Me, defending my engineering dissertation after my team painstakingly briefed me for the viva a night before 😭
The PTSD uff

The Bhavnagar seat will see a Koli v/ Koli battle, with an ex mayor as the BJP candidate and an ex-BJP +ABvP worker as the AAP candidate.

What I saw - Empty seats and Kshatriya protests disrupting BJP public meets, visible discontent & undecided voters

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“The kick here is the control,working w/ people at the top & the kind of budgets you command.For projects worth $10-20m in state elections,we could take decisions directly. For projects worth $100m+, proposals wld be escalated to party leaders.”

MBA/tech bros building nation lol

What's a web crawler doing in India's elections?

Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka has a radical use case. The officials fed the tool a long list of keywords: Like #DhruvRathee , #bhakth , #Modi #dictatorship

The job? Scan the internet every second. Flag any online conversation around these words🧵

Over the phone, Moona declined to give us a response and did not hear any of our Qs, “While the elections are going on, it is not fair to comment.”
In response to a request to check the emailed questionnaire, he said: I will not give you an answer,that is what I was trying to say

An “internal enquiry” was done by Nehru Memorial, which revealed that in March 2008, all personal papers pertaining to first PM Nehru were sent to Sonia Gandhi in 51 boxes

Leena Misra and I have this exclusive The Indian Express

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Why and how China’s vision of a “govt controlled, sovereign internet” is gaining traction 👇🏾

A new website provides a platform for anti-Israel hackers to share information stolen from Israeli systems, including the defense ministry, after cyberattacks against Israel soar since Gaza war / Omer Benjakob
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zero dimensions, one ladder, four hunters, more lawyers, and millions of wild acres — the story of a geometric battle in the american west: ft.com/content/63b1c7…

Fantastic example of smart use of data visualisation to convey the horror. And of course, an important story.

#ExpressFrontPage | Near Kutch Harappan graveyard, remains of a skeleton and the key to a puzzle

✍🏻 Sohini Ghosh (Sohini Ghosh) and Gopal B Kateshiya (@gopalreports)

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I travelled across Ghaziabad and its neighbouring towns ahead of the elections to gauge if the pathetic pollution through the year will make a significant dent at the ballot box. To nobody's surprise - it won't.

In Hindustan Times today - the 2nd of our Election Pincodes series.

YashRaj films captured this in 2013 with Shuddh Desi Romance.
Live-in relationships are thriving across India’s small towns. And so are the challenges, esp for interfaith couples.

I deep-dive into how small-town India navigates love, landlords & the law:
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Last April the papers reported how Chrisann Pereira, an Indian actor, had been thrown into a UAE jail for carrying drugs. It was found in a trophy she had. She insisted she was innocent. Had she been framed? Why? Soon, improbable twists and other victims began to emerge...

Urgent journo request:

Anyone landing at Ahmedabad airport’s international terminal today or tmw? Kindly comment/DM

🚨🔊May I have your attention please. Ministry of Railways is planning to install over 3.3 Lakh facial recognition-enabled CCTV cameras inside 44,038 train coaches across India… and our right to privacy is about to depart from platform number five. 🔊🚆1/7
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Local govs across the Netherlands are using vulnerable communities as testing grounds for predictive tech with no oversight. Over the past year, we investigated with three local media partners and found widespread illegal profiling and discrimination. lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

“Riding a horse and playing DJ music is not that important... The point is (for us) to live with dignity.”

Niece’s wedding, second Bilkis Bano case convict moves Gujarat HC for parole

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Ironies galore.

A day after the Central government announced that it will confer MS Swaminathan with a Bharat Ratna, the reports he wrote as the chairman of the National Commission on Farmers are no longer available on the GoI Agriculture Ministry website!