-The Hindu Experts panel has okayed design, EC tells Supreme Court New Delhi: The Election Commission on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that it would convene an all-party meeting on May 10 to decide on changes to be made in the electronic voting machine for introducing the Voter-Verified Paper Audit TRAIl (VVPAT) System. Under this system, a voter by pressing a button in the EVM will know the candidate whom he/she is voting...
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Panchayats take first steps towards digital empowerment- Anuja
-Live Mint Even as India struggles in efforts to usher in transparency, some panchayats are offering a refreshing contrast Chandana/Jind: Sometime last year, Surendra Singh got a call from a military outpost in Srinagar. The soldier had an urgent inquiry for the 31-year-old sarpanch of Chandana, a village in Haryana's Kaithal district. The man, who hailed from the village, had lost his voter ID card and needed a letter from the...
More »Mani Shankar Aiyar, diplomat-turned-politician interviewed by Nidhi Sharma
-The Economic Times My target for fulfilling Rajiv's vision has always been 2018. We can get there in less than 5 years if govt acts on our recommendations, says diplomat-turned-politician Mani Shankar Aiyar. You have been passionately talking about Panchayati Raj. But your party doesn't seem to share the same passion lately... Mani Shankar Aiyar: I don't agree with you here. The commitment of the party to Panchayati Raj and devolution of...
More »Soni Sori acquitted in a case of attack on leader-Suvojit Bagchi
-The Hindu Kolkata: Soni Sori, the tribal school teacher accused of acting as a courier between Essar Steel and the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist), and Lingaram Kodopi, activist-journalist TRAIned in Delhi, have been acquitted in one more crucial case by a Dantewada court. Fifteen others, including activists of various mainstream political parties, were also acquitted. Among them were Congress leader Vijay Sodi, CPI leader Lala Ram Kunjam and a panchayat...
More »State of Dalits in Tamil Nadu-G Palanithurai
-Live Mint Dominant caste groups in the state have found their own ways to capture and preserve power Dravidian political parties, which came into existence with the objective of achieving social equality, have been in power for more than four decades in Tamil Nadu, yet caste-based discrimination against the Dalits has remained a fact of life in the southern state. That's in contrast with neighbouring Kerala, which has emerged as a...
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