{"id":55643,"date":"2020-01-18T13:01:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T07:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=55643"},"modified":"2021-03-13T12:20:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T06:50:42","slug":"must-read-news-articles-i-18th-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/must-read-news-articles-i-18th-january-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Read News Articles I 18th 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\/news\/national\/other-states\/punjab-assembly-moves-resolution-against-caa\/article30584806.ece\">Punjab Assembly urges Centre to repeal CAA<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The Punjab Legislative Assembly on Friday passed a resolution, urging the Union government to repeal the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The resolution urged the Centre to put on hold the National Population Register (NPR) work till forms-documents associated with it are amended suitably, in order to allay apprehensions that it is a prelude to a nation-wide National Register of Citizens (NRC) and designed to deprive a section of persons from citizenship of India and implement the CAA.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/2020-will-be-an-important-year-for-indo-us-relations\/article30590690.ece\">\u20182020 will be an important year for Indo &#8211; US Relations\u2019<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Senior officials said that 2+2talks decisions will be put into practice<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/one-government-proposes-the-next-disposes\/article30588873.ece\">One government proposes, the next disposes<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The article highlights the newly elected government in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra cancelling\/ putting on hold various projects of the previous government. It says that a state must be careful in providing explicit and clear evidence regarding its decisions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/pretend-democracy-minority-groups-india-muslim-caa-6222141\/\">Pretend Democracy<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The article says that the essence of democracy is in protecting minority rights and India is failing to do so.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>GS -3<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/gsat-30-gives-india-a-communication-boost\/article30590658.ece\">GSAT &#8211; 30 gives India a communication boost<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>India\u2019s latest communication satellite &#8211; GSAT-30- has been launched into space. It will replace INSAT 4A. The satellite is equipped with 12 normal C band and 12 Ku band transponders.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GS -2 Punjab Assembly urges Centre to repeal CAA The Punjab Legislative Assembly on Friday passed a resolution, urging the Union government to repeal the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The resolution urged the Centre to put on hold the National Population Register (NPR) work till forms-documents associated with it are amended suitably, in order to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/must-read-news-articles-i-18th-january-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Must Read News Articles I 18th 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-55643","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":1704956592},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55643","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=55643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}