The “Baba ka Dhaba” story which saw different unexpected developments and has caught the consideration of individuals since it surfaced last year at long last took a positive turn today. The food blogger liable for making “Baba Ka Dhaba” an overnight hit has imparted a cheerful picture to the old couple who had in past blamed him for cheating cash gave by individuals.
“Everything is great that closures well,” tweeted Gaurav Wasan – whose video highlighting the battle of the old couple had prompted gifts and enormous footfall at the unassuming restaurant – close by the photograph.
This comes after a conciliatory sentiment by Kanta Prasad – the proprietor of the dhaba. In a video shared by another food blogger, Mr Prasad, with collapsed hands, can be heard saying, “Gaurav Wasan was not a cheat. We never considered him a cheat”.
A year prior, many individuals lined up external the restaurant in south Delhi after the video, in which ”Baba Ka Dhaba” proprietor mournfully discussed the deficiency of business because of the pandemic, became a web sensation. The proprietor likewise got liberal gifts from the nation over.
The philanthropic signal by the blogger, nonetheless, transformed into an enormous debate after Mr Prasad blamed him for monetary misappropriation. The online media influencer denied the accuses and guarded himself of his bank proclamations.
“The individual who excuses is a greater individual than who commits an error – That is the thing that my folks have shown me,” said Mr Wasan in his most recent tweet in Hindi.
After his freshly discovered riches, the 80-year-old dispatched an eatery in a similar territory of Malviya Nagar where he ran his stand for a very long time. Be that as it may, he is once again at his food slow down now after his new pursuit neglected to take off.
“On a speculation of ₹ 1 lakh, we just procured ₹ 35,000, that is the reason we shut it. I’m glad running my old diner as the client footfall is acceptable here,” he was cited as saying by news organization ANI.
Continue ReadingTwitter has lost the pined for “safe harbor” invulnerability in India over its inability to choose legal officials on the organization’s part in accordance with the upgraded IT rules, and its top leaders, including the nation overseeing chief, could now confront police addressing and criminal risk under IPC over ‘unlawful’ and ‘incendiary’ content posted on the stage by any client.
With this, Twitter turns into the lone American stage to have lost the defensive safeguard – allowed under Section 79 of the IT Act, despite the fact that others, for example, Google, YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram stay ensured, official sources said.
“The organization had been given additional chance to consent to the rules, however it has neglected to conform to the upgraded IT Rules regardless of our rehashed extravagance, including an augmentation. With this, Twitter has lost its protected harbor security, and now stands presented to activity under the IPC for any outsider unlawful substance,” an administration source told TOI.
Organizations needed to initially select the officials by May 25, however many were deferred as they accused the Coronavirus-instigated lockdown and terminations, and other specialized difficulties for their inability to consent to the guidelines. Twitter had made certain arrangements at first, yet these were immediately dismissed by the public authority as they were outer lawful experts or individuals not straightforwardly utilized on the moves of the organization’s US parent.
“We are keeping the IT Ministry advised about the advancement at each progression of the cycle. A between time boss consistence official has been held and subtleties will be imparted to the Ministry straightforwardly soon. Twitter keeps on bending over backward to conform to the new Guidelines,” the representative said.
The Ministry said, notwithstanding, that it is yet to get any subtleties from the organization. “We lack any subtleties from Twitter,” a source said.
The public authority unmistakably looks despondent at the means started by the organization, particularly as it accepts that rehashed updates and surprisingly the impermanent unwinding – which was reached out as a “altruism motion” — didn’t yield a lot of result.
The public authority had on June 5 gave “one final notification” to Twitter, requesting that it agree with the legal arrangements under the enhanced IT Rules or, in all likelihood hazard losing legitimate insusceptibility from any outsider substance posted on the stage. The organization had then guaranteed the public authority that it would make the arrangement in seven days, however the public authority actually anticipates an insinuation in such manner.
Continue ReadingThe Covid pandemic has managed a devastating hit to the Indian travel and the travel industry and the whole worth steel to the area is probably going to lose around Rs 5 lakh crore or $65.57 billion, as indicated by an investigation by industry chamber CII and accommodation counseling firm Hotelivate.
The coordinated area alone is probably going to lose $25 billion. The figures are very disturbing and the business needs prompt measures for endurance, as per the CII-Hotelivate report.
“This is the one of the most exceedingly terrible emergencies at any point to hit the Indian the travel industry affecting all its geological fragments – inbound, outbound and homegrown, practically all travel industry verticals – recreation , experience, legacy, MICE, voyage, corporate and specialty portions,” it said.
The shut down and log jam which was at first expected to influence income streams till October, have now demonstrated something else. Patterns are right now demonstrating just 30% of inhabitance in inns till the beginning of one year from now, with inns seeing a 80 percent to 85 percent disintegration in income streams, it said.
