{"id":112002,"date":"2021-04-22T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=112002"},"modified":"2021-04-22T13:07:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:07:32","slug":"world-press-freedom-index-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/world-press-freedom-index-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"World Press Freedom Index 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question- As per recently released World Press freedom Index 2021, India is ranked-<\/strong><br>(a) 142th<br>(b) 139th<br>(c) 153th<br>(d) 121th<br><strong>Ans. (a)<br>Related facts-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>World Press Freedom Index is published by Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) or Reporters Without Borders since 2002<\/li><li>The purpose of the Index is to rank 180 countries and regions according to the level of freedom available to journalists.<\/li><li>However, the index neither ranks public policies and nor is it an indicator of the quality of journalism in each country or region.<\/li><li>India ranks 142nd on the World Press Freedom Index 2021. The rank is the same as in 2020 after it had consistently slid down from 133 in 2016.<\/li><li>Norway tops the index, followed by Finland and Denmark.<\/li><li>Nepal is at 106, Sri Lanka at 127, Myanmar (before the coup) at 140, Pakistan at 145, and Bangladesh at 152.<\/li><li>the report shows that journalism is completely or partially blocked in 73% of all the countries on the index.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By-Yogesh Pratap Singh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Refrence-<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/world-press-freedom-index-india-remains-one-of-the-worlds-most-dangerous-countries-for-journalists-7281362\/.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/world-press-freedom-index-india-remains-one-of-the-worlds-most-dangerous-countries-for-journalists-7281362\/.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- As per recently released World Press freedom Index 2021, India is ranked-(a) 142th(b) 139th(c) 153th(d) 121thAns. (a)Related facts- World Press Freedom Index is published by Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) or Reporters Without Borders since 2002 The purpose of the Index is to rank 180 countries and regions according to the level of freedom available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":112004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-112002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112002","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112005,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112002\/revisions\/112005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112002"}],"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=112002"},{"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=112002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}