Front Page
- Aadhaar unreliable in ‘hot, humid’ India: rating agency
- GS- 2 Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
- Read about Aadhaar – Working and components – Benefits – Criticisms – Data protection and breach – alternative methods like DID
- Multiple entry, exit option in higher studies may not suit India: House panel
- GS-2 Education
- Read about NEP – Key Features – MEME – Benefits and challenges
- Land around Assam monastery to be reserved for indigenous people: CM
- Prelims – Batadrava – Srimata Sankaradeva – neo-Vaishnavism.
Science
- The story of how scientists found that our ancestors almost went extinct
- GS -3 bio-technology
- Read about Genome Sequencing and related topics
- Galactic tides: Pushing and pulling the heavens
- Prelims- Galactic tides
World
- Refugees leave as Azerbaijan takes control of Karabakh
- Prelims – Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) – Map marking Nagorno-Karabakh
- NASA’s first asteroid samples land on earth after release from spacecraft
- Prelims – Osiris-Rex spacecraft – Asteroid Bennu
News
- A vaccine wheel in U.P. to track newborn immunisation
- GS -2 Health
- Read about universal immunisation Programme – Mission Indradhanush
- Nine new Vande Bharat trains to link religious, tourist sites
- Prelims-Technology used in Vande Bharat Trains
- Arunachal to get 3 new air routes by Oct., says Scindia
- Prelims- UDAN scheme
- Defence Board discusses plan for second Vikrant-like carrier
- Prelims- Aircraft carriers of India
- Five Eyes gave Canada intel in Nijjar case, says U.S. envoy
- Prelims – Five Eyes
- It’s a world very much of ‘double standards’, says Jaishankar
- GS -2 Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora.
Text & Context
- How the rising influence of ethnic Indians causes frictions in India-Canada ties (GS-2)
- Fukushima N-wastewater controversy (GS -3 )
Opinion
Editorial
- Simultaneous polls — but only in a presidential system (GS-2)
- An economic corridor, the Israel link and the geopolitics (GS-2)
- Politicising exchanges (GS-2)
States
- Team from Telangana visits Buddhist caves in Sri Lanka
- Prelims- Buddhism