{"id":55540,"date":"2020-02-20T11:54:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T06:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=55540"},"modified":"2021-03-13T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T06:34:55","slug":"must-read-news-articles-i-20th-february-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/must-read-news-articles-i-20th-february-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Read News Articles I 20th February 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

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By agreeing to Partition, Congress kept India United.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The article reasons that by agreeing to partition, congress leaders such as Jawahar Lal Nehru and Vallabh Bhai Patel made India strong and united.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Historical evidence based on im\u00adpartial scholarship demonstrates that had the Congress Party not ac\u00adcepted the Partition plan, India today would have been a weak state and a divided polity barely able to keep it\u00adself together and constantly teetering on the brink of collapse. The Con\u00adgress did a favour to the country by accepting its division in order to save it from collapse or dismemberment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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

Trade agreement with US only delayed not stuck, says govt<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Central govt has said that an Indo\u00adU.S. trade deal has been delayed but is not \u201cstuck\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Swachh Bharat Mission second phase gets nod<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Centre on Wednesday approved the second phase of Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural), focussing on sustainability of ODF and management of solid and liquid waste.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

SBM-G Phase-II will be implemented in a mission mode with a total estimated budgeted financial implication of Rs 52,497 crore for the period from 2020-21 to 2024-25 including the Central and state shares.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Union Budget for 2020-\u00ad21\u00a0 had\u00a0 allocated Rs. 9,994 crore for the first year\u00a0 of\u00a0 the\u00a0 mission\u2019s Phase\u00ad II. The scheme will be im\u00adplemented by the States, with a fund sharing pattern of\u00a0 60:40\u00a0 between\u00a0 the Centre and the States. In the northeastern and Himalayan states, the Cen\u00adtral share will be 90%.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Centre to form a new law panel<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Union Cabinet has given its approval to set up the 22nd Law Com\u00admission. The Law Ministry will now notify the new panel, which will have a three\u00adyear term. Apart from a full\u00adtime<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

chairperson, the commis\u00adsion will have four full\u00adtime members,\u00a0 including\u00a0 a member\u00adsecretary.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Law and Legislative Secretaries in the Law Minis\u00adtry will be ex\u00adofficio mem\u00adbers of the commission.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

A retired Supreme Court judge or Chief Justice of a High Court will head the commission.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Originally formed in 1955, the Law Commission is reconsti\u00adtuted every three years<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

ART bill proposes national registry of clinics<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Union Cabinet on Wed\u00adnesday approved the Assist\u00aded Reproductive Technology Regulation Bill, 2020 to mon\u00aditor\u00a0 medical\u00a0 procedures used to assist people to achieve pregnancy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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India and US: Matters of Trade<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The article highlights why trade with US matters to India and the main sticking points in the proposed Trade agreement<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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

Central Govt cuts its share in flagship crop insurance schem<\/a>e<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Union Cabinet has ap\u00adproved the revamp of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) and the Res\u00adtructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Centre has almost halved its contribution to its own \ufb02agship crop insurance<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

schemes, slashing its share of the premium subsidy from the current 50% to just 25% in irrigated areas and 30% for unirrigated areas from the kharif season of 2020. Currently, the<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Centre and State split the ba\u00adlance of the premium equal\u00adly. However, the revamp now reduces the burden on the Centre and increases the share of States.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Further, enrolment in the two schemes has also been made voluntary for all farmers, in\u00adcluding those with existing crop loans. Earlier it was compulsory for the loanee farmers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Modi Government in denial of slowdown<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Former Prime Minister Man\u00admohan Singh on Wednesday said the Narendra Modi go\u00advernment was in denial of the economic slowdown and its target of making India a $5 trillion economy by 2024-\u00ad25was \u201cwishful thinking\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Central team assesses damage to crops in locust hit Rajasthan<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

An Inter\u00adMinisterial Central Team, visiting the locust \u00adaf\u00adfected areas in Rajasthan, has taken stock of damage caused by insects to the crops in Jodhpur and Bikan\u00ader divisions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The team members in\u00adspected the damaged wheat, gram, castor, taramira, cu\u00admin and isabgol crops in Jai\u00adsalmer, Barmer, Jalore and Jodhpur districts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The tropical grasshoppers emerged in January 2019 from Sudan and Eritrea on Africa’s Red Sea Coast and travelled through Saudi Ara\u00adbia and Iran to enter Pakis\u00adtan, where they invaded the cotton\u00ad producing belt of Sindh province. The swarms of locusts then entered the Thar desert, damaging the crops in western Rajasthan and northern Gujarat.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The missing piece in India\u2019s defence jigsaw puzzle<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The article highlights that there is need for India to increase its stock of state of art weapons. It ststes that what is needed is adequate reflection and a cost benefit analysis to ensure that the amount expended are in tune with our strategic requirements<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GS -1 By agreeing to Partition, Congress kept India United. The article reasons that by agreeing to partition, congress leaders such as Jawahar Lal Nehru and Vallabh Bhai Patel made India strong and united. Historical evidence based on im\u00adpartial scholarship demonstrates that had the Congress Party not ac\u00adcepted the Partition plan, India today would have… Continue reading Must Read News Articles I 20th February 2020<\/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-55540","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":1704956713},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55540","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=55540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}