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Refined oil
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Cashew
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Cut, polished gems
UDAN scheme to connect 56 unserved airports
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Silk fabrics
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Women to contribute only 8% PF in first 3 yrs
Pan Masala
18 more in IITs to come up
'Modicare' health scheme unveiled
Imitation jewellery
Rs 1 lakh crore in 4 years to boost R&D
Education to go digital
Loans to women self-help groups up to Rs 75,000
Truck and radial typres
Special team to address Delhi air pollution
8 crore BPL women to get free gas connection
Smart watches/wearable devices
Bricks, tiles
Operation Green with Rs 500 crore allocation
Beauty products
Agricultural corpus of worth Rs 2000 crore
Kisan credit cards for livestock farmers
Orange juice
Shaving products
Lamps and lighting fitting
Accessories of motor vehicles
Exports to grow by 17% in 2017-18
Food processing allocation doubled to Rs 1,500 cr
Perfume
Cranberry juice
Total 2018-19 expenditure seen at Rs 24.42 tn
Crop MSP to be 1.5 times production cost

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WhatsApp Hits 1.5 Billion Monthly Users

Both Instagram "Stories" and WhatsApp "Status" features now have 300 million daily active users (DAUs) -- compared to 178 million Snapchat users.

IANS

Updated:February 1, 2018, 11:05 AM IST

WhatsApp Hits 1.5 Billion Monthly Users (Image for representation/Reuters)

WhatsApp now has 1.5 billion monthly active users (MAUs) who are exchanging nearly 60 billion messages on a single day, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday. In an earnings call after announcing the fourth quarter results, Zuckerberg said that Facebook-owned Instagram is now the most popular Story-sharing product, followed by WhatsApp.

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Both Instagram "Stories" and WhatsApp "Status" features now have 300 million daily active users (DAUs) -- compared to 178 million Snapchat users. On February 19, 2014, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion, its largest acquisition to date. WhatsApp currently has over 200 million monthly active users in India.

To help businesses communicate better with their customers in India, WhatsApp last month officially rolled out "WhatsApp Business" -- a free-to-download Android app for small businesses -- in the country. The new app, available on Google Play Store, will make it easier for companies to connect with customers and more convenient for its users to chat with businesses that matter to them.

In India, 84 percent of SMBs think that WhatsApp helps them communicate with customers and 80 percent of SMBs think that WhatsApp helps them grow their business.

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