Front Page
- June inflation quickens to 4.8% as food prices climb
- Syllabus – GS -3 Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.
- Read about Inflation – Cost push / demand pull – WPI – CPI
- PM on 2-day visit to France; defence ties to get a boost
- GS -2 Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.
- Read about India – France Relationship
Science
- Welfare schemes may help poor children’s brains grow normally
- GS -2 Issues relating to poverty and hunger
- When will Chandrayaan mission start and end?
- GS -3 Space
- Read about Chandrayaan mission
Business
- IIP rises 5.2%, led by infrastructure
- Prelims – IIP
- Goyal meets Badenoch to spur India-U.K. trade talks
- GS -2 Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.
- Read about India – UK FTA under negotiation
- Gambia mandates pre-shipment testing for Indian pharma
- GS -2 Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora.
- Prelims – Map marking – Gambia
World
- Despite conservative backlash, EU Parliament backs biodiversity Bill
- GS -3 Environment
- Prelims – Read about European Union
- Pakistan gets final IMF nod for $3-bn loan in stand-by arrangement
- Prelims – Standby arrangement – IMF loan types
News
- Centre to buy tomatoes from south and west to sell in northern cities
- GS -3 Major crops cropping patterns in various parts of the country, different types of irrigation and irrigation systems storage, transport and marketing of agricultural produce and issues and related constraints; e-technology in the aid of farmers.
- Read about CMV and TOMV – Operations Green
- 293 people stranded in Lahaul-Spiti district
- Prelims – Cultural Significance of Lahaul Spiti – Guru Padmasambhava statue
- Supreme Court gets two new judges
- Read about Collegium system – issues and challenges – NJAC
- Government rejects EU Parliament move to discuss Manipur situation
- GS -2 Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora.
- China pitched four tents in ‘buffer zone’ in Ladakh: Chushul councillor
- GS -3 Security challenges and their management in border areas
- SC to strive for ‘enduring solution’ to human-stray dog conflicts
- GS -3 Environment
- In UNHRC vote, India stands against desecration of Koran
- Prelims UNHRC
Text & Context
Opinion
Editorial
- Loot, intransigence, and the darkening of a colonial blot (GS-1)
- Quiet diplomacy could ease South China Sea tensions (GS-2)
- Weakening autonomy (GS-2)