“The Covid pandemic has given a devastating hit to the Indian travel and the travel industry industry…The whole worth steel to Travel and The travel industry is probably going to lose around (Rs) 5 lakh crore or $65.57 billion, with the coordinated area alone prone to lose $25 billion,” it said.
As indicated by the investigation, inhabitance was at its top in January this year at 80% followed by February at 70%, plunging to 45 percent in Spring and afterward to the most minimal at 7% in April.
In May, June, July and August inhabitances were at 10%, 12%, 15% and 22 percent, individually, it added.
The CII-Hotelivate study projected that in September inhabitance will be at 25%, 28% in October, 30% in November and 35 percent in December.
In a most dire outcome imaginable, the assessed misfortune in lodging for both marked and unbranded fragments in 2020 is $19.31 billion (around Rs 1.42 lakh crore), it added.
Then again, the report said the assessed income loss of travel planners and visit administrators in a most dire outcome imaginable is $4.77 billion (about Rs 35,070 crore).
Be that as it may, in the most ideal situation, industry income will improve by 10-15 percent, said the report, to which online travel administrations MakeMyTrip additionally contributed.
Continue ReadingI have been following the battle of social media giants with the new IT laws and rules that the government has brought in to reign big tech . As an artist and a writer my position is clear freedom of speech and expression is absolute and 100% there is no other way . The government is right now fleeing its muscles and trying to show the world that it is the Big Boss . The narrative that wants to project is not what comes out on social media , since the platform is for the common man they vent out their anger vehemently on Twitter , Facebook and WhatsApp . The government has been slammed on social media for the past several months and thus they want to reign in big tech .
I have to state that Big Tech is already regulated Facebook has tens of thousands of fact checkers and content evaluators , who remove content t according to pre set guidelines which can be downloaded from the social media pages. These guidelines and policies are exhaustive and very detailed and the content checkers are trained how to judge content and follow these guidelines that’s their job . Now the government is not happy with social media’s evaluation of content and feel they have the right to judge what content should be removed and what shouldn’t . That’s where the issue is the government wants to regulate big tech to push their agenda and their narrative . The government is not interested in protecting free speech they are only interested in hearing what they want to hear . WhatsApp and Twitter have taken the government to court . In some countries they have won court battles , but if the sate of India wants to get you they are going to get you . I believe that after the initial skirmished with the law the social media giants will relent and bend . But as of now heated debate will rage on as to what is the right way to do things .People will quote the law and sections of the law while lawyers from either side make money the game and the show ill go on with some compromise in the middle.
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Continue ReadingThe battle between social media giants and the government is now being watched by the international press as well . After WhatsApp sued the government stating that it cannot comply with new government rules as it infringes on user security and privacy and the demand for originator of content will requires them to make technical changes to their system worldwide which will demolish end to end encryption of user messages allowing the government to peek into conversations of the user .
Twitter said that it fears for the security of its employees and is fearful of intimidation by government agencies and the police as notices where served to twitter India head in Delhi . One of the rules that had come into force since yesterday is that grievance redressal officers need to be appointed who can be asked to remove an objection posts by the government within thirty six hours . The officer will then have to bare any criminal liability for content posted by third party on their platforms . This is a clear case of government bullying the social media where the people at large have been panning and lambasting the government for mis handling of COVID and the farmers protests against the new farm laws .
This vehement criticism has lead to the BJP loosing the elections in some of the key state elections especially in West Bengal . The COVID second wave has made people direct their anger on the ruling BJP as thousands have lost their lives this has lead to their defeat in the UP municipal elections also . The events of the last six moths has so rattled the ruling party that now they want to shoot the messenger which in this case is the Platform itself .
The new rules will require both technical changes in the platform and organizational changes as some one with in the company would be held liable . India is a big market for big tech and some platforms have asked for more time to understand the guidelines since they do not want to loose a big market in India . But if the government pushes hard some platforms will be forces to exit the country as the financial liability will not be enough for them to sustain profitability . Before the rules came into effect the social media platforms where given immunity against any libel for third party content posted on their site . Now with the heavy criticism the BJP has received they want to arm twist the platforms by taking away that immunity .
Some one will be going to jail and it might be that some platforms will pull out as India will become unviable for them to operate in . Seeing this the government is Pushing KOO as the new desi twitter and most politicians and government officials are on KOO as well . Which means government fro sure wants to push twitter out of the country as notices where served to them first . Twitter is the politicians favourite platform but now they want to ring it in and push KOO . This is not about the users right to privacy and free speech issue it is an issue of a sulking government who has been stung by peoples criticism trying to shoot very platforms that carry the voice of the common man who feels aggrieved .
Lets wait and watch what unfold next follow this story on www.tikkustravelthon.in
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