{"id":55616,"date":"2020-01-08T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T07:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=55616"},"modified":"2021-03-13T12:21:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T06:51:17","slug":"must-read-news-articles-i-8th-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/must-read-news-articles-i-8th-january-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Read News Articles I 8th January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>GS -2<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/amidst-a-tragedy-an-opportunity\/article30505374.ece\">Amidst a tragedy, an opportunity<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The article highlights that the raging bushfires give India and Australia a chance to deepen their dialogue, including on energy<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>G3 -3<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/Economy\/india-must-create-70-mn-jobs-to-achieve-5-tn-economy-by-2024\/article30506602.ece\">India must create 70 million jobs to achieve $5 trillion economy by 2024<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister of Singapore, and a renowned economist and a political personality, said on Tuesday that India needs to significantly increase employment and productivity levels to achieve $5 trillion economy by 2024.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/Economy\/govt-plans-to-cut-spending-by-2-lakh-crore-to-curb-deficit\/article30502268.ece\">Govt. may cut spending to curb deficit<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>India&#8217;s government is likely to cut spending for the current fiscal year by as much as \u20b92 lakh crore as it faces one of the biggest tax shortfalls in recent years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Lack of demand and weak corporate earnings growth in the economy led to lagging tax collections which has resulted in a revenue shortfall of about \u20b92.5 lakh crore.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/there-is-a-design-flaw-with-this-military-post\/article30506758.ece\">There is a design flaw with this military post<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The article argues that creating a post of Chief of Defence Staff is problematic. It also erodes civilian supremacy over the defence establishment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/business\/banking-and-finance\/focus-on-fundamentals-inclusive-growth-and-structural-reforms-rbi-governor-to-govt-6205245\/\">Focus on fundamentals, inclusive growth and structural reforms: RBI Governor to govt<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das has said there is a need to focus on the fundamentals and create an ecosystem that facilitates inclusive growth with structural reforms as the underlying theme.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/simply-put-the-nominal-gdp-worry-6205194\/\">The nominal GDP worry<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The estimated growth of 7.53% in \u2018nominal\u2019 terms is the lowest since 1975-76. Also, this is the first time since 2002-03 that nominal GDP growth is projected to be in single digits. The article highlights why is this a major concern?<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GS -2 Amidst a tragedy, an opportunity The article highlights that the raging bushfires give India and Australia a chance to deepen their dialogue, including on energy G3 -3 India must create 70 million jobs to achieve $5 trillion economy by 2024 Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister of Singapore, and a renowned economist and a political&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/must-read-news-articles-i-8th-january-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Must Read News Articles I 8th January 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-55616","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":1704957486},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55616","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=55616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}