1. Heavy rain batters IT parks, arterial roads in Bengaluru
- Six flights diverted to Chennai; tech workers offered WFH
- Page 1
- GS 3: Environment/ Disaster management
2. Gorbachev, macroeconomics, and Gandhi
- Concepts of free trade, financial freedom, and privatisation are not the right solutions for India’s citizens
- Page 8 (Editorial)
- GS 1: redrawal of national boundaries, decolonisation, political philosophies like communism, capitalism, socialism
3. The difficult path to India- Pakistan peace
- The failure to manage the domestic audience in Pakistan is a recurrent trope that has overwhelmed peace attempts
- Page 8 (Editorial)
- GS 2: India and its neighbourhood – International relations
4. Public health need not be led by doctors alone
- It is a separate profession requiring a specific set of competencies
- Page 9 (OpEd)
- GS 2: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources
5. Funding public education
- The idea that higher education could be funded fully by students or their parents is grossly misplaced
- Page 9 (OpEd)
- GS 2: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources
6. The ban on conversion therapy for the LGBTQIA+ community
- Conversion or reparative therapy is an intervention aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of an individual with the use of either psychiatric treatment, drugs, exorcism and even violence, with the aim being to make the individual a heterosexual.
- Page 10
- GS 2: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources
7. Pacts on water, power, defence likely as Hasina arrives in Delhi
- Bangladesh PM expects India’s help in the repatriation process of Rohingya
- Page 12
- GS 2: India and its neighbourhood – International relations
8. Preventive detentions rose in 2021
- Number of people in custody or detained at the end of year highest since 2017- NCRB report
- Page 14
- UPSC Prelims syllabus: Current events of national and international importance.
9. Services PMI flags rebound in August
- Business sentiment in India recovers to best level since May 2018, S&P Global’s sectoral survey shows
- Page 16
- GS 3: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilisation of resources, growth, development and employment.
10. ‘Banks healthy enough to brave foreign headwinds’
- The banking system is healthy enough to withstand any negative spillovers from external headwinds emanating from the Jackson Hole speech by the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Monday.
- Page 16
- GS 3: Indian Economy (Prelims)
