France’s National Assembly has cleared a bill banning social media for under-15s, mandating age verification by platforms like TikTok and Instagram under Arcom’s oversight. Aligned with the Digital Services Act, it tackles youth mental health risks but highlights privacy and tech challenges, offering lessons for India.
Click to View MoreThe SUJALAM BHARAT initiative seeks water security through integrated water and wastewater management. By converging major missions, it promotes community-led, circular water practices. Its success depends on fixing infrastructure gaps, improving maintenance, strengthening local governance and ensuring effective inter-departmental coordination.
Click to View MoreThe digital age has revolutionized communication, commerce, and public discourse, but also brought challenges like misinformation, hate speech, and data privacy. India's social media regulation, governed by the Information Technology Act, 2000, has been amended to introduce accountability and self-regulation. The Nepal incident underline the global challenge of creating effective, proportionate, and respectful regulatory frameworks.
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