-PTI New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Election Commission on a PIL seeking investigation by software experts into allegations that Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) were tampered with in the recent Assembly polls. A bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justices D Y Chandrachud and S K Kaul issued notice to the poll panel on the plea that alleged that EVMs, used by the Election...
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India must be careful:?Jobless growth can lead to social unrest
-Hindustan Times With the assembly elections over, one of the big issues which will hog public attention in the coming days is the Jat agitation. Before leaving Delhi after their protests on March 1, the Jats promised to come back on March 20 and convert the city into “Jat land”. Whether they will manage to do that or not only time will tell but the reasons for their anger --- lack...
More »Why HP farmers are better off than tillers in Uttarakhand -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India A striking feature of the poll campaign in Uttarakhand is that neither of the two major political parties have any concrete strategy for a crisis that's haunting nearly half the state's population. Since 2000, when the state was created, foodgrain production has gone down by 6% and land under cultivation by 11%. In neighbouring Himachal Pradesh, with similar mountainous terrain, foodgrain output increased by 29% while the country...
More »Must follow our order: EC to RBI on raising cash limit
-The Indian Express EC had asked the central bank to relax the weekly bank withdrawal limit from Rs 24,000 to Rs 2 lakh for candidates contesting elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur. New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has shot down the Election Commission’s (EC) proposal to relax the weekly withdrawal limit for those contesting the Assembly elections, prompting an angry reaction from the poll panel, which...
More »EC requests RBI to allow higher withdrawals for poll candidates
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a relief to candidates contesting the upcoming assembly polls, the EC on Wednesday requested RBI to hike the weekly limit for withdrawals from their poll expenditure accounts to Rs 2 lakh from Rs 24,000 imposed for all in view of the demonetisation. Stating that it had been apprised about the problems being faced by candidates due to imposition of limits on withdrawal of cash from...
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