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Editorial

• The importance of the booster dose to plan ahead (GS-2)
• Safe at school (GS-2)

OPED

• An urban jobs safety net (GS-2/3)
• Highest honour for a hockey icon (GS-3)

News

• Centre admits to oxygen deaths (GS-2)
• Kaziranga guards get satellite phones (GS-3)
• India Inc should increase its appetite for risk: Modi (GS-3)
• Amid ruckus, RS clears insurance Bill (GS-2)
• ‘Backchannel talk was on before Balakot’ (GS-3)
• Parliament passes Bill on OBC lists (GS-2)
• LS adjourned two days ahead of schedule, sees 22% productivity (GS-2)
• Taliban could take over Kabul in 90 days: U.S. intelligence (GS-2)
• Biden to host democracy summit in Dec. (GS-2)

Editorial

• India-Nepal flood management needs course correction (GS-2 /3 )
• Not always fair game (GS-2/3)
• A guide to resolving the Assam-Mizoram issue (GS-2)

OPED

• Why are government schools not the first choice? (GS-2)

News

• Allegations serious, truth has to come out in snooping issue: SC (GS-2/3)
• 60% of dropouts at 7 IITs from reserved categories (GS-2)
• Centre moves to redact retrospective tax law (GS-2/3)
• ‘Britain will not recognise a Taliban govt. that takes power by force’ (GS-2)
• Iran backs move to lift sanctions, but won’t bow to pressure: Raisi (GS-2)
• No plan to house Indian military base on Agalega island: Mauritius (GS-2)
• ‘Pregnancy, childbirth do not increase risk of acquiring SARS-CoV-2 infection’ (GS-2)
• No study yet on suicides tied to pandemic, govt. informs LS (GS-2)
• ‘We support an Afghan-led peace process’ (GS-2)
• Earth observation satellite to be launched on Aug. 12 (GS-3)
• 88% IIT Guwahati dropouts from reserved quotas (GS-2)
• ‘Defence Services Bill will lapse after a year’ (GS-2)

Editorial

• A grand tax bargain in danger of coming apart (GS-3)
• A language ladder for an education roadblock (GS-2)
• Over the borderline (GS-2)

OPED

• No fundamental right to strike (GS-2)
• The doubted scientist and her vaccine revolution (GS-1/3)

Business

• Service sector contracts for a third straight month: PMI (GS-3)
• CERT-In tracks 6.07 lakh cybersecurity incidents (GS-3)

News

• Efforts to track emerging COVID-19 variants shrink (GS-2)
• CJI recuses himself from Andhra-Telangana case (GS-2)
• LS clears Air Quality Commission Bill for NCR (GS-2/3)
• Blacktopping of road near LAC completed (Prelims – BRO)
• 50% funds allotted for ongoing MPLADS projects lapse (GS-2)
• RTE entitlements to be paid through cash transfers (GS-2)
• 2 years on as U.T., Kashmir militancy yet to wane (GS-3)
• In about one hour, RS passes 3 Bills (GS-2)
• Air Quality Commission Bill for National Capital Region cleared (GS-3)
• ‘EC proposal to link electoral roll with Aadhaar under study’ (GS-2)