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On Gandhi Jayanti, marking Mahatma Gandhi’s 157th birth anniversary, Honourable Maharashtra Chief Minister Shri Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated the Dharavi Experience Centre, where residents could step inside sample homes, explore a 3D walkthrough of the proposed township and see how housing, livelihoods, public amenities and open spaces are planned to come together. He also unveiled a […]
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has asked 20 states and Union Territories to launch a special drive to bring voters who were left out of the electoral rolls back into the system. The written direction was issued on September 29 and was reiterated during a video conference with all State Chief Electoral Officers on […]
A new-generation professional is making his way to national politics. Dhanraj Parimal Nathwani is the Samajwadi Party’s Rajya Sabha candidate from Uttar Pradesh. He filed his nomination in Lucknow on Wednesday in the presence of party president Akhilesh Yadav, alongside senior party leader Prof Ram Gopal Yadav, who is also the party’s candidate for the […]
If not in Gujarat, at least in Paris, women have been served justice after the influential Gujarat-based Swaminarayan sect allegedly discriminated against female employees of the Eiffel Tower by asking the company operating it to make women employees invisible when the saints visited the iconic monument recently. The Swaminarayan sect, one of Gujarat’s richest and […]
Modi’s democratic legitimacy relies heavily on projecting undisputed, overwhelming public backing which is severely undercut by the recent revelations about Gyanesh Kumar and the ECI. The massive scandal engulfing Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar goes far beyond administrative dysfunction or his personal misconduct as documented internal dissents by fellow commissioners, opaque voter roll deletions […]
By Aparna Bhattacharya Justice (Retd) Indrajit Chatterjee, sitting as Appellate Tribunal No. 11 for the district of Murshidabad, passed an order in an appeal numbered APS2507E055••••••. It concerned a male elector of Part 52 in the Farakka assembly constituency (55). The second line of the order reads, “This is an appeal filed by the Additional […]
Further, the ECI mentioned that a committee headed by senior deputy election commissioner (DEC) and including an independent expert from IIT/IIIT will review the ECINET. As the Opposition continues to demand Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said on Saturday (September 26) that old Form 6 will be […]
For some Indian families in the US, the question of whether to return to India is no longer only about a job. There is also a house to pay for. Families who bought homes during their years of employment in the US are now facing a difficult choice as job losses and uncertainty around H-1B-linked […]
On October 2, several trader and business groups across India plan to put their UPI QR codes, sound boxes and other digital payment devices under black cloth. The symbolic protest, being called “No UPI Day,” is aimed at opposing the proposed 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on certain UPI transactions above ₹2,000. The charge is […]
Adani Airports is looking to change the way its airports make money, with a bigger focus on retail, leasing and city-side development instead of regulated airport charges. As India prepares for a major expansion in air travel, Adani Airports is working on a strategy to make its regulated airport revenue a much smaller part of […]
Mumbai Indians have announced that Lisa Keightley has decided to move on from her role as Head Coach of Mumbai Indians, with Luke Williams appointed as her successor ahead of the 2027 Women’s Premier League season. Mrs. Nita M. Ambani, said, “We are delighted to welcome Luke Williams to the Mumbai Indians family. Luke is […]
For 97 voters in Goa, the problem was not that they failed to prove their eligibility. They did. Their cases were examined by election officials, documents and objections were considered, and the Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) concluded that they should be included in the electoral roll. Yet when Goa published its final electoral roll on […]
By John J. Kennedy Is disagreement between commissioners actually a problem? Not necessarily. Disagreement can even be healthy. However, the real issue is Sandhu and Joshi say they weren’t told about major decisions in the first place, and once they objected, there was no clear process for what should happen next. We usually talk about […]
Asserting the statutory requirement of majority decision-making within the commission, ex-officials demand detailed documentary proof of how the disputed decisions were taken. After an investigation by The Indian Express on Wednesday (September 23) revealed that two of three election commissioners formally objected at least 14 times over 10 months to various decisions taken in the […]
After disagreement, a two-judge Supreme Court bench on Wednesday (September 23) referred the petitions challenging the 2023 Act pertaining to the appointment of chief election commissioners and election commissioners to a constitution bench. Justice Dipankar Datta mentioned that the 2023 law, prima facie, confers a veto on the executive, since the appointment by a committee […]
By Maneesh Chhibber As expected, within hours of the damning expose in The Indian Express on the strong opposition by two Election Commissioners – Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi – to the bull-headed manner in which controversial Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar was trying to run the Election Commission of India (ECI), unnamed “sources” […]
“Without delving into the particulars of the formal objections reported by the newspaper, the ECI claims, “All actions of ECI have been in accordance of laws and instructions of the Commission.” In its response to the investigation by The Indian Express revealing that two of three Election Commissioners objected formally at least 14 times on […]
Gyanesh Kumar’s appointment as election commissioner happened suddenly in March 2024, days before the schedule of the general election was to be announced after the abrupt exit of former EC Arun Goel. This morning, The Indian Express has reported on official communication from within the three-member Election Commission of India which establishes that most orders […]
A voter trying to get his or her name added to the electoral roll may never know what happens behind the computer screen. But in Goa, 97 people who had submitted documents and were found eligible by Electoral Registration Officers still failed to make it into the final voter list. The reason was not a […]
For some Indian-origin politicians in American conservative politics, supporting the same movement they believe in has not always been enough to escape questions about where they belong. From social media attacks to comments about their ancestry, several Indian-American figures on the US political right have faced a different kind of challenge — proving, or being […]
