November 01, 2018

• India jumps to 77th rank in the Ease of Doing Business Index
• Unanimous decision: SC Collegium
• Deal inked for biofuel research
• Land, livelihood and political gambits
• Crisis continues in Sri Lanka
• Support for lives on the move
• Strategies for autonomy
• RBI autonomy is ‘essential’, says Centre
• As the dwarf galaxy fades away . . .
• Impact of climate change
• Peacekeeping operations should not be substitute for addressing root causes of conflict: India
• Did you know?
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October 31, 2018

• Delhi air quality hovers around ‘severe’ level
• ‘India among nations that face grave danger to soil biodiversity’
• ‘Birthright citizenship has to end’
• The unifier of modern India
• Universities and patents
• How Centre’s ‘board game’ fuelled the feud with RBI
• Bronze Age ruins found in China
• Protecting the pride of India
• NASA’s new world record
• ‘Robat’ uses sound to map unique environments
• Just six sub-species of tigers remain
• Nature under assault
• Towards the path of extinction?
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October 30, 2018

• Modi, Abe back ‘free Indo-Pacific’
• Children under 15 at serious risk from polluted air: WHO
• Tokyo talks stress democratic values
• Pak. accepts India invite to SCO meet
• From uncertainty to crisis
• Who pays taxes and who doesn’t
• The great game in West Asia
• Stop the war
• Time to talk

October 29, 2018

• Eliminate child labour from mica mining in Jharkhand: Satyarthi
• Using cash handouts to combat poverty
• Avoidable crisis
• How fair is social media criticism?
• Few lifelines before Brexit
• WTO sets up dispute panel on India-US case on export subsidies
• All about NASA
• How toxic is your city?

October 28, 2018

• New Delhi pins its prestige on Mauritius project
• Banni’s bane
• As Delhi chokes, experts warn of worse to come
• Sri Lanka crisis: a statement, a rejection and a press conference
• A drive to register citizens
• A virus that can only be destroyed in oneself
• Weighing in on a medical milestone
• It’s time to belt up
• A monument of generosity
• India home to two new gecko species
• World’s smallest optical gyroscope developed
• The stolen generations

October 27, 2018

• Fasal Bima Yojana may help farmers recover some losses
• Varsities having Ordinance need not follow central rules
• China, Japan pivot to new markets
• Turkey to seek political solution for Syria at summit
• Punjab’s burning problem
• Who will speak truth to unfreedom?
• Proceed with caution

October 26, 2018

• Masala bonds to be listed in two exchanges
• PHWRs: Kaiga station’s Unit-1 creates world record
• India set to be third largest aviation market
• It’s over to the Supreme Court now
• Govt. notifies rules on granting citizenship
• Govt. reviews measures taken to curb fake news
• Khasi tribal council for inner line permit
• Centre eyes early hearing on quotas
• Centre launches two schemes to promote higher education research
• China, Japan to partner in building Asia infrastructure
• Abe’s visit won’t impact ties with Japan, says New Delhi
• Think small
• NATO’s biggest peacetime drill kicks off in Norway
• Mars contains more oxygenated water than previously thought: Study

October 25, 2018

• Nod for panel on sustainable development goals
• Israel, India sign $777 mn missile deal
• Skill development centres to be set up on PPP model
• An ‘anti-national’ regulation
• The prince and the kingdom
• The long march
• Liquidity squeeze hurts NBFCs
• Airlines face double whammy
• Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
• ‘First global temperature map of Europa created’

October 24, 2018

• SC moves to make festivals less noisy
• Apex court shocked over ‘vanishing’ Aravalli hills
• Bangladesh question looms over Citizenship Bill
• Priority is for public health, says court
• Trump targets migrant caravan
• Outcomes versus promises
• ‘Healthcare costs should not financially destroy families’
• In the net
• Indian markets not in a bear phase yet
• CAG questions RBI’s role as NPA crisis was brewing
• Can Mars support life?
• Is Earth’s inner core solid and soft?
• The coin that revolutionised digital currency
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October 23, 2018

• Why are media regulators soft with scribes, asks SC
• Where Ganga meets the Bay of Pollution
• Lower judiciary vacancies unacceptable: SC
• Bolton arrives in Russia for talks on nuclear treaty
• An African island’s troubled waters
• China asks U.S to ‘think twice’ before pulling out
• The value of a health scheme
• Ripe for prison reform
• Direct tax base widens sharply over 4 years, compliance rises
• Climate fund approves USD 43 million for India’s coastal communities
• NASA names new gamma ray constellations after Godzilla, Hulk
• Use of material resources to double by 2060: OECD

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October 22, 2018

• JNU, Skymet to tie-up for climate research
• ’Nirmal’ Ganga: Govt plans to finish 200 projs for ghats, crematoria by Mar 2019, says Gadkari
• U.S. to pull out of Russia missile pact
• Maldives judiciary upholds poll result
• From the early universe
• The clock is ticking on climate change
• Flares from young stars may harm planets: NASA
• Years to go to stub out crop burning
• Rupee fall, high NPAs a concern, says Jalan
• Time to hew a new antiquities law
• The comeback ‘kid’

October 21, 2018

• Water flow eases in Arunachal’s Siang
• The lowdown on NCR’s air quality
• China, U.S. flaunt nuclear muscle
• One step forward, two steps backward
• A bid to unlock the mysteries of solar system
• Three-fourths of H1B visa holders in 2018 are Indians: US report
• Stop sugarcane farming, says economist
• Challenging the emperor of all maladies
• NCCR develops system to estimate, predict flooding within Chennai
• Native shade trees better for carbon storage
• The need for disclosure

October 20, 2018

• India, Japan, U.S. plan joint air exercise
• Protesters to demand vote on Brexit
• Rwanda announces ‘gender-balanced’ Cabinet
• Turkey to host four-nation summit on Syria crisis

• The petroglyphs of Ratnagiri
• Statesmanship, not brinkmanship
• RBI steps in to ease NBFC woes
• RBI opposes move for independent Payments Regulatory Board