Front Page
- Merchant vessel attacked in Arabian Sea; all crew members safe
- Prelims – Red Sea
- 3 civilians picked up by Army after J&K ambush found dead
- GS -3 Security challenges and their management in border areas
Business
- India’s $60 billion man-made textile sector reels from Chinese imports glut
- GS -3 changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth.
Profiles
- A strategic choke point
- Prelims – Bab el-Mandeb
FAQ
- Will new telecom Bill streamline the sector? (GS-2)
- What’s the latest blip in India-Maldives ties? (GS-2)
Science
- Predicting extreme rainfall using probabilistic forecasts
- GS -1 Grography
- Read about Monsoon – Factors affecting monsoon – Importance – ITCZ
- Prelims – numerical weather prediction (NWP) model – probabilistic forecasts
- Infection of the eye, and how to protect vision
- GS -2 Health
- Prelims – VISION 2020: The Right to Sight – Microbiome
World
- Israel strikes Gaza after UN calls for more aid but stops short of ceasefire (GS-2)
- Iran threatens to shut down Mediterranean Sea if there is no let-up in Gaza attacks
- Prelims – Mediterranean Sea
News
- Cash transfers help Bengal women take financial decisions, says study
- GS -2 Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
- Kinnow farmers in distress as prices plunge on higher output, poor demand
- Prelims – Kinnow
- ‘Extremists, separatist forces outside India should not get space’
- GS -3 Internal Security
- Tribunals cannot direct govt. to frame policy: SC judgment
- GS -2 dispute redressal mechanisms and institutions.
- Read about Tribunals – Importance – Types – Powers
- 13 minors on plane held in France over suspected human trafficking
- GS -2 mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections.