Context The Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, being the Nodal Department for welfare of senior citizens, develops and implements programmes and policies for these groups in close collaboration with State Governments, Non-Governmental Organizations and the civil society. Atal Vayo …
Context: The CEOs of global tech giants Meta, X, Snap, TikTok, and Discord attended a US Senate hearing on the companies’ failures in protecting children online. The hearing, organised by the US Senate’s Committee on the Judiciary, focused on online …
Context: Market failures occur in situations such as monopolies, externalities, and information asymmetries which not only diminish economic value but also erode societal well-being, which results in decline in the trust of users. The article discusses an impending market failure …
Context Child poverty refers to the state of children living in poverty and applies to children from poor families and orphans being raised with limited or no state resources. According to UNICEF, across the world, about 1 billion children are …
Context: The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report for 2022 reveals that 40,725 women and 10,571 girls went missing from West Bengal that year, the highest numbers in the country. These alarming numbers raise the importance of understanding the various …