Send the Wrong WhatsApp Mesage- Now you can delete It. Know The 7 Minute WhatsApp Wonder.

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WhatsApp has easily become the most widely-used app on Google's Play Store as well as iOS' App Store. The application boasts over a billion downloads on Play Store alone.The company also released a few statistics claiming around 1 billion active users daily and over 1.3 billion monthly active users. WhatsApp is finally pushing out the 'Delete for Everyone' feature with the stable build of the device. The update will be available for Android, iOS and Windows Phone operating system. The update will be pushed out gradually across these platforms. 

What is 'Delete for Everyone'? 
Ever come across a situation where you've sent the wrong message to the wrong person?

This is where this new feature will help. WhatsApp has become the go-to application for all communication, be it personal or professional. With such blurred lines in between it's easy to mix up names and occasionally send an inappropriate text to someone who was not suppose to receive it. Using this feature the sender can tap of the erroneous message and select the 'delete for everyone' feature. This will delete the text on the receiver's device. However, there are terms and conditions attached to this. The message can only be deleted within seven minutes after being sent. Quoted WhatsApp texts cannot be deleted even within seven minutes. Another major condition will be that the receiver's WhatsApp application should be up to date. 

The feature will not function with an older version on either end. WhatsApp on Symbian operating system will also not be able to get this new update. This new feature will reach most devices gradually. However, iOS users might start receiving it earlier than others. 

WhatsApp has been aggressively introducing new features within their application and is also stepping in the social media realm by introducing features like stories. The consistent rise in a smartphone's computational power is enabling applications like WhatsApp to delve into other genres of communication. Though many popular applications offer services like conference video and voice calls much before 

WhatsApp, the sheer size of the user-base makes the feature an instant hit. The application has 1 billion daily active users and around 1.3 billion monthly active users. The Live Location feature was also offered by various applications like Messenger, Google Maps, Telegram etc. but with WhatsApp adopting it, the feature might finally get a broader audience.

Boat Tragedy

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To Two country made boats capsized in the river Ganges on its way to NIT Ghat in Patna on Saturday evening. And twenty four innocent lives got a watery grave within minutes. It happens in a week time the grand celebration of 350th birth anniversary of Guru Govind Singh ended at this very place.

Proper planning and strategy gives a successful celebration with 3 lakhs Sikhs pilgrims at the heart of capital city, celebration of such grandeur which this city never witness. The administration and the state government won the accolades for the same. But in a week time the same administration drastically fails which won't either be forget or forgiven in days to come.

For the last couple of years the makarsakranti celebration has been marked with kite festival at Patna’s diyara(river bank on the other side of the city) that comes under the jurisdiction of Sonepur(Saran). After the incident took place it comes to know the Bihar tourism department had neither took permission nor informed the Sonepur(under Saran) administration about the celebration. "The tourism department has never consult nor seek permission, which was mandatory," said  Madan Kumar, SDO,  Sonepur to this
correspondent. On his statement an FIR has been lodged against Rahul Verma, owner of Entertainment park

and  unknown boatmen &others under the various section of IPC  282/304/34 etc. Sonepur PS case no 12/17dt.14.1.27 clearly says the negligence.

Most distressing part of the entire episode is that the tourism dept. had no arrangements to ferry back people to ghats in the evening. About 300 people including women & children were left with no option. They left stranded on the sand dune waiting for steamers but in vain. This compelled people  to take service of local boatmen who in lure of business overloaded their boasts. Boats which is used as vegetable carrier in normal days run illegally on diesel generators and hence very dangerous. These boats precariously overloaded to a crowd size of 70 which having a maximum capacity of 15-20. The administration, the NDRF & SDRF and even the state police was nowhere in the scene leading to this tragedy. Anyway, what has happened has put the city’s administration work-style & credibility once again. 

Swelling population beyond danger

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To clarify the economic impact of population decline, i looked at all the economies that have sustained a GDP growth rate of 6% for at least a decade since 1960, and found 56 of these “miracle“ cases. In three out of four such cases, the population of working age people ­ ages 15 to 64 ­ was growing at a pace of at least 2% a year. It is thus unlikely that an economy will grow faster than 6% a year if its working age population is growing at less than 2%.

Today , the population is growing this quickly in few countries. In the 1980s, 17 of the 20 largest emerging economies had a working age population growth rate above 2%, but that number fell steadily from 17 to just two, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, in this decade. Through 2020, all the major emerging economies are projected to have working age population growth rates below the 2% mark, including India, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia and Thailand.

In India, the working age population is expected to grow at an average rate of 1.5% over the next five years, which is below the average level associated with economic miracles. A world with fewer fast-growing populations has to expect fewer economic miracles. Even where the population is growing faster than 2%, including smaller economies like Kenya and Bangladesh, leaders cannot assume that population growth pays off automatically for the economy.

It pays off only if political leaders create the conditions necessary to attract investments and generate jobs.In the 1960s and 70s, high population growth in Africa, China and India led to famines, high unemployment, civil strife and fears of the “population bomb“.Rapid population growth is often a precondition for fast economic growth, but it never guarantees fast growth.

Since 1960, the average number of births per woman has fallen from 4.9 to 2.5 worldwide, and even more sharply in emerging countries. In India, it dropped from 5.9 to 2.5. This decline was fuelled by rising affluence and education among women, many of whom decided to put off having children to pursue a career, and by aggressive population control policies.

China introduced its one-child policy in the late 1970s, and saw its fertility rate drop from 3.9 in 1978 to 1.5 today .That is well below the “replacement rate“ of 2.1­ the rate required to keep the population stable. Already nearly half the people on earth live in one of the 83 countries where the fertility rate is below the replacement rate.

In three of the top 20 emerging countries, Poland, Russia and China, the working-age population is not just growing more slowly , it is already contracting. In 2015, the working age population shrank in China for the first time since the UN began keeping records in 1950.

Population decline is thus high on the list of reasons, alongside rising debts that amount to nearly 300% of GDP and a massive investment binge, to doubt that China can sustain rapid GDP growth.Beijing knows this, which is why it rescinded the one-child policy last year.

It is, however, too late to defuse the depopulation bomb. Countries with shrinking populations rarely post strong economic growth. Looking at nearly 200 countries since 1960, there are 698 cases in which data for both population growth and GDP growth is available for a full decade. Of these cases, there were 38 in which the working-age population was shrinking, and the average annual GDP growth rate for these countries was just 1.5%.

In only three minor cases ­ Portugal, Belarus and Georgia ­ did the country manage to sustain GDP growth of 6% or more. This suggests that demographics will all but rule out rapid economic growth not only in China, but in many major countries.

With inputs from Emerging Markets, Morgan Stanley Investment Management on Issue of Foreign Affair.

Amit Sinha is a bilingual columnist. He can be contacted at facebook.amit