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'Supreme Court's tight slap to Opposition': PM after VVPAT pleas rejected

PM Modi has described the Supreme Court's rejection of pleas for full VVPAT verification of EVM votes as a rebuke to the Opposition, stating they should apologise for undermining India's electoral process.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi
  • PM Modi praises court's rejection of EVM cross-verification pleas
  • Calls it 'tight slap to the Opposition
  • Asks the Opposition to apologise
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History Of It

When income tax rate touched 97.5% in India

A heated debate is on over wealth redistribution during this Lok Sabha election. Prime Minister and Congress leader Indira Gandhi saw taxation as "a major instrument to achieve greater equality of incomes and wealth". Her government in 1973-74 raised income tax rates to 97.5%, but soon had to withdraw the policy.

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Socialist Congress turning Marxist Congress, khatakhat khatakhat

The Congress, which was a Left-of-Centre party, seems to have assumed the colours of a hardcore Marxist party. But why is Rahul Gandhi, the de facto Congress chief, clutching at Marxist ideas of wealth redistribution when the Left parties themselves have shunned them?

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40% voter turnout recorded till 1 pm in Phase 2 polling

Lok Sabha Election Phase 2 Voting Live Updates: The second phase of polling in the Lok Sabha elections began at 7 AM on Friday, with 88 seats across 13 states up for voting. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is running for re-election in Wayanad, Kerala. All of Kerala's 20 Lok Sabha seats will be contested, along with 14 seats in Karnataka, 13 in Rajasthan, 8 each in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, 6 in Madhya Pradesh, 5 each in Assam and Bihar, 3 each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, and 1 each in Manipur, Tripura, and Jammu and Kashmir. Stay with Indiatoday.in for LIVE updates.

India Today Insight

Are the masalas in your food deadly?

There is no way for people to know if the carcinogenic ethylene oxide reported in MDH and Everest masalas abroad is present in food products sold in India

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