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Who controls access to voter records? ECINet audit raises fresh questions
An audit of ECINet reports Bengal-specific restrictions and controls that can switch access on or off across States, renewing questions about electoral officers’ authority, central oversight and accountability after earlier objections to the platform and changes to voter registration procedures
Jan 15 talks inconclusive: Centre and farmers remain at loggerheads
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NIA summons farmers union leader Baldev Singh Sirsa for questioning
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Living Legend of the Law: Nani Palkhivala
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Madhya Pradesh: How will “tracking’ women and raising marriageable age to 21 keep women safe?
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Maharashtra organisations declare protests marches from Jan 23-25
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Delhi police detain nearly 35 women protesters outside MP Bhawan
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Hisar college student, abducted, sexually assaulted in autorickshaw
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PIL filed in MP HC challenging validity of state’s anti-conversion law
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