Author: Ajit Kansal

The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA`s) new unfair trade practices guidelines has produced rules to avoid infringement of consumers’ rights in relation to “service charges” in hotels and restaurants. The rules are not just advisory in nature, as stated by the CCPA, but are fully enforceable under the law.  The rules have been made public in accordance with section 18 of the Consumer Protection Act of 2019, which grants the CCPA`s new unfair trade practices guidelines to protect consumers’ interests.   what is service charge?   A service charge is a sum of money gathered to cover the costs of…

The journal, Environment Science and Pollution Research, recently released a study that showed how rapidly Drass glaciers are melting.  Results of the study –  Since 2020, significant uptick vehicle traffic in area, primarily result control’s substantial military buildup on both sides effects Drass glaciers melting. Such retreating is ascribed to increased black carbon concentration from vehicle emissions is why Drass glaciers are rapidly melting. According to study data, glacier area was down from 176.77 sq. km. which represents almost 3% of the entire glacier area in 2020.  Glaciers’ importance –  An early sign of an increase in global temperature is…

In today’s world, cybersecurity threats played an important role to defeat the enemy. Recently in the Russia Ukraine war Ukraine said Russia played with its cybersecurity data which is called cyberwarfare.  What is cybersecurity?  According to cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency (CISA) Cybersecurity is the art of protecting networks, devices, and data from unauthorized access or criminal use and the practice of ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. It seems that everything relies on computers and the internet now—communication (e.g., email, smartphones, tablets), entertainment (e.g., interactive video games, social media, apps), transportation (e.g., navigation systems), shopping (e.g., online shopping,…

Recently, a cloudburst hit near the base camp of the holy cave of Amarnath on Friday.   Over the last 10 years, there is an increase in the number of cloudbursts in the areas of Northern India.   What is Cloudburst?  As per Meteorologists, Rain that comes from a cloudburst is usually the shower type that has a fall rate equal to or greater than 100mm (4.94 inches) per hour.  How does the Cloudburst occur?  Cloudbursts always occur in the hilly region because mountains are the only landforms that are closer to clouds.  When the water surface gets heated up due to…