Background: India-Pakistan relations, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), Kashmir issue, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Day: August 13, 2016
NSG door not shut on India: Chinese media
Background: India-China relations, Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), South China Sea issue.
Pakistani agency warns of Taliban attack on border
Background: India-Pakistan relations, Terrorism, Taliban, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Pakistan’s National Counter-Terrorism Authority.
Sri Lanka’s missing persons bill hailed by West
Background: Sri Lanka’s Bill on Office on Missing Persons, Sri Lanka’s human rights issue, Reconciliation process, UNHRC.
The crisis over Crimea
Background: Russia-Ukraine relations, Crimea conflict, Terrorism, Islamic State (IS), Syrian civil war.
SC pulls up Centre for sitting on Collegium list
Background: Memorandum of Procedure (MoP), Collegium system, Supreme Court, High Court, Chief Justice of India, Attorney-General.
A new deal for mental health
Background: Mental Health Care Bill 2016, Mental Health Act 1987, Indian Penal Code, Health care system in India.
LPG subsidy savings largely due to falling oil prices: CAG
Background: Pratyaksh Hanstantrit Labh (PAHAL) scheme, Give it UP campaign, Comptroller and Auditor-General of India (CAG).