{"id":46585,"date":"2019-05-04T10:51:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T05:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=46585"},"modified":"2019-05-04T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T05:21:12","slug":"must-read-news-articles-may-4th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/must-read-news-articles-may-4th-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Read News Articles \u2013 May 4th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mustread\/\">Archives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>GS-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/commercial-flights-yet-to-take-off-at-hindon\/article27029901.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commercial flights yet to take off at Hindon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flights are yet to take off from civil terminal at Indian Air Force\u2019s Hindon airbase in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Ghaziabad. The \u2018civil enclave\u2019 at the airbase was envisaged as an alternative to the congested Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, which was able to provide very few slots for flights under UDAN scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/court-to-hear-review-plea-on-vvpats-next-week\/article27030986.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Court to hear VVPAT review plea next week<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court has agreed to hear next week a petition filed by 21 Opposition parties to review its judgment rejecting 50% random physical verification of electronic voting machines using the voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/not-keeping-record-of-pre-natal-tests-is-criminal-sc\/article27029716.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not keeping record of pre-natal tests is criminal: SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a significant judgment, the Supreme Court<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">upheld provisions in the anti-pre-natal sex determination law which \u2018criminalises\u2019 non-maintenance of medical records by obstetricians and gynaecologists and suspend their medical licence indefinitely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/sc-remark-on-foreigners-detention-in-assam-defies-constitutional-obligations-rights-body\/article27021851.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SC view on foreigners detention de\ufb01es constitutional obligations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A rights body, comprising a retired Supreme Court judge and a former Assam police chief, has said the apex court\u2019s remark on the detention of \u2018foreigners\u2019 in Assam was unfortunate and \u201cflies in the face of India\u2019s constitutional and international obligations\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/rbi-imposes-fines-on-ppis-for-violating-norms\/article27028507.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RBI imposes \ufb01\u0081nes on PPIs for violating norm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Reserve Bank of India has imposed monetary penalty on five pre-paid payment instrument issuers including Vodafone m-pesa and Phonepe, for violating regulatory guidelines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/Economy\/asia-pacific-to-grow-57-this-year-adb\/article27028324.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asia\u00adPacific to grow 5.7% this year: ADB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asian development Bank\u2019s President has said that the Asia-Pacific region is expected to power ahead growing at 5.7% this year but escalating trade tensions are a source of worry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/Industry\/dont-terminate-gsp-benefits-to-india\/article27027466.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t terminate GSP bene\ufb01\u0081ts to India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a group of 25 influential American lawmakers urged the U.S. Trade Representative that US should not terminate the GSP programme with India after the expiry of the 60-day notice period<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/dont-tell-us-to-put-down-arms-taliban-tell-us\/article27028107.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t ask us to put down arms, Taliban tells U.S.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Taliban has said that the U.S. special envoy for<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Afghanistan<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">should stop calling on Taliban militants to lay down their arms and tell the U.S. to end the use of force inst<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>GS-3<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/only-10-of-100-sewage-projects-on-ganga-have-been-completed\/article27030967.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only 10 of 100 sewage projects on Ganga have been completed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian government has only finished 10 of the 100 sewage infrastructure projects commissioned after 2015 under the Namami Gange mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/eight-dead-as-severe-cyclone-fani-hits-puri\/article27029525.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8 dead as Cyclone Fani hits Puri<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani barrelled into the Odisha coast on Friday morning, unleashing torrential rain and winds gusting up to 175 kmph, and killed at least eight people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/aids-drugs-prevent-sexual-transmission-of-hiv-in-gay-men\/article27028016.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AIDS drugs prevent sexual transmission of HIV in gay men<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A European study of nearly 1,000 gay male couples \u2014 who had sex without condoms where one partner had HIV and was taking anti-retroviral drugs to suppress it \u2014 has found the treatment can prevent sexual transmission of the virus.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives GS-2 Commercial flights yet to take off at Hindon Flights are yet to take off from civil terminal at Indian Air Force\u2019s Hindon airbase in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s 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The \u2018civil enclave\u2019 at the airbase was envisaged as an alternative to the congested Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, which was able to provide&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/must-read-news-articles-may-4th-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Must Read News Articles \u2013 May 4th, 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-46585","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":1704923608},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46585","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=46585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46585\/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=46585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}