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Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO later this year, Andy Jassy to take over

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced that he will leave his post later this year and has named the company’s top cloud executive, Andy Jassy as his successor. Jassy, 53, is set to take the helm in the third quarter.

In his announcement on Tuesday, Bezos said that he will transition to executive chairman of Amazon’s board.

Bezos, who is now 57, founded Amazon in 1994. The company has since then morphed from an online bookstore into a mega-retailer with global reach, selling a slew of different products, from gadgets to groceries to online streaming. Amazon surpassed a $1 trillion market cap under Bezos’ leadership in January of last year. It is now worth more than $1.6 trillion.

Amazon had kept its succession plans quiet, though it was speculated that either Jassy or Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon’s worldwide consumer business, would be Bezos’ eventual successor. In August, Amazon announced Wilke will retire in 2021.

Jassy joined Amazon in 1997 and has led Amazon’s Web Services cloud team since its inception. AWS continues to drive much of Amazon’s profit.

“I’m excited to announce that this Q3 I’ll transition to Executive Chair of the Amazon Board and Andy Jassy will become CEO,” Bezos said in a letter to employees. “In the Exec Chair role, I intend to focus my energies and attention on new products and early initiatives. Andy is well known inside the company and has been at Amazon almost as long as I have. He will be an outstanding leader, and he has my full confidence.”

Bezos said in his letter that he will stay engaged in important Amazon projects, but will also have more time to focus on the Bezos Earth Fund, his Blue Origin spaceship company, The Washington Post and the Amazon Day 1 Fund.

“As much as I still tap dance into the office, I’m excited about this transition,” Bezos said in the internal announcement. “Millions of customers depend on us for our services, and more than a million employees depend on us for their livelihoods. Being the CEO of Amazon is a deep responsibility, and it’s consuming. When you have a responsibility like that, it’s hard to put attention on anything else.”

Shares of Amazon were up about 1% in extended trading Tuesday on the back of an earnings report, in which Amazon posted its first $100 billion quarter. AWS, under Jassy, reported 28% revenue growth for the fourth quarter. About 52% of Amazon’s operating income was attributed to AWS as of October 2020. The company’s stock has gained about 4% so far in 2021 and is up nearly 70% in the last 12 months.

Brian Olsavsky, Amazon CFO, said that the executive change was decided in consultation with Amazon’s board of directors. He said Bezos will remain very involved and have his fingerprints on lots of different parts of the company. Olsavsky said Jassy is a visionary leader who will bring his own skill set but that the company expects a lot of continuity with the transition.

Amazon has taken a lot of flak in recent months over anti-trust complaints in the EU and the US. In October, after a 16-month investigation into competitive practices at big tech companies including Amazon, the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust concluded that Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google enjoy monopoly power.

Soon after Bezos’ announcement, Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said on Twitter that he has questions for Jassy.

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RaGa’s tweet of dictators’ names starting with M backfires

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Congress high command Rahul Gandhi has once again landed in hot soup after he faced heavy backlash over his tweet about how most dictators’ names started in M. The tweet read, “Why do so many dictators have names that begin with M?

Marcos
Mussolini
Milošević
Mubarak
Mobutu
Musharraf
Micombero”

This quickly became viral, as Twitterati tried to point out how problematic this was. One of the users pointed out that he had conveniently left out Mao Tse Dong, the Chinese communist dictator, and hinted at the possibility of the handle and the Congress party being run with some kind of communist backing. Another user went on to list prominent faces in the Congress like the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and Rahul’s great-grandfather Motilal Nehru, and questioned whether they had a similar agenda.

Another Twitter user went as far as to point out that Mahatma Gandhi was, in fact, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and questioned RaGa as to whether he considered the ‘father of the nation’ to be a dictator.

Rahul Gandhi seems to have failed yet again in what was a poorly concealed attempt to attack PM Modi. Not considering the fact the Prime Minister’s name was, in truth, Narendra Modi, he has yet again become the favourite child of controversy and the butt of all jokes, and that too for all the wrong reasons.

Interestingly, it is to be noted that, he had conveniently left out Maino, which is the maiden name of his mother Sonia Gandhi, who was born as Antonia Maino. His maternal grandfather was a staunch loyal of the fascist regime and served as a foot soldier in Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s army. In fact, in a rare interview with Outlook in 1998, he had even confessed that he had an “unwavering loyalty to Mussolini and Italy’s ‘admirable’ fascist past”. Maino was not only unapologetic about his support for the fascist leader but he was immensely proud of fighting against the Russian Reds alongside Hitler’s Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front in World War II.

