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Supreme Court Rejects Pleas for 100% Cross-Verification of EVMs with VVPATs
New Delhi, 26 April 2024: In a crucial decision, the Supreme Court of India, on Friday, dismissed petitions advocating for the full cross-verification of Electr
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Supreme Court Orders Probe into Alleged EVM Manipulation During Kerala Mock Poll
In a significant development, the Supreme Court of India has directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to investigate allegations of Electronic Voting Mac
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Supreme Court Grapples with Electoral Integrity Concerns Amid EVM & VVPAT Controversy
A significant number of people in India are concerned about the potential tampering of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail
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Supreme Court Issues Notice to ECI Over Demands for Enhanced VVPAT Verification
In a significant development, the Supreme Court of India has issued notice to the Election Commission of India (ECI) on a petition seeking comprehensive verific
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ADR Urges Urgent Hearing of Petition Challenging Validity of CEC Act
New Delhi: In a move shaking the core of India’s democratic structure, the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has petitioned the Supreme Court to ur
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Subramanian Swamy Calls for Modi’s Resignation Over Electoral Bonds Scandal
In a pivotal judgment, the Supreme Court of India has invalidated the controversial Electoral Bonds scheme, reigniting debates over political funding transparen
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Supreme Court Declares Electoral Bonds Unconstitutional
New Delhi: In a groundbreaking decision delivered on Thursday (15th February), the Supreme Court of India dealt a significant blow to the electoral bonds scheme
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Anonymous grant of Rs. 5200 Crores to the BJP, Congress Leader Bashes Modi Govt. for providing a legal ground to ‘Crony Capitalists.’
Khera even claimed that the aggregated electoral donations received by the BJP stood threefold higher than the donations received by all the opposition combined
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Opinion
When candidates with criminal records eye Assembly seats in Uttarakhand
The list of candidates in Uttarakhand brings to the fore the fact that close to 17% are those with criminal records.
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Opinion
When defections script a sad record for Goa
Goa witnessed more than 60% MLAs switching sides during the current term
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95% of funds from the ‘unknown’ sources comes from electoral bonds: ADR Report
According to the ADR report, sources of over 55% or 445.7 crore rupees of 803.24 crore rupees received as donations are capped as from 'unknown' sources.
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Opinion
In the last seven years, INC lost 170 big leaders, mostly to BJP reports NGO
According to ADR in between 2014 and 2021, INC, the oldest party of the country in the country lost 222 candidates to opposition parties. Democracy has been def
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Is Pegasus Spygate India’s Watergate Moment? Indian Journalists Names on Pegasus Snoop List
Until now, spread across several stories – The Wire has revealed the names of 115 people on the Global Pegasus Snoop List In one of the most historic
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Opinion
Reshuffle Brings 90% Crorepatis to PM’s Cabinet in ‘Socialist’ India
The Preamble of the Constitution of India declares India to be a socialist country which in turn means that the government effectively works towards not allowin
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Political Parties Reject RTI Extension, Leaving Citizens as Spectators in the ‘Indian Democracy’
In a disheartening display of unity, political parties in India, regardless of their ideological differences, have come together once again, this time rejecting
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Meet Giriraj Singh Malinga, an MLA from Rajasthan’s Bari, who got a Dalit engineer beaten half to death: He wreaked havoc during his three-term MLAship with the Congress and now eyes a fourth term with the BJP!
During its infancy, politics in India was predominantly considered a generous affair. Only those people who were either academic intellectuals or had a clean an
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Bhabanipur bypoll: BJP’s Tibrewal is richest candidate with Rs 3-cr worth assets, Mamata Banerjee ranks sixth
The Bhawanipur bypoll will see five female candidates; BJP’s Priyanka Tibrewal is the richest contestant with Rs 3-crore worth of assets Kolkata: Out of t
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