A similar scheme is now being started by the Yogi Adityanath government of Uttar Pradesh. Under this, 25 lakh free ...

Gehlot said with the aim of empowering women, his government had launched the Chiranjeevi scheme to provide smartphones to women heads of families with three years of free internet connectivity ...

So far Britain’s government has appeared wary of intervening. Josh MacAlister, a Labour lawmaker, attempted to introduce a legal requirement to make all schools in England smartphone free.

The Smartphone Free Childhood movement has seen more than ... Thorne has demanded the government take ‘radical action’, like that being seen in countries like Australia, to regulate children ...