Times Spark Article List for Scholarship Exam: Final Exam on January 7, 2018, 5PM
*** First published on Sep 5 ***
The Times Spark competition has received very good response with over 2 Lakh school children registering from across India.
In the next stage of this competition, Times of India will publish an article every day, starting September 5th, for 90 days.
The Scholarship Exam will be based on these articles.
To help students prepare for the test, we are posting the relevant article links date-wise on this page. We will attempt to regularly update this page.
Note: The sequence of articles may vary in different editions of TOI and some editions may not available on the days following local Festival/Holidays. We check a few editions before publishing but follow the sequence of one city’s editions to avoid confusion. But for the final exam preparation, the sequence doesn’t matter.
Wishing students all the best!
Date: September 5, 2017
Big Tragedy, Empty Rhetoric
Date: September 6, 2017
How the clause on a Uniform Civil Code was rendered toothless
Date: September 7, 2017
Balance Sheet Of Indian Families A Matter Of Life And Debt
Date: September 8, 2017
Aging population to hit Asia growth
Date: September 9, 2017
To break up monopolies in the digital era, antitrust legislation should ensure data portability from sites such as Facebook
Date: September 10, 2017
Now, chaiwallahs come from IIT & Harvard
Date: September 11, 2017
Q&A – `Depth in men’s badminton has been much greater than in women’s side … Sindhu and Saina competing is very good
Date: September 12, 2017
RAFA RESURGENCE!
Date: September 13, 2017
Q&A – `Price of electricity from renewables will be same as from coal by 2025 … unfortunate that coal cess went to GST’
Date: September 14, 2017
Indians flock to Asian havens to park wealth
Date: September 15, 2017
Q&A – ‘Aung San Suu Kyi is no longer a peace campaigner … it is cowardice and moral bankruptcy on Rohingyas’
Date: September 16, 2017
Robots can create, not eliminate, jobs says UN report
Date: September 17, 2017
How China is cashing in on bitcoin farms
Date: September 18, 2017
Preventing The Next Crash
Date: September 19, 2017
Snow leopard now no longer endangered.
Date: September 20, 2017
Man who saved the world from nuke war dead
Date: September 21, 2017
Now, scientists `colour’ butterfly’s wings
Date: September 22, 2017
Now, Mueller turns lens on Trump’s decisions as prez
Date: September 23, 2017
`That Chakma numbers is 100,000 is Goebbels-speak’
Date: September 24, 2017
Chinese robot has just done world’s first dental surgery
Date: September 25, 2017
India has no formal definition of refugees but 3 Acts deal with them
Date: September 26, 2017
Battery revolution that will power e-cars
Date: September 27, 2017
Fears of Bali volcano spark exodus of 75,000
Date: September 28, 2017
Why does everyone hate journalists? By attacking them, we undermine our own freedoms
Date: September 29, 2017
Death of newborns is due to low birth weight on rise: Lancet study
Date: September 30, 2017
Elphinstone station tragedy: Let’s stop being tolerant of sub-optimal lives and broken city-systems
Date: October 1, 2017
No paper on account of Dusshera
Date: October 2, 2017
Defiant Catalans vote on split from Spain despite crackdown
Date: October 3, 2017
MED NOBEL FOR DECODING BODY CLOCK
Date: October 4, 2017
‘Einstein Waves’ fetch US trio Physics Nobel
Date: October 5, 2017
2017 CHEMISTRY NOBEL FOR PEERING INTO LIFE’S DEEPEST DETAILS
Date: October 6, 2017
Remains Of The Day: Nobel for Ishiguro
Date: October 7, 2017
Peace Nobel for group fighting to rid world of nuclear arms
Date: October 8, 2017
To mark their god’s 75th b’day, these devotees will recite Amitabh chalisa
Date: October 9, 2017
Q&A – `India can help the world eliminate TB … India playing a huge part in global health club by producing drugs and vaccines’
Date: October 10, 2017
Nobel Prize for `Nudge’ economist Richard Thaler
Date: October 11, 2017
Day of the Girl Child progress report: India has moved forward in empowering girls but still lags much of the world
Date: October 12, 2017
US flies bombers over Korea as Trump discusses options
Date: October 13, 2017
WILL RAIN DANCE RUIN T20 BASH?
