China raises objections to India's ban on its apps
While China alleges that the ban is a violation of investors' rights,
India says stealing and profiling of data from india through the
apps is detrimental to the security of the country. The 59 apps
India has banned included social networks like TikTok and web
browser UC Browser.
NEW DELHI, June 30: Raising objections over India banning 59 Chinese apps,
the Chinese Government said on Tuesday that India had the responsibility to
uphold the "legitimate and legal rights" of international investors.
India had on Monday banned the apps for misusing them for activities "prejudicial
to the sovereignty and integrity" of the country. The banned apps included TikTok
and UC Browser. The Indian Government said these posed a serious threat to the
defence of the country and public order. The ban follows the stand-off between
the troops of the two countries at the LAC in Ladakh.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters in Beijing on
Tuesday that China is seriously concerned about the notice issued by India.
He said, "We are checking and verifying the situation."
The Indian Information Technology Ministry had said on Monday that it was blocking
the 59 apps because they are being used against the interests of the country.
The ban was imposed to ensure the sovereignty and security of the Indian cyberspace,
a Ministry statement said.
The Ministry has issued necessary orders to Google and Apple to take down these
apps from their stores. The internet providers and other telecom companies will
also be asked to block them.
There have been complaints that some mobile apps were stealing data for use
abroad. The mining and profiling of the data is harmful for the country. There
have been evidence that TikTok was snooping on users and was once banned.
"The compilation of these data, its mining and profiling by elements hostile
to national security and defence of India, which ultimately impinges upon the
sovereignty and integrity of India, is a matter of very deep and immediate concern
which requires emergency measures. At the same time, there have been raging
concerns on aspects relating to data security and safeguarding the privacy of
130 crore Indians," a statement from the Ministry of Electronics and Information
and Technology said.
The action followed a demand from traders and civil society to boycott Chinese
products and services after the June 15 clashes.
The banned apps include a wide spectrum of applications such as chat apps,
game apps and utility apps: Shein is an online apparel retailer, ShareIt and
ES File Explorer are used to manage files, Helo and Likee are social networks
like TikTok, Newsdog is a news aggregator, Alibaba's UC Browser is an internet
browser, internet search firm Baidu's Baidu Map and Baidu Translate, gaming
firm Tencent's WeChat and Clash of Kings.
The following are the 59 Chinese apps the Indian Government banned on Monday:-
1. TikTok 2. Shareit 3. Kwai 4. UC Browser 5. Baidu map 6. Shein 7. Clash of
Kings 8. DU battery saver 9. Helo 10. Likee 11. YouCam makeup 12. Mi Community
13. CM Browers 14. Virus Cleaner 15. APUS Browser 16. ROMWE 17. Club Factory
18. Newsdog 19. Beutry Plus 20. WeChat 21. UC News 22. QQ Mail 23. Weibo 24.
Xender 25. QQ Music 26. QQ Newsfeed 27. Bigo Live 28. SelfieCity 29. Mail Master
30. Parallel Space 31. Mi Video Call — Xiaomi 32. WeSync 33. ES File Explorer
34. Viva Video — QU Video Inc 35. Meitu 36. Vigo Video 37. New Video Status
38. DU Recorder 39. Vault- Hide 40. Cache Cleaner DU App studio 41. DU Cleaner
42. DU Browser 43. Hago Play With New Friends 44. Cam Scanner 45. Clean Master
- Cheetah Mobile 46. Wonder Camera 47. Photo Wonder 48. QQ Player 49. We Meet
50. Sweet Selfie 51. Baidu Translate 52. Vmate 53. QQ International 54. QQ Security
Center 55. QQ Launcher 56. U Video 57. V fly Status Video 58. Mobile Legends
59. DU Privacy
Five people were arrested from a banquet hall in Sector 51 Noida on Thursday
where they were called to hold a rave party in a trap laid by the animal
rights group, PFA. They named Yadav but he was not present.
Betting through Dubai-based Mahadev Book in India is conducted through a countrywide network. Probes reveal that the online gambling is worth several millions and top politicians, officials and celebs have been beneficiaries.
TAILPIECE: Polling dates for some States are round the corner. Top
politicians have begun their acrimonious debate who looted more, even as
Mahadev is washing their dirty laundry in the open ghat. Come what may,
one needs to seize power to amass "thy wretched pelf!" One simple
question is, why else one should spend lakhs or crores to get elected! A
question every Indian should ask to oneself at least once a day!
His inaction amounts to defeating the rights of the people of the State to
welfare measures sought to be implemented through the Bills, the Kerala
Government's petition submitted, while the State of Tamil Nadu remarked
that its "Governor is acting as a political rival."
Tailpiece: Coming up back to back, the petitions in their totality seem to question the provision of Raj Bhavan, and not motives of a Governor as a
person.
Hundreds of cars piled up behind the wreckage of crashes occurring one
after other in backing up - continuous crashes to the rhythm of metallic
clanks and bangs back to back. According to reports, some ops required
'Jaws of Life' to pull apart the mangled cars to save lives inside.
The pilots struggled with Emerson to thwart a shut-off as he reached for
the T-handles (see pix). Later he admitted to police he had taken
psychedelic mushrooms and had a "nervous breakdown."
Doctors reasoned how the incidence of heart attacks is spiking over time and
advise the simple way to play safely is to take a break and rehydrate
yourself.
