Archives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n GS 2<\/strong><\/p>\n Bilateral ties not linked to India\u2019s stance on BRI: China<\/a><\/p>\n China on Friday said its ties with India had a \u201cbright future\u201d and they were preparing for a summit between their leaders as a follow-up to last year\u2019s two-day across-the board Wuhan informal summit between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n Meet between Afghan govt., Taliban postponed<\/a><\/p>\n Hopes for a breakthrough in a push to end Afghanistan\u2019s gruelling conflict suffered a major setback on Friday after a key summit between the Taliban and Afghan officials was indefinitely postponed.<\/p>\n Chemists and druggists are pass\u00e9; from now, all will be pharmacies<\/a><\/p>\n First coined in 1945, the words \u2018chemist\u2019 and \u2018druggist\u2019 are headed for a change, with the Union Health Ministry replacing them with \u2018pharmacy\u2019.<\/p>\n GS 3<\/strong><\/p>\n Ganga has higher proportion of antibacterial agents: study<\/a><\/p>\n A study commissioned by the Union Water Resources Ministry to probe the \u201cunique properties\u201d of the Ganga found that the river water contains a significantly higher proportion of organisms with antibacterial properties.<\/p>\n SC to hear petition to end write-offs<\/a><\/p>\n The Supreme Court will hear on Monday a petition to restrain banks from writing off non-performing assets.<\/p>\n Navy to take part in fleet review in China<\/a><\/p>\n The Indian Navy has sent two ships to take part in the International Fleet Review to be held in Qingdao, China, later this month as part of the 70th anniversary celebrations of the People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy. The ships are stealth destroyer INS Kolkata and fleet tanker INS Shakti.<\/p>\n Either way, the news is bad<\/a><\/p>\n The new IMF programme, the biggest Pakistan is expecting to receive, to be between $6-$10 bn, which is almost a certainty now, is going to make things far worse for all Pakistanis, and especially for the working people already dealing with prospects of a marked economic slowdown and high and rising inflation.<\/p>\n Humanise the law<\/a><\/p>\n A new law enacted should make a departure and be aimed to expand India\u2019s forests, and ensure the well-being of traditional forest-dwellers and biodiversity in these landscapes.<\/p>\n Gold imports dip 3% to $32.8 bn in FY19<\/a><\/p>\n The country\u2019s gold imports dipped about 3% in value terms to $32.8 billion during 2018-19, which trend is expected to keep a lid on the current account deficit.<\/p>\n BBB tags 75 officers for leadership roles in PSBs<\/a><\/p>\n From a pool of 450 senior management personnel across nationalised banks, an inaugural batch of about 75 personnel has been identified this year to help these banks take on the current and emerging challenges as well as help create a leadership pipeline, the Bureau said in its activity report for the October 2018-March 2019 period.<\/p>\n Cases of measles show alarming rise, warns WHO<\/a><\/p>\n The number of cases of measles \u2014 one of the world\u2019s most contagious diseases \u2014 is climbing, warned the World Health Organisation (WHO), stating that preliminary global data shows that reported cases rose by 300% in the first three months of 2019, compared to the same period in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Archives GS 2 Bilateral ties not linked to India\u2019s stance on BRI: China China on Friday said its ties with India had a \u201cbright future\u201d and they were preparing for a summit between their leaders as a follow-up to last year\u2019s two-day across-the board Wuhan informal summit between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra… Continue reading Must Read News Articles \u2013 April 20th, 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-45809","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":1704676128},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45809","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=45809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45809\/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=45809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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