Date: October 14, 2017
Satyarthi’s classroom bags Guinness record
Date: October 15, 2017
MEET THE REBEL BRIDES
Date: October 16, 2017
Why We Need Living Wills
Date: October 17, 2017
Scientists now connect gravitational waves & gamma rays to neutron stars
Date: October 18, 2017
How Mighty Xi Is Set to Get Mightier
Date: October 19, 2017
George Saunders wins Booker for his first novel
Date: October 20, 2017
No paper on account of Diwali
Date: October 21, 2017
Enter the dragon: With the coronation of Xi at China’s 19th Party Congress, a Leviathan is born
Date: October 22, 2017
Date: October 23 2017
At its peak, IS was a $1 bn economy, held area the size of Tamil Nadu
Note: The TOI epaper site is under maintenance, therefore we are facing difficulty in posting the original article links
Date: October 24 2017
Agra Vs Ayodhya For 2019
Date: October 25, 2017
US medical device makers call for trade action against India
Date: October 26, 2017
Russia’s favoured outlet is an online news giant. YouTube helped
Date: October 27, 2017
Q&A – `Sooner or later world will see a nuclear detonation … concept of nuclear deterrence rests on dangerous logic’
Date: October 28, 2017
Cracking The GST Puzzle
Date: October 29, 2017
*** Article not available ***
Date: October 30, 2017
INFRASOUND: Silent Health Hazard
Date: October 31, 2017
Hamilton’s gift curses him to be underrated champ
Date: November 1, 2017
Q&A – `There is nothing like a stone pelter … discussion will take place with everyone who wants peace in the valley’
Date: November 2, 2017
NEW LINES, BUT INDIA STILL HOME TO BIGGEST CHUNK OF GLOBAL POOR
Date: November 3, 2017
Not `fake news’: Term becomes word of year
Date: November 4, 2017
Taj Mahal: History Or Heritage?
Date: November 5, 2017
Meet India’s IPL-style e-sportsmen
Date: November 6, 2017
LEARNING WITH THE TIMES – Is global nuclear imbalance the reason why Kim Jong-un has gone rogue?
Date: November 7, 2017
TROUBLED WATERS – Trump’s commerce secy linked to energy firm led by Putin `cronies’
(TOI Epaper link is unavailable, hence published the link from Economic Times)
Date: November 8, 2017
Air Force error allowed Texas church shooter to buy guns
Date: November 9, 2017
First openly transgender person in state House
Date: November 10, 2017
Q&T – `Indians have a tough mindset like foreign players, aim to beat the best … we will get wins in badminton’
Date: November 11, 2017
Date: November 12, 2017
MEAT FROM THE LAB AND MINING ON ASTEROIDS
Date: November 13, 2017
The global footprint of air pollution: Is the worst over for India?
Date: November 14, 2017
Trump, Duterte bond at summit; US says rights mentioned briefly
Date: November 15, 2017
Lifestyle diseases biggest killer even in most backward states
Clarification issued by TOI on Nov 15th Article
Date: November 16, 2017
Date: November 17, 2017
Peru Beat New Zealand For Final World Cup Berth
Date: November 18, 2017
Stop the air assault on north India: End to crop burning is achievable and farmers can lead the way
Date: November 19, 2017
Public anger making way for tough rules on pvt healthcare
Date: November 20, 2017
Why criminal act is not the same as criminal liability
Date: November 21, 2017
Date: November 22, 2017
US’ FCC plans to kill net neutrality rules
Date: November 23, 2017
‘Butcher of Bosnia’ found guilty of genocide
Date: November 24, 2017
FB to show users if they fell for Russian propaganda
Date: November 25, 2017
A caravan of mothers sets out in search of missing kin
Date: November 26, 2017
Date: November 27, 2017
How dreadful, or benign, is film certification in India
Date: November 28, 2017
Date: November 29, 2017
Date: November 30, 2017
Saudi prince freed after $1bn deal
Date: December 1, 2017
Winter’s coming, but more cities see improvement in air quality: CPCB
Date: December 2, 2017
Date: December 3, 2017
Indian Scrabble stars are winning the war of words
Date: December 4, 2017
The ABC of missile race
The last of the Times Spark articles has been published on Dec 4. There will be no more articles in this series.
Updates on Times Spark Exam:
- The first mock test was held from Oct 7- Oct 10 at www.timesspark.com.
- Video with tips to prepare is posted on this page.
- The second mock test was on Nov 19 at 11 AM.
- The third mock test will be held on Dec 3. Students can attempt it at any time.
- Final Scholarship Exam is on
January 7, 2018, 5PM.
For details about Times Spark exam pattern and dates, visit this page.