stem cells
3. Build consensus before enacting laws: President
4. Amnesty starts novel campaign for Bhopal gas victims
5.India, U.S. to extend Defence cooperation pact
6. Vision statement on Asia-Pacific, Indian Ocean
7. Mostly Russian equipment on display
8. A new chapter in defence ties, says Hagel
9. Nepal Assembly forms panel on proposals
10. Beyond the immediate present
11. Criticism over Ebola response prompts WHO to mull reforms
12. ‘We are the lowest cost pension providers in the world today’
13. Genetic links found to size of brain structures

25/01/15 Sunday

Coal auctions to fetch States $ 100 billion: Goyal
‘At least Rs. 1 lakh crore required to implement all irrigation projects’
Crocodile project at Sunderbans gets a boost with expert assistance
A simple device to curb female foeticide
Consensus on implementing 13th amendment: Ranil
Brazil: 3,00,000 left without water
TRAI issues draft rules for full mobile number portability
Extension of export subsidy on raw sugar sought

24/01/15 Saturday

Valmik Thapar moots PPP route to save tigers
Seeking a bilateral breakthrough
Rosetta hints at ‘key to life’ on comet’s core
Democratic Constitution soon: Nepal PM
Myanmar becomes battleground of growing China-U.S. rivalry
Intangibles and deliverables
Carbon tax to meet climate concerns
Another Ebola battle won
Eurozone nations face stronger pressures to lift economies
Blue glow in Hong Kong seas disturbing, say marine biologists
Housing gets priority

23/01/15 Friday

Jhumpa Lahiri wins DSC Prize for 2015
U.S. investors watching reforms in India: Farrell
Navy commissions fast coastal patrol vessels
MSF warns India against U.S. ‘designs’ on drug patents
Panel for fewer TPDS beneficiaries
Sutlej, Beas to form part of water highway
Long road ahead for India on Global Entry
No agreement on a new Nepal Constitution
U.S., Cuba seek to reopen embassies
Going beyond bonhomie
An ‘India exception’ for climate talks
The science of saving tigers
Centre to release new series of Consumer Price Index next month
Nagoba Jatara gets under way
Taiwan sees severest bird flu outbreak in decade

22/01/15 Thursday


Elaborate rituals mark Bahubali anointment
‘Housing for All 2022’
Spectrum swap proposed
2 highway projects cleared for J&K
Obama’s wish list may hurt India
e-auction of 46 coal blocks to begin on Feb. 14
Rs. 500-cr. project to revive heritage of 12 cities
Tiger survey method draws criticism
Sri Lanka restores rights of Fonseka
Cuba, U.S. open historic talks
Nepal stalemate continues
Sri Lanka’s ‘rainbow revolution’
Present-day IVF babies healthier: Scandinavian study
Reasserting a friendship
PM turns focus on tribals
Genetic changes in Ebola virus may hinder potential treatments
Bringing children to school: India’s report card
IISc: Repurposing existing drugs to fight TB
Deadly TB strains emerged in Asia over 6,000 years ago

21/01/15 Wednesday

Odds of escaping poverty in India, U.S. same: WB
Talks with Obama likely on reactors for Kovvada
Economic outlook
India to beat China in growth in 2016: IMF
Periyar Tiger Reserve wins NTCA award
India is world’s second most trusting nation: survey
1-crore award for villages attaining balanced sex ratio
11.50 cr. bank accounts opened under Jan Dhan Yojana
Urbanisation reducing inequality: World Bank report
Strategy to convert ordinances into law
Solar plane set for landmark flight
Will implement 13th Amendment within a unitary state: Ranil
China steps up drive to integrate Africa into Silk Road
Tackling of tiger poaching has paid off, says official
Ideology and the rise of terror
Mexico’s drone plan for porpoise conservation
Focus on public investment
Gilead licenses Strides to make, distribute AIDS drug in 112 countries
EU lifts ban on Indian mangoes
Installed solar capacity crosses 3 GW
Karnataka first in country to give universal health coverage
Why do tectonic plates move abruptly?
NASA spacecraft clicks dwarf planet like never before
Reviving an ancient practice

20/01/15 Tuesday

‘Centre will take steps to push public investment’
Looking back at Brahmo Samaj history
Germany eager to join ‘Make in India’ initiative
Rijiju calls for firm policy towards neighbours
Open to new approach in Geneva: Sri Lanka
‘Railways need private capital, not privatisation’
Over a billion live on less than $1.25 a day: Oxfam
Myanmar: getting high to keep hunger away
Nepal: no agreement on key issues, bandh likely
India’s Afghan dilemma
Dealing with first generation school-goers
Loosening a stranglehold
RBI asks banks to review minimum lending rate every quarter
EU calls for anti-terror alliance with Arab countries
A sea change in a century
This land, our country
AFCON dedicated to fight against malaria
Unesco releases coins on 70th anniversary
Largest satellite network to provide global internet access
U.S., Cuba set for historic talks to normalise ties
U.S. pharma group slams Gilead decision
 

