# EXPLAINED     

1. Naga talks: long road, issues (Polity and Governance)   pg – 12
2. Fires peaked in August, half were in Asia (Environment)  pg – 12

# SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. Education policy dilutes assurance on RTE upto class 12  pg – 01
2. India may eliminate shortage of doctors ‘in less than 7 years’  pg – 08
3. We are making PDS more poor-friendly, efficient, while rolling back cash transfers  pg – 09
4. In Numbers (Status of India’s health: A snapshot)  pg – 09

# POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Law ministry notifies new category of absentee voters for postal ballot  pg – 06

# ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY & BIODIVERSITY

1. Nelloptodes Gretae  pg – 12
2. Role of mountain streams in the carbon cycle, newly assessed  pg – 12

# SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1. Researchers find a way to grow meat that doesn’t look like mush in a lab  pg – 13

# ECONOMY

1. i Banks need to reinvent to strengthen profitability  pg – 16

# EDITORIALS OF THE DAY

1. Red flag at Infosys (Ethics in Governance)  pg – 10

# ARTICLES OF THE DAY

1. National dishonour (Social justice)  pg – 10
2. Prince and the PM (International relations)  pg – 11
3. Taxing new spaces (Economy)  pg – 11