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No access to CCTV footage after 45 days, rules Election Commission

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The Commission underlined that videography and photography of the election process is not mandatory by law, but is used as “internal management equipment”. It marks a departure from the earlier instructions issued on 6 September 2024, which set a specific deadline from three months to one year to store video footage from different stages of the election process.

Under the earlier guidelines, footage was to be maintained for three months from the pre-seaming period, while the enrollment phase, the campaign period, the recording from the voting (inside and outside polling stations), and the count was to be preserved for different periods between six months and one year, depending on the phase.

Instructions effectively means that all such visual records will be terminated without giving opportunity to candidates, researchers, academics and NGOs, dedicated to working for electoral reforms.

Since there were such records, till now, was being preserved without any trouble for a year, why is the ECI hurry to destroy them in such a tear? What is it trying to hide? On the one hand, the Commission claims that he is the most transparent in the world operating elections, and yet it is doing everything to make the process as opaque as possible. Does it make any sense?

This is not all. Many reports in the media, including The Indian Express And Week On June 20, the ECI says that in its letter to the Poll authorities, the ECI justified the decision, saying the recent misuse of this material by the non-intelligence to spread the wrong information and malicious stories on social media by selective and out-of-order use of this material, which will not lead to any legal results, has inspired a review.

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RJD, AIMIM urged the time limit expansion for voter list

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The Supreme Court announced on Friday, August 29, that it will hear petitions filed by RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal) and AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Idena-ul-Musslimin), who seek more time for voters, blessing for assembly elections at the end of this year.

For example, the hearing date matches the current deadline to enter such claims and objections – 1 September.

Justice Surya Kant, Jomalya Bagchi and Vipul M. A bench with Pancholi confirmed that the hearing would be held on Monday (1 September). The court was decided after Advocate Prashant Bhushan and senior advocate Shoaib Alam, who representing RJD, informed the bench that several applications were requested to expand the deadline.

Nizam Pasha, representing AIMIM, supported more time requirement due to the large number of claims being filed.

“The number of claims filed is increasing rapidly. The deadline needs to be extended,” Alam told the court.

Pasha said that about 80,000 claims were filed before the court’s 22 August order. The number increased to 95,000 after the order.

“We are requesting to listed these applications as soon as possible,” said Pasha.

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Women and children hungry, with Netanyahu, head of United Nations Food Agency

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According to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, about 63,000 people have died in Gaza since the war started. The agency said that 71 people were killed due to Israeli attacks on the previous day, while the scores were more injured. While the ministry does not distinguish between citizens and fighters, it says that more than half of the dead were women and children.

The ministry is part of the Hamas-Interactive Government and is part of employees by medical professionals. The United Nations and independent experts consider it to be the most reliable source of war casualties. Israel disputes its figures, but has not provided its own.

Hamas -led militants kidnapped 251 people and killed around 1,200 people, most of the citizens launched this latest war in the 7 October 2023 attack. Most hostages have been released in ceasefire or other deals. Out of the remaining 50 in Gaza, Israel believes that about 20 are alive.

United Nations chief Gutres has stated that Israel is with the obligations to protect citizens, to protect citizens, facilitate more human access and their required needs.

Systematic disintegration of food water and healthcare systems, Guterres said, “is the result of deliberately decisions that defy basic humanity”.

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VP Vance says

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The 41 -year -old Republican’s remarks occurred amid increasing concerns about President Trump’s health after a major injury during his meeting with South Korean President Lee J. Mayung. It has been added that there are concerns about his inflamed ankles, its strange moving moves and a mixture of words.

In 78 years and seven months in January, Trump was the oldest President to take oath of office in US history, who had his predecessor, who was 78 and two months as Biden, when he assumed office in 2021.

Vance, who is the third youngest VP in American history, assured the nation that he was ready to take over in terms of anything that happens to President Trump.

“… If God does not, there is a terrible tragedy, I cannot think of better on-the-world training than what I have received in the last 200 days,” he told the USA Today.

Earlier this month, President Trump called Vance a “most likely” successor for the Maga movement, but VP has speculated about its 2028 schemes.

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