{"id":10779,"date":"2016-04-21T16:18:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=10779"},"modified":"2016-04-21T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T16:18:20","slug":"world-press-freedom-index-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/world-press-freedom-index-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"World Press Freedom Index-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: In recently released 2016 World Press Freedom Index (WPFI), India ranked at which of the following position?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 133th<br \/>\n(b) 134th<br \/>\n(c) 136th<br \/>\n(d) 145th<br \/>\n<strong>Ans (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 20 April 2016 World Press Freedom Index (WPFI)-2016 has been released which is compiled and produced by France-based international non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders (RWB), or Reporters Sans Fronti\u00e8res (RSF).<\/li>\n<li>The Index ranks 180 countries according to the freedom allowed journalists. It also includes indicators of the level of media freedom violations in each region.<\/li>\n<li>Out of total 180 countries in the index, Finland with the score of 8.59 has retained its top spot for the sixth consecutive year.<\/li>\n<li>The Netherlands (8.76), Norway(8.79), Denmark(8.89) and New Zealand(10.01) has occupied 2<sup>nd <\/sup>,3<sup>rd<\/sup> , 4<sup>th<\/sup> and 5<sup>th<\/sup> position respectively.<\/li>\n<li>The last five positions are occupied by China (176<sup>th<\/sup>), Syria (177<sup>th<\/sup>) Turkmenistan (178<sup>th<\/sup> ), North Korea (179<sup>th<\/sup> ) and Eritrea (180<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/li>\n<li>In this edition, India with a score of 43.17 has jumped three spots from the 136th position it had in 2015 and ranked 133<sup>rd<\/sup> in 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Among India\u2019s neighboring countries, Pakistan ranks 147<sup>th<\/sup> , Sri Lanka (141<sup>st<\/sup> ), Afghanistan (120<sup>th<\/sup> ), Bangladesh (144<sup>th<\/sup> ), Maldives (112<sup>th<\/sup> ) Nepal (105<sup>th<\/sup> ) and Bhutan (94<sup>th<\/sup> ).<\/li>\n<li>Among the Developed countries, United Kingdom is ranked 38<sup>th<\/sup>, United States (41<sup>st)<\/sup>, France (45<sup>th<\/sup>), Japan (72<sup>nd<\/sup>) and Russia is placed at the 148<sup>th<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>The Index is published annually by Reporters Sans Fronti\u00e8res (RSF) since 2002.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/ranking\">https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/ranking<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/2016-world-press-freedom-index-leaders-paranoid-about-journalists\">https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/2016-world-press-freedom-index-leaders-paranoid-about-journalists<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: In recently released 2016 World Press Freedom Index (WPFI), India ranked at which of the following position? (a) 133th (b) 134th (c) 136th (d) 145th Ans (a) Related facts: On 20 April 2016 World Press Freedom Index (WPFI)-2016 has been released which is compiled and produced by France-based international non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}