Front Page

• Goods trade deficit hits a 10-month high
  
  • Read about – Trade deficit
• Nipah cases rise to six in Kozhikode
  
  • Read about Nipah – Symptoms – Transmission
• Govt. notifies 31 Benches of GST Appellate Tribunal
  
  • Prelims –  GST Appellate Tribunals (GSTATs)

Business

• Wrong to assess economic activity on GDP alone: FinMin
• ‘Exempting millets from GST can lift affordability, boosting consumption’
  • Read about – Millets

World

• USCIRF to hold hearing on religious freedom
  • Read about – USCIRF

News

• Jal Jeevan Mission remains a pipe dream
  
  • Read about Jal Jeevan Mission – Features – Challenges in Implementation
• SC seeks NMC reply to plea on stipend for MBBS interns
  • Read about – NMC
• India seeks monoclonal antibody doses from Australia to fight Nipah
  • Read about – Hendra virus – Monoclonal antibody
• A ‘platform’ will assess ‘top’ 50 judges before appointment in SC: CJI
  • Read about - Judicial Appointments, composition in HC and SC
  • Read about Collegium System – Criticisms on Collegium System- NJAC
• Editors Guild of India has right to free speech, says CJI
  • Read about –  Editors Guild of India (EGI)
• Wrong to think only ‘fancy’ cases reach Constitution Benches, says Chief Justice
  • Read about – What is Constitution Bench?
• DAC gives nod to buy 12 Su-30 jets, other military equipment
  • Read about – DAC and its composition and functions

Ground Zero

• Nipah puts Kerala under siege again 

Editorial

• In diverse India, name change demands consensus 
• A GM crop decision that cuts the mustard
• Misplaced mystery