Friday, October 5, 2012

Robert Vadra's wealth grew from Rs 50 lakh to over Rs 300 crore in three years, Kejriwal says



(Courtsey:-TOI)

NEW DELHI: India Against Corruption (IAC) members Prashant Bhushan and Arvind Kejriwal on Friday accused Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra of large-scale corruption in real estate dealings. In a highly speculated press conference, the IAC members alleged that real estate giant DLF had sold him prime land at throw-away prices and given him interest-free loans. They said, Robert Vadra's wealth grew from Rs 50 lakh to over Rs 300 crore in three years, according to Times Now.

Robert Vadra, who comes from a brass and wood handicraft merchant's family, is married to Sonia Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Gandhi.

Speculation was rife among political observers in the national capital about activist Arvind Kejriwal's announcement to 'expose' the corruption of a "powerful political leader" on Friday. Kejriwal had said on October 2 that his group would reveal sensational information against two political leaders on Saturday. However, the IAC changed its plans and held its press conference on Friday.

Throwing in a flurry of questions Prashant Bhushan said, "Why did DLF give Rs 65 crore loan to Vadra without any interest? He bought DLF properties with that money at discounted rates ... What benefit did Vadra provide to the Congress party for this? He bought property worth Rs 65 crore for Rs 5 crore ... How did DLF benefit? There are many questions ... There are four penthouses in one DLF property in Gurgaon. He brought these through a maze of five companies. We have details of 12 companies registered in the past few years — six registered in 2012 alone. A penthouse was sold in 2009 for Rs 89 lakh whose market value was Rs 25 crore then, and is now at least Rs 40 crore ..."

Arvind Kejriwal demanded the government to probe into the benefits Robert Vadra may have received in the corrupt property deals.

The second expose speculated to be against a Mumbai-based political figure is expected on October 10, according to the activists. Earlier this year Kejriwal-Bhushan duo had released documents against 15 Cabinet ministers including PM charging them of corruption. They had demanded that a special investigation team be set up to investigate the charges.

The government, however, chose to ignore the demand despite a partially successful hunger strike by Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Gopal Rai at Jantar Mantar in July. The activists hope that through a series of "revelations" they will be ale to strengthen the ani-graft image of their unnamed party.

Facebook hits magical 1 Billion User Mark!


Courtsey:-Trak.In
 OCTOBER 4, 2012 | 
Facebook has finally achieved it – About an hour ago, Mark Zuckerberg updated his timeline to reveal that Facebook has crossed the magical 1,000,000,000 user mark.
To be honest, it is unbelievable – Just 3 years back, Facebook had about 175 million subscribers. Accumulating over 825 million new subscribers in a span of 36 month is simply magical. Here is the status update that Mark put up on his timeline!
Facebook hits magical 1 Billion User Mark!
Here are Facebook’s Top 5 Markets based on userbase:
Facebook hits magical 1 Billion User Mark!
Here are some of the statistics that Facebook released on the eve of hitting 1 Billion users:
  • Over 1.13 trillion likes since launch in February 2009
  • 140.3 billion friend connections
  • 219 billion photos uploaded
    • Data was pulled on 9/10/2012, and represents the total # of photos currently on this site – in other words, it excludes deleted photos.  If we wanted to include all photos ever uploaded, the estimate we have is 265 billion. Photo uploading launched fall 2005.
  • 17 billion location-tagged posts, including check-ins
    • Includes location-tagged posts as well as check-ins. Data was pulled 9/10/2012, and represents total location-tagged posts & check-ins since launch of the product in August 2010
  • 62.6 million songs have been played 22 billion times – that’s about 210,000 years of music
    • Data was pulled on 9/11/2012, and represents song plays since the launch of music-listening applications in September 2011
  • Characteristics of users joining the week Facebook hit 1B
    • The median age of the user is about 22
    • The top five countries where people connected from at the time we reached this milestone were Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the United States (NOTE: in alphabetical order)
    • Facebook now has 600M mobile users
Here is a video interview of Mark Zuckerberg given exclusively to NBC News in regards to reaching the magical 1 Billion Subscriber mark.

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