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Not your conventional podcasts, but a straight text-to-audio readout of The Quint's text stories – news, opinion, satire and more.

Women’s Entry Into Mosques: Does Religious Freedom Trump Equality?

After The Quint’s article, published on 31 May, pointed out discrepancies in the EVM votes polled and votes counted data in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Election Commission of India (EC) issued a press release on their website on 1 June. The release was not a rebuttal to The Quint’s article, rather a generic statement explaining how the EC compiles EVM votes polled data during elections.

When we examined the EC’s press release, we found that some of the information was less than convincing.

No, EC Did Not Take 2-3 Months To Compile Vote Polled Data In LS Election 2014

“In 2014, it took between 2 to 3 months after the declaration of results to collect and collate such data in authenticated form,” said the EC’s press release. When we checked, we found that EVM votes polled data existed on the EC’s website by 25 May 2014, while the results were declared on 16 May 2014 – that’s a period of nine days, not two-three months.

Is EC Misleading Public On How EVM Votes Polled Data Is Compiled?

A day after a Bengaluru-based promoter of an investment group went absconding along with Rs 2,000 crore raised by the company, claiming ‘political pressure’, the investment scam is becoming a political controversy.

Over 3,000 investors of I Monetary Advisory (IMA) have been left in a lurch after the promoter of the group, Mohammed Mansoor Khan, went absconding and claimed he would commit suicide, in an audio clip.

The scam took a political turn, when in the same voice note he accused Congress MLA Roshan Baig of taking Rs 400 crore from IMA to contest general election, which he didn’t return.

A Special Investigation Team has been ordered to probe the case.

A Rs 2,000-Crore Scam Becomes Political in Karnataka

A petition has been filed by Rupesh Behera, a voter, in the Odisha High Court regarding the discrepancies in the number of EVM votes polled and counted in the Kantabanji Assembly constituency that went to polls on 18 April 2019. In Odisha, the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections were simultaneously conducted by the Election Commission.

The petition says that the recorded number of EVM votes polled in Kantabanji Assembly Constituency was 1,82,411 while the number of EVM votes counted was 1,91,077. A discrepancy of 8,666 EVM votes was registered by the petitioner.

Petition In Odisha HC On Discrepancy In EVM Votes Polled & Counted

The show is streaming on Netflix, starring Huma Qureshi. ‘Leila’ has been directed by Deepa Mehta, Shanker Raman, and Pawan Kumar. Deepa Mehta is also Creative Producer on the series

Review: Netflix’s ‘Leila’ Is a Reality Check Like No Other

It is a show that has found itself in the centre of controversy. Leila, the Netflix series about a dystopian world, starring Huma Qureshi and based on a novel by Prayaag Akbar, is a brave one.

‘Leila’ Is a Show That Will Force You to Re-Think Everything

The second season of Big Little Lies is finally here after over two years, and it seems to have only got better. Especially with the legendary Meryl Streep on board.

BIG LITTLE LIES SEASON 2 IS A MERYL STREEP SHOW

With its second season finally here after over two years, it seems to have only got better. Especially with the legendary Meryl Streep on board.

According to a CSDS survey, 45 percent Sikhs either “highly distrust” or “somewhat distrust” the police, much higher than 32 percent among Muslims, 31 percent among Christians 27 percent among Upper Castes, 29 percent among SCs, 37 percent among STs.

Why Are Sikhs Angry With Delhi Police? Data Reveals Deep Distrust

If the Parliament is the temple of India’s democracy, the Central Hall in the stately Sansad Bhavan is its garbh grah, its sanctum sanctorum. Since I am using the Hindu imagery of a temple, I should mention who the main ‘deity’ in this sacred place is. It is Janardana. More specifically, Janata Janardana.

A compound word in Sanskrit − ‘Janaihi ardate iti Janardanaha’ − Janardana means one who is the lord of the people, their protector from distress, and bestower of peace and progress. But in the age of democracy, Janardana is none other than janata – or “We the People of India”, the resounding words with which the Preamble of our Constitution begins.

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