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How a $14 tech tool is helping political parties bypass WhatsApp controls

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How a $14 tech tool is helping political parties bypass WhatsApp controls These software tools appear to overcome all new restrictions imposed by Whatsapp, allowing users to reach thousands of people at once LokSabha Elections 2019 : WhatsApp clones and programming devices that cost as meager as $14 are helping Indian advanced advertisers and political activists sidestep against spam limitations set up by the world’s most prominent informing application, Reuters has found. The exercises feature the difficulties WhatsApp, which is possessed by Facebook Inc, faces in counteracting maltreatment in India, its greatest market with in excess of 200 million clients. With intense battling in India’s amazed general decision, which finishes up on May 19, the interest for such instruments has flooded, as per advanced organizations and sources in the decision Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its principle rival, the Congress party. After false messages on WhatsApp a year ago sta...

Karma awaits you: Rahul replies to Modi for attack on father Rajiv Gandhi

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Karma awaits you: Rahul replies to Modi for attack on father Rajiv Gandhi At a rally in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, Modi had targeted the former prime minister by calling him bhrashtachari no. 1 while attacking Rahul Elections : Congress boss Rahul Gandhi Sunday answered with “adoration and a gigantic embrace” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “bhrashtachari no. 1” point against his dad Rajiv Gandhi and approached him to hang tight for his ‘karma’ to make up for lost time. Rahul’s remarks came after Modi at a survey rally had said that Rajiv Gandhi’s life finished as “bhrashtachari no. 1” (degenerate no. 1 ). “Modi Ji, The fight is finished. Your Karma anticipates you. Anticipating your inward convictions about yourself onto my dad won’t ensure you. All my affection and a gigantic embrace. Rahul,” the Congress president tweeted. At a rally in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, Modi had focused on the previous PM while assaulting Rahul. “Your dad was named Mr Clean by his subj...

Matching VVPAT slips with EVMs: SC to hear 21 Oppn parties’ plea next week

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Matching VVPAT slips with EVMs: SC to hear 21 Oppn parties’ plea next week Opposition leaders led by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has sought the review of the apex court’s order Elections : The Supreme Court on Friday consented to hear one week from now an audit request documented by 21 Opposition pioneers looking for further increment in irregular coordinating of VVPAT slips with EVMs in the continuous general races. The peak court had on April 8 guided the Election Commission to build arbitrary coordinating of VVPAT slips with EVMs in five surveying stalls for each gathering portion from one corner. Restriction pioneers driven by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has looked for the audit of the summit court’s organization, saying the “increment from 1 to 5 is anything but a sensible number and does not prompt fulfillment wanted by this court”. The request was referenced for dire hearing before a seat involving Chief Justice Ranj...

Elections 2019:The Indian middle class has emerged as key electoral force

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Elections 2019:The Indian middle class has emerged as key electoral force As the economy grows and incomes increase, people are moving out of poverty and joining the middle class Elections : The working class is developing as a key appointive power in India. While ideological groups contend to pull in needy individuals, they’re likewise attempting to prevail upon this new and developing section, which makes up around 33% of the nation’s 1.3 billion populace and uses extensive clout in forming popular suppositions. Pioneers of the decision Bharatiya Janata Party and the primary resistance Congress party are focusing on the overwhelming white collar class coalition with addresses and battle guarantees. Subsequent to giving expense help in the February spending plan, the BJP pledged in its declaration to additionally update charge chunks and advantages to put more money and more noteworthy obtaining influence in the hands of center salary families. It’s additionally promi...

WhatsApp unveils ‘tipline’ service to curb misinformation ahead of LS polls

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WhatsApp unveils ‘tipline’ service to curb misinformation ahead of LS polls The latest move follows a number of campaigns by WhatsApp to educate users on fake news Elections : An aggregate of 11 ladies hopefuls are in the quarrel for the May 12 Lok Sabha surveys in Haryana, which in the 53 years of its reality has chosen just five ladies parliamentarians. In the 2014 general races, not by any means a solitary lady hopeful could figure out how to win in the state known for its skewed sex proportion, while six out ten parliamentary voting demographics here have never chosen a lady MP. Albeit, no ladies competitors challenging freely in the state have ever constructed it to the lower place of parliament, this time, seven of the 11 female applicants are independents. Chandravati, a previous Janta Party pioneer turned into the first historically speaking lady MP from the state in 1977 when she vanquished political stalwart Chaudhary Bansi Lal from Bhiwani voting demogra...

