Author: Tushar Raj

Sri Lanka declares a food emergency amid the Forex reserve crisis. Various media reports claimed the country was staring at an acute food shortage resulting from a combination of factors, from the depletion of forex reserves and excessive pressure on organic farming. Declaration of Food Emergency was ordered as the cost of day-to-day commodities like Sugar, Onion, and potatoes rose sharply. During this hard-hitting economic crisis, the President of Sri Lanka said that he ordered emergency regulations to counter the hoarding of sugar, rice and other essential foods. Rajapaksa has named a top army officer “Commissioner General of Essential Services…

COPYRIGHT ROW The fine came due to increasing international pressure on online platforms such as Google which seeks, part of Alphabet Inc, and Facebook to share more of the revenue they make from using media outlets’ news. Google appeals against France’s disproportionate tax on Copyright issues. France has fined Google $591 million in July over a dispute with local media about paying for news content. This dispute is a part of a more significant battle by authorities in Europe against google for giving compensation and credits to local media outlets.  The vice-president of Google in France, Sebastien Missoffe, said that…

At least 45 children and eight adults in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad have succumbed to a mysterious dengue-like fever in the past ten days. It has been more than a week that children of some districts of Uttar Pradesh, like Mathura, Mainpuri are struggling against high fever and dehydration. The most affected place by this fever is Firozabad. As per the report of ANI, Dr Neeta Kulshrestha (the most senior health official of Firozabad District) said that “The patients, especially children, in hospitals are dying very quickly. This fever resembles Dengue because there are many prevalent symptoms in Dengue and finds…