With the seven-phase Lok Sabha election coming to an end, the Election Commission ordered Twitter India to remove all tweets related to exit polls. According to the Representation of the People Act, it is illegal to publish exit-poll results while an election is still going on.
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A day after BJP and Trinamool Congress workers fought pitched battles during BJP president Amit Shah’s road show in Kolkata, the Election Commission has decided to hold a review meeting, although the poll panel didn’t reveal anything specifically on the violence.
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Facebook’s WhatsApp urged users to upgrade to the latest version of its popular messaging app as an added precaution after reporting that users might be vulnerable to having malicious spyware installed on phones without their knowledge.
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The Supreme Court rejected former BSF jawan and Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party alliance candidate Tej Bahadur Yadav’s petition challenging the Election Commission’s decision to reject his nomination from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency.
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The Supreme Court rejected a petition seeking directions to the Election Commission to bar Congress president Rahul Gandhi from contesting the Lok Sabha election till allegations over his citizenship were resolved.
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The opposition parties had moved to the court after reports of defective EVMs emerged after the first phase of the Lok Sabha election. In some cases, it was reported, voters would cast their vote for a party but the EVM would record their vote for another party.
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In a reply to an application filed by review petitioners, the Centre told the Supreme Court that “categorical and emphatic” findings recorded by the top court in its December 14, 2018, verdict in the Rafale deal case has no apparent error warranting its review.
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The Supreme Court told the Election Commission that all Congress’s complaints against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah on violations of the election model code of conduct should be resolved by Monday.
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The Election Commission gave a second clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his appeal to first-time voters by invoking the Balakot air strike at a rally in Maharashtra’s Latur, just a day after it cleared Modi’s speech at Wardha under the model code of conduct.
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The Election Commission, on Wednesday, cancelled the nomination of former Border Security Force jawan and SP-BSP alliance candidate Tej Bahadur Yadav from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency.
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