Mitali Mukherjee

Director @risj_oxford I Political Economy Journalist I Column in @frontline_india I Book: Crypto Crimes: Inside India's Best-Kept Secret

[Reuters Institute @risj_oxford]

What will the results of next week's US midterms mean for US and global politics? Join us next week online or at the @RAIOxford as journalists and experts break down the results.

📅 Thursday 5 November. 14:00 (UK time).
https://t.co/Gia90FvzlE

[Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive]

"Three Members are appointed to the Commission so that, in case of a difference of opinion, a majority can be arrived at"
...pretty sure two (election commissioners) is a larger number than one (election commissioner).

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

#BREAKING: ECI doesn't deny CEC, Election Commissioners' internal notes; says they are not decisions of the Commission

🔹 Denies petition, but leaves out "the comments / views of the members of the Commission" on record

🔹 Rejects the petitioner's inferences drawn from those records

🔹 Notes, queries or suggestions by CEC or ECs "does not constitute a decision" of the Commission

🔹 "The Commission has neither released nor authorized the release of any internal note / file to any news agency"

🔹 "Three Members are appointed to the Commission so that, in case of a difference of opinion, a majority can be arrived at"

#ElectionCommission #SupremeCourt
@ECISVEEP

[Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive]

Nifty midcap down +7% in October. FII selling & DII buying almost matched at c. 50,000 crores apiece - that's a big part of the midcap problem. DIIs desperately defended bluechips from the tidal wave of FII selling - does the market have enough shock absorbers for small/midcaps?

[Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive]

@prateekwaghre Somebody please, https://t.co/bWdz7NVOA4.stop.

[Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive]

Even more remarkable how scores of paramilitary troops poured into Delhi's street to police students, journalists & citizens, while Chinese troops set up tents inside India - do we not have enough border security boots on the ground to prevent this, or is this not as big a deal?

[shoaib daniyal @ShoaibDaniyal]

Chinese troops have come in "6-7 kms" and set up tents according to govt sources quoted in Hindu.

[Remarkable that such a situation can exist for months and far from any action to evict PLA, Indians aren't even told. Xi was even hosted in the meanwhile!]
https://t.co/kumdpPBSoV

[Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive]

A familiar handbook comes to play across a few countries, come election time. This important flag by @haaretzcom

[Noa Landau נעה לנדאו @noa_landau]

Israel Denies Entry to Spanish Journalist Amid Limits on Foreign Coverage of Election
https://t.co/0i6bDSL7w7

[Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive]

@PRAVESHPARAS We learn from the generations after us Praveshji :)

[Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive]

Shubho Bijoya to all. May we fight the devils without and the devils within.

[Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive]

Just so we're clear, is this to imply that the views and demands of young people in India - across caste, class and community, are being burnt down and destroyed? Because when you claim it signifies filth in households, you either think people are stupid or you don't care.

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Delhi: The Shri Keshav Ramlila Committee is set to burn a unique 30-foot cockroach effigy alongside the traditional effigies of Ravana, Kumbhakarna, and Meghnad.

(Visuals from Netaji Subhash Place (NSP) grounds in Pitampura)

[Apar Gupta @apar1984]

People can have differences and nuanced takes on CJP but it is inexcusable to remain silent on the custody of Ashutosh and Saurav. This is an egregious violation of a citizen's liberty. Please speak up. If not on principle, than in self-interest, for this is setting a precedent.

[Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive]

@Smita_Sharma Shubho Ashtami Smita 💙

[Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive]

@tajmahalfoxtrot Word.

[Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive]

"The government’s communication machinery and its allied news networks no longer dictate the national narrative. It is no surprise then that the police picked up at least 37 journalists during the protests over the weekend." by @SushantSin

[Foreign Policy @ForeignPolicy]

The recent widespread detentions in New Delhi do not signal absolute power; they appear as cracks in Modi’s strongman image. https://t.co/056DMDz6Po

[Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive]

@ShoaibDaniyal Someone I met yesterday, who has grown up in Cal, was laughing about this saying I lived there for decades, no idea what this person is on about!

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

"What must be decided upon soon is whether the entire SIR process, which had the blessings of the SC, should be considered illegal and the rolls handled now in such a way as to be inclusive of all save those who have either died or are ineligible to vote as they cannot prove..."

[Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive]

Very good to know.
What about internet shutdowns then? (Data from @isoc_pulse of cumulative hours of internet shutdowns since 2019)

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

#BREAKING #SupremeCourt declares that right to access and use the internet is a fundamental right of every individual, including children.

Children, irrespective of their age, enjoy the same right to access and use the internet.

[Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive]

@GillesVerniers Two Scaramuccis are one Fandango Gilles #WHrhapsody 🙃

[Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive]

Not shocking to see tweets encouraging 'throwing' protestors in jail to make the sensex & rupee rally. The difference in these 12 years in India is that targetted hate can be voiced loud & proud. If only you could jail oil prices, unemployment, inflation, inequity & bad earnings.

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

The image of an educated Dalit young man, with a tricolour in his hand, being shoved into a vehicle by Modi's police is a picture only the geniuses of the ruling regime can conjure up. Public resilience and citizen protests have a successful history of challenging state in India.

[Mitali Mukherjee @mitalilive]

"None of the affected Indian entities detected the intrusions themselves, and in every case it was the AI companies that flagged the incidents, CERT-In ​said."

[Reuters @Reuters]

AI models under test broke into Indian organizations' live systems and read confidential records undetected, India's cybersecurity agency said, the country's first such official account after similar incidents of rogue AI behavior worldwide https://t.co/yCqLxjzt4w