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3 years

For all those making India out to be a banana republic vis a vis the Prime Minister’s security here is some food for thought. 1.

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#BoycottChineseProduct Shall we send the #StatueOfUnity back to the Chinese foundry?

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I apply for normal passport late Tuesday night. Appointment given Thursday. Breeze in & out in 10. Passport arrives for police verification Friday. Sent back Tuesday. PP despatched Wednesday! @passportsevamea rocks! @SushmaSwaraj

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The PM’s travel plans are laid out as per the SPG’s blue book. Everything from a contingency route to a safe house (just in case the PM has to be evacuated) is discussed by the PM’s Advanced Security Liasion comprising SPG, IB and state police. 2.

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The PM, says @ANI , told airport officials he was glad to return in one piece. If his life was in danger, then the SPG has to answer. Providing inner cordon security to the protectee is the job solely of the SPG. 10.

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The BJP says the protestors (seen waving BJP flags) were BJP workers who came to the scene AFTER the PM’s cavalcade made a U turn. How were civilians allowed on a sanitized route and that too with tempos and buses when the PM was still in line of sight. 8.

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So if the SPG decided to travel by road, it was as per plan. If not, the SPG chief needs to be sacked. If the state DGP gave clearance that the route had been sanitized when it wasnt, he needs to put in his papers for deliberately misleading the SPG. 7.

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The cavalcade includes a warning car and a pilot car. Wouldn’t the first car have noticed a crowd and alerted the convoy. So how did the cavalcade stop so close to the protestors some 20 metres apart. Should the SPG not have made an immediate U turn instead of waiting 20 mins? 9.

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Questions that the @PMO /SPG need to answer. Was it not known that the weather would be inclement. Werent inputs taken from the met department at least 48 hours in advance as per the Blue Book. 4.

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Even while stranded on the bridge for 20 minutes, the Close Protection Team of the SPG was on either side of the PM’s car and not in the front where the cameras were recording and the protestors were. 11.

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Punjab is a border state and the Hussainiwala Martyrs Memorial where the PM was headed is located 1 km from the Pak border. 12.

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Did the SPG really allow the premier to travel on an unsanitised route for two hours without security clearance? As per the blue book, the SPG doesn’t move till the state police concerned gives the go ahead that the entire route is sanitized. 6.

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7 years

Ask a BJP worker for directions in Varanasi and the response is the same: I am not from this city.

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If the weather turned inclement and a chopper ride to the venue was not possible, then was the contingency route not decided as per the ASL? Was this contingency route the one the PM took. The 111 km takes about 2 hours to cover. 5.

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The ASL is then published as a booklet which can be at least 200 pages thick! 3.

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6 years

"My advice to @narendramodi is to exercise restraint, not to use language that has become common practice." Manmohan Singh on coarseness of public debate. "His conduct should be worthy of the chair he holds," Singh.

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@thesinghsonia I know. Which is why I began by saying we're happy to portray ourselves as a banana republic in order to save face at a political rally!

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Wasn't VK Saraswat, now #NitiAayog member, DRDO chief who spent the better part of his tenure building a chariot for Lord Jagannath at Pandharpur using the light weight but hugely expensive material used for building space missiles? Using DRDO funds? #MissionShakti #ASAT

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Judge Sunil Gaur of the Delhi High Court who rejected @PChidambaram_IN bail plea 48 hours before he retired, is appointed Chairperson of the PMLA Appellate Tribunal.

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6 years

Atal Bihari Vajpayee should have been given the Bharat Ratna when he was in good health. We should not be narrow minded. I hope you, Dr Manmohan Singh, get it: Farooq Abdullah at release of Fables of Fractured Times by @ManishTewari @sardesairajdeep

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The entire election machinery from the manufacturing of EVMs, to their software, to the committee appointed to evaluate software, the third-party auditing the software and more, is controlled by the Centre and the ECI has very little say. Find out how.

The Anatomy of an Electronic Voting Machine: What We Know and What We Don’t

A recent petition in the Supreme Court asking for the source code of EVMs was dismissed. But there are important questions that remain about the code, the importance of making it public and other...

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5 years

In the battle for #Karnataka , my vote goes to @DKShivakumar who fought the valiant fight with zero support from the rest of the @INCIndia !! #KarnatakaFloorTest

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3 years

@abhisekshah1995 @VishnuNDTV Read my tweets and then re-read my tweets.

