{"id":94928,"date":"2020-04-25T12:49:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T12:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=94928"},"modified":"2020-04-25T12:49:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T12:49:08","slug":"world-press-freedom-index-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/world-press-freedom-index-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"World Press Freedom Index 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Consider the following statement regarding World Press Freedom Index 2020:<br>(1) India is at 142th rank featuring dropdown of two places.<br>(2) Total 180 countries are included in this report.<br>(3) The index has been topped by Norway.<br>Choose the correct statement\/s from the above<\/strong><br>(a) Only (1)<br>(b) Only (1)and (2)<br>(c) Only (1) and (3)<br>(d) All the above<br><strong>Answer: (d)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The rank of India has decreased by two places to 142nd from 140th position with a score of 45.33 in the \u201cThe World Press Freedom Index 2020\u201d which has analysed 180 countries.<\/li><li>This decline in rank is showing an improvement in the security of Indian media as in 2019 there was no murders of journalists were recorded as against six in 2018.<\/li><li>However, constant press freedom violations still remain, including police violence against journalists, ambushes by political activists, and reprisals instigated by criminal groups or corrupt local officials.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Important facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India drops two places on global press freedom index 2020<\/li><li>The World Press Freedom Index is compiled by Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), or Reporters Without Borders.<\/li><li>The index has been topped by Norway with a score of 7.84 while North Korea stood at last rank of 180 with a score of 85.82.<\/li><li>Since 2002 it is published annually by RSF to rank 180 countries according to the level of freedom available to journalists.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/ranking_table\">https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/ranking_table<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following statement regarding World Press Freedom Index 2020:(1) India is at 142th rank featuring dropdown of two places.(2) Total 180 countries are included in this report.(3) The index has been topped by Norway.Choose the correct statement\/s from the above(a) Only (1)(b) Only (1)and (2)(c) Only (1) and (3)(d) All the aboveAnswer: (d)Related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":94929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-94928","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\/94928","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=94928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94928\/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\/94929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94928"}],"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=94928"},{"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=94928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}