{"id":48515,"date":"2019-06-21T10:39:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T05:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=48515"},"modified":"2021-03-13T15:44:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T10:14:01","slug":"must-read-news-articles-june-21th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/must-read-news-articles-june-21th-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Read News Articles \u2013 June 21th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

A<\/a>rchives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

GS-1<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Japan’s ‘washi’ paper torn by modern life<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Despite its UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage tag, the washi paper\u2019s market value is dwindling<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

GS-2<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

President bats for simultaneous polls<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

President Ram Nath Kovind has asked the Members of Parliament to seriously ponder over the proposal of simultaneous polls, terming it \u201cdevelopment-oriented\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Bureaucrats to spend two days in J&K villages<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

As part of its unique outreach programme, \u2018Back to the Village\u2019, the Governor\u2019s administration in Jammu and Kashmir has designated gazetted officers to all the 4,483 panchayats in the State to seek feedback and share knowledge on government schemes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Misplaced priorities<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The decision to form a committee to examine the issue of holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the State Assemblies is a significant step towards achieving Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s objective of synchronising elections across the country.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Tension in the Persian Gulf<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The U.S. administration\u2019s strategy to counter Iran on the nuclear front is being met with an alleged new strategy that has left the global security community baffled in more ways than one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

GS-3<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

India’s first solar cruise vessel to be rolled out soon<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Kerala is gearing up for the launch of the country\u2019s premier solar-powered cruise boat by December.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Navy to build 6 submarines<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Navy issued an \u2018Expression of Interest\u2019 for shortlisting potential strategic partners for the construction of six P-75 (I) submarines costing nearly \u20b945,000 crore<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Himalayan Glaciers are melting twice as fast since 2000: study<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Comparing data obtained by Cold War-era spy satellites with images from modern stereo satellites, scientists have shown that Himalayan glaciers have lost more than a quarter of their ice mass since 1975, with melting occurring twice as fast after the turn of the century as average temperatures rose<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

First song recorded from rare right whale<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

For the first time, scientists have recorded singing by one of the rarest whales on Earth<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

WHO writes new prescription to prevent misuse of antibiotics<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Rx: Keep it simple. This is the World Health Organisation\u2019s (WHO) prescription to combat the growing menace of antibiotic abuse and burgeoning resistance worldwide.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Is India overestimating its economic growth?<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Former Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian recently claimed in a paper that India\u2019s GDP growth from 2011-12 to 2016-17 was likely to have been overestimated. In a conversation moderated by T.C.A. Sharad Raghavan , Pronab Sen and R. Nagaraj discuss the methodology in calculation of GDP growth.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archives GS-1 Japan’s ‘washi’ paper torn by modern life Despite its UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage tag, the washi paper\u2019s market value is dwindling GS-2 President bats for simultaneous polls President Ram Nath Kovind has asked the Members of Parliament to seriously ponder over the proposal of simultaneous polls, terming it \u201cdevelopment-oriented\u201d. Bureaucrats to spend two… Continue reading Must Read News Articles \u2013 June 21th, 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"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-48515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-must-read-news-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704824730},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48515","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=48515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}