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  • PM Modi to visit Kutch on Dec 15, lay foundation stone of development projects

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Dhardo in Kutch, Gujarat on the 15th of this month and lay the foundation stone of several development projects in the state. These projects include a plant to convert salt water into drinking water, a hybrid renewable energy park and a fully automated milk processing and packaging plant.

    The capacity of the plant to convert food water into drinking water will be 10 crore liters per day. This will supply drinking water to around eight lakh people nearby. This will be the fifth plant in Gujarat after Dahej, Dwarka, Ghogha-Bhavnagar and Gir-Somnath.

    Hybrid Renewable Energy Park will be the largest park in the country in its category. It will be built in an area of ​​72 thousand six hundred hectares and will produce 30 gigawatts of electricity.

    The Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone for the Milk Processing and Packaging Plant at Sarhad Dairy Anjar. It will cost Rs 121 crores and its processing capacity will be two lakh liters of milk per day. The Prime Minister will also visit White Rann.

  • Agency in Brazil Demands Apple Re-Bundle Chargers With New iPhones

    A consumer protection agency in Brazil is demanding that Apple re-bundle new iPhones with a charger, citing the company’s rationale of reducing carbon emissions as suspect. 

    In October, Apple revealed the iPhone 12 would be sold without a power adapter in an effort to downsize the packaging, and thereby minimize the environmental impact. 

    However, Procon-SP, Sao Paulo’s consumer protection agency, has called on Apple to bring back the power adaptors, saying local consumers expect them to be bundled with their new iPhones.

    Apple should have done more to notify customers about why it removed the power adapters from the iPhone 12, the agency says. Procon-SP is also skeptical of Apple’s environmental-impact claims, noting that the company didn’t offer to recycle old iPhone power adapters.

    Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But Procon-SP says the company argues that existing iPhone owners already own a compatible charger. Thus, there’s no need for Apple to churn out extra power adapters and add more carbon emissions to the planet. 

    The Procon-SP review could result in a fine if Apple is found to have violated local consumer protection laws. European lawmakers have also been calling on Apple to build iPhones with a USB-C port instead of a Lightning one in an effort to reduce the number of compatible chargers consumers need to own.