{"id":2647,"date":"2017-06-23T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T03:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2017-07-05T14:13:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T08:43:21","slug":"must-read-news-articles-june-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/must-read-news-articles-june-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Read News Articles \u2013 June 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archives<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n

GS 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

Social issues<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Is prohibition the answer?<\/a>: (The Hindu, Editorial)<\/p>\n

Whether or not people can drink is a debate fuelled by upper-caste hypocrisy, a mix of religious guilt and bigotry.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
\n

\u00a0<\/strong>GS 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

Effects of developed and developing countries policies<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

India flags U.S. military aid to Pakistan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Agenda set for Prime Minister Modi\u2019s first meeting with President Donald Trump later this week.<\/p>\n

Government policies<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Debunking myths about the cattle rules<\/a>:\u00a0(The Hindu, Editorial)<\/p>\n

The new rules governing cattle markets only attempt to prevent cruelty.<\/p>\n

Inclusion in the Backward Classes list<\/a>:\u00a0(The Hindu, Editorial)<\/p>\n

A widely welcomed move to grant constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) has also brought with it a whiff of controversy over whether it amounts to encroaching on the domain of the States. The Lok Sabha passed the Constitution (123rd Amendment) Bill, 2017, in April.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

GS 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

Security<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

NATGRID can soon access PAN, I-T records<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Centre has empowered the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID), the integrated mechanism to keep track of security-related data, to access the Income Tax department\u2019s records on individual taxpayers as well as PAN card holders.<\/p>\n

Indian Economy. Planning, Growth and Employment<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The clean-up begins<\/a>:\u00a0(The Hindu, Editorial)<\/p>\n

But will the RBI\u2019s move for insolvency proceedings against borrowers succeed?<\/p>\n

Issues related to subsidies<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Are farm loan waivers really so bad?<\/a>:\u00a0(Live Mint, Editorial)<\/p>\n

The Centre and states need to work together to evolve a farm loan model which protects both farmers and banks without bringing politics into it.<\/p>\n

External state and non-state actors in internal security<\/strong><\/p>\n

Missing a strategic\u00a0culture<\/a>:\u00a0(Indian Express, Editorial)<\/p>\n

External threats to India\u2019s security persist but more worrisome are vulnerabilities on new fronts. When memory and experience are missing, knee-jerk reactions and ad-hoc decision-making follow<\/p>\n

\n

Prelims Related News<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

A law, this time for Antarctica<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Preparing for a populous future in which Antarctica \u2014 the world\u2019s only continent without countries and citizens\u2014may see more tourists, over-exploited fisheries, disputes and crime, India is drafting a dedicated Antarctica policy.<\/p>\n

ISRO plans complex manoeuvres<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The engines in the fourth stage will be reignited three times, in a bid to master the technique that will enable ISRO to inject satellites into different orbits in a single launch.<\/p>\n

\n

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

Archives GS 1 Social issues Is prohibition the answer?: (The Hindu, Editorial) Whether or not people can drink is a debate fuelled by upper-caste hypocrisy, a mix of religious guilt and bigotry. \u00a0GS 2 Effects of developed and developing countries policies India flags U.S. military aid to Pakistan: Agenda set for Prime Minister Modi\u2019s first… Continue reading Must Read News Articles \u2013 June 23<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2647","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":1704913654},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647","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=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/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=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}