Archives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n GS 2<\/strong><\/p>\n SC increases VVPAT verification<\/a><\/p>\n The Supreme Court on Monday increased voter-verified paper audit trial (VVPAT) verification to five random Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in each Assembly segment\/constituency.<\/p>\n Open up the Supreme Court<\/a><\/p>\n A judiciary confident of its place in a democratic republic must not worry about public scrutiny of judicial appointments<\/p>\n Playing politics over the Golan Heights<\/a><\/p>\n U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty is a challenge to the rules-based international order<\/p>\n Maldivian wave<\/a><\/p>\n The administration of Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has received a shot in the arm with the parliamentary election held over the weekend. His Maldivian Democratic Party is poised to garner more than 60 out of 87 seats, paving the way for easy passage of bills and a policy agenda with a realistic chance of implementation.<\/p>\n \u2018India-Maldives relations have never been better\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n For Maldivians, the election of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih in September 2018 meant a possible opening up of democratic space in the country, after former President Abdulla Yameen\u2019s term, which was marked by an authoritarian slant.<\/p>\n Crorepatis in Parliament<\/a><\/p>\n According to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), 430 out of the 521 sitting MPs in the Lok Sabha have assets worth more than \u20b91 crore.<\/p>\n U.S. designates Iran\u2019s elite military unit as a \u2018terrorist organisation\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n President Donald Trump on Monday announced the United States is designating Iran\u2019s elite military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a terrorist organisation.<\/p>\n GS 3<\/strong><\/p>\n IIT-Madras tops Centre\u2019s higher education rankings<\/a><\/p>\n The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-Madras) has topped the Centre\u2019s ranking of higher education institutions, followed by the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and IIT-Delhi.<\/p>\n Army gets Dhanush artillery guns<\/a><\/p>\n The Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) on Monday handed over the first batch of six Dhanush artillery guns to the Army. Dhanush is the indigenously upgraded gun of the Swedish Bofors gun procured in the 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Archives GS 2 SC increases VVPAT verification The Supreme Court on Monday increased voter-verified paper audit trial (VVPAT) verification to five random Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in each Assembly segment\/constituency. Open up the Supreme Court A judiciary confident of its place in a democratic republic must not worry about public scrutiny of judicial appointments Playing… Continue reading Must Read News Articles \u2013 April 9th, 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-44763","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":1704845194},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44763","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=44763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44763\/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=44763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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