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How EVMs came into being: A brief history

Elections are the heartbeat of a democracy. When India became independent, sceptics thought a poor and illiterate nation would fail to keep democracy alive.

EVMs being dispatched from the strong room to their respective polling booths in Chennai, ahead of single-phase polling in Tamil Nadu on April 19, on Thursday. (ANI)
Updated on Apr 19, 2024 05:53 AM IST

Lok Sabha polls a fight to save democracy, says Chandigarh candidate Manish Tewari

At a meeting with district president Surjit Dhillon in Manimajra, he discussed the issues of broken roads, lack of basic amenities like parks and parking spaces, and also absence of medical facilities, promising to provide these facilities if voted to power

Tewari kick-started his campaign from the densely populated Vikas Nagar in Mauli Jagran, where he addressed a gathering, before moving on to Maloya. (HT File Photo)
Published on Apr 18, 2024 08:14 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

What Jokowi’s inglorious exit means for Indonesia

The outgoing president is playing kingmaker to a controversial ex-general

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo stands as he waits for Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan during a visit at the Bogor palace in Bogor, West Java on January 25, 2024. (Photo by Adek BERRY / AFP)(AFP)
Published on Apr 17, 2024 08:00 AM IST
The Economist

Winds from the west will wipe off BJP: Akhilesh

The former CM said that the promises of doubling farmers’ income, providing jobs to two crore youth, and offering free electricity have proven false.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav during a rally in Baghra of Muzaffarnagar on Monday (HT photo)
Updated on Apr 16, 2024 05:18 AM IST
ByS Raju

India is halfway there towards enabling female political leadership. What next?

To see authentic female leadership, men need to do the work and ask themselves some hard questions, so women can truly change systems designed for men by men

Pursuing the question of what authentic female leadership looks like, and needs, will ensure moving towards democratising power structures and designing new systems for transformative action.(PTI)
Published on Apr 14, 2024 04:59 PM IST
ByAndré Nogueira, Jitendra Pandit
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