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No option ‘off the table’ as UK mulls social media ban for children

LONDON, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Britain will consider tightening rules on children’s use of social media with no option “off the table,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday, warning that they risked being pulled into “a world of endless scrolling, anxiety and comparison.” Starmer said his Labour government was prepared to take “robust action”, a day after it said it would examine whether features such as infinite scrolling and the age at which children can access platforms should be restricted. The government said it would examine evidence from around the world on suggested proposals including looking at whether a

Rahul accuses PM Modi of undermining MGNREGA, favouring corporates

Raebareli (UP), Jan 20 (PTI) Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of seeking to centralise power and weakening welfare safeguards for the poor, alleging that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) had been undermined. Addressing party workers during his visit to Raebareli, his parliamentary constituency, the Congress MP said the government had “insulted” MGNREGA by changing its name and, more importantly, had withdrawn the security it provided to the marginalised, which he described as an attack on the roots of democracy. “The Congress is running a nationwide

PM Modi’s BJP elects youngest-ever president with eye on youth votes

MUMBAI, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chose a little-known legislator from India’s poorest state as the party’s youngest president on Tuesday, a generational shift in the effort to retain young voters. Nitin Nabin, 45, takes over from outgoing president J.P. Nadda, 65, months before key state elections, one of them in the eastern state of West Bengal, which the BJP has never won and is strongly focused on. A five-time lawmaker from the eastern state of Bihar, Nabin was elected unopposed as the party’s 12th president after Modi and other leaders proposed him.

RBI likely selling dollars to curb rupee’s slide, traders say

MUMBAI, Jan 20 (Reuters) – The RBI (Reserve Bank of India) was likely selling dollars to limit the rupee’s weakness on Tuesday, four traders told Reuters, as the currency remains within touching distance of a fresh record low. The rupee was last at 90.99 per dollar as of 11:00 a.m. IST, down 0.1% on the day. The currency declined to 91.0525 earlier in the day, threatening to breach its all-time low of 91.0750 hit last month. Some state-run banks were spotted offering dollars, but the quantity was very limited as has been the trend in the last two days, one

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