Budget 2021: Govt proposes to build largest dedicated freight corridor

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In an effort to decrease logistics cost and aid the domestic manufacturing industry, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget 2021 has announced three upcoming dedicated freight corridors (DFC), expected to be built with an investment of about ₹2.17 lakh crore, reports Moneycontrol.

On Monday (February 1) the Finance Minister announced the East Coast Freight Corridor from Kharagpur to Vijayawada, East-West Freight Corridor from Bhusawal to Kharagpur to Dankuni and North-South Freight Corridor from Itarsi to Vijayawada.

The proposed 1,115 km long East Coast Corridor is expected to come at a capital cost of ₹40,344 crore at an average of ₹32.5 crore per km.

While the 1868 Km long East-West DFC is expected to cost around ₹86,805 crore at an average of ₹37.29 Crore per km, the North-South DFC covering 975 km is going to cost₹89579 crore at an average of ₹35.36 crore per km.

The proposed projects are to built in the Western and Eastern dedicated freight corridors, and are expected to be commissioned by June 2022. As part of the green initiative, the government also announced that 100 per cent electrification of broad gauge routes will be completed by December 2023.

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Islamists issue open threat to kill BJP TN leader Kalyanaraman for remarks on Prophet Mohammad

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Islamists belonging to various Jamaats and radical fundamentalist organizations like Popular Front of India (PFI) and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) have issued threats to kill BJP Tamil Nadu leader R. Kalyanraman for his remarks on Prophet Mohammad.

Kalyanraman while speaking at a public meeting in Mettupalayam on January 31 had reportedly said that Hindus in Gujarat used to live in fear and hide under bunkers fearing attacks from Muslims while adding that this scenario had changed after 2002. He had also allegedly questioned the manhood of Prophet Mohammad, a remark that he had earlier made on his Facebook profile too, and went on to explain how the court granted him bail for the same. Back in February 2019, the Madras High Court while granting bail to Kalyanaraman had observed that expressing opinions on religious aspects based on an individual’s knowledge of the subject does not amount to blasphemy.

The public meeting by the BJP unit in Coimbatore was organized in response to SDPI’s provocative tractor rally held on January 26 in which one of the members had dressed as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and portrayed him in a derogatory way.

On January 31, members belonging to Islamic fundamentalist organizations like SDPI who heard the statements made by Kalyanaraman arrived at the venue and threw stones and wooden logs at the BJP leaders and others who had assembled. A tense situation prevailed and around 500 policemen were reportedly deployed. Following this, Kalyanaraman along with two other leaders –  Jegannathan, BJP Coimbatore North District President and Satheesh Kumar, the party’s divisional secretary – were taken into custody.

Now, many radical Islamists belonging to fundamentalist organizations like PFI, SDPI and various Jamaats in Tamil Nadu have issued open threats to kill the BJP leader.

In a video that is being shared on social media, one of the person at a gathering of Muslims warns that this should be the last anyone speaks about Prophet Mohammad and that he is ready to kill the BJP leader.

“Whoever it may be.. this should be the first and last that anyone speaks of Prophet Mohammad.. I am ready to sacrifice my life.. I will kill Kalyanaraman” the man says.

Another man can be heard saying that anyone who makes remarks on Prophet Mohammad, that person’s tongue should be cut off.

Islamists belonging to various political parties have also issued death threats to Kalyanaraman. In another viral video, a man outside a Communist party building asks “how many of you are ready to kill Kalyanaraman?” to which the entire crowd raises its hands shouting slogans.

In another video a Muslim man says “That man… he had written about Prophet Mohammad and his wives derogatorily and is roaming alive. You know what our law [Muslim law] says? Those who speak like that should be killed.”

The man further ferociously adds “According to our Islamic law, we have the right to chop him into pieces” to which the entire crowd shouts “Allahu Akbar”.

Political parties like the Congress and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) are demanding that the BJP leader be slapped with the National Security Act (NSA). It is pertinent to note that none of the political parties in Tamil Nadu except the BJP and AIADMK came out in protest when Karuppar Koottam, a YouTube channel run by ‘Periyarists’ with links to the DMK, abused Hindu God Murugan and Kandha Sashti Kavasam.

BJP leader H. Raja and Indu Makkal Katchi founder leader Arjun Sampath have sought the release Kalyanaraman and others. H. Raja pointed out that no action has been taken against Vairamuthu or DMK’s ‘Tamilan’ Prasanna who had called abused ‘Aandaal’, one of the 12 Alwars.

Netizens are also lashing out at the double standards exhibited by political parties like the Congress, DK, DMK, Communist and VCK for staying silent when Hindus and Hindu Gods were abused while going out of their way to condemn the remarks against Prophet Mohammad.

