Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. Russian world champion swimmer Yulia Efimova, who tested positive for meldonium, has had a temporary suspension lifted pending a final ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
2. Mount Chimborazo claims Mount Everest's title as world's highest mountain. When measuring from the equator, Chimborazo rises the highest at about 3,967 miles, according to researchers who have taken GPS measurements from the summit. Everest by comparison does not even make the cut for the Earth's top 20 highest mountains, at 3,965 miles from the planet's centre.
3. Pooja Rani advances to last-16 of Womens World Boxing C'ships
4. Samsung Electronics agreed with Alibaba’s financial-services affiliate to cooperate on mobile payments
5. [Discuss]Emerging solutions to the water challenges of an urbanizing world.
6. The Deesan Textile Park.
7. NASA’s Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams (Micro-g NExT) program.
8. Neuroendocrine Tumors (NETs)
9. Total Gastrectomy (removal of the stomach)
10. Role of human ATP4a gene in the gastric acid secretion regulation.