The Spanish government wants to initiate the production of electric vehicles and batteries with an investment of 4.3 billion euros ($5.1 billion) as a part of the government’s major national spending programme. The Spanish government said on Monday that majority of the funding for the program will be from the European Union recovery funds. The…
After twitter published a map that incorrectly showed the turbulent Indian region of Kashmir as a separate country, a criminal case has been filed against the micro blogging social media site in India. Describing the publication of the distorted map “an act of treason”, a police report was filed against Twitter’s head in India, Manish…
The pace of taking uncomfortable decisions by governments all across the world to persuade consumers to bring down energy consumption and thus helping in achieving climate targets has been very slow largely because of reluctance of consumers to compromise of their lifestyles and pay up higher prices. Even though there is increasing pressure on…
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the nuclear watchdog of the United Nations, will never be handed over images from inside of some Iranian nuclear sites because of the expiry of a monitoring agreement with the agency and Iran, the speaker of country’s parliament said on Sunday according to reports in the Iranian state media. “The…
The top court of the European Union supported the national privacy watchdogsof thebloc to push ahead with more scrutiny and potential sanctions against Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants even when such watchdogs are not the lead regulators. Citing enforcement bottlenecks, the right of national agencies to act was backed by the EU Court of…
The first ever country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender is now El Salvador. A proposal aimed at making bitcoin to be used as legal tender in the country alongside the US dollar was approved by a majority of lawmakers of the country. The proposal was made by Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele. The law states…
The European Union and the United States are seeking to mend the transatlantic relationship that was impeded by tit for tat tariffs surrounding the granting of government subsidy for Airbus and Boeing respectively. According to reports, the EU is now asking the US to pledge an end to their aircraft-related tariffs when representatives of the…
Following a network-wide outage at Orange for several hours, France has tasked its cybersecurity watchdog to conduct an audit of the network. In a statement, Orange’s CEO Stephane Richard said, he was launching an internal inquiry into the disruption the results of which would be ready within seven days. In a letter to the head…
Two environment conscious citizens of Guyana have filed a lawsuit against the government demanding an end to offshore drilling by ExxonMobil and other large oil companies as such explorations and business activities threaten to worsen the climate crisis. The case has been filed by Quadad de Freitas, a 21-year old Indigenous tourist guide from the…
Imports of sea food from an entire fleet of a Chinese company were blocked by the United States government late last week. The US alleged that the Chinese company forced crew members to work in slave-like conditions which resulted in the deaths of a number of Indonesian fishermen last year. An immediate ban on imports…
