Archives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n GS 2<\/strong><\/p>\n IAF plane shot down, pilot taken captive by Pak. army<\/a><\/p>\n An Indian pilot was captured by Pakistan after a major aerial confrontation and chase between Pakistan Air Force planes, which dropped bombs in four locations of Jammu and Kashmir, and Indian Air Force jets that countered them over the Line of Control (LoC).<\/p>\n Sushma says India\u2019s air strike was pre-emptive<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIn the light of continued refusal of Pakistan to acknowledge and act against terror groups on its territory and based on credible information that JeM is planning other attacks in various parts of India, the Government of India has decided to take pre-emptive action. The target was selected in order to avoid civilian casualties,\u201d Ms. Swaraj said at the plenary foreign ministerial meeting of the Russia-India-China (RIC) grouping.<\/p>\n Imran calls for talks<\/a><\/p>\n Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday called for talks with India to defuse tensions between the two countries and offered cooperation in investigation into the February 14 Pulwama terror attack.<\/p>\n Calming Arunachal<\/a><\/p>\n Arunachal Pradesh has otherwise remained a peaceful State, and it is incumbent on the government and the polity to foster a civic consciousness that allows equality of opportunity for all residents in the State.<\/p>\n The vexatious question of Masood Azhar<\/a><\/p>\n The UN Security Council adopted a statement on February 21 condemning the Pulwama terrorist attack of February 14, for which the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) took responsibility. India is applauding this development and it should. A lot of diplomatic effort had gone into achieving this result. But this statement should be looked at with a proper perspective.<\/p>\n Manufacturing unanimity<\/a><\/p>\n United Andhra Pradesh and now Telangana are not the only ones encouraging this practice. In Gujarat, there was a scheme which began in 1992 that provided incentives for unanimous elections. It was revised and named Samaras-Yojana.<\/p>\n Regulating drug prices<\/a><\/p>\n The DPCO controls the prices of all essential medicines by fixing ceiling prices, limiting the highest prices companies can charge. The National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) is drawn up to include essential medicines that satisfy the priority health needs of the population.<\/p>\n China offers tacit support to India<\/a><\/p>\n China\u2019s deft balancing act became visible during comments by Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi during the course of RIC Foreign Ministers meet in Wuzhen town.<\/p>\n U.K. calls for diplomatic solutions<\/a><\/p>\n Foreign Office Minister urges India and Pakistan to de-escalate tension in region<\/p>\n President Buhari wins 2nd term<\/a><\/p>\n Muhammadu Buhari was on Wednesday re-elected Nigeria\u2019s President after a delayed poll that angered voters and raised political temperatures, but the Opposition immediately vowed to challenge the \u201csham\u201d result in court.<\/p>\n GS 3<\/strong><\/p>\n A.P. gets new South Coast Railway zone<\/a><\/p>\n The Centre on Wednesday announced the creation of a separate railway zone in Andhra Pradesh \u2014 a long pending demand of the ruling NDA\u2019s erstwhile ally, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP).<\/p>\n Modify forest dwellers\u2019 eviction order: Centre<\/a><\/p>\n The Centre and the State of Gujarat filed applications on Wednesday urging the Supreme Court to modify its February 13 order directing the eviction of thousands of Scheduled Tribes (STs) and other traditional forest dwellers whose claims for forest land rights have been rejected under the Forest Rights Act of 2006.<\/p>\n Special purpose vehicle to improve infrastructure in Sabarimala<\/a><\/p>\n The government is setting up a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to improve infrastructure and pilgrim facilities under the Sabarimala master plan. The Cabinet which met here on Wednesday decided to set up the company as a government-owned entity to improve the facilities at Sabarimala, Pampa, Nilackal and transit camps for pilgrims.<\/p>\n Tailing a virus<\/a><\/p>\n It is a time of peace and quiet for India on the Zika front. Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, which saw large outbreaks late last year, stopped seeing new cases before the year end.<\/p>\n A patchwork approach to GST problems<\/a><\/p>\n It has the best intentions, but the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council is nevertheless systematically eroding the strongest features of the new tax regime \u2014 simplicity and transparency.<\/p>\n \u2018RBI pay norms may make private bank CEOs more accountable\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n The norms proposed by the RBI for compensation of chief executives and board members of private sector banks has been viewed as an effort to improve transparency and accountability of the banking system.<\/p>\n Centre brings 42 non-scheduled cancer drugs under price control<\/a><\/p>\n The government said on Wednesday it has brought 42 non-scheduled anti-cancer drugs under price control, capping trade margin at 30 per cent, which would reduce their retail prices by up to 85 per cent.<\/p>\n China to act against rogue scientists<\/a><\/p>\n China has drafted new rules to supervise biotechnology research, with fines and bans against rogue scientists after a Chinese researcher caused a global outcry by claiming that he gene-edited babies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Archives GS 2 IAF plane shot down, pilot taken captive by Pak. army An Indian pilot was captured by Pakistan after a major aerial confrontation and chase between Pakistan Air Force planes, which dropped bombs in four locations of Jammu and Kashmir, and Indian Air Force jets that countered them over the Line of Control… Continue reading Must Read News Articles \u2013 February 28th, 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":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42517","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":1700783335,"cached_date":1704659925},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42517","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=42517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42517\/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=42517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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