# INTERNATIONAL RELATION
- First policy shift in 16 yrs: India opens to foreign aid, ok to buying from China pg – 01
# POLITY & GOVERNANCE
- District-level plants push Chhattisgarh oxygen-surplus story pg – 05
# ECONOMY
- States implementing key institutional reforms can borrow 1.06 lakh cr more pg – 10
- Domestic institutions prop up mkts, replace FPIs as new bulls pg – 10
- CEA: India only country to bring seminal changes to the way we think about economy pg – 10
# EXPLAINED
- Govt leverage in vaccine pricing (Polity & Governance) pg – 11
- Major seismic hazard along Assam Faultline (Geography) pg – 11
- A single dose of Oxford and Pfizer vaccines cuts transmission rate by half (Science and Technology) pg – 11
# GEOGRAPHY
- Melting glaciers threaten China plan for dam over Brahmaputra pg – 13
# ARTICLES OF THE DAY
- Vaccinate all for free (Polity & Governance) pg – 08
- The dirty truth (Social Issues) pg – 08
- Crisis as teacher (Polity & Governance) pg – 09
- Saviours or super-spreaders (Polity & Governance) pg – 09
- A reality check with the US (International Relation) pg – 09
# EDITORIAL OF THE DAY
- New Delhi (Polity & Governance) pg – 08