Archives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n GS 2<\/strong><\/p>\n The road to peace runs through Tehran<\/a><\/p>\n Iran is not a newcomer to regional diplomacy in Afghanistan. First and foremost, India should try to dissuade the U.S. from dealing with Iran, Russia and China as enemies.<\/p>\n Irking the Dragon<\/a><\/p>\n By walking out of the INF treaty, the U.S. may have dragged China and Russia into a new arms race<\/p>\n GS 3<\/strong><\/p>\n Growth prop: On RBI repo rate cut<\/a><\/p>\n RBI\u2019s monetary policy committee unanimously opt to revert to a \u2018neutral\u2019 posture, but the rate-setting panel unexpectedly decided, by a 4-2 majority, to cut the benchmark repo rate by 25 basis points, to 6.25%.<\/p>\n Only 50% of PAN linked to Aadhaar<\/a><\/p>\n According to Section 139AA of the Income Tax Act, inserted in 2017, not only is PAN mandatory for filing income tax returns but it is also mandatory for applying for a PAN card, which means that going ahead, all new PAN cards issued will automatically be linked to Aadhaar.<\/p>\n NGOs call for funds to eliminate TB<\/a><\/p>\n Non-governmental organisations (NGO) working to eliminate\u00a0tuberculosis\u00a0have urged the government to ensure that the National Strategic Plan for 2017-2025 is fully funded and effectively implemented to eliminate tuberculosis.<\/p>\n Governing India\u2019s many spaces<\/a><\/p>\n These are the indices of the \u2018Ease of Doing Business\u2019 (EDB), \u2018Human Development\u2019 (HDI) and \u2018Environmental Performance\u2019 (EPI). They are self-explanatory, and their importance unlikely to be contested, even though they may not exhaust all concerns.<\/p>\n Will the \u20b96,000 farmer payout help?<\/a><\/p>\n The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme, announced in the Interim Budget, is the biggest scheme launched by the Government of India till date for providing structured support to small and marginal farmers.<\/p>\n Taxpayers, MPs, MLAs can\u2019t avail farm income support<\/a><\/p>\n Income Tax assessees and sitting or former Members of Parliament or State legislatures are among those who have been excluded from the scope of the Centre\u2019s scheme of income support for farmers, which was announced in the Union budget last week.<\/p>\n \u2018No proposal to modify February 12 circular\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Decision to remove 3 banks from PCA after considering capital infusion by Centre, says RBI Governor<\/p>\n PT FACTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Rail tunnel for Vizhinjam port connectivity<\/a><\/p>\n A 10.7-km railway line, including a 9.02-km tunnel, has been proposed to connect the upcoming Vizhinjam International Multipurpose Deepwater Seaport to the railway network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Archives GS 2 The road to peace runs through Tehran Iran is not a newcomer to regional diplomacy in Afghanistan. First and foremost, India should try to dissuade the U.S. from dealing with Iran, Russia and China as enemies. Irking the Dragon By walking out of the INF treaty, the U.S. may have dragged China… Continue reading Must Read News Articles \u2013 February 8th, 2019<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-must-read-news-articles","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":1704914851},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41752","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=41752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41752\/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=41752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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