| Consumer Awareness | |
1. | Consumer protection in India: Genesis and recent developments | 3 |
2. | Customer satisfaction: Mantra of banking management | 4 |
3. | GST: Impact on the Consumers | 6 |
4. | Quality assurance for the Consumer | 10 |
| IN THE NEWS NATIONAL | |
1. | Locked out, without a GI Tag | 13 |
2. | Drug regulator to make ‘Stability Testing’ | 14 |
3. | To make instant Triple Talaq a crime Govt to build 10 million houses for rural poor by December 2018 | 15 |
4. | India will need 2.07 million more doctors by 2030 | 17 |
5. | Finalising policy against drug abuse | 18 |
6. | Minority tag for Hindus: NCM forms committee | 19 |
7. | 266 Million adults can’t read, 12 Million children out of school | 20 |
8. | Govt bans condom ads from 6 A.M. To 10 P.M. | 22 |
| INDIA AND THE WORLD | |
1. | IAgri-Futures like China | 29 |
2. | Next door Nepal: virtues of soft power | 31 |
3. | Singapore offers India Logistical base | 32 |
4. | India supports creation of a Palestinian state | 33 |
| INTERNATIONAL ISSUES | |
1. | Hasina inaugurates nuclear power plant construction | 41 |
2. | Australian state allows voluntary euthanasia in 2019 | 42 |
3. | UAE, Saudi Arabia forming new group, separate from GCC | 44 |
| ECONOMY | |
1. | Bharat 22 ETF | 47 |
2. | Payment Bank | 49 |
3. | CBDT Signs two Indian advance pricing agreements | 50 |
| SCIENCE AND TECH | |
1. | Measles vaccination decreases acute respiratory infection | 58 |
2. | Most distant black hole discovered India | 59 |
3. | India free from Trachoma | 59 |
4 | New form of matter ‘Excitonium’ discovered | 64 |
| ENVIRONMENT | |
1. | Thousands of species at risk of extinction due to human activity | 67 |
2. | New ‘Gas Standards’ in the works to fight pollution | 70 |
| MAINS SPECIAL - PAPER – II | |
1. | Smart-balancing China | 75 |
2. | The Brahmaputra conundrum | 76 |
| MAINS SPECIAL - PAPER – III | |
1. | Eight amazing Science stories of 2017 | 78 |
2. | Internet must be open: TRAI backs net neutrality | 79 |
3. | What is net neutrality and why does it matter? | 80 |