# POLITY & GOVERNANCE

1. SC refuses to stay amendments to SC/ST Act   pg – 12

# ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY & BIODIVERSITY

1. Hope for Kerala in Bandipur deadlock  pg – 07
2. NGT seeks report on solid waste management  pg – 09
3. 18 Indian institutions to study nitrogen pollution  pg – 09
4. Sri Lankan farmers battle powerful worm  pg – 14

# INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

1. India, South Africa revise 22 year-old Strategic partnership  pg – 13

# SECURITY

1. Report on AQIS’s growing influence alarmist: official  pg – 13

# SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1. ISRO tastes first success of 2019  pg – 09

# ARTICLES OF THE DAY

1. A tragedy that was long in the making (Environment)  pg – 10
2. Season’s worst (Social Issues)  pg – 10
3. Are we undermining our scientific temper (Social issues)  pg – 11