Beijing shuts down many public transport routes, orders work from home in most populous district
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Kejriwal govt to make Electricity subsidy in Delhi optional from Oct 1st due to huge loses; Can end it altogether after Delhi MCD elections.

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CAA will be implemented as soon as possible - says Union Home Minister Amit Shah in West Bengal's Siliguri

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Locals in Hong Kong have started pulling down Facial-Recognition system installed by Chinese CCP regime to collect datas.

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"Its a Free Country"; Elon Musk not worried if Twitter employees quit after buyout.

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France to increase aid to Ukraine from €1.7 billion to €2 billion - Emmanuel Macron
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Bangladesh detains 450 Rohingya celebrating Eid on beach.

Bangladesh has banned the 920,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees from leaving camps surrounded by barbed wire in the southeast of the country.

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Days of Parag limited; Elon Musk expected to serve as temporary CEO of Twitter after deal closes- CNBC

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25 year Hindu Man killed by his muslim wife's family in Hydrabad
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⚡️Russia expels seven Danish diplomats in tit-for-tat response - Foreign Ministry


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🇹🇷 Turkey's annual inflation rate accelerated up to 69.97% in April
- Turkish Statistical Institute.


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Fastag system to end soon in Bharat, GPS toll coming.
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Under the GPS-based toll collection system, the customers will pay the toll according to the distance travelled on the highway. The new laws will charge tolls on a pro-rata basis. This means the more you use the highways, the higher amount of toll you will need to pay. Currently, the tolls are charged at the toll booths at a stepped price.
The GPS-based toll collection system starts recording the journey as soon as the car starts driving on the tolled road. It stops when the car exits. The user needs to pay the toll depending on the kilometres he has driven on the expressway.

The system is already working in several European countries and it is quite successful as well. 


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Israeli Police in action at Al-Aqsa Mosque after Palestinians throw stones at the forces.


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🇫🇷 French President Emmanuel Macron’s 'La République en Marche!' party is changing its name to ' Renaissance '.


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Shareholders SUE Netflix For Lying About Subscriber Growth and defrauding investors by failing to disclose dropping subscriber numbers.


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Guwahati High Court Chief Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Gujarat High Court judge Justice Jamshed Burjor Pardiwala have been recommended for elevation to the Supreme Court.


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Elon Musk has secured $7.14bn of funding towards his Twitter takeover from investors including Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, Sequoia Capital, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Qatar Holding and Dubai-based Vy Capital also involved.

Twitter shares were up by around 2.9% on the news.


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WHO has estimated 14.9 million excess global COVID-19 associated deaths in 2020, 2021.


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ED's Major Raids in Jharkhand illegal Mining Case.

Raids are on at 20 places in Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana and NCR.

Downfall of Hemant Soren's Govt is imminent.

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Former Chief Business Officer of WhatsApp says he regrets the $22 billion sale to Facebook.

In a series of tweets he writes,

WhatsApp was founded in 2009 by Jan Koum and Brian Acton. 2 years in (2011), I joined the team as Chief Business Officer. And in 2012/13, we were approached by Zuck & Facebook about an acquisition. We declined and decided to keep growing instead.

But then…

FB approached us again early 2014 with an offer that made it look like a partnership:

• Full support for end-to-end encryption
• No ads (ever)
• Complete independence on product decisions
• Board seat for Jan Koum
• Our own office in Mountain View
• Etc.

As we began talking through the acquisition, and made our stance very clear:

- No mining user data
- No ads (ever)
- No cross-platform tracking

FB and their management agreed and we thought they believed in our mission.

Of course, that’s not what happened.

In 2014, WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for $22 billion (in cash & stock).

But by 2017 and 2018, things started to look very different…

Until eventually, in 2018, right as details of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal came out, Brian Acton sent a tweet that sent shockwaves through the social media stratosphere.
Today, WhatsApp is Facebook’s second largest platform (even bigger than Instagram or FB Messenger).

But it’s a shadow of the product we poured our hearts into, and wanted to build for the world.

And I am not the only one who regrets that it became part of Facebook when it did.


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