Modi claims he used digital camera, e-mail in 1980s!

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May 13, 2019

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an interview to Hindi news channel News Nation, has claimed to have used a digital camera as well as email during 1987-88.

While responding to a question about his fondness for gadgets, Modi said that he had been fascinated by technology long before he became the chief minister of Gujarat. He said that he had started using the ‘Stylus pen’ way back in the 1990s.

Modi continued by saying that, “Perhaps… I don't know if there were others… I first used a digital camera around 1987-88. Back then, very few people had e-mail”.

He claimed that he had taken a picture of LK Advani when he has at a rally in Viramgam Tehsil. He says that he had sent the photograph to Delhi. He adds that a colour photograph had been published the next day in Delhi. He further adds that Advani was very ‘surprised’ looking at the colour photograph.
 
Questions have been raised regarding the legitimacy of the Prime Minister’s claim. He has even been heavily ridiculed on Twitter. Congress social media head Divya Spandana was quick to respond to the viral clip featuring Modi.

First email service

The first email system was used by the American defence department Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANet)  in early 1973.

However, the first major commercial ISP (Internet Service Providers) came into existence between the 1990s and 1995. In this period, AOL, Prodigy, and CompuServe emerged top ISPs, which would give users an email address automatically. Later popular webmail services such as Hotmail hit the scene in 1996-97.

 In India,  Educational Research Network (ERNET) was the first use to the Internet in 1986. But it took almost a decade for the commercial service to reach the public. State-owned Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) officially commenced the internet on August 14, 1995.
 
Digital camera

Though the concept of digital camera emerged in 1975, the first commercial portable model dubbed DS-X by Fuji got sold first in Japan in December 1989. The images of the camera could be stored in a memory card.
Very few are aware that Apple is one of the pioneers in digital camera evolution. In 1994, Cupertino-based company launched Quicktake 100, wherein it could take digital images in colour and also be downloaded to a computer via USB port.

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January 30,2020

Jan 30: BJP leader and West Bengal party head, Dilip Ghosh has yet again made a controversial statement. He said that one has to go to jail in order to gain respect or become a political leader.

"You will not be a leader if you don't go to jail, if Police don't take you, then you must go there yourself. If they don't give you any scope, you do something to go to jail, only then will people respect you. There is no place for soft people in politics," ANI quoted Ghosh as saying.

Earlier, Ghosh had triggered a controversy by saying that anti-CAA protestors in Assam and Uttar Pradesh were shot dead "like dogs", and similar punishment should be given to protestors in Bengal.

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February 29,2020

New Delhi, Feb 29: The father of Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma, whose body was pulled out of a drain in northeast Delhi's riot-hit Chand Bagh, complained to police that goons had assembled at the residence of former AAP counselor Tahir Hussain and were throwing petrol bombs from the rooftop.

According to the FIR which was registered on Thursday on the basis of the complaint lodged by Ankit's father Ravinder, the goons were also firing from the rooftop.

On Tuesday, Ankit returned from his office at 5 pm and then went outside to buy groceries. When he did not return, the family started looking for him and later filed a missing report, the FIR stated.

They got to know from their neighbours that a body has been recovered from a drain… later it was found to be that of Anikt, it said, adding the body had multiple stab injuries on the face, head, back, and chest.

The family has alleged in the FIR that it was Hussain and the goons at his residence who killed Ankit. In the FIR, Hussain has been accused of murder, destruction of evidence and abduction.

Soon after the FIR was registered on Thursday, the AAP suspended Tahir Hussain from the primary membership of the party till the police completed its probe.

The death toll in Delhi's communal violence rose to 42 on Friday as the situation showed some signs of returning to normalcy and clouds of smoke cleared to reveal the extent of the damage from the worst riots in the city in over three decades.

A total of 148 FIRs have been registered and 630 people have been either arrested or detained so far in connection with the communal violence, a Delhi Police spokesperson said.

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July 14,2020

Jaipur, Jul 14: In a show of strength, Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot-led Rajasthan Congress camp on Monday released a video showing at least 16 MLAs sitting together.

This comes hours after the Congress held a legislature party meeting. Party leaders said 106 of 122 MLAs attended, a claim contested by the Pilot camp.

The 10-second video was shared late at night on Pilot's official WhatsApp group.

In the video, at least 16 MLAs are seen sitting together in a close circle. Pilot is not seen in the video.

Six other people can be seen in the video but they could not be identified.

Some of the MLAs seen in the video are Indraraj Gurjar, Mukesh Bhakar, Harish Meena.

Tourism Minister Vishvendra Singh tweeted the video with the caption "Family".

Ladnun MLA Mukesh Bhakar tweeted, "...Loyalty in Congress means Ashok Gehlot's slavery. That is not acceptable to us."

Pilot has been upset since he was denied the Rajasthan chief minister's post after the December 2018 assembly elections.

On Sunday, he claimed to have the backing of 30 Congress MLAs and "some independents".

Those close to him disputed Gehlot's claim that his government had a majority, and said this is proven in the assembly and not at the CM's house.

Sources close to him have also ruled out the possibility of Pilot joining the BJP.

In the 200-member Rajasthan Assembly, the Congress has 107 MLAs and the BJP 72. In the past, the ruling party has claimed the support of 13 independents, two MLAs each from the CPM and the Bharatiya Tribal Party, and one from the Rashtriya Lok Dal.

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