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WhatsApp bans record over 45 lakh bad accounts in India in Feb

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New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp banned a record over 45 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of February, in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021, the company informed on Saturday.
Between February 1 and February 28, “4,597,400 WhatsApp accounts were banned and 1,298,000 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users”, WhatsApp said in its monthly compliance report.
The most popular messaging platform, which has nearly 500 million users in the country, received another record 2,804 complaint reports in February in the country, and the records “actioned” were 504.

“This user-safety report contains details of the user complaints received and the corresponding action taken by WhatsApp, as well as WhatsApp’s own preventive actions to combat abuse on our platform,” said a company spokesperson.
“We will continue with transparency to our work and include information about our efforts in future reports,” the spokesperson added.
Meanwhile, in a bid to empower millions of Indian social media users, Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar recently launched the Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC) that will look into their concerns regarding content and other issues.
The newly-formed panel, a move to strengthen the country’s digital laws to tame the Big Tech companies, will look into appeals by users against decisions of social media platforms.
The IT Ministry last month notified to establish three GACs as required under the recently amended IT Rules, 2021.

In a major push towards an open, safe, trusted and accountable Internet, the Ministry of Electronics and IT has notified some amendments aimed at protecting the rights of ‘Digital Nagriks’.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 1, 2023
In Jan, Feb 2023; 4.70 lakh tourists visited J&K; figure highest ever: LG Manoj Sinha

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Srinagar, Mar 19: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Sunday said Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing tourism boom as in just the first two months of the year 2023, 4.70 lakh tourists have visited the UT as the administration expects another record number of tourist arrivals in the ensuing year.
Addressing the gathering after inaugurating Asia’s largest Tulip garden, situated in the foothills of Zabarwan mountain range, overlooking Dal Lake in Srinagar, the LG said that tourism is picking up and tourists are visiting in large numbers to J&K. “In just January and February months, 4.70 lakh tourists visited J&K and the figure excludes Mata Vaishno Devi pilgrims,” the LG said as per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), adding that the figure is highest ever so far compared to past.
He said that in 2022, 1 Crore and 28 lakh tourists visited J&K and the figure is the highest in the past many decades.
He said that this year 16 tulips are in full bloom in the garden with 68 varieties. The garden is spread over 30 hectares of land. “I am glad to announce that we have a second Tulip garden at Patnitop where 2.5 lakh tulips are in full bloom. Efforts are on to keep both the gardens open throughout the year,” the LG said as per KNO. He thanked the gardeners for their hard work and keeping the garden ready in record time.
He said that EMARR group’s Rs 500 Cr investment in J&K will give confidence to other foreign players to invest in J&K. “I am sure we will see a huge investment in the Healthcare and hospitality sector, tourism, and other sectors,” the LG said.
He said that Prime Minister Narendera Modi changed the “taqdeer and tasveer” of J&K in the past three years—(KNO)
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( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

March 19, 2023
In Jan, Feb 2023; 4.70 lakh tourists visited J&K; figure highest ever: LG Manoj Sinha

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Srinagar, Mar 19: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Sunday said Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing tourism boom as in just the first two months of the year 2023, 4.70 lakh tourists have visited the UT as the administration expects another record number of tourist arrivals in the ensuing year.
Addressing the gathering after inaugurating Asia’s largest Tulip garden, situated in the foothills of Zabarwan mountain range, overlooking Dal Lake in Srinagar, the LG said that tourism is picking up and tourists are visiting in large numbers to J&K. “In just January and February months, 4.70 lakh tourists visited J&K and the figure excludes Mata Vaishno Devi pilgrims,” the LG said as per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), adding that the figure is highest ever so far compared to past.
He said that in 2022, 1 Crore and 28 lakh tourists visited J&K and the figure is the highest in the past many decades.
He said that this year 16 tulips are in full bloom in the garden with 68 varieties. The garden is spread over 30 hectares of land. “I am glad to announce that we have a second Tulip garden at Patnitop where 2.5 lakh tulips are in full bloom. Efforts are on to keep both the gardens open throughout the year,” the LG said as per KNO. He thanked the gardeners for their hard work and keeping the garden ready in record time.
He said that EMARR group’s Rs 500 Cr investment in J&K will give confidence to other foreign players to invest in J&K. “I am sure we will see a huge investment in the Healthcare and hospitality sector, tourism, and other sectors,” the LG said.
He said that Prime Minister Narendera Modi changed the “taqdeer and tasveer” of J&K in the past three years—(KNO)
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( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

