China Proposes ‘One Person, One File’ Surveillance Escalation

“One Person, One File” (OPOF) is a program suggested by the government of Shanghai that would make digital surveillance and censorship much stricter in China. According to experts, the plan includes installing more facial recognition cameras and making detailed personal ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2024

Category: International / World Current Affairs

New Zealand Visa Rule: Mandatory English Translations from 2024

Immigration New Zealand (INZ) will add a new requirement to all applications for guest visas. Now, supporting papers sent with applications must be in English or have certified translations with them if they were written in a language other than ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2024

Category: International / World Current Affairs

RBI Governor Unveils Key Financial Initiatives for 2023

To make financial services easier to get to and better at what they do, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das recently launched three big projects: the Pravaah site, the Retail Direct Mobile App, and a FinTech Repository. These plans came from what ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2024

Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs

Government Cracks Down on SMS Scam Entities

As part of the Sanchar Saathi program, the Department of Telecom (DoT) and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) have recently taken strong steps to stop SMS fraud. Over 10,000 fake texts sent in the last three months have been ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2024

Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs • Science & Technology Current Affairs

Urbanization Boosts Night-Time Warming in Indian Cities: Study

A new study from the Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar shows that more people living in cities is making the nights much warmer in over 140 major Indian cities. The study that compared these urban areas to their non-urban peers ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2024

Category: Environment Current Affairs

Amazon Rainforest Facing Critical Recovery Challenges

New study has found a worrying trend in the Amazon rainforest, more than a third of this important ecosystem is having a hard time recovering from repeated droughts. Some research on this topic was released on May 20, 2024, in ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2024

Category: Environment Current Affairs

ATMF Report Tackles Global Access to Antibiotics

The Access to Medicine Foundation (ATMF) Netherlands,  just put out a very important study that talks about some of the biggest problems in the pharmaceutical industry. “How can pharma get the few promising drugs in development to patients battling superbugs?” ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2024

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Kerala Plans Year-Round Calendar to Combat Nipah Virus

The government of Kerala has said that they will be making a special action calendar to stop Nipah virus breakouts, which have happened many times in the state. Because of the past of major outbreaks in 2018, 2019, 2021, and ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2024

Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs