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🚨EC cites “trade secrets and commercial confidence” to deny info about software used for SIR. It also says divulging information on who reviews flagged anomalies might “endanger” their lives. Reiterates that EROs remain the statutory authority to prepare rolls. @htTweets
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Deep Depression intensified into cyclonic storm ““Arnab” #ArnabCyclone
#INSAT3DS
#odisha #andhra #Chennai
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At least 61,059 Form-7 applications seeking the deletion of names from Karnataka’s electoral rolls were filed by election officials themselves, with not a single application mentioning a reason for the deletion, a mandatory requirement under the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960.
✍️@pon_vasanth and @rishitaakhanna
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My WhatsApp account has been restricted and I’m unable to send any new messages.
@WhatsApp what’s happening?
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When Japanese filmmaker Yugo Sako wanted to adapt Ramayana, he spent a decade studying multiple translations. He was so genuinely moved by the text that he decided only animation as a reverent art form was capable of depicting the story with purity.
Meanwhile Indian filmmakers:
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The greatest mystery in Indian economics:
You spend 15 years studying, land a job and watch 30% TDS disappear before your salary even hits your bank account.
Meanwhile, the local ward corporator, who has no traceable business on paper:
Cruises in a convoy of 2 white fortuners, builds a multi crore mansion in your locality, and spends your entire annual CTC just putting up birthday hoardings across the junction.
In India, an honest corporate career buys you a 20 year EMI.
Local politics buys you generational real estate.
We aren't paying taxes for public infrastructure.
We’re crowdfunding VIP lifestyles.
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Trying to wrap my mind around how absolutely heinous this order must have been for the **head of the IDF** to not be able to stomach going through with it.
Report: In ‘unprecedented confrontation,’ IDF chief resisting carrying out military action ordered by Netanyahu relating to Iran
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हाँ, इंडियन एक्सप्रेस ने खुलासा किया था कि मेटा का सर्वर सीधे गृह मंत्रालय के पोर्टल से कनेक्टेड है। 15 मिनट में पोस्ट उड़ जाती है, ऑटोमेटेड सिस्टम लगा है जो फ्लैग करके ब्लॉक कर देता है। पहले पोस्ट और मल्टीपल पोस्ट पर फ्लैग होने पर अकाउंट।@IndianExpress @IEhindi
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Lol @DelhiPolice deleted this tweet "Say no to Crackers" appeal in less than 5 hours. Almost everyone had predicted this would happen. Wonder if it was after Pressure by the Home Ministry or from someone from the Delhi Govt. 🤣🤣🤣
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This tweet will soon be deleted due to political pressure.
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The thing about Google clearing a forest in Finland without permits is that they decided that whatever fine they might face is worth it. It doesn’t cost them as much as not getting the land cleared.
Because like ALL things, if the punishment is a fine, it isn’t really illegal for rich people.
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Where are the "only freedom park", "traffic jam", "public inconvenience" warriors now? The @PoliceBangalore and @CPBlr must make public the application for permissions and the permission letters.
#WATCH | Bengaluru, Karnataka: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) conducted route marches (path sanchalan) in various parts of Bengaluru.
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Let’s not forget “cantt” (cantonment), getting translated as “can’t” (“nahi kar sakta.”). Folks who know, is this AI?
Election Commission’s software has made a massive blunder. It’s translating Hindi/Urdu names by treating them as if they were English.
For example, the name was Muhammad Iqbal Beg, but the software turned it into “Mohammad Iqbal Bheek Mangte Hain”.
Another example: A woman’s name was Phool Kali Devi, and the software changed it to “Murkh Kali Devi” .
Absolute chaos, what’s going on?
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Vlogger ‘discovers’ Muslims and beef in Fort Kochi, makes communal remarks, gets booked
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In one of Delhi-NCR's top schools, parents are planning to pool-in funds to buy Dyson/Honeywell/Sharp Purifiers for their children's Nursery classrooms, for the upcoming bad-AQI season.
Some parents logically asked, "Why doesn't the school buy these air purifiers?" The school said that their AC systems have HEPA filters, to take care of dust to some extent. Unconvincing. Parents decided to go ahead with their own safety systems.
Next, they asked- "What happened to the Air Purifiers that the classroom had last year? The previous batch too had purifiers with AQI monitors."
School's response: "The air purifiers travel with the batch of children. As the students move up a year, the Air Purifiers do too. So the Purifiers that were in first grade last year, are in second grade now."
Welcome to the incredibly complex world of public-health moving into private hands.
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SRK’s father once contested in Lok Sabha election in 1957 against Maulana Azad, to help Jan Sangh candidate on the same seat hoping to split some votes in favour of sangh, but ironically he got zero vote.
