# Huawei

• Faced with income tax searches, exclusion from 5G telecom trials and increasing restrictions on research collaborations, Chinese telecom major Huawei is planning to downsize operations at its research and development facilities in India.
• The move can affect many of the 3500 jobs that the company has created in India over last two decades.
• The case against Huawei is part of a series of government measures aimed at checking Chinese corporate influence in the country.
• Huawei has been banned or restricted in many Western countries on the suspicion or allegations of data theft and syping for the Chinese government.

# UPI

• The finance ministry on Sunday called UPI services a “digital public good” and said the government was not considering levying charges for them.
• The statement comes four days after the Reserve Bank of India floated a discussion paper on levying charges in payment systems such as the UPI, NEFT and IMPS.
• Officials aware of the deliberations behind the Central Bank’s discussion paper said the idea was only to help the firms providing UPI services recover their operational costs, perhaps by levying a charge as low as 1 or 2 paise per transactions.

# Singapore

• Singapore’s prime minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on Sunday the country will repeal a colonial era law criminalizing gay sex.
• Although, he maintained that the government will continue to “uphold” Marriage as between a man and a woman.
• Inherited from the British colonial era, section 377A of singapore’s penal code penalises sex between men with upto two years in jail.

# Pakistan

• Pakistan’s electronic media watchdog has banned television channels from broadcasting live speeches of former Prime minister Imran khan.
• Imran khan while addressing a public gathering on Saturday, threatened to file cases against top police officials, a woman magistrate, election Commission and political opponents over the treatment meted out to his aide Shahbaj gill.