Mark Zuckerberg visits India to lauch his new portal Internet.org

Mark Zuckerberg visits India, three months after the visit of Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Facebook Sheryl Kara Sandberg. Zuckerberg is the 3rd high-profile head of a US-based IT firm to visit India in the last few weeks, after Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft and Jeff Bezos of Amazon.

On his two days visit to India Mark met PM Modi and Ravi Sankar Prasad (IT Minister).

Zuckerberg was in Delhi in order to lauch his new portal Internet.org which aims at providing connectivity to 2/3 of the world's population who don't have connectivity to internet. Internet.org is partnership between some tech firms, NGO's and Expert who aims at providing internet facilities to the world.


Through Internet.org Mark aims at providing connectivity to over 5 billion people in next 5 years.



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PM Narendra Modi launched "Swachh Bharat Abhiyan" (Clean India Mission) on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

On 2nd October, 2014 (Mahatma Gandhi's 145th birth anniversary) Our PM Mr. Modi at Rajpath, Delhi’s ceremonial central avenue  said “Bapu gave us the message ‘Quit India. Clean India’, but his ‘Clean India’ dream is still unfulfilled,” and further added “When I saw that logo, I felt as if Gandhiji is looking at us through those spectacles to see if we have made India clean yet.” He asked his countrymen to give Gandhi the gift of a clean India for his 150th birth anniversary.
‘I am confident that Clean India will give us as much joy as Quit India,” he said.



Mr. Modi Launched the mission by cleaning a small area at Valmiki Basti, a housing society in central Delhi for sanitation workers, in which Mahatma Gandhi had once stayed.

Mr. Modi asked citizens to take photos of garbage, upload them on social media, upload videos of them cleaning the spot, and finally upload a picture of the clean spot.



He gave a boost to the mission by inviting nine people – Goa Governor Mridula Sinha, Shashi Tharoor, Sachin Tendulkar, Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra and Kamal Haasan,  Anil Ambani, Baba Ramdev, and the crew of the TV serial Tarak Mehta ka Ulta Chashma to join him in his cleanliness mission, and applying strategy of the movie "Jai ho" of continuing the chain further by nominating another nine, and so on.



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Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook's COO) declares India as Facebook's 2nd Largest User-Base after United States.

India Ranks 2nd in the List of Highest Facebook Users-Base after US with over 100 Million users and around 9 Lakh Business Pages. According to Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Facebook Sheryl Kara Sandberg, World's Largest Social Networking Website has heavily investing in the country.

In a conference held in New Delhi, Sheryl Sandberg said, "Facebook provides service of Promoting Pages which has been wisely used by Indian Businessman's and Politician's giving example of Prime Minister Narendra Modi having over 18 Million Followers which is next to Obama."

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