Summit For Democracy: Democracies should jointly deal with social media and cryptocurrencies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a virtual address at the Summit for Democracy, hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden. The Summit for Democracy was a virtual summit hosted by the United States “to renew democracy at home and confront autocracies abroad” on […]
Day: December 13, 2021
Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme
Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme: The Parliamentary Committee on Empowerment of Women has noted in its report that the Government spent 80% of the funds under the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ (BBBP) scheme on media campaigns. Over the last six years, through focussed advocacy BBBP has been able to capture the attention of political leadership […]
Will Govt Scrap Sedition Law Section 124A?
Sedition Law: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has clarified that there is no proposal under consideration to scrap Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) that deals with sedition. The sedition law has been indiscriminately used against critics, journalists, social media users, activists and citizens for airing their grievances about the governments COVID-19 […]
