If ECI adheres to its fiat of asking for one of the 11 specified documents, at least 50 per cent of those required to produce a document could be excluded from the final voters list in Bihar. Yogendra Yadav & Rahul Shastri Here is a simple yet critical question for the ongoing SIR exercise: What… Read More Edge of disenfranchisement
http://www.reporters-collective.in The Election Commission of India tried to lock the new Bihar voter list away from scrutiny. Collaborating with a team of independent data analysts, we broke the lock. Guess what we found. More than 5,000 double and dubious voters from Uttar Pradesh have made it into ECI’s voter list for a Bihar constituency. Thousands… Read More Thousands of Bogus Voters on ECI’s Bihar List
Rahul Gandhi alleged that fake people were being added to voter lists by the ECI in collusion with the BJP and attempted to validate his point by showing the Karnataka electoral rolls. By: Abhishek De In a no-holds-barred attack on the Election Commission (EC), Congress MP Rahul Gandhi alleged that the poll watchdog was colluding with the… Read More Duplicate voters, fake addresses: Rahul Gandhi claims fraud in Karnataka rolls
Imagine, the same government that repeatedly demands citizens present papers and preserve records to prove their citizenship and right to vote claims to have no papers when citizens ask for them. http://www.reporters-collective.in Here is another instalment on the Election Commission of India’s special intensive revision scandal. Last week, we received a reply from the Ministry… Read More Law Ministry Denied Giving Papers on Special Intensive Revision
Joe Conason Years after his apparent suicide in a Manhattan federal lockup, the notorious sex offender and financial manipulator Jeffrey Epstein has returned from the dead to haunt Donald Trump and instigate a massive rupture in Trump’s government and MAGA movement. Having long encouraged the proliferation of conspiracy theories on the right — from the racist birther… Read More There’s far more to Trump and Epstein’s relationship: Trump biographer
Records reveal: A detailed review and updation of the Bihar state electoral roll was completed by January 2025. The roll was found to be robust. Officials were updating the roll well into June. Suddenly, the Election Commission of India called it faulty and junked it, ordering an unprecedented exercise to verify voters from scratch. Chaos… Read More The Bihar Electoral Roll Investigation
NB: A welcome and good judgment. Given the glaring procedural anomalies (highlighted below) and lack of evidence in this case, one has to ask how and why the original conviction was arrived at or obtained, in the first place. Will there be any restitution to this ex police officer? Was he punished for testifying against… Read More Gujarat court acquits former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in custodial torture case
NB: Everyone has a finger in the pie.. even those who cry about corruption. What a bunch of crooks. DS Irrespective of what happens in the US courts, it is incumbent on the Indian government to investigate the impact of the indictment on Indian businesses and policy making within the country. Bharat Bhushan An independent… Read More Adani bribery scandal: Modi govt’s failure to investigate sends wrong signal to corporate India
Convoluted auction rules, scuttled competition and friendly bidders lead to the mega solar power deal. The deal is now caught in allegations of corruption, bribery and fraud by the US authorities. Nitin Sethi & Shreegireesh Jalihal The Union government designed a solar power auction that discouraged competition and paved the way for Adani Group to… Read More Adani Bribery Scandal Originated in a Dubious Solar Power Auction That Modi Government Scripted
The Bibi Files contains leaked footage of the Israeli PM being interrogated by police over allegations of corruption – and argues that these are partly why he has taken the region into the abyss. We meet the journalist behind it Julian Borger The Bibi Files, a new documentary, begins with its eponymous antihero, Benjamin Netanyahu, being… Read More ‘The whole foundation is rocking’: inside the explosive film about the investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu
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