Four crucial messages emerging from the Mayawati-Mulayam kiss-and-make-up

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Four crucial messages emerging from the Mayawati-Mulayam kiss-and-make-up If the intended missives are able to percolate the grassroots, the gathbandhan may evolve stronger and create a triangular tussle for power between the SP-BSP combine, the BJP and the Congress Elections : Whenever Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav as of late held a joint rally in Mainpuri in which the Bahujan Samaj Party boss engaged people in general to vote in favor of Mulayam Singh Yadav, it made another political edge that sigh to cover the long-standing ill will between the BSP and the Samajwadi Party. It might be reviewed that the two gatherings dropped out because of the ‘guesthouse embarrassment’ in Lucknow 24 years back, when the Mayawati outfit’s withdrawal of help to the alliance prompted the breakdown of Mulayam Singh government in 1995. Be that as it may, in this rally, Mayawati, situated between Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav, agreed full regard to the SP patriarch when he went ahead...

Plea in SC for ensuring safety of EVMs after Lok Sabha elections

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Plea in SC for ensuring safety of EVMs after Lok Sabha elections The plea said that as alleged it was possible to tamper with the EVMs in broad daylight during post poll situations Elections :A request in the Supreme Court on Tuesday looked for bearing to the Election Commission to guarantee wellbeing and security of electronic casting a ballot machines (EVMs) after Lok Sabha surveys. The request, documented by M Srinivasan, President of Tamil Nadu Annal Ambedkar Law Association, has alluded to news gives an account of anxieties of some resistance groups that EVMs might be altered even after the surveys. The request, which may come in the mood for hearing one week from now, said that the Chief Election Commissioner be coordinated to guarantee that EVMs are not messed with amid the post surveys period. “The main statutory and authoritative check accessible to ensure and save the trust in the EVMs was in the hands of Election Commission of India yet what is the ground t...

‘Go out and vote’: Game of Thrones goes viral this election season

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‘Go out and vote’: Game of Thrones goes viral this election season Coincidentally, the show’s finale will air on May 19, the day of the seventh and last phase of polling in Election 2019 Elections :Speedy to seize on the fevered expectation for the last period of “Round of Thrones”, the Election Commission (EC), the Press Information Bureau (PIB) and even the Congress are utilizing mainstream references from the hit HBO arrangement to make themselves heard in the survey season. As the war between the seven kingdoms for the Iron Throne in Westeros is set to finish up with the last period of the much-acclaimed appear, known for its depiction of intensity elements, the survey board and the PIB are attracting motivation from it to expand voter turnout in the continuous 2019 general decisions. The Opposition Congress is utilizing the show, depicted as a social wonder by many, to go after its political rival. Such is the rage for the show, in view of a progression of books by ...

Cash, liquor and freebies worth Rs 540 cr seized since poll announcement

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Cash, liquor and freebies worth Rs 540 cr seized since poll announcement Karnataka saw the total seizure of inducements and cash worth Rs 26.53 crore, Maharashtra Rs 19.11 crore and Telangana Rs 8.2 crore Elections :  Suspect money, illicit alcohol and medications worth about Rs 540 crore have been seized the nation over since parliamentary race plan was declared by the  Election Commission  a fortnight back, official information demonstrated Tuesday. Tamil Nadu recorded the greatest seizure of these illicit affectations, suspected to have been directed and used to pay off voters, worth Rs 107.24 crore, trailed by Uttar Pradesh Rs 104.53 crore, Andhra Pradesh Rs 103.4 crore and Punjab Rs 92.8 crore. Karnataka saw the all out seizure of actuations and money worth Rs 26.53 crore, Maharashtra Rs 19.11 crore and Telangana Rs 8.2 crore. An  Election Commission  official said the complete estimation of caught things was Rs 539.99 crore. The surve...

Lok Sabha polls: Rahul Gandhi promises Rs 6,000 a month for poorest 20%

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Lok Sabha polls: Rahul Gandhi promises Rs 6,000 a month for poorest 20% Congress leaders said NYAY gets its inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of helping the last man and woman Elections :  Congress  President Rahul Gandhi said his gathering, if it somehow happened to shape the legislature at the Center after the Lok Sabha races, would guarantee a base pay of Rs 6,000 every month to 20 percent most unfortunate of poor family units, or 250 million individuals. While the  Narendra Modi  government had guaranteed to Rs 6,000 every year to poor ranchers, the  Congress  has guaranteed a coordinating add up to all poor, especially the landless. The gathering, notwithstanding, rejected its prior suggestion that conceived fixing up the hole between a poor family unit’s salary to convey it to Rs 12,000. It has now guaranteed a level Rs 6,000 every month stipend, or Rs 72,000 every year, if a family’s salary is beneath Rs 12,000. Gandhi said an ...