G7 summit 2021

Prime Minister Modi was invited by his British counterpart, Boris Johnson to attend the UK-hosted G7 summit to be held in 2021. India is one of the three guest nations alongside South Korea and Australia. The invitation is in line with the UK government’s intension to work alongside like-minded democracies to address common challenges. This ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020

Category: International Current Affairs

Topics: 5G • 5G spectrum • Boris Johnson • China • G7 • Hong Kong National Security Law • Huawei • National Security Law • PM Modi

Britain bans Huawei from its 5G network

After a lot of pressure from the United States, Britain has finally taken the call that phased removal will be implemented for the Chinese telecom giant Huawei, from the 5G network of the country. This comes even after repeated warnings from China regarding the dire consequences. Background of the ban on Huawei In January 2020, ..

Month: Current Affairs - July, 2020

Category: International Current Affairs

Topics: 5G • Britain • China • Huawei

Roh Tae-moon appointed as Smartphone CEO of Samsung

South-Korea based leading Multinational Electronics Company, Samsung Electronics recently appointed Roh Tae-moon as the new head of its smartphone division amid the shakeup of the executives in the company in which the 52-year old, Samsung’s youngest President, Roh, who has been working with Samsung since 1997 and has led the engineering and designing of the ..

Month: Current Affairs - January, 2020

Topics: China • Huawei • Oppo • Roh Tae-moon • Samsung • Samsung Galaxy • South Korea • Vivo

Huawei gets Government Nod for participating in 5G Trails

The Chinese multinational technology company, Huawei has received the nod from the Government of India for participating in the 5G trails slated for the early part of next year. The move for allowing participation of Huawei in the 5G trails ended months of speculations after the Minister of Communication and Electronics and Information, Ravi Shankar ..

Topics: 5G • China • Government of India • Huawei • Minister of Communication • Minister of electronics and information • Ravi Shankar Prasad

5G trials to start in Jan-Mar quarter this fiscal: DoT

The 5G (the fifth generation of wireless technology) trials are expected to begin in the last quarter of current fiscal (2019-2020). The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has received 12 applications for 5G trials and it has neither approved nor rejected any applicant’s proposal so far. However, it is still unknown that whether the government has ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2019

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Topics: 5G spectrum • 5G Technology • Department of Telecommunications • Huawei • Telecom sector