October 01, 2018

• Sharp decline in Centre’s funds to rural local bodies
• A crusade for women’s rights
• S-400, Kamov on the agenda of Modi, Putin
• Berhampur launches drive to ‘cure’ trees
• Gandhi: a fox or a hedgehog?
• An ongoing quest for equality
• In Parliament’s court
• The road to e-vehicles
• Can India’s share of the global economy bounce back to 25%?
• ‘Rising interest rates have led to liquidity crunch’
• ‘Huge scope for India, Israel tie-ups in plantation’
• A crisis situation?
• Did you know?

September 30, 2018

• Centre adopting People’s Plan Campaign model
• Swaraj for global framework on terror
• 4 years after Swachh: cleaning excreta for roti
• Taking stock of dementia
• Mechanism of colistin resistance in Klebsiella bacteria unravelled
• IISc team finds new approaches to kill TB bacteria
• 59 plant species in IUCN threat categories
• Arctic observations to predict tropical cyclones

September 29, 2018

• River pollution: NGT directs States to act
• Assam to introduce methanol as cooking fuel
• China slams U.S. trade ‘blackmail’
• The poor are left to themselves
• Dumping an archaic law
• Freedom to pray
• States’ average GST revenue shortfall down to 13% in FY19
• Govt. unveils centre for data analytics
• Decoding cryptocurrency

September 28, 2018

• Centre appoints search committee for Lokpal
• Uzbek President to invite India to join Afghan rail project
• Kolkata launches India’s first flood forecast system
• Beijing slams U.S. after jets fly over S. China Sea
• Maldives Oppn. seeks foreign help
• Finding an equilibrium
• Idlib, the final frontier
• Should the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi case be released?
• Criminalising talaq-e-biddat
• Not a crime
• The largest ice sheet could be in trouble
• NASA charts roadmap for human missions to Moon, Mars
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September 27, 2018

• Aadhaar gets thumbs up from Supreme Court
• Reduced to digits, says Chandrachud
• MHA merges police forces in six UTs
• Ordinance allows panel to supersede scam-tainted MCI
• Import duty on select goods hiked
• Boost to SC/ST quota in promotions
• A blow to private entities
• Recyclers storing electronic waste hazardously: Environment Ministry
• It’s Money Bill, says majority opinion
• G-4 for UN Security Council reform, multilateralism
• Give us space to resolve our problems, says Sirisena at UN
• Putin’s pension reform amendments approved
• Chasing the monsoon
• Opacity in the name of privacy
• New telecom policy aims to provide broadband access to all citizens by 2022
• CO2 emissions cost India $210 billion every year
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September 26, 2018

• Enact ‘strong law’ to cleanse politics: SC
• Legislators can practise law, says SC
• Unemployment among educated youth at 16%: study
• India’s Mars probe completes four years in orbit: ISRO
• SC forms prison reforms panel
• Hopes rise in India for an end to Maldives visa row
• Not ruling out a second referendum, says Labour
• China hopes Maldives will back BRI, trade deal
• A change in the Maldives
• Language matters
• Editing our genes
• Microsoft, Adobe, SAP in data alliance
• Propping up glaciers to avoid cataclysmic sea level rise
• Ka pai! Maori language back from brink
• Silver nanoparticles affect marine life
• Microsoft unveils $40 mn project to use AI for humanitarian causes
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September 25, 2018

• Female circumcision issue goes to Constitution Bench
• India our natural ally: Nasheed
• Banks lagging behind in lending to priority sector
• Odisha changes norms in food, procurement policy
• Panel approves nutrition norms
• Renewed push for Statehood in Northeast
• SC to rule on barring accused in heinous crimes from polls
• Sushma to focus on ‘South-South cooperation’
• An indefensible ordinance
• The power of a nudge
• After Salzburg
• Long road ahead
• Rethinking disaster management
• UN chief hails famine prevention mechanism
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September 24, 2018

• The primary anchor of a health-care road map
• India looks to buy Israeli missiles
• J&K’s special status challenged
• Citizen science initiative helps save hornbills
• HC notice to Centre on OCIs entry into India
• India conducts successful interceptor missile test at night
• China steps up protest over U.S. sanctions
• How Galileo threw light on Jupiter
• Scientists identify earliest known animal 558 mn years ago
• NASA balloon mission may help improve weather forecasting
• On edge
• Saving Cauvery’s cradle

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September 23, 2018

• Job prospects of H-4 holders dim
• do Mudra loans have credit risks?
• A bid to bring ‘romance back into farming’
• Sugarcane, paddy a hit this kharif
• Vatican announces historic deal with China on bishops
• The stamp of diversity on midterm polls
• Where South Korea meets the North
• Positive TB test ‘not always cause for worry’
• In the grip of a fever 
• Small plastics lethal for sea turtles
• New battery may help cut carbon emissions
• Changing trends in childhood blindness in India

September 22, 2018

• ISRO setting up launch pad for Gaganyaan mission
• Agencies to do eco-impact checks
• Ban on adoption by live-in partners lifted
• May hits back at EU, says govt. won’t alter Brexit offer
• China warns U.S. of consequences over sanctions
• Ravaged by a caterpillar
• Seeking a managed exit
• ‘U.S., China trade spat can impact India’
• Dual listing of masala bonds being explored

September 21, 2018

• Plea highlights plight of detainees
• Stage set for speedy trial against legislators
• Moon, Kim visit ‘sacred’ mountain in show of unity
• Pak. invites Saudi Arabia to be third partner in CPEC
• Is the NITI Aayog relevant today?
• For liberty’s sake
• Moon diplomacy
• Protecting persons with HIV/ AIDS
• India’s ancient centre of learning
• NASA’s Parker Solar Probe sends back first images
• India contributes $1 mn to UN’s ambitious solar project