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If India can replace China in UNSC then it would be a major development in geopolitics both for Asia and the world. To do such a thing, China needs to be removed from UNSC, but can it be done? Well, nothing has been mentioned about removing the members (permanent and non-permanent) of UNSC in the UN charter. Thus, the legal ways to remove China are: Amendment in Chapter 18th of the UN Charter , with 2/3 vote of General Assembly and all permanent members of UNSC, to install a provision to remove a member of UNSC It is obvious that China will veto such a provision until it threatens his membership. As per article 6 of the UN Charter, if any member nation is violating the principles consistently then that nation can be removed from the UNGA and thus automatically from the UNSC if it is a member. Again the caveat here is that it requires the recommendation of UNSC, of which China is a member and obviously it won’t help in its own removal. This is not a legal metho...

In India, there are some phones even cheaper than Android, such as: Feature phones from brands like Lava, Karbonn, Micromax, Nokia etc., which are only good for calling, sending important texts and enjoying music. Smart feature phones which are based on KaiOS such as Jio Phone 1,2, Nokia 8110 etc. This new OS supports 3G and 4G too, which are unavailable in traditional feature phones. Moreover, you can also watch movies, surf the internet, text over WhatsApp an FB etc. on KaiOS based phones. In India, instead of buying a traditional feature phone, one should buy a Smart-feature phone, due to more features at the same price. Source: Google images

Lava Pay  is a payment app launched by an old Indian Smartphone brand Lava , which provides payment services without the use of internet on the feature phones. It has been aimed for the 500 Million Indians who don’t have access to internet services and thus are bound to use the traditional cash-based method of payment and offline banking services. Customers will get this application preloaded in their new Lava feature phones or can get it installed in the old ones from the services centres. The respective banks will setup the UPI ID for the consumers, using which will be used for the payment services via this app, thus P2P transaction made possible. The rest of the process is the same as that of traditional UPI based payment services, requiring a phone number, passcode and the final confirmation message. Image source: Lava.