# INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

1. What India Committed to boosting BIMSTECH connectivity: PM   pg – 01

# ECONOMY

1. Textile Blues (Data Point)  pg – 09
2. Trend appears weak for rupee  pg – 13
3. Declining Rupee puts exporters in a fix: FIEO  pg – 13

# SOCIAL ISSUES

1. What Response of local communities reflects good governance  pg – 05
2. New Ranking based on innovation  pg – 07

# ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY & BIODIVERSITY

1. What Nilgiri Tahr climb the population charts  pg – 01
2. Barges with fly ash set sail from Ganga to Brahmaputra  pg – 03
3. High water discharge from China threatens Arunachal  pg – 07
4. 300 endangered turtles found dead in Mexico  pg – 18
5. Penguin swims to Antarctica and back from New Zealand  pg – 18
6. Heat trapped below Arctic surface could melt entire region ice: study  pg – 18
7. Ban on bee killing pesticides in France  pg – 18

# SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot shows signs of water  pg – 18

# POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Pan India reservation rule applies to Delhi  pg – 07

# ARTICLES OF THE DAY

1. Pride and Foreign Aid (International Relations)  pg – 08
2. The shale gas challenge (Economy)  pg – 08
3. Has India finally arrived on the sporting stage? (Miscellaneous)  pg – 09
4. The fear of a black flag (Social Issues)  pg – 09
5. Speeding up the adoption process (Polity and Governance)  pg – 09

# EDITORIAL OF THE DAY

1. Shocking Negligence (Social Issues)  pg – 08