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Nightlong rain keeps Kashmiris on edge
Srinagar: Incessant overnight rain on Thursday kept thousands of locals on tenterhooks, though the water level in Jhelum and all other major rivers of the valley did not rise to danger level.
“Today morning, the water level of the Jhelum river was 12 feet at Sangam (Anantnag). It was 15.15 feet at Ram Munshibagh (Srinagar) and 11 feet at Asham (Bandipora). At all these places, the river is flowing below the danger mark,” a senior official of the flood control department told on Thursday in Srinagar.
Despite this, thousands of locals living in low lying areas and along banks of rivers and other water bodies remained on tenterhooks throughout the night .
“We have been awake for the whole night looking anxiously at the muddy water flowing in the river,” said Mehrajuddin, a resident of Abi Guzar area in Srinagar city.
During September 2014 floods, Abi Guzar, adjacent to city centre Lal Chowk, had been inundated by flood waters as the embankment of the Jhelum river had caved in.
Police in Kothibagh sub-division of the city under whose jurisdiction areas like Abi Guzar, Residency Road, Maisuma and Kralkhud fall, patrolled the river bank throughout the night with searchlights to watch for any breaches.
Similarly, in all other areas situated close to the Jhelum river in Anantnag, Srinagar, Baramulla and Bandipora districts officials of the local flood control department and the state police maintained nightlong vigil.
Teams of state disaster response force (SDRF) and national disaster response force (NDRF) maintained vigil at vulnerable places along the river banks and also plugged some minor breaches those occurred during the night.
More than 2500 people from different flood prone areas have been shifted to safer places as a precautionary measure during the last 24 hours in Jammu and Kashmir.
Sonam Lotus, director of the local Met office told IANS that inclement weather is likely to continue for another 24 hours in the state with possibilities of moderate to heavy rain at many places.
“From tomorrow onwards, we are expecting improvement in the overall weather conditions as the Western Disturbance causing the present conditions is we akening,” Lotus said on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the strategic Jammu-Srinagar highway which was opened for one-way light vehicular traffic yesterday was again shut due to landslides in Ramban district of Jammu region.
More than five hundred passenger vehicles are stranded at different points at safer places on the highway, officials said IANS in Srinagar.
“There have been fresh landslides on the road at Magarkoot and some other places. The landslides are being cleared so that stranded vehicles are cleared to pass. No traffic will, however, be allowed to move on the highway from either Srinagar or Jammu today (Thursday),” a senior traffic department official said on Thursday.
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.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.
Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.
The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.
“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.
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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