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Moneylife Digital Team 21 March 2024
Taking note of several complaints, the election commission of India (ECI) has directed the Union ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) to immediately stop sending 'Viksit Bharat' messages containing a letter from prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi on WhatsApp.    In a...

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Nileena Suresh (IndiaSpend.org) 21 March 2024
Several areas in Bengaluru face a water crisis due to drying borewells. Media reports identify 257 locations at risk. Responding to this, the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) issued an order on March 8, prohibiting the use of drinking water for washing vehicles, gardening, and...

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 In a unique move, major bank unions shall initiate a ‘voter awareness’ campaign next month among the masses and question Lok Sabha candidates of all political parties on critical issues pertaining to the banking sector, officials said here.   The crusade will kickstart under the...

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The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the application filed by the State Bank of India (SBI) seeking an extension of time, until 30th June, for making details of the encashed electoral bonds public.   Rejecting the application, a Constitution bench, headed by chief justice of India DY...

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As billions of people will vote in elections around the world this year, growing threats from artificial intelligence (AI) technology such as deepfake videos and voice synching can be used to help influence public opinion, discredit people or politicians, experts said on...

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On 4th March, the Union minister for road transport and highways, Nitin Gadkari, released the biography of RC Sinha, an unconventional bureaucrat and nationalist, whose innovative thinking significantly impacted India's infrastructure development in the 1990s. The book, titled Transforming...

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A contempt petition has been filed against SBI for wilful disobedience of the Supreme Court order mandating the leading public sector bank to disclose the details of encashed Electoral Bonds to the Election Commission by March 6.   The contempt plea moved by the petitioner Association...

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27 November 2003: Satyendra Dubey (30 years old) becomes one of the first whistle-blowers in the country to have been shot dead on this day and his body thrown on the roadside. His sin: He had exposed the corruption in the Rs60,000 crore Golden Quadrilateral highway construction project...

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IANS 29 February 2024
The most common and popular items of expenditure for national political parties for FY22-23 are election expenses and administrative/general expenses, according to a report released by the Association of Democratic Rights (ADR) on Wednesday.   The analysis based on audited reports of...

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The refusal to provide information is getting so brazen that information officers at the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) claimed that no reports were available even when UIDAI publishes reports under different heads. It also turns out that information, when provided, raises...

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IANS 20 February 2024
A political slugfest has erupted in West Bengal over chief minister (CM) Mamata Banerjee’s allegation that the Union government is deliberately deactivating the Aaadhar cards of around 60 citizens of the state.   Referring to the complaints from 60 individuals from different parts of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 February 2024
The Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) has released a draft aimed at regulating retirement homes across the state, aligning with the model guidelines issued by Union ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) for the development and regulation of retirement homes. This...

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As per the Delhi commission of women (DCW), 130,000 complaints of various kinds of harassment of domestic servants have been registered with it, ever since the Delhi Private Placement Agencies (Regulation) Order, 2014 was implemented in the national capital.   This fact came to light...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 February 2024
Notwithstanding the 30 June 2023 deadline, as many as 114.8mn (million) holders of permanent account numbers (PANs) have not linked their PAN with Aadhaar. During the past seven months till 31 January 2024, the government collected Rs601.97 crore as a penalty from PAN-holders, the Lok Sabha...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 February 2024
EAS Sarma, former secretary to the government of India (GoI), has asked election commission of India (ECI) to come clean on this even at this belated hour, direct the concerned authorities to revoke the directorship of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-affiliated persons from the board of Bharat...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 February 2024
After raising concerns over the directorship of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-affiliated persons from the board of Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), which is closely engaged in the manufacture and supply of electronic voting machines (EVMs), EAS Sarma, former secretary to the government of India...

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IANS 31 January 2024
As AI-generated explicit images of Taylor Swift create massive debate among the policy makers, US lawmakers have proposed a bill that would let victims sue over digitally faked sexual images.   The ‘Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits’ (DEFIANCE) Act would add a...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 31 January 2024
“We kill people on the basis of metadata.”   -Unrepenting admission of Michael Hayden, former head of USA’s NSA and CIA, quoted in the Draft Resolution on Mass Surveillance, The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe dated 18 March...

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IANS 30 January 2024
Rajasthan government has fixed security issues impacting its website related to Jan Aadhaar that exposed millions of residents' personal information and sensitive documents.   Jan Aadhaar is a state programme that provides a single identifier to families and individuals in Rajasthan...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 January 2024
The Maharashtra government has announced an Abhay Yojana (amnesty scheme) for the penalty that can be levied for insufficient or non-payment of stamp duty. This scheme is a periodic government initiative to provide relief to individuals and entities by granting a waiver on unpaid or deficient...

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