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Karnataka’s new PRC rules are people-friendly, but will the ECI accept them?
While a sustained and rigorous campaign by anti-SIR activists across Karnataka has pushed the opposition Congress government to issue a fresh set of simplified guidelines for the issuance of Permanent Residency Certificates; the experience of West Bengal however shows that no amount of pro-activeness by any state government influences an ECI functioning under a non-transparent and non-accountable diktat
IFF analyses new social media Ethics Code and digital media rules
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New IT Rules: How Centre is planning to address online grievances
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Ethics Code for Social Media, rules for OTT platforms, online news
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Mamata Banerjee rides electric scooty to protest rising fuel prices
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