{"id":50317,"date":"2019-07-22T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=50317"},"modified":"2021-03-13T14:31:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T09:01:32","slug":"must-read-news-articles-july-22nd-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/must-read-news-articles-july-22nd-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Read News Articles-July 22nd 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

Centre’s decision to bring amendments to RTI Act draws criticism from activists<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Activists and former information commissioners have hit out at the Centre\u2019s move to amend the Right to Information (RTI) Act.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

NITI Aayog health index suffers from skew<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

An analysis of the NITI Aayog\u2019s \u2018Healthy States, Progressive India\u2019 report released on June 25 shows that the usage of estimated figures in place of reported numbers, to calculate certain health indicators, has adversely impacted the final index score of certain States<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

60.14%turnout of service voters, says EC<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Having sent postal ballots to service voters electronically for the first time in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Election Commission of India\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The tremor of unwelcome amendments to the RTI Act<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Right to Information (Amendment) Bill is a twin attack on accountability and the idea of federalism<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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

Govt to roll out big push for infrastructure<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

An Annual Global Investors Summit is to be organised later this year, with the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) anchoring the event.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Revamp of Army headquarters to get under way by month end<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Army\u2019s attempt at major restructuring will begin with the draft government sanction letter (GSL) for reorganisation of the Army Headquarters (AHQ) expected by July-end<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Moon mission to try landing on Sept 7<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The loss of a week due to the aborted launch of India\u2019s second moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, on July 15 has not hampered the mission\u2019s targeted landing date on the moon\u2019s South Pole<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Lucknow to host DefExpo next year<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Lucknow will host the 11th biennial edition of DefExpo from February 5 to 8, 2020<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Facial recognition is an invasive and inefficient tool<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Ministry of Home Affairs recently proposed The Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS). Use of facial recognition technology in law enforcement can have disastrous consequences.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Sucking up surplus: SEBI needs financial autonomy to remain effective<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

A regulatory agency that is at the government\u2019s mercy to run its financial and administrative operations cannot be expected to be independent<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archives GS-2 Centre’s decision to bring amendments to RTI Act draws criticism from activists Activists and former information commissioners have hit out at the Centre\u2019s move to amend the Right to Information (RTI) Act. NITI Aayog health index suffers from skew An analysis of the NITI Aayog\u2019s \u2018Healthy States, Progressive India\u2019 report released on June… Continue reading Must Read News Articles-July 22nd 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-50317","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":1704567266},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50317","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=50317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}