{"id":48979,"date":"2019-07-08T10:43:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T05:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=48979"},"modified":"2021-03-13T14:53:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T09:23:06","slug":"must-read-news-articles-july-8th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/must-read-news-articles-july-8th-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Read News Articles-July 8th 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

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

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

Reclaiming the Indo-Pacific narrative<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

At the 34th summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Bangkok in June, its member states finally managed to articulate a collective vision for the Indo-Pacific region in a document titled \u201cThe ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Crimes that India\u2019s statute books have failed to define<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Neither \u2018crimes against humanity\u2019 nor \u2018genocide\u2019 has been made part of India\u2019s criminal law, a lacuna that needs to be addressed urgently.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Quota politics: on U.P.’s move to confer SC status on 17 backward castes<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Uttar Pradesh government\u2019s latest attempt to extend the benefits available to Scheduled Castes to 17 castes that are now under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) list has no legal basis and appears to be aimed at making political gains.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Economic Survey has based Aadhaar impact on MGNREGS on false assumptions, say researchers<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Researchers and activists studying the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) data have refuted the argument made in this year\u2019s Economic Survey regarding the positive causal impact of Aadhaar-linked payments (ALP) on the scheme<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Indo-Afghan trade chokes on U.S. curbs<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The government\u2019s decision to slash its allocation for Iran\u2019s Chabahar port by two-thirds, as announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the latest Budget will be a further blow to India-Afghan trade<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Outlay for child welfare sees a meagre increase<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The outlay for children in the Union Budget has shown a marginal increase of 0.05%, going up from 3.24% in the last fiscal to 3.29% in the current fiscal with a grant of Rs. 91,644.29 crore<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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

Production of Vande Bharat Express comes to a grinding halt<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The production of India\u2019s first semi high-speed train has come to a grinding halt at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

No easy answer to economic slowdown<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The most keenly watched number in the Union Budget is, perhaps, the ratio of fiscal deficit to GDP. A decline in the ratio is cheered by commentators and the markets. An increase is a seen as a setback to reforms.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Plan for district eco-panels draws fire<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

State-level officers tasked with environmental assessment have objected to several clauses in a draft law that proposes the creation of district-level environment impact assessment authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Nepal is turning Everest trash into treasure<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In a bid to save Mount Everest from trash, Nepal conducted a month-long cleaning campaign and collected around 10,000 kg of rubbish from the region.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archives GS-2 Reclaiming the Indo-Pacific narrative At the 34th summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Bangkok in June, its member states finally managed to articulate a collective vision for the Indo-Pacific region in a document titled \u201cThe ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific\u201d. Crimes that India\u2019s statute books have failed to define… Continue reading Must Read News Articles-July 8th 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-48979","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":1704945248},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48979","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=48979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}