March 19, 2023
Sri Lanka earned $169.9 mn from tourism in Feb

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Colombo: Sri Lanka earned $169.9 million from tourism in February, Tourism Minister Harin Fernando said on Monday.
Fernando told the media that the figure represented an increase from the $169.4 million a year earlier, reports Xinhua news agency.
Over 210,000 tourists arrived in Sri Lanka in the first two months of 2023, and $331.7 million were earned in the cited period, according to the Minister.
The South Asian country recorded 102,545 visitor arrivals in January and 107,639 in February.
The cumulative number of visitor arrivals for the year until March 8 was 234,547, an increase of 9.6 per cent from the same period of last year, he said.
Russia, India and Germany were Sri Lanka’s top three source markets of tourists so far in March, according to the Tourism Development Authority data.
Tourism, one of Sri Lanka’s leading foreign exchange earners, has suffered a setback due to the Covid-19 pandemic and domestic economic and political crises.
Sri Lanka aims to attract around 1.5 million tourists in 2023 and 3 million in 2024.

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March 13, 2023
Retail inflation dips marginally to 6.44 pc in Feb

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New Delhi: Retail inflation dipped marginally to 6.44 per cent in February, mainly on account of a slight easing in prices of food and fuel items, as per government data released on Monday.
The inflation rate based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) stood at 6.52 per cent in January and 6.07 per cent in February 2022.
The inflation rate for the food basket was 5.95 per cent in February, lower than 6 per cent in January.
Except for November and December 2022, retail inflation has remained above the RBI’s upper tolerance level of 6 per cent since January 2022.
The Reserve Bank has projected retail inflation at 6.5 per cent for 2022-23, with the January-December quarter at 5.7 per cent.
The central bank has been mandated by the government to ensure the retail inflation remains at 4 per cent with a margin of 2 per cent on either side.
To contain the rising prices, the RBI has hiked interest rates by 250 basis points since May last year. The latest rate hike of 25 basis points in February took the benchmark policy rate to 6.50 per cent.

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March 13, 2023
Pakistan’s remittances increase 4.9 pc in Feb: Central bank

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Islamabad: Remittances sent by overseas Pakistani workers increased by 4.9 per cent in February on a month-on-month basis, the central bank said.
The workers’ remittances recorded an inflow of $1.987 billion in February as compared to the previous month’s figure of $1.894 billion, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said based on its official data.
The SBP added that the remittances decreased by 9.5 per cent on a year-on-year basis.
With a cumulative inflow of $17.994 billion during the July-February period in the fiscal year of 2023, the remittances decreased by 10.8 per cent as compared to the same period last year, the figures showed.
Last month, the remittances mainly came from Saudi Arabia with $454.6 million, the United Arab Emirates with $324 million, Britain with $317 million, and the US with $219.4 million, according to the bank.
Workers’ remittances play an important role in Pakistan’s economy as they are one of the major sources of foreign exchange.
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March 11, 2023
Telangana: New drug de-addiction centres to function from Feb 28

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Hyderabad: Telangana health medical and family welfare department informed the state High Court that the newly established rehab centres would function from Tuesday.
Deaddiction centres take up treatment and care of persons who are addicted to alcohol or other drugs with the availability of various supporting medical care services or a unit attached to a well-equipped general hospital.
The addicts are given free treatment, yoga therapy and counselling services to develop strong willpower to resist the craving for drug abuse.
Secretary to government SAM Rizvi made the submission in response to a petition filed by social activist and advocate Mamidi Venu Madhav, seeking the development of de-addiction clinics in every district.
He further informed that six such medical facilities have already been established and are under operation in Osmania Medical College/Institute of Mental Health, Gandhi Medical College/Gandhi Hospital, Kakatiya Medical College/MGM Hospital, Government Medical College/GGH Nizamabad, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences/Hospital and Government Medical College/GGH Mahabubnagar.
These rehabilitation centres are much-needed relief with the state citing inter-state peddlers crashing into the cities luring youngsters into the consumption and illegal sale of drugs.
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February 28, 2023
LMVs To Ply On Both Sides Of Sgr-Jammu Highway On Feb 26