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@ANI The Pawars are the best weather vanes in India, sensing which way the wind is blowing even before a gust has risen. @PawarSpeaks @NCPspeaks @praful_patel

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At least one retired bureaucrat seems to have heard the @PMOIndia Independence Day speech very carefully. The govt would be waging a war on corruption @narendramodi had said. Some have taken this as a signal that those who’ve made pots of money1/n

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7 months

Last month, The Wire, pored over publicly available data over weeks on EVMs. What we found makes for some startling reading. Re-upping a piece in election season. 1/n

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8 months

The entire election machinery from the manufacturing of EVMs, to their software, to the committee appointed to evaluate software, the third-party auditing the software and more, is controlled by the Centre and the ECI has very little say. Find out how.

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The #AmarJawanJyoti is not just some burning fire. It's the spot where thousands have paid homage to the fallen soldier for 50 years. The flame, the stone structure have a sanctity that can't be explained.Installing a statue of #NetajiSubhasChandraBose won't take the sting away.

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7 years

The Russians remember the Iron Lady in the centenary year of her birth. Will GOI follow next?

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5 years

So i am once again sticking my neck out. Rakesh Ashthana will be the next CBI chief. Moral of the story: in govt, when there's a will, there's a way. Make no mistake.

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6 years

Some more pictures by Pravin Jain. Vajpayee wouldn't even tell Gunnu, his daughter, what they were giggling about.

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6 years

The fact that the @BJP4India has to market #TheAccidentalPrimeMinister speaks volumes about the insecurity of a party with a brute majority in Lok Sabha targeting one that's a pale shadow of its former glory.

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7 months

First, the Election Commission of India has no control over much of the election machinery even though it is mandated to conduct polls. Everything is controlled by the Central government. 2/n

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3 years

What is it that you are afraid of @narendramodi ? The fig leaf of covid or the light of truth that #FreeMedia symbolizes. #Parliamentwintersession @PCITweets

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A pilot tests positive on a Delhi Moscow @airindiain flight. @DGCAIndia orders probe. Will anyone probe if @Arogyasetu was working? Btw what is the function of that app I wonder

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5 years

The roads in Tamil Nadu are amazingly smooth. Thank you @nitin_gadkari for making election coverage a pot hole free event for us hacks.

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I think @ArvindKejriwal has just checkmated the Centre. As the #coronavirus graph escalates in Delhi, no one can blame him for want of #hospital beds! @AmitShah @narendramodi #delhihospitals #anilbaijal

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In past 7 years, number of MBBS seats increased from 80000-90000 to 1.5 lakh says @narendramodi interacting with #Students in #Varanasi . #OperationGanga These are the number of seats as per NMC website.

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वाराणसी : Ukraine में फंसे छात्रों ने की PM Modi की सराहना PM Modi बोले- 'अगर हमारे देश में Medical Education की नीतियां सही होती तो आप लोगों को बाहर नहीं जाना पड़ता' #IndiansInUkraine @pml

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Justice Sunil Gaur who rejected #Chidambaram bail in DHC retired today. Is the government planning to appoint him Appellate Authority judge for PMLA?

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I seriously recommend all political parties to become real chowkidars till May 23. Or this is one election that will be won by theft. #EVMs #EVM

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6 years

@ANI #bjp se beti bachao

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5 years

Is anyone keeping a headcount of the number of journalists who are losing/have lost their jobs? I don't suppose the department of Labour is even remotely aware of our existence

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6 years

Top banker and hubby all set to be questioned by investigating agencies April 1st week. Banker cleared loans to companies which then "invested" in hubby's firm.

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2 years

#AgnipathRecruitmentScheme Will homes of arsonists be bulldozed for setting public property on fire? Or does the CrPC change from state to state #bihar #BulldozerAction

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The various covid variants which are driving the headlines in India have already run their course and are on the wane. The "deadliest" of the lot, the "Chinese" BF.7 in fact shows a flat graph for Dec. So whats the hype all about that's making @PMOIndia so nervous. Not only 1/2

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3 years

Principal advisor to the PM, PK Sinha, has relinquished charge as of last evening on personal grounds. @PMOIndia @narendramodi @MHA

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5 years

And here's proof. @VKSaraswat1949 was scientific advisor to PM when he was dabbling in the promotion of Vedic science? Shall we say? And btw, DRDO isnt required to do any CSR work. And hence no funds are sanctioned for the same.

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@mdpnb top brass admits to glaring irregularities in bank functioning. Last @rbi audit was 9 years ago, instead of annually.

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6 years

@BJP4India @AnupamPKher deserves the Bharat Ratna. (Or at least a Rajya Sabha ticket).

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Now that the cabal is broken can i take credit for scooping this story first on a Saturday afternoon and breaking it first? Anyone? ...(.I normally avoid this cheap tom tomming business But this occasion is different.)

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3 years

@avijitsaxena87 Thank you for repeating my BS using different words.

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1 year

The Wire accesses Allahabad museum's register of 1952 that first recorded an entry for the Sengol.