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Rihanna, Greta Thunberg earn the ire of Indians by tweeting in support of farmer protests

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Rihanna and Greta Thunberg tweet in support of the farmers protests

Pop star Rihanna on Tuesday tweeted about the farmers protests at Delhi’s borders, earning heavy criticism from Indian netizens on Twitter. Rihanna posted a CNN news report about the temporary internet shutdown around New Delhi and tweeted, “why aren’t we talking about this?! #FarmersProtest”.

Rihanna ―who has earlier faced allegations of cocaine abuse when a video of her snorting a white substance at the Coachella music festival in 2015 had gone viral ― faced a lot of flak from Indians for her tweet.

Quote tweeting Rihanna’s tweet, Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut lashed out with this tweet, “No one is talking about it because they are not farmers they are terrorists who are trying to divide India, so that China can take over our vulnerable broken nation and make it a Chinese colony much like USA. Sit down you fool, we are not selling our nation like you dummies.”

https://twitter.com/KanganaTeam/status/1356640083546406913

Former cricketer Pragyan Ojha too replied to the pop star, and said that Indians don’t need an outsider poking their nose into the nation’s internal matters.

Swedish radical ‘climate activist’ and teenager Greta Thunberg also tweeted in support of the protests on Wednesday, when she shared the same CNN news report that Rihanna had earlier shared and tweeted, “We stand in solidarity with the #FarmersProtest in India”.

The 18 year-old Thunberg, who once said that politicians should be “put to the wall” and later had to apologise for it, has been panned by critics in the past for her ill-informed opinions on the nature of climate action.

On 26 January, Republic Day, the farmer-agitators had rioted across the national capital, damaging public property and severely injuring over a hundred policemen. They had also hoisted Sikh and Khalistani flags on top of the Red Fort.

Journalist Ashok Shrivastav, on Twitter, shared a heart-warming cartoon created by artist ArtKrafter, pointing out the pains suffered by policemen and their families by last week’s riots.

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Kolkata NGO launches online COVID memorial

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An online memorial – nationalcovidmemorial.in – was launched at the weekend by the Covid Care Network, a non-governmental organisation led by a team of doctors in the eastern city of Kolkata. CCN was founded by Abhijit Chowdhury, professor and head of the department of hepatology at the Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research in Kolkata. This is an effort to pay homage to the lives lost due to this dreaded disease that has been wreaking havoc on the world.

Dr. Abhijit Chowdhury of CCN said, “A national COVID memorial is an initiative for Indians to keep alive the memories of their loved ones who succumbed to the disease. This is a place where everybody can join.” He added, “This memorial will restore some dignity of the people who died and were cremated without even their families being allowed to attend the funeral.”

Families who have lost a loved one due to the pandemic can simply upload the details of the deceased, along with their photo and death certificate and a tribute post will be posted on this website after verification of phone number.

The country’s Covid-19 tally rose to 1,07,66,245 on Tuesday with 8,635 fresh infections, according to a report in the Scroll. The pandemic has led to 1,54,486 fatalities in India in total. Ninety-four deaths occurred during the past 24 hours.

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Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu appointed to National Security Advisory Board

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The founder of Zoho Corporation, Padma Shri Sridhar Vembu, has been added to the newly reconstituted National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), as per reports by stratnewsglobal.

Vembu based at a village in Tamil Nadu, has been nominated to the NSAB that acts as an advisory body to the revamped and expanded National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) headed by National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval. He will be one of the exceptional talents drawn from the private sector advising the government on issues of national security. 

NSAB members normally have a two-year tenure and only a few members from the previous Board have been retained and apart from Vembu former ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan, Anshuman Tripathy from IIM Bangalore and Arun K. Singh, former ambassador to France and the United States have been added to the NSCS.

Tilak Devasher, a Pakistan specialist and former senior intelligence officer, Aloke Joshi, former Chairman of NTRO, Prof. K Kamakoti from IIT Madras, Lt Gen. Subrata Saha (Retd), former Deputy Chief of the Indian Army, Lt Gen SL Narasimhan, a China specialist and head of the MEA’s in-house think tank, Centre for Contemporary China Studies (CCCS), and Bimal Patel, who heads the Ahmedabad based Rashtriya Raksha University have been re-nominated to the NSAB.

NSAB Chairman, diplomat RK Raghavan, India’s former Ambassador to Russia, has ended his term and it is not clear who will head the newly reconstituted body. 

Each of the NSAB is an expert in their respective field and is assigned a particular study that is submitted to the NSCS for analysis and then implementation through various ministries.

NSA Ajit Doval who acts at the single-point adviser to the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) across six verticals—defence, internal security, strategic (nuclear) matters, space, external affairs and intelligence—receives inputs and advice from the NSAB, the three deputy NSAs and a military adviser who handle different portfolios.