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SRINAGAR: The traffic police department on Saturday informed that LMVs besides Passenger and Private cars shall be allowed from both sides on Jammu-Srinagar national highway on Februay 26, subject to dry weather conditions and clearance of road.
As per the advisory issued by the traffic police headquarters, the heavy motor vehicles would be allowed to move towards Jammu from NAVYUG Tunnel (Qazigund side) after assessing the road and traffic situation on NH-44.
“TCU Srinagar shall liaise with TCU Ramban before releasing the traffic,” the advisory reads.
The traffic advisory reads that the traffic movement on Jammu Srinagar highway will remain suspended on March 3 and 4 in view of the repairs and maintenance to be carried out between Nashri and NAVYUG Tunnel.
“The government has directed the NHAI to carry out repairs and maintenance on NH-44 between Nashri and NAVYUG Tunnel. Because of this necessary repair work, traffic will remain suspended from Nashri towards NAVYUG Tunnel and vice versa from 0600 hrs on 3rd March to 0600 hrs on 4th March 2023,” the spokesman said.
“Moreover, similar dry day on NH-44 will also be observed on March 10 of 2023,” the spokesman said

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

February 25, 2023
Delhi HC to pronounce judgement on petitions challenging Agnipath scheme on Feb 27

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday said that it will pronounce its judgment on February 27 on three batches of pleas challenging the Centre’s Agnipath Scheme for recruitment in the armed forces.
Batches of petitions have been filed challenging the scheme, its recruitment process, and appointment of candidates.
The scheme, meant to recruit youth into the Indian Army for four years, will only keep 25 percent of the selected candidates after this period.
A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad had reserved its order on December 15.
The court had asked the lawyers to place on record their written submissions before vacations.
The Centre had said that they will file an affidavit on role, responsibilities, and hierarchy of the Agniveers.
The HC on December 14 questioned the Central government’s decision for different pay scale for Agniveers and regular sepoys (soldiers) in the Indian Army if their scope of work is the same.
Representing the Centre, Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati had said that Agniveer is a different cadre from the regular one.

In response, the same division bench had said: “Different cadre does not answer job profile, the question is work and responsibility.”
“If the job profile is the same, then how do you justify different pay? A lot will depend on the job profile. Get instructions on this and put it on an affidavit,” the HC had added.
Bhati had said that terms, conditions, and responsibilities of Agniveers are different from that of soldiers.
“Agniveer cadre has been created as a separate cadre. It will not be counted as a regular service. After serving as an Agniveer for four years, if he or she volunteers and is found fit, then his journey in the regular cadre begins,” she had submitted.
The Centre had said that this scheme was not hastily formulated, but with much study to enhance the morale of the youth and also skill mapping of Agniveers.
The ASG had said that a lot has gone during the past two years into taking this decision like numerous internal and external consultations, several meetings and consultations have also been held with the stakeholders.
Bhati had also argued that as Indian armed forces are the most professional armed forces in the world, they should be given much bigger leeway when they are taking such big policy decisions.
With dozens of petitions being filed on the scheme, its introduction led to people protesting countrywide.
Petitions were filed challenging the scheme, its recruitment process and appointment of candidates.
With the scheme envisaging that only 25 per cent of the selected candidates will be retained, petitioners claimed that the rest 75 per cent candidates will be left jobless after four years and there is no plan B for them.
“In six months, I have to develop physical endurance and learn to use these weapons. Six months is a very short time. We are going to compromise national security,” one of the petitioners who appeared had argued on December 12.
Arguments were also raised about whether the four-year term that Agniveers serve, will be counted in their overall service once a quarter of them are commissioned into the forces.
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February 24, 2023
Hyderabad: CJI Chandrachud to attend NALSAR’s convocation on Feb 25

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Hyderabad: Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud will attend the 19th annual convocation of NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad on February 25.
CJI Chandrachud will preside as the chief guest at the event and will be delivering the inaugural silver jubilee lecture cum convocation address.
Telangana High Court chief justice Ujjal Bhuyan and chancellor of NALSAR will preside over the convocation, while minister for law and justice, forests, environment, science and technology and endowments Indrakaran Reddy will be the guest of honour, said a press release.
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February 24, 2023