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Set up anti-narcotics task force in Goa: Congress
Panaji: The Congress Friday demanded a special anti-narcotics task force and implementation of recommendations made by legislative committee probe on the police-politician-drug mafia nexus in order to made Goa drug-free by 2016.
In an official statement issued Friday, party organising secretary Durgadas Kamat said that the task force should be set up within a month and should comprise of officials from the Narcotics Control Bureau, Enforcement Directorate, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Custom and Central Excise and non-corrupt and honest officials from Goa Police “which would help to stop the growing network of politicians, police drug mafia nexus in Goa and also would keep watch on the music festivals which are been organised along the state’s coastline”.
The Congress also said that Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar’s statement that Goa’s reputation as a narco-tourism destination was fuelled by tourists was wrong.
“In 2013-2014 itself, a total of 62 locals and 23 foreigners were arrested, and this contradicts Parsekar’s statement which said that drug trade is increasing due to tourists,” Kamat said.
The Congress also demanded that the government should act on the findings of a legislative committee probe which indicated at a police-politician drug mafia nexus in Goa.
The probe committee report tabled last year had indicted a former home minister’s son as well as a now former director general of police, among others, for their links to drug trade.
While the Goa government has officially maintained that there is no organised narcotics syndicate in Goa, local police have conducted at least one drug raid every week over the last three years.
Goa is one of the top beach tourism destinations in the country and attracts nearly three million tourists every year.
The state also has a reputation for easy availability of cheap narcotic substances.
International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
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Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
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Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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