But how come ten people, including children, die of cardiac arrest at
Garba in 24 hours, and that at different places of Gujarat? Garba had been going on
for six days, and every year it is celebrated.
Shocking news from the UK: Leading grocers have started bribing policemen with free food and drinks to persuade them to take action against shoplifters.
Shoplifting has risen by about 27 per cent in 10 major cities across the UK
this year. The cost of retail crime last year was $2.15 billion. Besides, “We
are seeing organised gangs threatening staff with weapons and emptying
stores," Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium,
said. Data shows that the police failed to respond to 73 per cent of serious
retail crimes that included assault and abuse of workers, apart from
shoplifting.
Harris said hip-hop is “the ultimate American art form” that “shapes every
aspect of American popular culture.” “Hip-hop culture is American
culture,” she said in a talk at her official residence at the US Naval
Observatory in Washington, D.C.
The social media had mixed reaction. There was much appreciation that
she dances better than any VP in American history. But some called her
"moves" as “cringe” while others did not like her pink pants - "pink pants
don’t look good.” In fact, her ensembles have always been incongruous.
"Let’s see how the (Governor's) Vice-Chancellors are given salary."
Mamata's extreme statements will put the Marxist Government in Kerala,
which is also facing similar issues, to shame. Has she begun the
countdown for a war on the streets?
It's true Mamata has come to see a conspiracy to demolish the established systems across the country, but lacks the ability to foresee what exactly is being pushed.
Brandishing a sword, Mahant Paramhans told reporters on Tuesday he
himself will behead MK Stalin's son for his remarks against Sanatan
Dharma in case nobody came forward to accept his offer he made in his
video. Udhayanidhi reacted to the saint's Monday video, "I will speak
more. I am the grandson of the artist who put his head on the rail track for
Tamil Nadu."
Somanath elaborated, "I am an explorer. I explore the Moon. I explore the inner
space. So it's a part of the journey of my life to explore both science and
spirituality. So I visit many temples and I read many scriptures. So try to find the
meaning of our existence and our journey in this cosmos. So it's a part of the
culture that we are all built to explore, find out the inner self as well as outer
self. So for the outer, I do science, for the inner I come to temples." (See videos)
Rao the mathematical legend had fathered the path-breaking Rao-Blackwell
theorem, one of the most important theorems in mathematical statistics, at the
age of 25. That brought him global fame. He is also famous for his Cramér-Rao
Bound inequality theorem relating to quality of estimators in statistics which has
had a profound bearing on applications of modern economics and several other
diverse fields. Simply put, with the pioneering statistician computation became a
tool to analyse even socio-economic challenges of modern times.
The alleged incident has received such a flash publicity that a standardised
city's hugely middle class population will have second thoughts about eating
outside for some time. Now everything on the table looks suspicious!
“All subjects directly connected to the people should be shifted to the State List. Particularly the subject of education. Only if this is done can cruel exams like NEET be abolished,” Stalin said. Education was moved from the State List to the Concurrent List with the 42nd Constitution Amendment made by the Central Government in 1976.
Decentralisation has been at the core of Tamil politics since the times of CN Annadurai. Stalin indicated there will be political changes in the offing.
TAILPIECE: While the Centre and the States are at loggerheads, it takes a
different cognitive acumen to know that entrance tests are not the way for
students' admission to courses.
As recently as Tuesday Craig Robertson had posted on Facebook: "Perhaps
Utah will become famous this week as the place a sniper took out Biden the
Marxist." Biden was scheduled to make his first visit to Utah as President
Wednesday afternoon.
Maruti is recalling 87,599 S-Presso and Eeco vehicles to inspect and possibly
replace parts in the steering system. All reputed companies around the
world do recall their products when a defect comes to light.
Meanwhile, a question arises why just in about a year so many accidents have
taken place involving Mercedes sent to India while the car has won safety awards
abroad? In most cases, the vehicle collided with divider, while manoeuvring a
turn. Was there a split second delay in the steering system coming to a grip
when at high speed? Did anybody in India bother to study a pattern in several
of these accidents that took place one after other?
Former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry died when his Mercedes-Benz-SUV hit
a divider in Gujarat. Cricketer Rishabh Pant's Mercedes-Benz-SUV rammed a divider
in Uttarakhand and smashed. It went up in flames but he escaped with injuries.
Brother of PM Narendra Modi, Prahlad Modi's Mercedes-Benz-SUV met with a similar
accident in Mysuru. And many more.
Experts blame violation of the Visual Flying Rules (VFR) for most of the
chopper crashes in the mountains as the leading cause. VFR means fly only
visually - because of the lack of navigation aids in remote areas or unreliability
of GPS-like aids in hilly terrains or a remote manipulation of instruments
in cases of sabotage - as the topography plays havoc especially in the monsoon
(mid-June to September).
Even when VFR is followed, most crashes occur due to CFIT (Controlled Flight
into Terrain) - that is, everything else is OK but the aircraft collides with
hills or trees hidden by the clouds. This also occurs mostly in the monsoon.
On Tueday with Manang, the chopper was brand new, pilot was highly experienced.
But it hit an 'invisible' tree and then crashed against a hillside. This
CFIT occurred when the pilot tried to dodge patches of clouds even as he was
following the VFR.
Simply put, everyone knows flying in the hills during the monsoon is risky,
but the companies want to make more money in any which case. This type of
tragedy is very frequently invited in the Indian hill State of Uttarakhand
as well, where pilots are even made to fly without the mandatory rest.