Why in News: Google and Facebook were hit with a combined 210 million Euros fine for not complying with France’s data privacy law. The country’s data protection authority, CNIL, said that Facebook, Google’s French homepage and YouTube websites failed to …
Why in News: The Ministry of External Affairs signed an agreement with Tata Consultancy Services Limited for the second phase of the Passport Seva Programme (PSP), one of the several Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) of the Government of India. The …
About PM GatiShakti Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the “PM GatiShakti — National Master Plan” for infrastructure development aimed at boosting multimodal connectivity and driving down logistics costs. About the project PM GatiShakti is a digital platform that …
Context China’s status as a ‘developing country’ at the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become a contentious issue with a number of countries raising concerns over the upper middle-income nation deriving benefits reserved for developing countries under WTO norms. Moreover, …
Context Kazakhstan, the oil-rich country of 19 million people, has seen mass unrest recently over the government’s decision to end subsidies on liquefied petroleum gas. The cost of LPG, which many Kazakhs use instead of petrol or diesel to run …
In India, urbanisation and city expansion have put a strain on fundamental infrastructure and services such as housing, sanitation, and health. Migrant labourers are the worst hit by the lack of these fundamental necessities. The epidemic of Covid-19 has exacerbated …