FRONT PAGE Centre proposes to hike pensions NATIONAL Pak. shares draft pact on Kartarpur Corridor ‘Plastic waste imports to India go up’ Protest against proposed bird sanctuary in Manipur ‘Bihar outgrew others in FY18 GDP’ Plastic waste imports to India go up: report INTERNATIONAL ‘Taliban-U.S. meeting took place in Qatar’ OPINION The ambiguity of reservations for the poor Why EVMs must go The fault lines of diplomatic recrimination Justice delayed is markets stymied Summit 2.0 Death by design ‘Please read my story’ Specialists from Bombay examine C.M. BUSSINESS Indian economy poised to pick up in 2019, says IMF New player entry in retail payments may get easier LIFE 19 amphibian species are critically endangered: ZSI list Climate ‘time bomb’ for groundwater is ticking