Author: Megha J L

BASIC countries which includes India, recently voiced their opposition to the European Union’s (EU) proposal for carbon border taxes at the 27th Conference of Parties (COP) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. A group of nations, including India, recently voiced their opposition to the European Union’s (EU) proposal for carbon border taxes at the 27th Conference of Parties (COP) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. For many years, coal has been the primary fuel for all significant economies. The majority of nations are currently working to make the switch to renewable energy, but they claim that the right to continue using fossil…

According to reports, the government will shortly release a fresh draft of the data protection bill. The personal data protection bill was dropped in August, after being proposed in 2019. It is likely to be reintroduced under the name “Digital data protection bill 2022.” After nearly four years of laborious work, the original bill was withdrawn from the parliament in August, on the grounds that it contained numerous flaws. What happened to the earlier bill? On December 11, 2019, the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishanav introduced the ‘Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019’ in Lok Sabha. The bill…

Highlights According to a report by the United Nations, the world today has a population of 8 billion people. They consider this expansion to be a landmark in human history, stating, “ This unprecedented growth is due to the gradual increase in human lifespan owing to improvements in public health, nutrition, personal hygiene, and medicine. It is also the result of high and persistent levels of fertility in some countries.”  India is on track to surpass China as the world’s most populous nation in 2024, according to the UN’s World Population Prospects 2022 report. Only eight countries are predicted to…

According to the data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Monday, Bihar is home to seven of the ten cities with the highest air quality index value. While Delhi struggles to combat rising levels of air pollution like every year, another state from India’s heartland has emerged, claiming to have the country’s most

The meta-owned messenger app WhatsApp has now unveiled the new Whatsapp communities feature. It is now available in android, ios and for web users. After the announcement of a new community feature in whatsapp by Mark Zukerberg, it is finally made available in the app. It is basically an enhanced version of the pre-existing feature of the whatsapp groups. They introduce a number of new features to the messaging platform that are intended to help organisations, clubs, schools, and other private groups to stay organised and improve communication. These features include admin controls, support for sub-groups and announcement groups, 32-person…