January 01, 2019


Remember 5 months to prelims 

• ASI declared 6 monuments of national importance in 2018
• JPC clears its report on citizenship Bill
• ‘New CRZ notification is a death knell for coastal communities’
• LS passes medical council Bill
• Trump softens stance on troop withdrawal from Syria
• Mainstreaming victims of crimes
• A liberal move
• Eight new unicorns emerge in 2018
• New e-com norms spoil party for big players

December 31, 2018

• Navtej Johar, a verdict for all times
• Lifelines beyond farm loan waivers
• HIV reality check
• Mind the gap
• Robust GDP growth to continue: CII
• Of financial debacles and rating agency models
• Bank-like norms will hinder NBFC growth
• The return of the native rice variety
• India succeeds in evolving global climate roadmap
• Return to the Moon
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December 30, 2018

• Bioplastics: the solution to India’s plastic pollution woes?
• ISRO readies for a busy 2019
• farmers need more than loan waivers
• The lowdown on the state of the economy
• Freedom of Literature Bill, courtesy of Tharoor
• Freedom of Literature Bill, courtesy of Tharoor
• Last year’s lies, next year’s lies
• Trusting the science
• Policy paralysis, anyone?
• On the tracks of the Earth’s mantle helium
• Galapagos island bans noisy fireworks
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December 29, 2018

• Manned space mission to take off
• Cabinet nod for easing CRZ norms
• States get greater say over coastal regions
• Analog cable TV gets an extension
• Centre gives nod to draft Bill on Indian medicine
• Cabinet approves submission of Biennial Update Report to UNFCCC.
• CPEC has no military feature, it is an economic project: Pak.
• Health of banks set to improve: RBI
• Health of banks set to improve: RBI
• Cabinet okays IPOs of six CPSEs
• A law that defeats its purpose
• Strange deal
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December 28, 2018

• Historic new-year day for Telangana, AP High Courts
• Centre extends deadline to update NRC
• River Dolphins go missing in Sunderbans as water salinity rises
• MEA upbeat over ties with China
• Are India’s laws on surveillance a threat to privacy?
• Snooping or saving?
• Traders welcome new e-commerce rules
• What? Is there a third pole on Earth?
• The Tibetan Plateau
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December 27, 2018

• Nepal caps expenditure of its citizens in India
• Another olive ridley nesting site soon
• Andhra, Telangana to have separate HCs
• Iran held talks with Taliban: official
• Russia successfully tests hypersonic missile
• Being a good neighbour
• The shape of growth matters
• Abandoned on the battlefield
• No lessons learnt
• Bickering over a wall
• Centre tightens rules for selling online
• Bimal Jalan to head six-member panel on RBI’s economic capital framework
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December 26, 2018

• Govt.’s draft rules to regulate social media echo SC orders
• ‘No question of re-negotiating the Teesta agreement’
• On a shaky foundation
• Chabahar tidings
• Banks under PCA sitting on cash pile
• A year of disruptions for the banking sector
• India to hold talks with RCEP nations
• Micro in size macro in impact
• Space, the final frontier

December 24, 2018

• EC makes fresh push for election reforms
• Nuclear-capable Agni-IV missile successfully test-fired
• PM Modi announces new award for National Unity
• When Gandhi’s statue is removed in Ghana
• What is altruistic surrogacy?
• Capital idea?
• U.S. plans reduction of bases in Japan
• India needs to open up dredging market: NITI
• GST is gathering steam but glitches remain for SMEs
• Evidence of water discovered in asteroids
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December 23, 2018

• Govt. eyeing quick fix for farm sector
• Maharashtra ban cuts plastic use but upsets industry
• Gurugram centre to monitor IOR
• Bangladesh elections are important
• In Meghalaya, flouting the ban on mining
• GST cut on 17 items and 6 services
• Chasing peace in the middle of war
• U.S. presence was illogical, says Iran
• The curious case of the ‘Stansted 15’
• More misses than hits
• Still in the shadows 
• Sikkim's highest forest zone could get denser
• NGT bans mining close to Sariska reserve
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December 22, 2018

• Furore in Rajya Sabha over order on data ‘interception’
• Himachal, Kerala and T.N. top development index
• LS panel suggests automatic suspension
• India reminds China of peace
• U.S. to withdraw troops from Afghanistan
• Controversial exit
• Island hopping
• Planets with oxygen don’t necessarily have life
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December 21, 2018

• Centre seeks Rs. 41,000 crore more to recapitalise banks
• LS clears Consumer Protection Bill
• China’s Pak. investments take a military turn
• Towards a genetic panopticon
• Against the mandate for inclusion
• Long road home
• Now, China looks to India as key market
• Panel to review issues start-ups face on tax
• Global warming causing ‘feminisation’ of turtles: Study
• Japan ‘mulling IWC withdrawal’ to resume commercial whaling
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December 20, 2018

• 9% growth by 2022 must to generate jobs: NITI Aayog
• Bill banning commercial surrogacy passed in LS
• ISRO’s ‘angry bird’ takes to the skies
• Swaminathan distances himself from GM paper
• Olive ridleys congregate for mating season
• Senate passes criminal justice reform Bill
• Rights, revised
• Chasing peace in Yemen
• We are not mere subjects of the state
• Four banks may come out of PCA
• Packaging of foodgrain in jute bags made mandatory
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December 19, 2018

• NGT raps Ministry over groundwater notification
• Centre drafts child protection policy
• Bolstering Paris
• Restoring the balance
• Global water supplies shrinking due to climate change: Study
• Traffic soot contributes to global warming: Study
• At 460, India records highest leopard mortality in 2018
• Saturn losing its iconic rings rapidly: NASA
• UN members adopt Global Compact on Refugees
• ‘Farout,’ farthest solar system object discovered
• Indian Ocean may play a bigger role in driving climate change
• 2018 turns the spotlight on plastic
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December 18, 2018

• Delhi offers $1.4 bn aid package to Male
• IAF plane takes to the air on blended bio-fuel
• Making every citizen an auditor
• Right prescription
• Hot air at Katowice
• Nuclear-powered ‘tunnelbot’ to search for life on Europa
• Author Amitav Ghosh honoured with 54h Jnanpith award
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December 17, 2018

• Navy to helm centre on maritime security
• ISRO’s GSAT-7A to add muscle to Air Force
• India recorded 95 tiger deaths in 2018, 41 outside reserves
• India is the closest friend of the Maldives: President Solih
• Climate talks deliver ‘rule book’
• Key questions remain unanswered
• Restoration of political sanity
• The numbers game
• The spectre of deportation
• Widening Gulf\
• MSMEs, traders witness loss of 35 lakh jobs: survey
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