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IC-814 hijack: BJP hits back at Congress criticism
New Delhi: The BJP on Friday hit back at the Congress’ criticism of its handling of the 1999 IC-814 hijack crisis, and said the decision to release terrorist was taken at the “highest level”.
“On Kandahar, consultations were held at the highest level by senior leaders of National Democratic Alliance,” Bharatiya Janaata Party spokesperson M.J. Akbar told reporters here.
Former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) A.S. Dulat on Thursday said no clear instructions were given to police on December 24, 1999, when the hijacked Indian Airlines plane landed in Amritsar. Because of this, the hijackers took off the plane to Kandahar in Afghanistan, he added.
The Congress, reacting to the revelation based on Dulat’s comment that the government “goofed up” in its response, demanded an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
On the Congress’ demand, Akbar said: “It was a national crisis and in the spirit of the (Atal Bihari) Vajpayee government, consultations were held with all the parties. Everybody was kept in the loop.”
However, the Congress has termed Dulat’s statements as “disturbing facts”.
“They (the BJP) have compromised the interests of the country whenever they have been in power. Who was behind these decisions? The prime minister should break his silence and apologise to the country,” Congress spokesperson Ajoy Kumar said.
But Akbar challenged the Congress party and asked: “Should those 400 plus Indians had been allowed to die?”
On Kandahar, “the Congress has a very convenient memory… it’s regrettable… perhaps they have occasional lapses of amnesia when it suits them,” he added.
Dulat’s book, “Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years”, is slated to be released shortly.
The BJP leader also demanded an apology from the Congress for raising questions about Modi’s integrity, citing Gujarat riots.
“There is no question of the prime minister’s apology regarding 2002 riots. He was exonerated in the matter,” Akbar said.
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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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