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Study to ‘expose’ EVMs
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Sunday, August 29, 2010 |
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Hari Prasad, a technocrat who was arrested recently for stealing electronic voting machines and released yesterday, will present a controversial paper on how EVMs used in Indian elections can be tampered with at a conference on computer and communication safety.The conference in Chicago in October will be co-sponsored by IT majors like Google and Microsoft, reports Hindustan Times. |
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RTI activist who exposed corruption in Maharashtra found dead
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Sunday, August 29, 2010 |
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A Right to Information activist who was in the forefront in exposing corruption in Public Distribution System, foodgrain and fuel distribution in the Marathwada region was found dead in Nanded. He was a local Shiv Sena leader. The circumstances are mysterious.Preliminary post mortem report revealed excess alcohol in his body, police said, reports The Times Of India. |
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EVM controversy takes a political turn
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Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
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TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu is batting for the man who 'proved' that voting machines could be tampered with.Hari Prasad, a technocrat was arrested last Saturday based on a complaint filed by a District Election Officer, which stated that an EVM has been stolen from a government godown."The EVMs are tamperable. And, there is no backup. Even experts have raised this issue. Election Commission did not take into consideration all these things, but we don't know why they have arrested the expert. We have raised this issue in Parliament," said Naidu, reports The Times Of India. |
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August Kranti: India's revolution goes on long after Independence
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Friday, August 13, 2010 |
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Madhavrao Sindhia used to recount a story of man pounced upon by commuters on a train when he threw away a ticket on the platform. Such a spirit was rare in India after August 9, 1942.Words like hartal, gherao, bandh, andolan, sanghatan and satyagraha entered our everyday speech after that day. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari once said that Gandhiji wouldn;t have approved of the Quit India violence when Gandhijis views on the subject were ambivalent, writes Sunanda K Datta-Ray in The Pioneer. |
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EC asks Jharkhand to file FIR in the cash for votes allegations
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010 |
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The Election commission of India asked Jharkhand Government to file an FIR in the cash for vote allegations. The sting operation was carried out by a telivision channel. The ECI discussed the ramifications of the telivision report. The guilty could be punished with imprisonment up to five years, reports The Hindu. |
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Jharkhand MLAs bargain a price for voting in Rajya Sabha election
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Tuesday, August 03, 2010 |
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A joint sting operation conducted by CNN-IBN and Cobrapost exposed the sale of votes for an amount as little as 50 Lakhs. The Congress has issues notice to all the MLA's who were caught in the camera.Political parties have demanded strong action against all the MLA's who were exposed, reports CNN-IBN. |
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Citizens expose malpractice by Goa election officers
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Tuesday, August 03, 2010 |
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Citizen's forum claims to have exposed malpractices by Goa election officers. The election officers were found to adopt procedures different from guidelines issued by Election Commission Of India. PCF had pointed to such malpractices in the past too, like enrolling foreigners in the election rolls, reports DNA. |
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The power of one: Can good men at the helm save public institutions?
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 |
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Justice Verma said that an institution can rise to its strength only if it is run by who has no past and no greed for anything in the future. It is tough to find such people.We can feel proud of the Election Commission and Supreme court. Those are the two institutions which we can really be proud of, because of some remarkable people. At the same time CBI and CVC had made news through rotten controversies, writes Shekhar Gupta in The Indian Express. |
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Press Council report on 'paid news' syndrome
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Friday, July 30, 2010 |
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The Press Council Of India recommended and amendment to election laws today, to declare any payment for publication of news as a corrupt practice.One recommendation was to make The directions of the Press Council Of India Act binding on all newspapers. The council added that self regulation is the best thing, reports Daily News And Analysis. |
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HC disqualifies Kerala Cong MP on caste claim
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010 |
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Congress MP Kodikunnil Suresh was declared not eligible to contest as an MP by the Kerala High Court.His school record showed that he belongs to an OBC community, Cheramar Christian. Suresh was unable to justify his case. Many of the documents he produced were contradictory, reports The Indian Express. |
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