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Bihar SIR: Plea in SC seeks constituency, booth details of the 65 lakh excluded voters, reasons for each

New Delhi: Days after the publication of the draft electoral roll by the Election Commission of India (ECI) pursuant to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR)...

‘Arbitrary, to be replicated in Bengal.’ What pleas by ADR, Mahua challenging EC’s Bihar exercise say

ADR, Mahua Moitra, Yogendra Yadav and Manoj Jha have moved SC challenging EC’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.

EC says ‘no legal mandate’ to make voter turnout data public, raps petitioner for raising settled issue

India’s apex election body has taken exception to what it sees as the Association for Democratic Reforms' continual attempts to create doubt about India’s electoral process.

Vested groups trying to undermine nation’s achievements — Justice Datta’s separate EVM-VVPAT order

In separate but concurring judgment, Justice Dipankar Datta stated that 'concerted effort to discredit, diminish and weaken process of this great nation' must be 'nipped in the bud'.

‘Have you forgotten what happened earlier?’ — SC rejects suggestion to return to ballot paper

Electoral reforms non-profit ADR cast doubts over the sanctity of EVMs. But SC virtually dismissed the idea of scrapping them saying trust had to be reposed on ‘somebody’.

From NOTA to win against electoral bonds, how IIM-A professors started ADR to fight for poll reforms

Non-profit organisation Association for Democratic Reforms on a mission to 'reduce money and muscle power in political system and make political parties more accountable, transparent'.

BJP got 78% of donations to national parties in FY22 at Rs 614 cr, Congress 2nd with Rs 95 cr: ADR

Total donations above Rs 20,000 disclosed by national parties amounted to Rs 780.77 cr, says report. Corporates accounted for 89.29% of total donations declared by BJP.

Indian courts will have to prepare for a different kind of a Covid crisis

The massive disruption in trade and commerce will flood the already burdened courts with various Covid-19 induced cases. Is Indian judiciary ready?

Over Rs 400 crore of donations to national parties unaccounted for, BJP worst offender: ADR

An ADR report says parties didn't provide PAN details of donors for Rs 438.96 crore over the past 5 years, in violation of a 2013 Supreme Court ruling.

BJP earned over Rs 1,027 crore in 2017-18 & spent 74% of it

The Congress is yet to submit its audit report to the Election Commission even though it's 48 days past the due date.

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.