{"id":24145,"date":"2018-08-12T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T06:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=24145"},"modified":"2018-08-12T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T06:14:19","slug":"must-read-news-articles-august-12-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/must-read-news-articles-august-12-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Read News Articles \u2013 August 12, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shashi Tharoor gives Doklam report to Sushma Swaraj<\/a><\/p>\n

Chairman of the Standing Committee on External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Friday met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to resolve the stand-off over the panel\u2019s report on the Doklam crisis.<\/p>\n

Tight-fisted neighbour? Indian aid to SAARC nations falls<\/a><\/p>\n

Going by government data, assistance fell from \u20b95,928.6 crore for 2013-14 to \u20b93,483.6 crore for 2017-18; but Maldives has been an outlier, despite the dip in ties<\/p>\n

North Karnataka, reeling under neglect<\/a><\/p>\n

Thirteen districts of north Karnataka recently raised a fresh cry for a separate State, pointing out that Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy\u2019s budgetary allocations favoured only the southern districts.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Ban on e-cigarettes to reduce safer choices for smokers\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

The Council for Harm Reduced Alternatives (CHRA), a national tobacco harm reduction organisation, and the Association of Vapers India (AVI), an advocacy group that represents e-cigarette users, have warned the Central and State governments about the consequences of banning e-cigarettes.<\/p>\n

Genetic \u2018barcodes\u2019 reveal three frogs unreported in India<\/a><\/p>\n

Barcodes are not used in supermarkets alone. Each species can be recognised by its unique genetic \u2018barcode\u2019 and using this method, a team of scientists has identified three frog species not recorded in India before.<\/p>\n

Centre to spend \u20b910,000 crore on Northeast<\/a><\/p>\n

Over 400 projects to be implemented; 8,621 unconnected villages in the region to get special attention<\/p>\n

Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe\u2019s new hope<\/a><\/p>\n

Zimbabwe\u2019s newly elected President, Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa of the Zanu-PF party, has seldom shrunk from the rough and tumble of realpolitik.<\/p>\n

Why are the Marathas so restive?<\/a><\/p>\n

Maratha Reservation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archives GS 2 Shashi Tharoor gives Doklam report to Sushma Swaraj Chairman of the Standing Committee on External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Friday met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to resolve the stand-off over the panel\u2019s report on the Doklam crisis. Tight-fisted neighbour? Indian aid to SAARC nations falls Going by government data, assistance fell… Continue reading Must Read News Articles \u2013 August 12, 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-24145","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":1704140950},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24145","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=24145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24145\/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=24145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}