Front Page

• Aadhaar unreliable in ‘hot, humid’ India: rating agency
  
  • 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
  
  • Read about NEP – Key Features – MEME – Benefits and challenges
• Land around Assam monastery to be reserved for indigenous people: CM
  • Read about– Batadrava – Srimata Sankaradeva – neo-Vaishnavism.

Science

• The story of how scientists found that our ancestors almost went extinct
  
  • Read about Genome Sequencing and related topics
• Galactic tides: Pushing and pulling the heavens
  • Read about- Galactic tides

World

• Refugees leave as Azerbaijan takes control of Karabakh
  • Read about– Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) – Map marking Nagorno-Karabakh
• NASA’s first asteroid samples land on earth after release from spacecraft
  • Read about– Osiris-Rex spacecraft – Asteroid Bennu

News

• A vaccine wheel in U.P. to track newborn immunisation
  
  • Read about universal immunisation Programme – Mission Indradhanush 
• Nine new Vande Bharat trains to link religious, tourist sites
  • Read abou-Technology used in Vande Bharat Trains
• Arunachal to get 3 new air routes by Oct., says Scindia
  • Read abou- 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
  • Read abou– Five Eyes
• It’s a world very much of ‘double standards’, says Jaishankar

Text & Context

• How the rising influence of ethnic Indians causes frictions in India-Canada ties
• Fukushima N-wastewater controversy 

Opinion

• Taking India back to the drawing board 
• Indians form a big chunk of diaspora in Canada 

Editorial

• Simultaneous polls — but only in a presidential system 
• An economic corridor, the Israel link and the geopolitics 
• Politicising exchanges

States

• Team from Telangana visits Buddhist caves in Sri Lanka
  • Read abou- Buddhism and its origin and spread