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Court gets tough on violations on Shimla’s sealed roads
Shimla: The 
has directed the government to file a status report on a list of permit holders who are authorised to drive vehicles on roads sealed to traffic here.
The court directed government functionaries to file a fresh status reports indicating the steps taken by them to implement the mandate of the Shimla Road Users and Pedestrians (Public Safety and Convenience) Act of 2007.
Hearing a petition on vehicular problems of Shimla, a division bench of Chief Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir and Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan has directed, among others, the chief secretary and the principal secretaries of urban development and transport to remain present in the court Nov 24, the next date of hearing.
The high court, in an order made available to the media Tuesday, observed the vehicles of the central government were also plying on the sealed and restricted roads.
It sought a status report indicating how the Indian Army vehicles were plying on the Mall Road and whether the requisite permits have been issued in terms of its earlier directions. It also sought information about the particulars of all the permits.
“The government has furnished the list of permit holders, which, on the face of it, appears not in tune with the mandate of the act,” said the bench while favouring the practice of auto-free zones in Shimla.
In addition to filing the compliance reports, they are directed to pinpoint who is or are the officer(s) who issued the permits in violation of the provisions of the pedestrians act and are also directed to cancel all those permits, which have been issued in breach of the mandate of the act.
The high court also sought details about the police, traffic officers and officials, who are manning the entry points, and what actions they have drawn if they have noticed any violation.
Shimla has several auto-free zones to facilitate unrestricted movement of pedestrians.
The strolling culture of Shimla, which served as the summer capital of the British India between 1864 and 1939, was developed by the colonial rulers.
The Mall and the historic Ridge, an open space just above the Mall and now a hub of commercial activity, were once ‘British only’ streets meant for strolling.
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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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.
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