{"id":23930,"date":"2018-08-07T08:49:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T03:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=23930"},"modified":"2018-08-07T08:49:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T03:19:19","slug":"must-read-news-articles-august-7-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/must-read-news-articles-august-7-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Read News Articles \u2013 August 7, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/mustread\/\">Archives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/academy.forumias.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Upcoming-Current-Affairs-1000-x-150-20-8-18.jpg?resize=750%2C135\" alt=\"Upcoming Current Affairs &amp; Essay Test Series\" width=\"750\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GS 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/thirty-years-after-the-8888-uprising\/article24618729.ece\">Thirty years after the 8888 uprising<\/a><\/p>\n<p>August 8 marks the 30th anniversary of the people\u2019s uprising in Myanmar. The \u20188888\u2019 uprising (or the eighth day of August 1988) is one of Myanmar\u2019s most important historic days in the context of the pro-democracy movement<\/p>\n<p><strong>GS 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/three-northeastern-states-emerge-as-new-hiv-hotspots\/article24617908.ece\">Three northeastern States emerge as new HIV hotspots<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Health Ministry attributes rise of incidence in Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura to injecting drug users and unsafe sexual practices<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/rebooting-the-system-for-a-skills-upgrade\/article24617710.ece\">Rebooting the system for a skills upgrade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Somaiya committee report is scathing in its tone and specific in details. It outlines instances of responsibility outsourcing, no oversight, connivance and an ownership tussle between the Central and State governments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/our-privacys-worth-a-response-to-some-criticism-of-the-srikrishna-committee-report\/article24617379.ece\">Our privacy\u2019s worth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Srikrishna Committee report and Bill are not perfect outcomes of a perfect process. However, they are honest attempts to provide rational solutions to real problems in an incredibly complicated and contested area of policymaking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/the-economics-of-tax-havens\/article24618733.ece\">The economics of tax havens<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Organisations like Oxfam have often characterised tax havens as \u201canti-poor\u201d since they help the rich avoid paying taxes to governments. Several governments have also come together to crack down on tax havens, for only a collective effort can help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives GS 2 Thirty years after the 8888 uprising August 8 marks the 30th anniversary of the people\u2019s uprising in Myanmar. The \u20188888\u2019 uprising (or the eighth day of August 1988) is one of Myanmar\u2019s most important historic days in the context of the pro-democracy movement GS 3 Three northeastern States emerge as new HIV&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/must-read-news-articles-august-7-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Must Read News Articles \u2013 August 7, 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-must-read-news-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/newspaper.jpg?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704661931},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}