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Topic: VVPAT

TDP, which had opposed EVMs after 2019 defeat, hits out at Jagan for backing Oppn’s paper ballot push

YSRCP chief called for EVMs to be replaced with ballot papers, joining a number of Oppn leaders raising concerns about their efficacy after a post by Elon Musk on X sparked a debate.

Fact Check: EVMs destroyed in Manipur after alleged proxy voting. NCP leader’s claim is wrong

NCP leader Jitendra Awhad wrongly claimed that women in Manipur vandalised the EVMs because they generated 'lotus slips' no matter which button was pressed.

‘Repeated doubts can create distrust’: What SC said as it rejected pleas for 100% EVM-VVPAT verification

Top court however allowed LS candidates placed 2nd or 3rd in election results to get 5% of EVMs checked by engineers' team from manufacturers' side to check tampering or manipulation.

EVM debate has a solution. And it’s neither the ballot paper nor INDIA’s new demand

Pure stonewalling or hiding behind claims of technical perfection won’t do. The ECI must prove that its systems are above suspicion.

EC seeks urgent SC hearing on fixing timeline for release of EVMs, VVPATs used in 6 states

The Election Commission also sought that a timeline be fixed for filing election petitions relating to assembly polls of Assam, Kerala, Delhi, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.

EC orders repoll, suspends officers over Assam ‘EVM theft’, BJP calls it Congress conspiracy

Election Commission ordered repoll at polling booth 179 of Ratabari seat after a video, which went viral Thursday, showed polled EVMs being transported in BJP MLA’s car.

Military veterans, academics & ex-civil servants slam EC over ‘least fair’ Lok Sabha polls

A letter, signed by academics, former civil servants & military veterans, alleges EC turned blind eye to violations committed by BJP leaders & PM Modi.

Two ex-IAS officers have suggestions for how EC can count votes and avoid EVM controversy

The officers looked at three elements of VVPAT-based audit of EVMs and found Election Commission’s system wanting in all three aspects.

Narendra Modi’s juvenile ‘mud-slinging’, and punishment for taking on ‘powerful men’

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Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.