As of now Rajinder Khanna, former head of India’s foreign intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), is deputy NSA looking after space, cyber technology. Former diplomat Pankaj Saran is in charge of strategic and maritime affairs. Former IPS officer Datta Padsalgikar handles the internal security portfolio while Lt Gen VG Khandare (Retd), who headed the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) before his retirement from the Army, is now the Military Adviser in the NSCS, heading the military wing that carries out assessments and analysis on the armed forces.

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12 kids in Maharashtra given sanitiser drops instead of polio drops

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In a shocking incident that happened in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal village, 12 children were given sanitizer drops by ASHA healthcare workers instead of the polio vaccine. This incident happened at the Bhanbora PHC (Primary Health Centre), where children aged 1-5 years had gathered for the polio vaccination programme.

All the children who were affected were below the age of 5. After one of the kids had complained of uneasiness, all the 12 kids who were administered with these drops were admitted at the Government Medical College at Yavatmal. Yavatmal’s Zilla Parishad CEO Shrikrishna Panchal said 12 children below 5 years of age were given sanitiser instead of polio drops. They were later reported to be of stable condition.

“Twelve children, under five years of age, were given hand sanitiser drops instead of polio vaccine in Yavatmal. They were admitted to the hospital and are doing fine now. A health worker, doctor and an ASHA worker will be suspended. An investigation is underway,” Panchal told ANI on Monday. Yavatmal Collector M D Singh visited the hospital and enquired about the condition of the children, the official said.

The polio vaccination drive was started this year by Ram Nath Kovind, the President of India by administering polio drops to children less than five years old at Rashtrapati Bhawan on January 30.

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Lady SI from Srikakulam carries corpse on her shoulder for 2km to perform final rites

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Kasibugga SI K. Sirisha, a female sub-inspector from Srikakulam has earned praise far and wide after she carried an unattended body for 2KM on her shoulders. She had seen this corpse on the outskirts of Adavi Kotturu village in Palasa municipality. After noticing that no one had taken any step to pay their last respects, she had then proceeded to gather a couple of passersby and carried the body through uneven roads and paddy fields.

She had then handed over the body to a charitable organization for performing last rites. This is not her first act of philanthropy, as she had also been donating a part of her salary for charity ever since she joined in service.

This act by Sirisha started trending on social media, and praise started pouring in for her from all directions. DGP Gautam Sawang lauded the woman Sub-Inspector for carrying the mortal remains of an unknown man in Srikakulam district for final rites. “Kasibugga lady Sub-Inspector Sirisha has carried an unidentified dead body which was found in the fields of Adivikotturu village in Palasa in Kasibugga municipality of Srikakulam,” said an official statement.

When asked about this, Sirisha had said, “I joined the police force to serve people and extend my services to the society. The dead deserve dignity too. I only did my duty.” Sirisha is a mother to a 12-year-old. The woman police officer said that it was her father’s dream to see one of his four daughters join the force.

Chinese criminals who sold saline water as COVID-19 vaccine arrested

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As the global community is fast rejecting the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by China, there has been a further significant embarrassment to the Communist Party of China. A fake Covid-19 vaccine racket has been busted where bottled saline water was being sold as COVID-19 vaccine, ABC News has reported.

As per the report, 3,000 doses of this fake COVID-19 vaccine have been confiscated and 80 individuals have been arrested in police raids in the cities of Beijing, Jiangsu and Shandong provinces. It is believed that this racket has been going on since September of last year.

The accused have been “making huge profits by filling saline solution into injectors to process and make fake coronavirus vaccines and selling them at a higher price”, reports said.

China has been vaccinating its populace using vaccines developed by Sinovac and Sinopharm. However, due to its low efficacy rate of just over 50 per cent, trials of this vaccine were halted in Brazil due to an adverse effect. Also, another South American country Peru had already suspended the ongoing clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine made by Chinese drug giant Sinopharm after detecting neurological problems in one of its test volunteers.

It must also be noted that China also supplied faulty test kits for many countries along with sub-standard Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) kits and in that process made billions of dollars off of the misery of many nations.

At the same time, India has been lauded for its efforts to provide vaccines to almost all its neighbouring nations, showing magnanimity and generosity. India’s “Vaccine Maitri” programme is gaining momentum and as the world’s largest vaccine-maker, many nations have approached India to help procure supplies to immunise their respective populations from the Wuhan virus. 

India has already supplied to the COVID-19 vaccine to Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Brazil and now will be extending help to South Africa with the indigenously developed vaccine made by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) and the Pune based National Institute of Virology.

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