Museum Entry Shows Sengol Listed as 'Stick With Golden Polish', Not 'Walking Stick' as Modi Claimed

The prime minister says he rescued 'the holy sengol' from Anand Bhavan, Nehru's family home, and Amit Shah now wants the people of Tamil Nadu to show their gratitude to the BJP by electing over 25...

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@TheDeshBhakt @ChandrusWeb I don't think it occurred to the cops to uproot shamianas and overturn tables at the @hd_kumaraswamy family wedding. @CMofKarnataka cops must be rather dense!!!

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From the manufacture of EVMs, to the software written for them, to the software loaded on to them, to the committee appointed to evaluate the software, to the third party that audits the software. 3/n

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I finally file that horrid Income Tax returns.And get a message instantly from #Zomato : 'Filing IT returns is a TDS task. Now'l its time to order some comfort food'...or lines to that effect. @FinMinIndia now maybe #Swiggy should get my #Aadhaar details for a level playing field?

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Delhi High Court judge Sunil Gaur who rejected @PChidambaram_IN bail plea in INX Media case retires in 48 hours! @KartiPC

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6 years

More trouble for the Kochars. Look Out Circular at all airports for Chanda Kochar, husband Deepak Kochar and Venugopal Dhoot of #videocon #sweetheartdeal #ICICI

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7 years

Election Commission gives extended explanation for delay in dates of #GujaratElections2017 polls. Sounds like PRO of Gujarat govt

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3 years

Kalyan Barooah was a living encyclopedia on the north east. Could reel off numbers and dates of events 20 years old without a pause. There's a lot we've lost today. He may not have been so "high profile" a journalist but a doyen he certainly was.

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@richa_singh @atti_cus Actually the family didn't file the FIR. The police did it suo moto and when caught blamed the family. Enthu cutlet aka DCP is a chap called Atul Thakur.

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The ECI doesn’t even decide which machines goes to which state, an exercise entrusted once again to the two PSUs under the direct control of the Centre. The ECI can at best through an EVM tracking software track the location of the machines. 5/n

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To the pre-election security measures such as first level checking or FLC before they are sealed in a warehouse with 24 by 7 security, to the security deployed at these warehouses, to the random allocation of machines to constituencies. 4/n

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Now OB vans used to transfer cash in #UPElection2017 .Huge amounts sent for top leaders using this route. State of the media! Why blame govt.

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@kiranjankalar @ANI What about relatives raping little children? Rape of infants? Lets not trivialize, generalise

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#EasternPeripheralExpressway My 1st press conference as a journalist was of a truckers' Union expressing happiness at Centre's announcement that a Delhi bypass would be ready in a couple of years. That presser was 25 years ago. Happy birthday & a big thank you @nitin_gadkari

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#JamiaMilia authorities have seized 750 fake ids in the past one week. Why were outsiders trying to enter #JamiaMilia using fake identities? Just who are these people?

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The two PSUs are Bharat Electronics Limited, under the direct control of the Minstry of Defence. Electronics Corporation of India Limited reports to the Department of Atomic Energy. 6/n

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So where were we last? Oh yes! The #Rafale fig leaf and the reason for the DCBI getting a mid night boot. So here's the inside juice. 1/n

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No ECI officer is present during any of the above-mentioned stages. Officials of the two PSUs manufacturing the machines and the district collector, who again reports to the state government, are instead present. 7/n

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Which country and company are they imported from is information the ECI has steadfastly refused to share. It was only in an RTI response that BEL admitted it uses semiconductors manufactured by US based NXP semiconductors. 9/n

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@PMOIndia @narendramodi Prime Minister this is unbelievable. You are one person who lives and works out of Lutyens' Delhi. As does your entire cabinet and all your bureaucrats. In fact, the foundation stone as laid out by Lutyens and Baker is right under your office!!!!!! So relax now.

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The chip or micro controllers on which the software of these machines is written are imported, again not by the Election Commission of India, but by the two PSUs. 8/n

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This March 23, 2018 order of Delhi HC that gave bail to @KartiPC clearly says the INX media case is a FEMA offence, which is a civil offence and not criminal. @PChidambaram_IN is denied bail for same economic "offence" of "enormous magnitude".

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#Sarada scam: #CBI finds a new accused, chargesheets #NaliniChidambaram . Was it a bribe or a legal fee. And if it is a bribe, then what about other lawyers who too appeared? @rsprasad ?

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The source code of EVMs is top secret. The ECI doesn’t know it, the experts the government appoints to vet this software don’t know it, the third party that checks what the experts have vetted have no access to the source code. 11/n

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The only story worth reading today. There is hope yet in the world.

