{"id":55806,"date":"2019-12-20T16:49:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T11:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=55806"},"modified":"2021-03-13T12:35:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T07:05:04","slug":"must-read-news-articles-i-20th-december-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/must-read-news-articles-i-20th-december-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Read News Articles I 20th December 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

GS – 1<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

NITI Aayog seeks ideas on population policy<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

NITI Aayog will hold a national consultation on population stabilisation on Friday to ex\u00adplore ways to strengthen the country\u2019s population policy and\u00a0 family\u00a0 planning programmes. The officials will brain\u00ad storm over recommenda\u00adtions like treating popula\u00adtion stabilisation and familyplanning as a national prior\u00adity and ensuring inter\u00adgo\u00advernmental convergence.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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

US house impeaches Donald Trump<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The USA president has been impeached by the House of Representative. The house has formally charged him for abuse of power and obstruction of congress. Now the Senate would vote to decide whether or not to convict and remove him from office<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Pact to open door for U.S. defence firms<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

India and USA have signed the Industrial Security Annex (ISA) at the second 2 + 2 dialogue held in Washington. It will open thedoor for U.S. defence compa\u00adnies to partner with the In\u00addian private sector for sever\u00adal multi\u00adbillion dollar deals in the pipeline, including theone for 114 fighter jets.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u2018Sri Lanka will develop Mattala airport\u2019<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksha has said that Sri Lanka\u2019s civil aviation authority will develop the southern airport in Mattala. This airport is strategically located near Hambantota airport. With this announcement, Sri Lanka has ruled out earlier proposals of a joint venture with India.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Meghalaya Assembly adopts resolution on Inner Line Permit<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Meghalaya Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution for implementing the Inner Line Permit (ILP) regime in the state, which will impose restrictions on the entry and movement of \u2018outsiders\u2019 in the hill state.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

What the Young say<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Implementation of nation-wide NRC will put India in a state of conflict. Government must listen, step back.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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

Inaccurate diagnosis, draconian remedy<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

India\u2019s black money problem was misdiagnosed; unverified, exaggerated numbers went into enactment of harsh laws.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Should the government exit navratna companies?<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The article discusses about the implications of the cabinet decision of sale of government stake in BPCL.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Firms for more ease of doing business<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In a pre Budget meeting, India Inc has asked the government to take measures to augment ease of doing business to \u201ccreate more freedom forthe industry to perform.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

RBI to conduct \u2018Operation Twist\u2019 to manage yields on Dec. 23<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

To manage the bond yields, the RBI will simultaneously buy and sale government se\u00adcurities worth Rs.10,000 crore each on December 23 under its open market operations.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

India\u2019s Great Slowdown<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Standard remedies for getting out of the current predicament aren\u2019t working. Out-of-the-box solutions are needed to resolve the balance sheet problems<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GS – 1 NITI Aayog seeks ideas on population policy NITI Aayog will hold a national consultation on population stabilisation on Friday to ex\u00adplore ways to strengthen the country\u2019s population policy and\u00a0 family\u00a0 planning programmes. The officials will brain\u00ad storm over recommenda\u00adtions like treating popula\u00adtion stabilisation and familyplanning as a national prior\u00adity and ensuring inter\u00adgo\u00advernmental… Continue reading Must Read News Articles I 20th December 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-55806","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":1700781377,"cached_date":1704802303},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55806","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=55806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}