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BENGALURU: When the BJP organised a mega social media conclave in Palace Grounds in August remaining yr its leaders honestly knew of the full-size role social media was going to play in the imminent election. Eight months later while the BJP installation a warfare room for ballot  marketing campaign the opposite important events the Congress and the JD(S) directly accompanied healthy. For the primary time in the nation all of the 3 parties appear to have taken social media as an effective tool. While the BJP and the Congress have installation their war rooms in Malleswaram and on Cunningham Road respectively by using deploying a combination of professionals and celebration people who spread messages on WhatsApp Facebook Twitter and Youtube the JD(S) has a small crew of volunteers with IT history dealing with social media on the celebration s head workplace in Seshadripuram. The high penetration of social media in Karnataka makes it an unmissable platform for political parties. B...

Sri Lanka has imposed a nationwide state of emergency for the first time since the civil war era in response to days of violent unrest between Sinhalese and Muslim communities. The special measures permitting soldiers to be deployed in civilian areas will initially apply for 10 days at which point the deployment would need to be ratified by parliament said Mano Ganesan the Sri Lankan minister for co-existence. There were concerns that communal violence would spread Ganesan told the Guardian. We don t want to spread communal disharmony and hate speech. Arson attacks and riots have hit the central district of Kandy in recent days and there was similar violence in late February when mobs set fire to Muslim-owned businesses and a mosque in the east. The violence in Kandy is understood to have been sparked when a group of Muslim men in Digana town were accused of killing a man belonging to the majority Sinhala Buddhist community who make up about 75% of the population. Facebook Twitter P...

Panaji: Ailing Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar left for the US on Tuesday night for further treatment from Mumbai where he was admitted at Lilavati Hospital. Parrikar left for the US for his further treatment by a special flight from Mumbai airport a senior official of the chief minister office told PTI. The chief minister left for the US in Air India flight at around 1.30 am. He is accompanied by a doctor and his elder son Utpal a senior official from CMO said. Parrikar was admitted at the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai on 15 February and discharged on 22 February. On the same day he returned to Goa and presented the Budget in the Assembly but the session was truncated to only four days owing to his illness. He was later admitted to the Goa Medical College and Hospital after he suffered from dehydration. Before leaving for Mumbai on Tuesday Parrikar held a series of meetings including one with senior state ministers. Earlier in the day Goa BJP general secretary Sadanand Tanawade s...