India, Jan. 16 -- Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday said while emerging technology has increased efficiency, its misuse has also presented serious challenges such as misinformation, cybercrimes and social disharmony caused by it, and called for effective solutions to counter the threat posed to democracies across the world.

He also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership is giving decisive resolutions to global challenges at a time when the world is looking at him for leadership.

Addressing the 28th conference of speakers and presiding officers of the Commonwealth in the historic Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan (the old Parliament building), the Speaker said that in India's over seven-decade-long parliamentary journey, democ...