Google+ approaches 50 million visits in December

According to data shared by Experian Hitwise US, Google+ received around 50 million visits in December. That's a jump of nearly 20 million from the month before and its biggest month of traffic since its launch at the end of June.

Google's social network launched a holiday barrage of commercials featuring the Muppets and pro basketball stars using Google+ video Hangouts. CNET called the commercials "desperate," but according to Hitwise's numbers, the effort paid off.


TechCrunch reported comScore numbers last month showing nearly 67 million unique visitors in November worldwide. Today's Hitwise numbers show visits from the U.S. only. As TechCrunch's Eric Eldon pointed out, third-party numbers are never 100% accurate. Still, both comScore and Hitwise agree that Google+ traffic is rising slowly but steadily. In its Q3 earnings call, Google reported 40 million registered Google+ users.(courtesy : RWW )

7 year old girl sacrificed to the god for good harvest in INDIA

New Delhi : A seven year girl sacrifies her life to the gods in return for a good agricultural harvest in Indian states especially in chattisgarh.According to Narayan Das, police chief of Bijapur district, in a telephone conversation with AFP: "A seven-year-old girl was sacrificed by two persons superstitiously believing that the act would give a better harvest."

 

Police arrested two men in connection with the murder of Lalita Tati after her body was found in October. Her family had reported her missing. According to the police, the men confessed to the crime.The district of Chhattisgarh is not the only one in India where human sacrifice is practised. In 2010, the decapitated body of a factory worker was found in a temple in the eastern state of West Bengal

Superstition that human sacrifices are the most potent for warding off certain categories of danger persists in remote rural parts of India where the people are illiterate and superstitious. Sanal Edamaruku, president of the Indian Rationalist Association, said: "Modern India is home to hundreds of millions who can't read or write, but who often seek refuge from life's realities through astrology or the magical arts of shamans. Unfortunately these people focus their horrific attention on society's weaker members, mainly women and children who are easier to handle and kidnap."

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