What you should be reading from today’s news paper..

The Hindu

National

Make train services viable: panel
Using culture to hegemonise people
Rs. 1,500-cr. nuclear insurance pool set up – The Union government has launched an insurance pool of Rs. 1,500 crore, mandatory under the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act to offset the financial burden on foreign nuclear suppliers in case of an accident
How labelling cooked Maggi’s goose –

Key Points:

Maggi noodles sold in India contain hydrolysed groundnut protein, onion powder and wheat flour, all of which contain glutamate.
MSG is a sodium salt of glutamate.
The glutamate in MSG is chemically indistinguishable from glutamate present in food proteins
Issue is food with any ingredient that naturally contain MSG, can’t be labeled as “No MSG added” on their packet. So the real issue is about “Mislabeling”.

Congressional hearing on child ‘abductions’ to India -Key Points:
The 2015 report identifies India as a nation that is not a signatory to the 1980 Hague Convention on International Child Abduction and has no bilateral or other procedures with the U.S. to “resolve abductions.
Now, China seeks maritime deal with Dhaka –
‘Hot pursuit’ is kosher, says Israel envoy

food for thought

Celebrating quiet enterprise – How Entrepreneurship is Revolutionizing the World’s Largest Democracy.
Full of skewed views

Fifth Column: Lessons from yoga – Religious studies can be a subject in schools and colleges but religion cannot define Indian civilisation.
History in the making: the GST Bill – – GST would be most important structural transformation of the indirect tax system
From the Lab: Building barriers to shield organic electronic devices – Electronic devices made of ductile organic polymers are the future — but they need a robust moisture barrier to deliver results.

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