The Hindu
National
- Modi, Ghani talk trade, terror – India is keen to be included in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement and it will welcome Afghan trucks on the Wagah-Attari border with Pakistan, says PM.
- Operation Maitri to continue – Operation Maitri, India’s Army-led rescue and relief mission in quake-hit Nepal, would continue till normalcy returned to Nepal, the Army said.
- ‘NREGA, the only insurance for India’ – If you are a State hit by the unseasonal rains, implement MGNREGA to its best; it is the only insurance India has, says World Bank India Director.
- Seniority bogs down judicial appointments: Centre – Quality of merit is hardly the primary consideration, says Attorney-General.
International
- Sri Lanka adopts 19th Amendment – Sri Lanka has adopted the 19th Amendment which dilutes the powers of Executive Presidency.
Business
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Opinion-Editorial
- Killing a country’s ecology – The Expert Committee has found that environmental clearances were unreliable, wrongly prepared, based on false data, and were, in some cases, motivated.
Indian Express
Editorials & Columns
- How to meet a quake – Conjoint SAARC-wide planning and action can soften the blow of earthquakes, suggests Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
- Terror laws compared – The article compares three anti-terror laws/bill – GCTOC, UAPA & MCOCA.
- For those marked ‘Other’ – Danish Sheikh explains the gaps in recently passed transgender rights bill.
- Untie the farmer – To leave farmers on land and not give them skills for urban and industrial life is equal to trapping them in misery, writes Ashutosh Varshney.
LiveMint
- The long walk to water – Despite improvements over the past few years, accessing clean water is a big challenge in rural India, says the article.
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