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Corruption
Democracy
Politics & Political Commentary
Issues with calculating VVPAT Sample Size
Auditing VVPATs has been a headline issue in this election season. A delegation of 22 political parties requested the Election Commission to tally the EVM votes with the VVPAT slips for 50% of the booths in each constituency. The Election Commission rejected the request, leaving the delegation to move the Supreme Court with the same […]
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Corruption
Politics & Political Commentary
3 crore Muslims and 4 crore Dalits missing from voter lists
Khalid Saifullah, the founder of the Missing Voter App and CEO of the Hyderabad based RayLabs undertook a study and found that 15 per cent of all voters and 25 per cent Muslims are not present on the electoral list. Therefore approximately 12.7 crores of all voters and three crore Muslims will not be able […]
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Democracy
Find your Adarsh Nagrik JOSH here – online game
A game to find your Adarsh Nagrik score that involves dodging falling cows and catching bags of foreign currency to get jumlas. Can YOU get 15 lakh rupees?
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Human rights
Land Rights
Developer Bhoomi Arcade filed an undertaking to make good any losses suffered by the home buyers due to extension of stay
Press Release The Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) has directed developer to give an undertaking that the firm will cover any losses suffered by five home buyers, who got refund orders for delayed possession last month, till the filing of an appeal with the appellate tribunal. On September 27, 2018, MahaRERA had ordered the […]
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Environment
National
How Government of Maharashtra is helping destroy Mumbai’s forest
Aarey Milk Colony, spread over 1,259 hectares of land, is an extension of Sanjay Gandhi National Park. In 1949, the land we know as Aarey was given to the Dairy Development Board of Maharashtra to shift the cattle sheds from the city to Aarey. Since then this area has been known as Aarey Milk Colony. […]
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