Archives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n GS 2 <\/strong><\/p>\n Navtej Johar, a verdict for all times<\/a><\/p>\n Trapped in a frozen political process amidst heightened public passions, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was out of sync with contemporary values on gender orientation.<\/p>\n \u2018No agency has licence to snoop\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n The Central government has not given \u2018blanket power\u2019 to any agency to intercept information from any computer, a senior Home Ministry official has said.<\/p>\n Pak. beefing up border armoury<\/a><\/p>\n Pakistan has drawn up an ambitious plan to procure close to 600 battle tanks, including T-90 tanks from Russia, primarily to bolster its military might along the border with India, intelligence sources said on Sunday.<\/p>\n GS 3<\/strong><\/p>\n HIV reality check<\/a><\/p>\n Studies show that blood banks in India have a success rate of less than 50% in contacting donors who have tested positive for transfusion-transmissible infections.<\/p>\n Lifelines beyond farm loan waivers<\/a><\/p>\n A farm loan waiver was among the first steps taken by the three new governments in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, and has understandably set off a debate about its usefulness.<\/p>\n Plan before making a bid<\/a><\/p>\n The Indian Olympic Association must consider several issues if it wishes to host the 2032 Olympic Games<\/p>\n Hard lesson: funds not enough to attract teachers to government schools<\/a><\/p>\n This despite States increasing their budgets for school education in the past three years, says a study conducted across six States by two NGOs<\/p>\n Of financial debacles and rating agency models<\/a><\/p>\n The spotlight is on credit rating agencies (CRAs) once again, this time triggered by the crisis at, and default by, Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (ILFS). In this, the \u2018issuer pays\u2019 business model of CRAs seems to have borne the brunt of criticism.<\/p>\n PT FACTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Veteran filmmaker Mrinal Sen dead<\/a><\/p>\n Mrinal Sen, one of the towering figures of Indian cinema, passed away on Sunday at his south Kolkata residence. He was suffering from ailments related to old age. He was 95.<\/p>\n Pradhan launches sanitary pad-making initiative<\/a><\/p>\n The Ujjwala Sanitary Napkins initiative by three oil marketing companies \u2013 IOCL, BPCL and HPCL \u2013 was launched by Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan here on Sunday.<\/p>\n The return of the native rice variety<\/a><\/p>\n Having developed an interest in native varieties \u2014 specifically, ones that grow without the use of fertilizers \u2014 he went on a quest for almost a year looking for such paddy varieties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Archives GS 2 Navtej Johar, a verdict for all times Trapped in a frozen political process amidst heightened public passions, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was out of sync with contemporary values on gender orientation. \u2018No agency has licence to snoop\u2019 The Central government has not given \u2018blanket power\u2019 to any agency… Continue reading Must Read News Articles \u2013 December 31st, 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-39643","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":1704918227},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39643","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=39643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39643\/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=39643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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