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Let’s look at the most important aspect of EVMs: the software used for operating them and more importantly, the source code used for writing this software. The source code, or the brain of the machine, if altered can change the outcome of an election. 10/n

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Watch this space for a thread soon on VVPATS and more :)

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Lutyens Gossip: CBI likely to file fresh FIR against its special director Rakesh Ashthana.

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The trio of Messrs Arun Shourie, Prashant Bhushan and Yashwant Sinha didn't just walk into the #CBI hq with a #Rafale complaint. The trio actually met with then DCBI Alok Verma at the Malcha Marg residence of an NRI who rarely uses this property. 2/n

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The ECI says the chip is One Time Programmable, meaning once a program is written on it, it cannot be modified or in other words, is tamper proof. The OTP chip that BEL buys from US based NXP semiconductors is, as per the company, not OTP. 14/n

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have new Omicron variants run their course, the new BF.7 is powerless in Indian conditions. Our very own BA.2.75 is fitter for survival & can easily overpower d Chinese variant which is why we don't have a China-like pandemic.2/2 @Banjotkaur @svaradarajan

From Detection in Pre-Poll Gujarat to Current COVID Advisory, Modi Govt's Puzzling Response to BF.7

As Omicron sub-variants wax and wane, there has been no change so far in disease dynamics – hospitalisation and deaths – in India.

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No one except handpicked engineers working for the two PSUs are aware of the source code. “The software of EVMs is developed in house by a selected group of engineers at BEL and ECIL independently from each other. 12/n

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India's election machinery from manufacturing of EVMs, to their software, to committee appointed to evaluate software, the third-party auditing the software & more, is controlled by the Centre and the @ECISVEEP has very little say. #EVM #Elections2024

The Anatomy of an Electronic Voting Machine: What We Know and What We Don’t

A recent petition in the Supreme Court asking for the source code of EVMs was dismissed. But there are important questions that remain about the code, the importance of making it public and other...

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Did the man who was paying a bribe to Ashthana actually turn approved at CBI top brass behest? And did he try to flee the country? The CBI vs CBI saga gets murkier 1/n

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Sanjay Mishra, chief commissioner Income Tax, Delhi, likely to be the new @dir_ed . Orders likely tonight. Mishra handled cases of @ndtv and National Herald. 1/2

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Kanhaiya speech beats everything on Primetime👍 #STANDWITHJNU

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It uses three different kinds of memory. SRAM, FLASH EEPROM. All three types can erase and rewrite data, or retain data bits in its memory or the memory can be electronically erased and rewritten. 15/n

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On what happened on that one occassion when an EVM machine was opened up on orders of the Bombay High Court and much more, pl read the link to the story. 20/n

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Lawyer Rohit Tandon, who coughed up Rs125 cr undisclosed income Oct 6 post tax raid, is raided again. Tandon is go to man 4 many a BJP neta

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This select software development group of few engineers design and develop the source code,” says a November 2021 status paper on EVMs. 13/n

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@RahulGandhi thankfully didn't read out scripted answers. But whatever happened to our "master orator". Reams and reams of a prepared speech. He's going on and yawn!

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Last year, i asked SEBI if stock exchanges (which are answerable to the so called watchdog), had reported suspicious transaction reports or STRs to SEBI for overseas investment funds such as Albula, Cresta, Elara etc. SEBI's response was predictable. 👇 1/2

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Is the ED really central to a #FATF review as claimed by the Centre in the #SC or is it a fig leaf. A deep dive that exposes the many anamolies in the Centre's claims. My replug

At SC, Modi Govt Justified S.K. Mishra's Extension Citing FATF Review. How Key Is His Role in it?

A country is judged on at least 40 parameters and the Enforcement Directorate's remit of money laundering and terror financing is just one of those 40.

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But in 2019, the ECI told the Supreme Court the information is available with the Technical Evaluation Committee. The TEC comprising mainly IIT professors, passed the buck to the ministry of information and Technology’s audit cell, STQC. 17/n

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In response to an RTI, the CIC in 2018 nudged the ECI to examine if the source code could be made public as it will “create public trust in the voting system”. The ECI brushed off the CIC saying source codes are “intellectual property rights”. 16/n

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TEC members in the past have said that “questioning the integrity of the ECI” is like asking Sita to undergo trial by fire.19/n

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Can someone explain this? @myogiadityanath @CMOfficeUP There's nothing called a free lunch even in the times of a pandemic.

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The not so celebrated Media Heroes that everyone forgot to cheer is the @ThePrintIndia team that's been travelling across the country for the past 2 weeks, chasing migrants and questioning govt apathy. Photographer Pravin Jain needs standing ovation. @ShekharGupta @jomalhotra

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The STQC says the data is with ECI. The ECI says, “STQC tests and clears the EVMs before these are shipped out from BEL/ECIL”. 18/n

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