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[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

Maharashtra on Saturday declared drought in 265 of the state’s 358 tehsils, covering nearly three fourths of the state, after prolonged rainfall deficits and dry spells affected crops across large parts of Maharashtra.

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Written by: Alok Deshpande

[jonathan selvaraj @jon_selvaraj]

Sawan Barwal didn't have a flag to hold after winning 🥈 in the men's marathon- first medal for 🇮🇳 in nearly half a century- at the Asia's Games in Nagoya. No official showed up on race morning since no one believed he had a chance to make history. https://t.co/SQRp5WHb56

[Brigadier Hardeep Singh Sohi,Shaurya Chakra (R) @Hardisohi]

Until Death, All Defeat Is Psychological.

Never Give In.

Jai Hind 🇮🇳🫡

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

Student suicides may have triggered the recent protests at IITs, but students and faculty say frustrations have been building over inadequate infrastructure, uncertain job prospects, high fees, social isolation and increasingly restrictive campus environments. @Johanna_Deeksha reports

Read more: https://t.co/6z8rr7Nj0X

[Abhisar Sharma @abhisar_sharma]

That's how you take on सरकारी bullies @Kanchanyadav000 . Too good.

[liam @liamthegoatt_]

The streets will never forget Messi at 39, competing against 25 and 27-year-olds in his final World Cup. 🤯

[Saba Khan @sabakhan21051]

क्या कमाल की लड़की है नेहा बोरा,

प्रदर्शन स्थल से पुलिस ने नेहा बोरा को हिरासत में लिया और बैन में ले जाते हुए नेहा पुलिस को समझा रही हैं कि ज्ञानेश कुमार ने क्या क्या कारनामे किए हैं,

और हम उनके इस्तीफ़े की मांग क्यों कर रहे है,

[Kiren Rijiju @KirenRijiju]

Remembering former Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh ji, on his jayanti.

His long years of service to the nation & contribution to public life will always be remembered with respect.

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

Gyanesh Kumar Infront of his post retirement shelter.

[Congress @INCIndia]

LoP Shri @RahulGandhi attends the prayer meeting at the residence of former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in New Delhi.

[Besan ka Halwa @vikramgrawol]

Glad we get to keep Paatal Lok, Trial by Fire, Jubilee and Black Warrant for ourselves ❣️

[Brigadier Hardeep Singh Sohi,Shaurya Chakra (R) @Hardisohi]

To enjoy vibrant democracy and hold our representatives accountable, I think we should have something akin to mid term elections in USA. Mid term appraisal is equally important.
Your views ?
🇮🇳🫡

[Lt Col Sushil Singh Sheoran, Veteran @sushilskinner]

I see positivity, informality, and ease whenever the chief visits and interacts with his officers and troops. His statesmanship and generosity are felt throughout. General Dhiraj Seth CAOS is a breath of fresh air—the kind the Indian Army has long needed. More power to you, sir.

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

Where is Gyanesh Chor Kumar? Why isn’t he doing press conference demanding apologies & “affidavits” from @IndianExpress? We, as taxpayers, are funding this criminal’s salary & perks. Enough.

[Confusedicius @Erroristotle]

4 girls raped in last 10 days and what’s my PM doing? He’s bhajan clubbing!

[Yogita Bhayana योगिता भयाना @yogitabhayana]

who will stand for women ??
women will stand for women..

📍 Gargi College

[Harmeet Kaur K 🇮🇳 @iamharmeetK]

𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗺𝗮 𝗞𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮 & 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗴

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗖𝗜’𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗿-𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘆.

Seema Khanna is the Director General (IT), Election Commission of India. She joined the ECI in 2025 on deputation from the National Informatics Centre (NIC), under MeitY. https://t.co/5VPixNYw43 + https://t.co/C6KepTPcOl + PhD in Information Security , IIT Delhi.

At NIC, she worked on government technology infrastructure and was part of the team involved in Aarogya Setu.

Seema Khanna heads the ECI’s IT division. On 22 January 2026, ECI launched ECINET, integrating 40+ ECI apps and portals. ECINET is the digital infrastructure through which electoral-roll work is processed, a technology no longer merely a support function, it is a “strategic enabler.”

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗘𝗖𝗜 𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗚𝗦

The EROs are statutory authorities responsible for additions, corrections and deletions in electoral rolls under the Representation of the People Act, 1950. Yet ECI records show repeated concerns that their access was being restricted by the central IT system.

▪️Deputy Election Commissioner Sanjay Kumar had written to Seema Khanna stressing that the IT system must not restrict the statutory powers of EROs.

▪️4 November 2025: Deputy Election Commissioner Sanjay Kumar raised concerns with Khanna about EROs' access to the software.
▪️2 January 2026: Kumar again wrote to Khanna, asking that the IT system not restrict the statutory powers of EROs.
▪️22 January 2026: ECI launched ECINET, integrating 40+ applications and portals.
the centralisation of the voter database and restrictions on Electoral Registration Officers (EROs).

▪️In May 2026, Election Commissioner Vivek Joshi proposed an independent IIT-expert audit to certify that no one except statutory authorities had credentials to alter the voter database.
▪️On August 14,Sukhbir Singh Sandhu specifically recorded that DG (IT) Seema Khanna has no legal authority to restrict the access and freedom given by law to statutory EROs

▪️Can the ECI's central IT machinery override, restrict or otherwise control the statutory authority of EROs who are legally responsible for electoral rolls?

◾𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗦�� 𝗚𝗔𝗥𝗚

▪️ Maneesh Garg — Senior Deputy Election Commissioner, 1996-batch IAS officer, Himachal Pradesh cadre.
▪️Maneesh Garg Deputy Election Commissioner, ECI the post held by him has been granted a one-year extension at the Additional Secretary level, up to September 1, 2027. Garg has been with the ECI since September 2024,before that he was Himachal Pradesh CEO.

▪️On July 28, 2026, while holding additional charge of administration, Garg changed the ECI’s work allocation.
▪️The order removed Deputy Election Commissioner Sanjay Kumar from the oversight chain of DG(IT) , the very chain through which IT matters were being routed to the Commission.
▪️Sandhu and Joshi objected and separately wrote to the Cabinet Secretary.
▪️The two Commissioners subsequently set Garg’s order aside and restored the earlier arrangement pending consensus.

◾Abhishek Banerjee publicly named Seema Khanna over Bengal's SIR, alleging she admitted in a private conversation that the EC's 1.36 crore "logical discrepancy" figure was wrong and said he had screenshots of the exchange.

◾A PIL has now reportedly been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a judicial, SIT investigation into alleged SIR irregularities and naming Gyanesh Kumar, Maneesh Garg and Seema Khanna among the respondents. The petition reportedly seeks preservation of ECINet server logs, databases, communications and metadata from October 1, 2025 onward. The server logs + user access logs + timestamps + database-change history + administrator credentials + audit trails + communications + software change records.

These things that could actually establish who changed what, when, from where, and under whose credentials.

[Shekhar Dutt @DuttShekhar]

I want my people to have a strong National Consciousness

To have this idea, the state of our minds where we are obsessed with making ourselves, the lives of our fellow citizens, the worlds of our fellow humans so elevated that whatever govt is in power stops mattering

Just an obsession with creating the best of products and services, delivering the most honest of our efforts

Irrespective of whether you are in govt sector or private

Just a consuming passion to elevate the lives of each other for a beautiful shared future

It’s possible
And I am immensely enthralled to imagine ways to see it happening
By making the people powerful and NOT the governments 🙏

[Navroop Singh @TheNavroopSingh]

Beautiful 😍

[Navroop Singh @TheNavroopSingh]

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