19/01/15 Monday

U.S. worried at ‘Make in India’ rule
TS plans to overhaul gram panchayats
‘India has excess grain stocks’
Fewer constitutional matters in SC
Supreme Court ruling limits life of ordinances
Push for indigenous tech could stall investments: U.S. officials
Global response to Ebola inadequate, says WHO
Minister for cross-border mountain forestry efforts
Astronomers study galactic hailstorm in early universe
Government hints at ‘tough measures’
Ordinance makes ‘gender-neutral’ restrooms compulsory
The new name of planning
School system fails students
Reserve Bank’s surprise move endorses the growth story
Swiss firms face a storm
The debate on global warming continues…
Anti-terror ops: Govt likely to frame norms for media coverage
Pluto mission accelerates

18/01/15 Sunday

RTPS betters its own record
 Drug patent: Gilead prepares to appeal
IIM Bill to be tabled in winter session
Air Force gets LCA
‘Pak. secret reactor operational’
Two more die of swine flu in city
Patent for sofosbuvir was challenged
440-crore WB plan to boost Braj tourism circuit
Biosensor to help machines smell like us
Arrival of Lesser Flamingos declines at Sambhar Lake
Govt. to corporatise ordnance factories
Working behind the scenes for change in Sri Lanka
Pope cuts short typhoon mercy trip
Pankaj Advani in seventh heaven
Promoters should absorb losses if companies fail: RBI Governor
 

17/01/15 Saturday

Kasturirangan report: subcommittee to give priority to people’s concerns
‘City Challenge’ to select ‘smart cities’
RBI rate cut a turning point: Jaitley
‘Centre has the final say on eco-sensitive zones’
Cabinet clears FM auctions
Centre revises buffer norms for foodgrains
India irked by EU resolution on Italian marines
Probe into Gaza war crimes opened
Mars probe found 11 years after disappearing
State power sans public reason
‘A space mission that deserves the Nobel’
RBI’s surprise rate cut
Rate cut may hurt pensioners, say experts
Earth becoming less ‘liveable’
Mass deaths among birds, fish on the up
Temperature rise affecting global wheat yield
PM congratulates Bhakti Sharma for world record
Tongan volcano creates new island: officials
Trade facilitation pact will cut costs: WTO chief
Japanese business presence in India on the rise
 

16/01/15 Friday

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15/01/15 Thursday

Banks lag behind under Pahal scheme
Two more succumb to swine flu
Post-shuttle blues give way to optimism about Orion
Global economy to expand by 3 per cent this year
India will catch up with China’s growth in 2016–17: World Bank
Brahma to be new CEC
SC asks govt. for update on Ganga clean-up projects
India, U.S. to jointly fight cancer, Ebola
U.P. scholar wins Sahitya Akademi award for Sanskrit
Japan approves record defence budget
When amendment amounts to nullification
‘World piracy continues to fall but Southeast Asia a worry’
Voting from abroad
‘Digitisation to help boost GDP growth’
Centre likely to sell 10 % stake in IOC this fiscal
Infosys dedicates $250mn for ‘Innovate in India’
Meningitis: Indian vaccine will protect infants also
Mutations causing abnormal heart muscle protein identified
 

14/01/2015 Wednesday

Hefty fine on dumping waste in Yamuna 
Fossils of dolphin-like creature found 
Technology available to block search ads: Centre 
Ban wants India to lead climate change fight 
USAID, Gates Foundation offer help 
U.S. Space Society to honour Mars Orbiter team 
Cash transfers, the lazy short cut 
Macroeconomic stability has improved, says Jaitley 
Jan Dhan Yojana a game changer, says RBI 
India’s trade deficit with China rises to $37.8 b 
Govt meets 60.6 % of indirect tax collection target 
Leave coal, oil in ground for climate's sake: study

13/01/15 Tuesday

Obama, Modi to focus on “nuclear challenge”
Centre keen to bring in non-adversarial taxation
SC orders status quo on cockfights
RTE: private schools want to opt out of online process
NRIs can vote from abroad: govt. tells SC
New ISRO chief
Ban, Sushma discuss peace-keeping
World Bank signs pact for Smart Citie
Overseas votes could prove significant: NRI petitioner
India, U.S. may sign defence pact during Obama trip: Parrikar
‘River linking will end water woes in Delhi, Mumbai’
Distribution of poverty not a solution: Jaitley
Movement on n-liability law talks indicated
Croatia elects first woman President
An uncertain Hobbesian life
The Naxal challenge to electoral process
Policy distorts gender equity
Industrial production bounces back in November
BSE to establish international exchange
Indian economy sees growth momentum firming up : OECD

12/01/15 Monday 

India can lead smart growth: U.N. chief
Police may regulate or ban use of private drones
Pact for mega solar project
‘Emerging economies must help combat climate change’
Investors wary of ordinance route
China’s orbiter enters lunar orbit
America in a tangle over aid to Pakistan
Waiting for government
Decoding the oil price fall
‘India on path of transformation’
SpaceX launches for NASA, no luck with rocket landing

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11/01/15 Sunday

Export obligation period for rubber cut
Heritage sites in State need to be protected: Siddaramaiah
President conveys sharp reminder on ordinance limits
Ordinances have been ‘handy tool’ since 1952
‘Priority for ties with India’
Coastal security a challenge: Navy chief
N. Korea offers to suspend n-tests
Naming the wild winds
DRI issues notice to Vodafone
Cargo handling at ports up five per cent
International agency roped in to gear up safety measures
Five new swine flu cases reported
Candlelight protest against bank merger