January 29, 2018


A vote for state funding
Rebuilding our cities
Red alert on the green index
Banking on good faith
What are we teaching the robots?
An alternative look at IR
Govt. may alter insolvency law
Conservative banking, not bail-in, will bail us out
‘Trans-pacific pact could hurt India’
Potentially habitable planets identified in TRAPPIST-1 system
Monkeys cloned for the first time!
 

January 28, 2018


17 crore children below 5 years to get polio vaccine this year
In Lucknow, a crop crisis of plenty
Private Member’s Bill proposes setting up nodal agency to fight malnutrition
The lowdown on Doklam
Frozen at home, China hunts for gas abroad
From Tokyo with love for global trade
Syrian opposition boycotts Sochi talks
 The middle-income trap
India fourth-worst in environment index
Health care funding imperatives
New wheat variety can help fight diabetes
Direct tax reforms – need of the hour
 

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• ‘India-ASEAN ties to focus on freedom of navigation’
• Delhi Declaration calls for joint fight against terror
• UN hosts fresh Syria talks in Vienna
• Should euthanasia be allowed?
• German tangle
• Mysterious ‘hot Jupiter’ with unusual winds discovered
• Govt. announces 4 new schemes to promote young scientists
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January 25, 2018

• Govt. unveils Rs. 2.1 lakh crore bank recapitalisation plan
• HPV vaccine gets immunisation nod
• Centre determined to stabilise population growth
• AICTE releases new model curriculum
• First India-designed vaccine passes WHO test
• Bilateral visits set to deepen ties between Japan and China
• The arc to Southeast Asia
• A turtle recovery plan
• Recalculating ease of doing business
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January 24, 2018

• A scheme that draws scientists but leaves them in the lurch
• Constitute Mahanadi tribunal: SC
• ‘Growth has dipped below the 30-year average’
• Making our roads safe
• At whose discretion?
• Reform with caution
• A risky recovery
• Infrastructure is an issue for Asean, India
• Earth’s heat loss melts Greenland’s ice sheet
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January 23, 2018

• Less nationalism, more connectivity: ASEAN leader
• Getting back on the democratic path
• Detecting the change, early on
• NIIF, DP World to invest $3 bn
• ‘Bad loans to rise to Rs. 9.5 lakh cr. by March’
• Scientists create low cost solar cells
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January 22, 2018

• The great American arms bazaar
• Capacity building for primary health care
• Profit and loss
• Federal govt. shutdown may affect India’s exports to U.S.
• Flawed fiscal policy favours the affluent
• All for an ‘extra’ hour of daylight
• When Neptune became the farthest...
• Making of the Indian Constitution
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January 21, 2018

• Parties fail to agree on status of ‘dreamers’
• Anti-refugee politics of a Green populist
• China’s pincer strike against pollution
• U.K. can’t keep full access to EU: Macron
• A travesty of divorce
• Use-value versus exchange value
• Vitamin C improves efficacy of TB drugs
• Industry seeks clear AI policy
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January 20, 2018

• Centre urged to check spread of BG-III cotton
• India admitted to Australia Group
• U.S. to beat Saudi in oil production
• On a new keel
• A poor prognosis
• Signs of a geopolitical whirlwind
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January 19, 2018

• Agni-V extends its reach
• Report highlights India’s digital divide
• ‘Aadhaar contradicts the role of the state’
• Israel pushes for free trade
• Towards solar-powered agriculture
• Protecting marriages across castes
• Japan successfully launches new Earth observation satellite
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January 18, 2018

• ‘Make-II’ promise for arms firms
• Can govt. mandate sharing of data: SC
• Talking over a law
• The price prescription
• Left behind
• India mulls ‘mini meet’ of 40 WTO members
• Rushikulya and Gahirmatha
• A new health risk
• INTACH to document heritage sites along Mahanadi river
• World's largest sea turtle could come off 'endangered' list
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January 17, 2018

• Govt. to revisit Malimath report
• 36% rural youth can’t name India’s capital, finds survey
• SC condemns conduct of caste panchayats
• Following the grain trail
• Face the inevitable
• ‘Water scarcity may hit thermal power’
• Who will help save the Great Barrier Reef?
• Sun-like star identified
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January 16, 2018

• Israel seeks ‘big data’ from India, signs 4 agreements
• First joint estimation of tigers in Sunderbans begins [Deck] The region hosts 75% of all big cats in the world
• Operation Digital Board in the offing
• Enabling a form of supersurveillance
• Restoring order in the court
• A new weapon in the carbon fight
• Tackling government litigation
• Problem of plenty
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January 14, 2018

• Cyclone Ockhi takes a toll on Olive Ridleys too
• Historians oppose Monuments Bill
• We want transparency: judge
• A fight over a river escalates
• ‘Need to make our farmers a part of higher value addition’
• Centre analyses FDI data to boost tech transfer
• The ozone hole is recovering
• IGIB discovers a protein regulating melanoma growth, pigmentation
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January 13, 2018

• India makes push for U.K. immigration reform
• Rights in the age of big data
• Judiciary in turmoil
• A perfect storm of uncertainty
• Industrial output expands 8.4%, pace at 25-month high
• ISRO workhorse PSLV-C40 puts 31 satellites in space
• New U.S. sanctions won’t hit Chabahar port project, says Iran
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January 12, 2018

• Netanyahu’s visit to give a leg-up to India-Israel ties
• Virtual Aadhaar ID: too little, too late?
• Space companies bet big on PSLV
• China’s Silk Road hits hurdles
• U.S. could return to Paris climate deal, says Trump
• EU backs under-fire Iran N-deal
• The ABC of the RTE
• Ready for sale
• Global warming will expose millions more to floods
• Can technology help mitigate disasters?
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January 11, 2018

• In FDI push, Centre allows 49% foreign ownership in AI
• Maritime focus for India, ASEAN
• Two-tier shield for Aadhaar data
• China to fund base in Afghanistan
• The map of rural deprivation
• Prescription for the future
• Thinking beyond quotas
• World Bank projects 7.3% growth in 2018
• Pench and Kanha
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January 10, 2018

• No change in H-1B rules: U.S.
• No viable alternative to hanging, Centre tells court
• India, U.K. to ink illegal migrants pact
• ISRO mulls launching 65 satellites for a slew of uses
• Delhi, Male set to reboot bilateral ties
• No plan to build naval base at Gwadar
• No proposal to reinterpret H-1B-linked clause, says USCIS
• Agriculture needs a reforms package
• Question of equality
• Cold spells: Is climate change the cause?
• Satellite to scan ‘border of Earth and space’
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January 04, 2018

• No repeat of Doklam-type standoff with India, says China
• Inserting new Section in IPC was discussed
• Inserting new Section in IPC was discussed
• Key Ministries disagree over CAMPA fund rules
• Centre working on reforms in labour laws
• China-Japan ties could see a revamp in 2018
• Towards a genomics revolution
• A new plateau
• WHO okays Bharat Bio typhoid shot
• New clues about the role of fibre in health
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January 03, 2018

• Electoral bonds for political donations notified
• Rajya Sabha passes Bankruptcy Code Bill
• When Rajya Sabha meant business
• Bitcoin not a legal tender: Jaitley
• ‘We can’t despair, we can’t abandon things’
• Questionable remedy
• Regaining the focus
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