"Dialogue with Taliban important for peace in Pakistan."
Nawaz Sharif
"Dialogue with Taliban important for peace in Pakistan."
Nawaz Sharif
There was a time when new entrants into journalism were taught the difference between information, misinformation and disinformation. The Editor would wag his finger at the young recruits and sternly warn them against indulging in peddling either misinformation or disinformation. Media’s job was to inform – those hurt by that information would take recourse to misinformation and disinformation. In response, it was the media’s job to expose both.
Such lessons are no longer given; many editors who now head news organisations have elected to forget the lesson they were given. This either suits their purpose to grab eyeballs or because theirs’ is a command performance. Like Read More...
This being the first post on Technology Walla, let us take a look at some latest Indian digital stats.
Mobiles
As per TRAI's latest report, India's mobile connections base at the end of December 2012 stands at 864.72 million. While the active mobile connections, based on VLR (Visitor Location Register), is 701.60 million.
Top 5 mobile operators in the country are Airtel (181.9 mln), Vodafone (147.4 mln), Reliance (118.5 mln), Idea (113.9 mln) and BSNL (99.9 mln).
Usage reports of Opera Mobile and StatCounter put Nokia as the top used mobile brand followed by Samsung.
Internet and Broadband
India’s broadband subscriber base is 14.98 million at the end of December Read More...
Today, April 13th, is the anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre during the British Raj in Amritsar in 1919. It was a Sunday. The Wikipedia says:
On Sunday, 13 April 1919, Dyer was convinced of a major insurrection and thus he banned all meetings. On hearing that a meeting of 15,000 to 20,000 people including women, children and the elderly had assembled at Jallianwala Bagh, Dyer went with fifty riflemen to a raised bank and ordered them to shoot at the crowd. Dyer continued the firing for about ten minutes, until the ammunition supply was almost exhausted; Dyer stated that 1,650 rounds had been fired, a number which seems to have been derived by counting empty cartridge cases Read More...
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s induction into the BJP Parliamentary Board -- the apex decision making body of the party -- has sent Congress into a tizzy.
Senior Congress leader and Union Minister Kapil Sibal said Modi will pose a challenge to the BJP in the next general election. As if that was not enough, Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi went on to add that the Gujarat Chief Minister will prove to be ‘Yamraj’ for the BJP in the 2014 election.
Congress is finding it extremely difficult to come to terms with Modi being given new responsibilities in the BJP. Modi’s popularity is growing by leaps and bounds. The Gujarat Chief Minister has started giving Congress Read More...
On Saturday, Internet giant Yahoo! acquired popular blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion. If this unnerves the diarist crowds that chronicle the mundane details of their everyday life on Tumblr, I will not be too quick to blame them for it.
The Yahoo! of today is a feeble shadow of the mighty force that it once used to be on the world wide web. Over the years, the company has assimilated many popular services into its folds, among them GeoCities (the free web hosting service that was once the third most visited website in all of the Internet) and Flickr (the Internet's favourite photo sharing service before the Facebook started flexing its muscles). But by and large, almost all of Read More...
The Akhilesh Government recently approached court for withdrawal of the terror charges against Tariq Kasmi in connection with the 2007 Gorakhpur blast case and hence opened a Pandora’s box of many such cases where politicians advocate for removing heinous crime cases against perpetrators just for the sake of vote bank politics.
Samajwadi Party had promised in its Assembly election manifesto that innocent Muslims, who were implicated under the false terror charges will be released after it will come in power and the State Government is obliging ‘the community’ with that only.
There is nothing wrong if any innocent was implicated in false terror charges be released but that is Read More...
एक समय था जब अरविंद केजरीवाल अनशन का ऐलान करते थे तो सरकारी खेमे में हड़कंप मच जाता था। सरकार के नुमाइंदे केजरीवाल से बात करने पहुंच जाते थे और उन्हें अनशन तोड़ने की सलाह देते थे। मगर इस बार ऐसा कुछ नहीं हुआ। 14 दिन के अनशन के बाद आज केजरीवाल ने खुद ही अनशन तोड़ने की Read More...
Pakistan on Saturday witnessed one of the highest turnouts ever in the general election not only at polling booths in cities across the country but also on Twitter.
Despite attacks by the Taliban and other terrorist groups in Karachi, Hyderabad and Quetta that killed 16 people, eager Pakistani netizens took to Twitter to celebrate their biggest achievement ever: voting in the national election. They wasted no time in exhorting others to do the same with no fear.
#NoFearKhi (No fear Karachi) was the top trend for most of Saturday as blasts ripped through Pakistan’s largest city killing at least 11 people. The hashtag #iVoted captured the euphoria of many first time Read More...
It happened again. Just when outrage, shock and anger over the December 16, 2012 sexual assault had begun to fade from public memory, came the deeply unsettling news about a five-year-old child being repeatedly raped, battered and left to die in a small room in a non-descript corner of Delhi. The horror of the details of the manner in which that child, too small to even fathom what happened to her, was barbarically raped and foreign objects found inserted in her body haunts me as I write this.
How twisted a mind does one have to possess or how acutely pathetic a sexual urge can drive one to do something as heinous as this? Even if there is an answer, no it simply cannot be right. Read More...
Kashmiri women watch devotees light wooden torches as they participate in a torch light procession on a hilltop near the shrine of Sakhi Zain-ud-din Wali, at Aishmuqaam, about 80 km south of Srinagar, India, on Wednesday, April 24, 2013. The farming community in south Kashmir celebrated the festival of lights Thursday to mark the beginning of the agricultural season when they begin ploughing their fields after the end of winter. Sakhi Zain-ud-din Wali is said to have vanquished a demon on this day, symbolising a triumph of good over evil. AP photo by Mukhtar Read More...
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