Archives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n GS 2<\/strong><\/p>\n India may stop oil imports from Iran<\/a><\/p>\n Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday said the country plans to increase imports from major oil producing nations other than Iran, indicating that it will be acceding to the U.S. plan to reduce Iran\u2019s oil exports to zero<\/p>\n Judges\u2019 panel to hear charges against CJI<\/a><\/p>\n A three-member committee of Supreme Court judges led by Justice S.A. Bobde, the No. 2 judge in the apex court, was formed on April 23 to look into allegations of sexual harassment raised by a former employee against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.<\/p>\n The permanence of Arab uprisings<\/a><\/p>\n Arab politics remains defiant. Eight years after protests swept through the Arab street toppling several dictators, anti-government demonstrations erupted in Sudan and Algeria (picture) in recent months.<\/p>\n In an oil slick: On Iran sanctions<\/a><\/p>\n Faced with the U.S.\u2019s intransigent demand that all countries put a full stop to oil imports from Iran or face sanctions, the Indian government has indicated it will \u2018zero out\u2019 oil imports after the May 2 deadline.<\/p>\n India\u2019s perilous obsession with Pakistan<\/a><\/p>\n The hyper-nationalistic frenzy to \u2018defeat\u2019 Pakistan comes with huge human and material costs<\/p>\n A natural next step<\/a><\/p>\n The deepening India-Australia security relationship must be seen against the backdrop of expanding bilateral ties<\/p>\n \u2018U.S. firm with India on Iran oil import curbs\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Negotiations between Indian and U.S. negotiators continued until mid-April, but the Trump administration made it clear that it would make no concessions on its demand that India \u201czero out\u201d oil imports from Iran, to which India acceded, sources privy to the talks confirmed.<\/p>\n GS 3<\/strong><\/p>\n Olive Ridley hatchlings make their way into sea<\/a><\/p>\n Having their origin at the Pacific and Indian oceans, the Olive Ridley turtles come to the shores of the Bay of Bengal only to lay their eggs between December and April every year.<\/p>\n \u2018Price controls hurting FDI in medical devices\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Blanket implementation of price controls has contributed to a drastic fall in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the medical device sector, say industry insiders, pointing to a reduction from $439 million in 2016 to $66 million in 2018.<\/p>\n The problem with cherry-picking data<\/a><\/p>\n The NSSO data (which have not been released officially) undermine the National Democratic Alliance government\u2019s claims on job creation. In fact, they showed massive unemployment.<\/p>\n Outer space lessons<\/a><\/p>\n In furthering its outer space ambitions, India must study the experiences of other space powers<\/p>\n India may send NIA team to assist in probe<\/a><\/p>\n The government may send a team of the National Investigation Agency to Sri Lanka in the aftermath of bomb blasts that claimed more than 300 lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Archives GS 2 India may stop oil imports from Iran Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday said the country plans to increase imports from major oil producing nations other than Iran, indicating that it will be acceding to the U.S. plan to reduce Iran\u2019s oil exports to zero Judges\u2019 panel to hear charges against CJI… Continue reading Must Read News Articles \u2013 April 24th, 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-46013","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":1704956218},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46013","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=46013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46013\/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=46013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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