Presenting: India's demographic dividend, freshly reaped.

BJP posts video calling Muslims ‘invaders, terrorists, robbers’, deletes it
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Why is Yogendra Yadav troubled by the EC’s voting data procedure? Listen in

The Bengaluru international airport police arrested a 22-year-old engineering student on May 1 on the charge of trying to open the emergency exit door of the domestic flight he was travelling in trib.al/WjubNYl

The real ‘ecosystem’.

WhatsApp University + Agency Rwanda.

The Supreme Court's Registrar refused to receive the application filed by the Union Government seeking clarification of the 2012 judgment in the 2G Spectrum case. The Government sought a clarification that the verdict does not bar the allocation of spectrum through means other…

Just in | “If you have two buffaloes, #Congress will take away one if it wins the Lok Sabha polls,” says Prime Minister #NarendraModi during his rally in Gujarat’s Banaskantha, reports Mahesh Langa

After #SupremeCourt order, Election Commission of India issues new protocol for handling and storage of Symbol Loading Unit (SLU).
SC had directed the SLUs to be stored in strong rooms for 40 days after polling along with #EVMs .

#Communalism | Animated BJP Video Targetting Indian Muslims Goes Off Instagram

A large number of Instagram users said that they had reported the video for 'false information' and 'hate speech'.

#LokSabha2024
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We've meticulously analysed the Union Budget from last 20 years comparing the tax revenues collected by Dr. Manmohan Singh Govt and Modi Govt. The findings are staggering.

Excise duties on fuel price was nominal during that period and when the international price rose, UPA Govt…

Does the ruling party meant to represent the whole country really need to release a video that demonises an entire Indian community in order to frighten its electorate into voting ? Where's Election Commission of India ?

Delhi Court Raps #ED For 'High-Handed Act', Says It Can't Invoke S.50 PMLA Against Private Citizens Who Are Not Even Suspects |Nupur Thapliyal

“As an agency answerable to the law and the courts, the ED cannot arrogate powers unto itself,' Court said

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#Election2024 | Almost all Hindu residents of the city Scroll spoke to said that they did not face such problems.
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In Chaubiyapada, a Brahmin-dominant neighbourhood, residents said that they could locate their names on the roll and vote.

By: Ayush Tiwari

I’m talking of absolute number of registered voters in each constituency not the number of polled votes which will be known only after postal ballots are counted.
Why is the total number of voters in each constituency not being put out?
ECI must answer.

I have watched and studied Indian elections for 35 years now. While a difference of 3 to 5 % points between initial (polling day evening) and final turnout figures was not abnormal, we used to get the final data within 24 hours.
What is unusual and worrying this time is
a) delay…

In the 2019 Loksabha elections the #ElectionCommission uploaded Voter Turnout data in numbers (EVM votes polled) & also compared it with the 2014 LS elections.
But a drastic change has occured in the #LokSabhaElections2024 . Why are they providing votes polled data in %? Why not…

ECI formally releases voter turnouts for first two phases:

Phase 1: 66.14 %
Phase 2: 66.71 %

‘Do only Muslims have children? I have five’: Kharge on Modi’s ‘mangalsutra and Muslims speeches’

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#BREAKING #SupremeCourt questions ED about the timing of the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal.

'Liberty is very exceedingly important, you can't deny that. The last question is with regard to the timing of the arrest, which they have pointed out, the timing of the arrest, soon before…

Very valid point raised by Sitaram Yechury about votes polled data not being shared by the #ElectionCommission of the last 2 phases.
EC has announced polled data in percentage and not figures.
In fact EC stopped uploading votes polled data in figures after I reported on…