February 01, 2017

• Note ban a radical measure: CEA
• Debate simultaneous polls: Pranab
• Solar-powered water purifier developed
• Order won’t affect India: U.S.
• Rohingya refugees to be relocated on remote island
• Drawing up a diet plan
• Demonetisation’s long shadow
• Violations in India, penalties elsewhere
• ‘U.S. visa rules to hit Indian IT majors’
• Push to solve India’s twin balance sheet problem'
• Economic Survey wants modification of FRBM Act
• Climate change boosts mercury level in the sea
• India to revive Gandhi’s Tolstoy Farm

January 31, 2017

• Panel headed by Vinod Rai to oversee BCCI’s affairs
• Economy not in good shape, says Manmohan
• Karnataka’s tiger story threatened by snares
• Boron may be the next wonder material
• Can Trump reset ties with Russia?
• As bigotry becomes policy
• How land use affects climate change
• The hidden agenda of benevolence
• NASA’s new space radio system can track flights worldwide
• Rs. 1,000 cr. to boost defence sector manufacturing
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January 30, 2017

• Oil spill in Chennai dooms turtles
• Taliban taps new revenue source: Power bills
• Think tanks divided over Trump’s approach towards China
• NW1 is economically viable, without increasing tariffs
• FinMin may aid rail safety fund
• Nomura sees ‘Trumponomics’ having minimal impact on India
• Meteorites did not enrich ocean life: study
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January 29, 2017

• Tech firms fret over immigration changes
• EC: Ministries, departments cannot bypass us
• Rajapaksa to oppose new Constitution
• Demystifying Science
• Why India needs to step up its fight
• Demonetisation has hit everyone
• Many issues need to be resolved to make an ‘ideal’ GST: Amit Mitra
• India Post gets payments bank licence
• Centre focussing on infrastructure to reduce logistics costs: Gadkari
• Chennai scientists show a breakdown of the Standard Model
• Space travel may cause genetic changes: NASA
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January 28, 2017

• Drought and demonetisation impact rural economy
• Navy rejects Tejas, begins global search
• Science congress to carbon audit event
• Scientists take first steps to grow human organs in pigs
• ‘Doomsday Clock’ moves closer to midnight
• What triggered the world’s biggest volcanic eruption?
• Trade war looms as U.S. President mulls tariffs to fund Mexico wall
• The politics of demonetisation
• Getting ties with UAE on track
• Centre says GAAR effective April 1, industry demurs
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January 27, 2017

• ‘Novel mechanism may stop tsunamis to hit Earth’
• R-Day show flexes military muscles
• U.K. pushes for speedy legislation on Brexit
• China open to work with Russia, U.S. to tackle global challenges
• Rolling back Ordinance Raj
• Peace is a process
• Setback to climate action plans
• Case for targeted basic income
• Make in India, add value in Ireland
• Growth in India’s oil consumption to be fastest by 2035
• Privileged strategic partnership with India important to Russia: Putin
• President pitches for simultaneous LS, assembly polls
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January 26, 2017

• Transparency puts India on list for failing to curb corruption
• India, UAE sign strategic partnership pact
• Enhance withdrawal limit for candidates: EC to RBI
• Shape of brain determines personality traits, says study
• GSLV’s cryogenic upper stage tested successfully
• GM mosquito trials to control dengue, chikungunya launched
• Instead of chasing storms, scientists create their own
• China backs regional trade pacts after U.S. exits TPP
• Russia then, China now
• Donations and disclosures
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January 25, 2017

• Central team visits Delta region to assess drought situation
• ‘69% of political funds from unknown sources’
• India to ratify amended version of Kyoto Protocol
• What’s in a name? The future of an ecosystem, apparently
• India hopes for $75-bn infra fund from UAE
• A 3D bioprinter to create human skin'
• Climate change plan to get new missions
• IIMs to grant degrees instead of diplomas soon
• Russia, Iran, Turkey agree on truce mechanism
• Bridging the Gulf
• Cabinet clears interest waiver for farm loans
• Solar-powered system to provide safe drinking water in India
• Ten species that can be wiped out by climate change
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January 24, 2017

• No State-specific schemes, says EC
• UAE signals a ‘Look East’ policy
• What mackerel and a volcano can tell us about climate change
• Extend Lodha reforms to all games: Sportspersons
• A bid to sail around Antarctica in 100 days
• Trump to scrap TPP, renegotiate NAFTA
• Trump reshaping Israel-Palestine politics
• The price of fiscal folly
• Our democratic deficit
• Globalisation’s new spokesman
• N.K. Singh panel submits report on FRBM Act
• Cassini gets up close with Daphnis
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January 23, 2017

• Ministry moots zero-rate under GST for renewables
• Indian model to predict impact of climate change
• The nowhere people next door
• Curbs on outsourcing may hit U.S. economy: Nasscom
• India asked to stop work on hydro projects in J&K
• Goa: a testing ground for EC
• Ugandans invent ‘smart jacket’ to diagnose pneumonia quickly
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January 22, 2017

• Kudankulam second reactor starts generating 1,000 MWe
• How ISRO plans to launch 103 satellites on a single rocket
• ‘Massive Antarctic ice shelf ready to break’
• New technique for faster diagnosis of HIV
• India asked to stop work on J&K hydro projects
• Demystifying Science — January 22, 2017
• Right to a safe abortion
• Japan threatens to drag India to WTO on steel as Trump era heralds trade tensions
• New AI system can see like humans
• Who’s afraid of a good drought?
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January 21, 2017

• WEF team to study CM Core Dashboard
• ‘Not all information can be disclosed under RTI Act’
• India steps up submarine induction as Chinese presence grows in region
• New partnership to protect ocean resources
• Astronomer studies ‘habitable’ exoplanet
• The ground beneath their feat
• Living in a hotter world
• Is Wolf 1061c next Earth?
• Earth breaks heat record thrice in a row
• President clears change in rules for rail budget merger
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January 20, 2017

• EC seeks more details on budget
• TN can enact law to treat it as traditional sport: Rohatgi
• Don’t add Hindi dialects in Eighth Schedule, say academics
• World’s primates facing extinction crisis: Study
• Milestone in cryogenic engine test paves way for GSLV-MkIII
• ‘Church courts’ cannot veto divorce law, says Supreme Court
• U.K. seeks Indian help in resolving Chagos Archipelago dispute
• Safe childhoods for a safe India
• Autumn and its discontents
• Rebooting disinvestment
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January 19, 2017

• Death by adulterated food may lead to life term
• Cabinet nod for listing of five insurance companies
• Respect sovereignty, India tells China
• Uttar Pradesh registers increase in number of out-of-school children
• India, Sri Lanka in talks on port
• Prototype of super, super computer in 2017
• Russia is the biggest threat to liberal world order, says Joe Biden
• The hard road to Brexit
• Focussing on the marginal farmer
• Cabinet boosts corpus for small enterprises
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January 18, 2017

• Britain to leave EU’s single market: May
• JLL: Hyderabad fifth most dynamic city in the world
• SC asks govt. to file status report on Ganga rejuvenation
• India now an associate member of CERN
• India loses its pioneer in black hole research work
• A first by GHMC in waste segregation
• In Davos, Xi defends globalisation
• Theresa May offers clarity on Brexit, few surprises too
• An Afghan agenda for Trump
• The real meaning of independence for RBI
• Don’t let messengers shoot themselves
• Centre mulls easing FDI norm for single brand retail
• Campaign to eliminate measles, control rubella
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