Newspaper Must Read Articles of The Day– 15 September 2015

The Hindu

National

• U.N. adopts text-based negotiations on council reforms – The U.N. General Assembly on Monday adopted a negotiating text by consensus for the long- pending Security Council reforms, boosting India’s bid for a permanent seat in the revamped world body.

• India yet to achieve U.N. Millennium Development Goals(MDG) – MDG which are set to expire at the year end, sees not much progress in India especially in maternal mortality and child mortality. In indices where India claims to be doing well the burden continues to be high in absolute number terms.

International

• U.N. report on Sri Lanka to be made public tomorrow – The much-awaited report of the UN on the alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka; prepared by Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Investigation on Sri Lanka, is a result of a resolution adopted in March 2014 in the UNHRC.

• Nepal stays secular, rejects plan to make nation Hindu – Nepal’s Constituent Assembly rejected calls to revert the Himalayan nation to a Hindu state during voting on Monday on a draft of the country’s new Constitution

Business

• Centre imposes 20 per cent safeguard duty on select steel products – The Centre on Monday imposed provisional safeguard duty on import of certain categories of steel with a view to protect domestic producers from recent surge in inward shipment.

Opinion-Editorial

• The comprehensive healthcare alternative – The article moots the idea of building healthcare design which is specific to state to address state specific problems rather than having one size fit all approach. The article looks into health and staffing issue in the country.

• Bridging the trust deficit – The editorial looks into challenges posed to Sri Lankan due to war with LTTE and change in regime. It also looks into issue which has been core (fishing issue) of trust deficit between India and Sri Lanka.

LiveMint

• Creative inventors need creative capital – The article looks into the funding challenges in India for a business. It also goes on to talk about how innovation is related to creative investment; where India lacks majorly. The article also looks into how investment in India tends to imitate the west; even though our goals and interests are different.

• Will India be collateral damage in a proxy war? – The article looks into how the e-commerce war between China and United States has benefited India.

• Cryopreservation: a glimmer of hope for cancer patients – Cancer can lead to infertility or chances of miscarry among women and former in the men. Cryopreservation seems to be a technology available to freeze eggs to be used later when such patients desire child.