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NDA government excellent, always on action mode: Rajnath
Kolkata: Terming the one-year progress report of the NDA government as “excellent”, union Home minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the country has moved out of the crisis of policy paralysis and India’s rating has turned positive globally.
“Anybody reviewing the one-year performance of the NDA government will naturally arrive at the conclusion that under the leadership of (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi this government’s performance has been very excellent” the home minister said.
“If anybody does not want to use the word excellent, then he will admit the reality that for the past one year this government has always been in action mode,” Singh said.
He was addressing a media conference at the Press Club here on the first anniversary of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government.
“It is a fact that the after the BJP-led NDA government came to power at the Centre, the country’s credibility has gone up not only in India, but also abroad,” he said.
Attacking the Congress-headed United Progressive Alliance regime, which ruled the country from 2004 to 2014, the minister said it had become a victim of “policy paralysis”, which derailed the economy and created an all-round “despair”.
“But today, we can say with confidence that there has been a vast change in our economy from the micro to the macro-level. Economy has become very strong.”
He said while the fiscal deficit and the current account deficit had spiralled beyond control during the UPA regime, the Gross Domestic Product had remained around 5 percent.
He said the GDP has now increased to seven percent and exuded confidence that the country would see a double-digit GDP growth within three-four years.
The minister said among the G-20 countries, India’s economy is growing fast, while the fiscal deficit and the current account deficit were now controlled and stood at approximately four percent and 3.8 percent respectively.
Referring to international rating agency Moody’s, he said it has changed India’s rating from negative to positive.
He said during the UPA rule, there was an adverse impact on defence proposals and projects as proposals were not cleared. But during the past one year, 40 defence proposals have been cleared with a view to further strengthening the country’s security over.
The senior minister said the prices have come down, and ridiculed critics for arguing that the relief was the result of the reduction in crude oil rates in the international market.
“I would like to ask them, then why is it that it is only in India that prices are coming down? Why is it not happening in other countries?”
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Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
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“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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