That disclosing the source code will make the machines vulnerable to hacking is an argument the Supreme Court has put forward time and again.

End-to-end verifiability involves voters being able to verify whether the paper trail generated by EVMs actually has the names of the candidates they select. Some say this can be achieved in India without disturbing the existing setup.

The Speaker and the ruling party, officials and even the media are calling it a security breach. Yet the five arrested have been booked under the draconian anti-terror law UAPA.

The government agreed to some concessions in the Bill, including retaining the status of the CEC and the ECs on par with judges of the Supreme Court.

The stated intent of these two Bills is to nominate two members from the 'Kashmiri migrant community' and one representing the displaced persons from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) to the J&K legislative assembly.

She said this issue has nothing to do with the party as it was a government matter. On being asked if Hamas should be banned, she said the concerned division would answer on this matter.

The extent of opposition unity was clearer outside. The INDIA alliance, seen to be on shaky ground after the Assembly polls, rallied behind the TMC member appealing to Speaker to let her speak in the House.

The two legislations are being viewed as an attempt by the Union government to tweak the political landscape to its advantage ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, by wooing the Kashmiri Pandits and Pahadia community of the region.

It appears that Indians will have to continue travelling in jam-packed General and Sleeper compartments for the next two years or more, after which, they will have to shell out higher fares if they wish to travel by train.

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 software deployed for the machines. 

In an interview with Meetu Jain, Apar Gupta from the Internet Freedom Foundation says that while ordinary citizens are unlikely to be the targets of sophisticated spyware attacks, they will feel the ripple effects.

The Wire spoke to K.M. Chandrasekhar about the controversy over the Modi government asking ministries to nominate civil servants as 'Rath Prabharis'.

Kerala has fired the first salvo and plainly refused efforts to knock out India from textbooks. The head of the NCERT sub-committee defends the move, and is surprised the minister did not “cross-verify” with him and include this in the final recommendations.

In Madhya Pradesh, it is said there are three BJPs: Shivraj, Maharaj and naraz (upset).

The Satark Nagrik Sangathan's report says four information commissions are defunct, while pendency and delays are endemic. This is part of efforts to "crush the citizen’s fundamental right to information", say activists.

Rajiv Kumar said there have been over 20 lakh deletions in the electoral rolls and a modification of over 22 lakh in the five states that are going to polls in November.

A three-judge Bench, headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, disallowed the petition on the grounds that making the source code public would make the machines vulnerable to hacking.

India's silence in the wake of the US SEC fining Oracle for paying nearly half a million dollars in bribes to rail officials is a replay of the manner in which the Louis Berger bribery scandal in Goa and Assam involving top politicians has been buried.

The old parliament building, built in the pre air-conditioning age, was open and full of natural light. By contrast, the new building is a closed space with flat, straight and high insurmountable walls. The symbolism is hard to miss. 

A review by the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog is underway and an impression that regulators are ignorant or unwilling to act on charges of illegal money flows could be detrimental to India’s credibility.