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The video invasion: How video is dominating the Indian cyberspace

V ideos are at the podium of Indian internet consumption charts. With almost 432 million mobile internet users and a data speed average of 4.1 Mbps, Indian mobile internet users are buffering actively into videos.  According to the Visual Networking Mobile Index by the networking giant CISCO Indian users logged in from their mobiles to access video the most, currently, at 49 percent, this figure is expected to grow to 75 percent by the year 2021. Leading the roster is Youtube undisputedly with over 41.2 million regular users , Facebook video, from the social media giant, also is catching up with over 430 million views just in the month of December. video Create your own infographics There are few interesting subtexts in this growth story, The growth of user-generated content on youtube  Youtube, India's largest video-on-demand service has seen a huge influx in the percentage of content generated by commoners, it now stands at a whopping 90% according ...

A lookback at the demonetization saga

F our months has passed since demonetization, and Prime Minister, Narendra Modi is at his all time popularity heights with the election victories in over three states. Indisputably, the demonetization saga truly was a historic event of modern India. This definitely calls for a look back, number wise. The numbers of demonetization Reportedly banks have received 14.97 trillion rupees of the 15.4 trillion rupees of currency demonetized. But, there has not been any official account of the exact figures. The state, however, expected a large chunk of money to get filtered out in the process, this led to a slew of changes in the objective of the whole exercise. There were upheavals of global scale against the policy from academic, economic and political poles. Among the voices against it, there were reports of low cash component in the illegal money flow system of India. Despite all this, the government completed the exercise completely without any partial rollbac...

Residents of Indirangar, Bangalore, protest against over-commercialization of the locality

The residential areas of Indiranagar has seen an exponential rise in the number pubs and eateries R esidents of Indiranagar, Bangalore, furious at the establishments, mostly pubs for ruining their peaceful existence have taken the matter into the streets. The residents, mostly senior citizens, have organised night protest marches across the area. "What we have to say is on the placards we hold. This protest is to show the disconnect between Governance and Resident Welfare," a resident said. Protest by Indiranagar Residents from Ajith M S on Vimeo . They allege that mushrooming of pubs and other eateries in large number have made drunken brawls, obstructive parking, loud music till three in the morning a common thing.Several inspections by Karnataka Pollution Control Board have found noise levels considerably higher than the permissible limits. Commercial establishments are strictly prohibited in residential areas with a road less that 40 feet as p...

Who is that rapist: Data on the identity of rapists exposes a disturbing detail

    For representational purposes only (Source: pixabay) R apes are the most talked about crime against women, but strangely this is one crime where the offended is given more attention than the offender. And, the identity and circumstances of the offended is given prominence even during the court trials. Tabulating the offenders The offender is often dismissed either as a stranger in frustration or one who is provoked. This construct will be disturbed by the crime statistics of 2015 released recently by the National Crime Records Bureau. The statistics characterised the offenders in accordance with their relation to the offended. Rapists of India Create pie charts These numbers add to the goriness of the offenders, it was observed that a total of 488 rapes were committed by the father, brother or grand father of the offended, 2679 cases were committed by close relatives and a whopping 9508 cases by neighbours alone. In total 95.5 percent of the reported ...