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Srinagar-Jammu highway shut for third day
Srinagar: The strategic Jammu-Srinagar highway remained closed on Friday for the third consecutive day due to fresh landslides, leaving scores of vehicles stranded on the over 300-kilometre long road.
“Srinagar-Jammu national highway will remain closed today because of fresh landslides due to heavy rains during the night in Magarkoot and Battery Cheshma areas of the road in Ramban district,” a senior traffic department official told here.
“No vehicle will be allowed to move on the highway today (Friday) as road clearance operations are going on,” said the official.
More than 1,500 vehicles including trucks, public and passenger transport vehicles and private vehicles are stranded at safer places along the highway that forms the landlocked Valley’s only surface link with the rest of the country.
Heavy nightlong rain in the Valley has again caused rise in the water levels of rivers, lakes and mountain streams here, though the Jhelum river is still flowing below the danger mark.
“Water level of Jhelum river was 13.7 feet at Sangam (Anantnag), it was 15.6 feet at Ram Munshibagh (Srinagar) and 11.3 at Asham (Bandipora) today (Friday) morning. The river is flowing much below the danger mark,” an official of the flood control department said on Friday.
Jammu and Kashmir cabinet minister Naeem Akhtar told IANS in Srinagar: “There is no flood threat anywhere in the state.”
“All the rivers are flowing below the danger mark. Spring season is otherwise also the wettest season in Kashmir, but because of last year’s unprecedented floods the absorption capacity of soil has been reduced and this is one reason for water-logging at many places,” he said.
“I want to assure everybody including the tourists to come here and be our guests. We are opening the famous Tulip Garden in Srinagar tomorrow. So come and enjoy your stay in the cool valley without any threat of floods.”
Most residents of flood prone areas in the city like Rajbagh, Jawahar Nagar, Wazirbagh, Gogjibagh and Bemina who had shifted to the houses of friends and relatives in the safer old city areas have started returning home.
Sonam Lotus, director of the local weather office has said there would be improvement in weather from Saturday.
“The western disturbance active over Jammu and Kashmir has weakened. We are expecting improvement in weather conditions from tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon,” Lotus said.
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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