As a young democracy grows out of adolescence, its rolling out reels and reels of tales. If the first post office or a telephone connection paints one colour, the Stamp of a stock market scam or the ‘Jewel Thieves’ scandal paint yet another colour. Chethan Kumar, Senior Assistant Editor, The Times of India, who alternates between the mundane goings-on of …
Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the election commission has started a nationwide awareness programme on Electronic Voting Machine and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail to provide citizens with a first-hand experience of the voting process and familiarity with the machines. The programme includes outreach and awareness activities in 3,464 assembly constituencies spread across 613 districts in 31 states …