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Indian elections have a major lacuna.   Usually, about 2/3rd of the eligible voters actually vote. If a party gets about 45% + of these votes, it wins a majority.  Therefore, votes from just 30% of the total electorate are enough to win an election.    Is this really a 'popular'...

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Prachi Salve, Nileena Suresh (IndiaSpend) 06 June 2024
The Women’s Reservation Bill allocates 33% of all seats in the Lok Sabha and state legislatures for women. However, only 13% of the Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the 18th Lok Sabha are women. Of 543 elected MPs, 73 are women, marking a decrease from the 78 women elected to the 17th Lok...

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One of the most important tussles in the Mumbai North West constituency saw Amol Kirtikar from Shiv Sena -Uddhav Balasaheb Thackrey (SSUBT) losing by just 48 votes to Shiv Sena's Ravindra Waikar. Surprisingly, the third biggest vote puller in this constituency turned out to be 'None of the...

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Abhimanyu Hazarika (Bar  and   Bench) 03 June 2024
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Central government to hold a meeting of stakeholders to address the Delhi government's demand for supply of additional water from Himachal Pradesh through Haryana.   A Vacation Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and KV Viswanathan passed the order...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 May 2024
Election commission of India (ECI) has taken decisive steps to expand the release of voter turnout data in a bid to enhance transparency and combat misinformation surrounding the electoral process. This move comes amidst a backdrop of false narratives and attempts to disrupt the sanctity of the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 May 2024
Expressing reluctance to interfere in the middle of the election process, the Supreme Court (SC) on Friday adjourned an application seeking directions to the election commission of India (ECI) to publish the booth-wise absolute numbers of voter turnout and upload the form 17C records of votes...

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Nushaiba Iqbal (IndiaSpend) 20 May 2024
Suvarna Kamble (45), an accredited social health activist (ASHA) from Palghar, remembers a time when she brought a woman from Dhansar, a village in Palghar block of Palghar district, to a family planning clinic in Virar for a sterilisation procedure.   At 11 pm one night, the woman had called...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 May 2024
In a landmark move, the Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) has become India's first and only housing regulatory body to issue detailed regulations for retirement housing projects after model guidelines were issued by Union ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 May 2024
India on Wednesday issued the first set of citizenship certificates after notification of the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024 to 14 applicants. Union home secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla handed over citizenship certificates to some applicants in New Delhi.   According to a release from the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 May 2024
Expressing dismay over the election commission of India (ECI/Commission) not holding a single press conference even after the completion of voting for the three phases of the general election, five journalist bodies, including the Press Club of India (PCI), have demanded that ECI hold a press...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 03 May 2024
“For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself” with the government spying on its people, Winston struggles to conceal old feelings from Big Brother.   – p162, part 3, chapter 4, 1984, George Orwell, quoted at p.1 of the verdict in writ...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 26 April 2024
Turihe Supreme Court on Friday rejected the petition seeking directions to tally all voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) slips with votes cast through electronic voting machines (EVMs) dng elections.   A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta also rejected the prayer for...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 April 2024
Common Cause, a non-government organisation (NGO), and the Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) have filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a detailed investigation by a special investigation team (SIT) into the money trail of the electoral bonds scheme.   The petitions, filed...

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Shreehari Paliath (IndiaSpend) 24 April 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has had the most impact on jobs and livelihoods in the last five years. Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the rural jobs programme which guarantees 100 days of work per household, had become a lifeline for millions of rural workers. A majority of...

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Sukriti Vats (IndiaSpend) 22 April 2024
Twenty-seven years after the Supreme Court first directed states to identify and classify unique ecologies as “forests”, the Rajasthan government finally notified its sacred groves, known as Orans, as “deemed forest”, on February 1, 2024.   Orans are a vital part of community life in...

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Recently, the central information commission (CIC) has shown its 'utmost displeasure' at the election commission of India (ECI) for not responding to an RTI request on the status of representations made by several eminent personalities; directing it to submit a written explanation for ignoring...

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Prachi Salve (IndiaSpend) 18 April 2024
Aditya Shinde (name changed) spent upwards of Rs 7 lakh on the health expenses of his grandmother, who was diagnosed with renal failure in late 2019 and died in April 2021.   “The medical costs have definitely gone up,” Shinde, who lost his father in 2013 to the same condition, says. “The...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 April 2024
The Union government spent nearly Rs14 crore on electoral bonds, including commission paid to State Bank of India (SBI) for selling the bonds, bill paid for printing the bonds and 18% goods and service tax (GST), reveals information obtained under Right to Information (RTI) Act.   Reply...

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A decade since the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) formed government with a thumping victory and the vituperative slogan of creating a ‘Congress-Mukt Bharat’, Indian politics continues to be mired in symbolic hypocrisy. Innumerable Indian movies of the 1980s depicted this wonderfully in the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 April 2024
To address what is allegedly the biggest scam or corruption case in India, senior counsel Prashant Bhushan has called for a detailed probe by a special investigation team (SIT) monitored by the Supreme Court (SC) into the electoral bonds case.    Mr Bhushan says, "When the electoral bonds...

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