August 01, 2017

• It’s for States to end lynchings: Centre
• SC warns of challenge to GM mustard roll out
• Chemical from turmeric helps treat cancer in children
• Bill proposes eviction in three days
• 5 chemicals banned in firecrackers
• Cabinet struggles to convey coherent Brexit approach
• The dilemmas of delimitation
• The Reserve Bank is off target
• Beating back climate change
• Dangerous escalation
• ISRO’s Space Odyssey
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July 31, 2017

• Researchers creating warning system for toxic algae in lakes
• U.S. prods India on Pyongyang
• Bio-glue for healing developed
• New gold bond scheme may draw more investors
• Talks begin to divest AI arm
• What is NHB Residex?
• Up close with the moon
• Moon could be wetter than thought: scientists
• In US first, scientists edit genes of human embryos
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July 30, 2017

• Centre plans to remote-map canals
• Tiger census on in Bangladesh Sundarbans
• Sri Lanka completes $1 billion port deal with Chinese firm
• Caught in a gender pay gap storm
• Trump to sign Russia sanctions legislation
• A two-in-one solution
• England’s mental health experiment
• A lonely and tough fight
• Mongolians’ best friend: saving an ancient breed on the steppes
• Japan’s ageing workforce rethinks traditional careers
• WHO releases book on disease control
• IGIB researchers rein in cancer cells
• Scooping out oil spills made easy by IISER Thiruvananthapuram
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July 29, 2017

• Will make best use of cloud storage, AI: Naidu
• Fight against terror, BRICS told
• LS passes Bill for more autonomy to IIMs
• Building block of life found on Saturn’s largest moon
• CAG spots weaknesses in missile defence system
• ‘Difficult time for climate research’
• Scientists set sail to unlock secrets of lost continent
• U.S. sanctions Bill targets Russia, Iran and North Korea
• Sri Lanka set to sign Hambantota port deal
• Centre seeks inputs on trade, industrial policies, services
• Sugar not-so-sweet for mental health
• Queensland to build one of the world's longest electric vehicle highways
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July 28, 2017

• Privacy built into Aadhaar Act, says UIDAI
• 82-year-old Sri Lankan teacher wins Ramon Magsaysay award
• Oriental white ibis nesting in Ganjam
• ‘Ready to nuke China if ordered’
• Public health, private players?
• Regulation of DNA profiling
• Centre may cut import duty on gold
• ‘Good prospects for India-U.K. auto trade’
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July 27, 2017

• ‘Privacy a fundamental but wholly qualified right’
• Panel for action against farmers using herbicides on GM mustard
• NASA jets to chase solar eclipse
• Policy boosts care for blood disorders
• ‘Pesticides to blame for lychee deaths’
• Scientists build DNA from scratch to alter life’s blueprint
• Thirty years of soul-searching
• Privacy in the public domain
• Planet of machines
• Protect your liver, bid goodbye to Hepatitis
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July 26, 2017

• In a first, Nifty breaches the 10,000-mark
• For China’s global ambitions, ‘Iran is at the centre of everything’
• Sri Lanka clears revised deal for Hambantota port
• Crisis in Maldives worsens
• For a hygienic track
• The crossroads at the Doklam plateau
• In the age of data
• ‘India’s concerns slowing RCEP talks’
• Tales of rebellion
• How ‘toxic’ is Delhi’s air?
• Ten islands chosen for development
• Indian Ocean level rising faster than the global estimate
• What is Artificial Intelligence?

July 25, 2017

• Don’t harbour unrealistic illusions, China tells India
• Opposition seeks scrutiny of Banking Regulation Bill
• Soul of India is in tolerance: Pranab
• SC ready to revisit Lodha reforms
• Admiralty Bill gets Rajya Sabha nod
• Privacy no excuse for tax non-compliance: Jaitley
• SC for more data on GM mustard
• Taxing times for the States
• What’s brewing in Darjeeling
• Bilateral catalyst
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July 24, 2017

• Ordinances should be last resort: Pranab
• Forum concerned at ‘secret’ RCEP talks
• Spanish scientists develop ‘anti-Zika drug’
• ‘India’s approach to U.S. and China differs’
• ‘Melted fuel’ found in Fukushima reactor
• Arab League, Erdogan warn Israel
• Taming inflationary expectations
• The boycott ban
• Spanish steps
• All for one, one for all?
• Payments bank: for the informal sector
• Wither heritage?
• Losing to urbanisation?
• The must-knows
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July 23, 2017

• EC failed to curb ‘invisible money’ in polls, says Jaitley
• A Sunderbans denizen staves off extinction
• Nilekani moots new data protection law
• GST system is robust: Centre
• The lowdown on minimum support price for crops
• The saga of Sri Lanka’s new Constitution
• In China, Silicon Valley giants confront new walls
• West Bank tense as crisis escalates
• ‘India has taken its foot off the pedal’
• The mimetic, the mythic and the theoretic
• A mountain and a movement
• Tiger reserves: Economic and environmental win-win
• ‘India’s labour laws are anti-employment’
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July 22, 2017

• Mentally retarded adult not a child: SC
• All municipal areas to be ODF
• Aadhaar not mandatory for transactions above Rs. 50,000: Jaitley
• Paying to preserve trees in Uganda
• Protection of personal data a right: Centre
• New road led to standoff in Doklam: blog
• U.S. bans citizens from travelling to N. Korea
• Digital trade games
• WCO lauds India’s trade facilitation plan
• ‘Panel report on fiscal year with Centre’
• Early life on Earth began on land, not sea
• 85,000 candidates placed after skill training: Government
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July 21, 2017

• Aboriginals landed in Australia 65,000 years ago
• UAS-B ranked south India’s first farm varsity
• ‘Why is sharing data with state a problem?’
• Half of HIV-infected get treatment now: UNAIDS
• India, Japan civil nuclear deal comes into force
• U.K.’s Indian community joins consultation on anti-caste law
• Should urbanisation score over conservation?
• Bigger, better?
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July 20, 2017

• SC wonders whether privacy could be an absolute right
• China shows zero tolerance to ‘sovereignty’ threats
• World’s first child hand transplant a success
• Ministry, NITI Aayog moot privatisation of select services in district hospitals
• Panel for bigger Indian role in Afghanistan
• BITs and pieces of trade with Israel
• Conserving water, the ancient way
• Target Tehran
• BharatNet deadline pushed to March 2019
• Organic dyes: Kalamkari
• Ozone can harm the heart: study
• First half of 2017 second hottest on record
• Bronze Age city in Northern Iraq
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July 19, 2017

• Mahadayi row: State puts the ball in PM’s court
• Goa seeks extension of Mahadayi tribunal
• Aadhaar: 9-judge Bench to consider whether privacy is a basic right
• Australia for ‘peaceful’ end to standoff
• World’s northernmost corals bleached
• Delhi, Kabul discuss ‘common regional threats’
• Being single may up dementia risk: Study
• SC nod for new MCI oversight panel
• Reluctant Trump recertifies Iran deal
• No common ground on the Doklam plateau
• ‘We are slow to adopt science for conservation’
• Get real on Swachh
• E-commerce: RCEP nations talk details
• New light on invasive species
• Loss and migration: ASIA’S CLIMATE REPORT CARD
• India to lead as mobile penetration globally to hit 70 % by 2022