25th August

Sealed for 70 years, what BHU found inside 22 boxes from a Varanasi dig

Discovered/FoundHistorical Sites | Art and Culture | Mains GS1: GS1-01.Indian Culture- Salient aspects of Art Forms, Literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times.

The personalised vaccine that could cut skin cancer death risk

Explained | Science and Technology | Mains GS3: GS3-15.Science and Technology- Developments and their Applications and Effects in Everyday Life.

What India can learn from EU’s AI reset

Op-ed | Science and Technology | Mains GS3: GS3-17.Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, Robotics, Nano-technology, Bio-technology and issues relating to Intellectual Property Rights.

What changes when AI moves from reading viral genomes to designing them?

| Science and Technology | Mains GS3: GS3-17.Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, Robotics, Nano-technology, Bio-technology and issues relating to Intellectual Property Rights.

Global space norms find a firm footing in India’s new re-entry rules

First/Record | Science and Technology | Mains GS3: GS3-17.Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, Robotics, Nano-technology, Bio-technology and issues relating to Intellectual Property Rights.

After Minister, Secy’s kin availed of agri subsidy scheme, new rules bar them

Amended/EnactedSchemes | Agriculture | Mains GS3: GS3-08.Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and MSP

SC committee pulls up Assam government for inaction over mining activity near Kaziranga

National Parks/WS | Environment | Mains GS3: GS3-18.Conservation, Environmental Pollution and Degradation, Environmental Impact Assessment.

Barren-land fallacy

| Environment | Mains GS3: GS3-18.Conservation, Environmental Pollution and Degradation, Environmental Impact Assessment.

Importance of elephant corridors in reducing conflict

ExplainedSpecies | Environment | Mains GS3: GS3-18.Conservation, Environmental Pollution and Degradation, Environmental Impact Assessment.

AI is transforming cyber attacks as well as defences: What this means for India

Explained | Internal Security | Mains GS3: GS3-21.Role of External State and Non-state Actors in creating challenges to Internal Security.

5 years on, how India has warmed up to the Taliban

Explained | International Relations | Mains GS2: GS2-17.India and its neighborhood- relations.

When the inspector leaves: Can food safety become a daily habit?

| Governance | Mains GS2: GS2-09.Appointment to various Constitutional posts; Constitutional Bodies(powers, functions and responsibilities); Statutory, Regulatory and Quasi-judicial bodies

Over 13,000 UG seats still up for grabs at Delhi University

| Social Justice | Mains GS2: GS2-13.Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.

Punjab SIR: Former envoy Navdeep Suri issued notice, told to ‘produce documents’

| Polity | Mains GS2: GS2-08.Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act.

To build Delhi’s future, learn from past missteps

Op-ed | Indian Society | Mains GS1: GS1-08.Urbanisation:problems and remedies

Triple test, adrift

Op-edSC Judgements | Economics | Mains GS3: GS3-01.Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.

Vande Mataram and the right to dissent

Amended/EnactedBills/Act/Laws | Polity | Mains GS2: GS2-01.Indian Constitution-Historical underpinnings & evolution; Features, amendments, significant provisions, basic structure of Constitution

Cong: LS not prorogued, is Shah still pushing delimitation Bill?

| Polity | Mains GS2: GS2-06.Parliament and State Legislatures (structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges; issues therein)

The rural-urban divide in female labour force participation

| Indian Society | Mains GS1: GS1-07.Role of women and women’s organization, population and associated issues, poverty and developmental issues.

Core concerns

Op-ed | Geography | Mains GS3: GS3-12.Effects of liberalization on the economy, changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth

Small transporters hit by compliance burden

Op-ed | Economics | Mains GS3: GS3-13.Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc:

Chipflation: Electronics see years of price hikes replicated in 6 mths

| Economics | Mains GS3: GS3-01.Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.

Measuring manufacturing growth afresh: Three questions

Op-ed | Economics | Mains GS3: GS3-01.Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.

Investment question has a political answer

Op-ed | Economics | Mains GS3: GS3-01.Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.

What young want, and why creating good jobs is no longer optional

Op-ed | Economics | Mains GS3: GS3-01.Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.