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The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprises (CPPE) on Friday lauded the ruling of the Supreme Court on the use of the old naira notes as legal tender. In a statement by Muda Yusuf, Chief Executive Officer of the CPPE, the organization said it welcomed the supreme court ruling as it protects the citizens from a policy which is, “by all accounts, disruptive, repressive and draconian”. The organisation also described the policy as “punitive, cruel and insensitive.” On Friday, the Supreme Court extended the…

The Indian government has received the 2023 'Government Leadership Award' at the GSMA's Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 event in Barcelona, Spain, Union IT Ashwini Vaishnaw informed on Tuesday.The GSMA is an association representing the mobile operators and global mobile industry."The reforms introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government in the telecom sector have transformed it completely. This global award recognises those efforts," the minister said."Target of pan-India 5G coverage will be achieved by the…

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Industry leaders hailed the government's decision to appoint the IT Ministry as the nodal agency for online gaming-related matters.In a notification, the Centre said that matters related to online gaming will now be taken care of by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).An inter-ministerial task force, set up by the MeitY to regulate online gaming, had in October proposed the creation of a central regulatory body for the sector, clearly defining what games of skill and chance are."A uniform…

Elon Musk began teasing the publication of information he called “the Twitter Files,” as part of a series of recent tweets claiming to defend free speech. Elon Musk heralded the release of Twitter Inc. executive emails that explore some of the internal debate at the social network over a controversial decision in 2020 to restrict access to a New York Post article about a laptop purportedly owned by Hunter Biden. Writer Matt Taibbi posted a series of tweets and images of what he said were leaked internal Twitter…

Leonardo DiCaprio took to social media to hail Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s victory in Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday. The Oscar winner and committed environmentalist has been a keen observer of the tight race between the right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and former president Lula as the key campaign issue has been the future of the Amazon rainforest. Under Lula, deforestation of the Amazon fell markedly from a peak in the 1990s, however, Bolsonaro’s regime has stepped up logging and…

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Prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met Taiwan-based manufacturing giant Foxconn's Chairman Young Liu and hailed the company's electronics manufacturing plans in the country."Glad to meet Mr. Young Liu, Chairman, Foxconn. I welcome their plans for expanding electronics manufacturing capacity in India, including in semiconductors," Modi said in a tweet.The Taiwan-based company is also planning to set up an EV manufacturing plant in India.Foxconn's EV manufacturing arm, Foxtron, is planning to set up manufacturing…

Mark Zuckerberg's presence at the helm of Facebook parent Meta for "many, many years" would be perfectly natural, his global affairs director has told AFP, even as the founders of many tech companies hand off to fresh blood.Succession at the mega company has been in the headlines in recent weeks with the announcement of the departure of Sheryl Sandberg after 14 years as the firm's number two.But while the founders of companies like Amazon, Twitter, and Google have all moved on, Zuckerberg has shown no sign of giving up…