India’s voting machines are open to fraud, says group

India’s voting machines are open to fraud, says group

• The electronic voting machines (EVMs) used in India are vulnerable to fraud, and it is important for votes to be counted in a manner that can be seen and verified, a group of experts said Thursday. In a collaborative study, a team of Indian and international experts has revealed that even brief access to the voting machines can allow criminals to alter election results.
• These findings, they said, were at odds with the Election Commission claims that weaknesses found in other EVMs around the world do not apply to the Indian product.
• This collaborative study was performed by a team of researchers from NetIndia Ltd, based in Hyderabad, the University of Michigan in the US and a non-profit organisation in the Netherlands specialising in electronic voting related issues.
• The researchers said they had shown that the EVMs can be attacked, either by replacing a small part of the machine with an identical component that can be silently instructed to steal a percentage of the votes in favor of a chosen candidate.These instructions can even be sent from a mobile phone.Another attack would involve the use of a pocket-sized device to change the votes stored in the EVM between the day of polling and when the votes get counted.
• More such attacks are possible. These attacks are possible despite the existence of procedural checks and safeguards that the Election Commission has introduced

VivekaJyoti: Muslim teens strangle friend, nail him to wall (in Ghaziabad)

VivekaJyoti: Muslim teens strangle friend, nail him to wall (in Ghaziabad)

• DWAIPAYAN GHOSH
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• Two teenagers aged 14 and 15 years allegedly strangled their 13-year old friend with a copper wire and then pinned his body to a wall using iron nails.The children were paid Rs 20,000 by a 35-year-old woman,Sabroon,to commit the murder.She was angry with the victim as she suspected he was stealing from her shop and wanted to get rid of him.The two kids have been arrested by the Vijay Nagar police on Monday.The woman is on the run.
• GHAZIABAD:
• Locals said Shaukat had been behaving violently lately. He had murdered over three dogs and cut off wings of birds and forced them to fly.We think he suffers from a mental ailment, said Sadiq,his neighbour. The police said the accused had been kept in separate rooms at the observation home as they feared Shaukat would behave violently.

Haindava Keralam - Helpless Hindus surrender their rights as Collector denied permission to conduct Temple festival

Haindava Keralam - global community of dedicated Hindu Keralites with a peace mission

• Dindugal:
• Helpless Hindus of  Perumalkovilpatti had only one option in front of them - To surrender all their material rights given by the Government , To show their anger and protest against barring them from their birth right - The right to worship.Villagers here handed over their ration cards, voter identity cards, farmer identity cards , government life and health insurance cards back to Dindugal RDO to show their protest for banning them from celebrating a small festival in Kaliamman temple. The villager’s request seeking permission to build a compound wall around Kaliamman temple and conduct a festival had been turned down by Dindugal collector. Few months back a Christian Missionaries murdered a Hindu named Aandi in front of this very same village. Dindigal Collector Vallalar who visited the area then had given permission to Hindus to construct a compound wall to protect the temple from Christian aggressors.Perumalkovilpatti (literally and ironically meaning village of Vishnu temple) is a village near Dindugal town. Here Christians are majority. So Hindus are denied their right to celebrate Pongal in their own temple.

Madhuri Gupta may have embraced Islam: Report

Madhuri Gupta may have embraced Islam: Report

• Madhuri Gupta, the 53-year-old second secretary arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan, may have embraced Islam about six years ago, a media report has claimed. Gupta, who was posted at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad was perhaps a Shia Muslim, according to a media report. "She was really inspired by the teachings of Islam but was scared to announce her new faith," reads a report in the Post. "Her kin has very close relations with a well-known Muslim family of Ashiq Hussain Jafri in Lucknow". Ms Gupta spent her early life in Lucknow with Jafri's family where she enthused (sic) Islamic values," the Post quoted a source as saying. Gupta was spotted in the month of Ramzan by a local journalist wearing a bangle and rings which usually members of the Shia sect wear. "I am fasting and I have great respect for Islam," she told the journalist.

Haindava Keralam - Vigilant Hindus thwarted Conversion attempt by the Asst. Tahsildhar and his cronies

Haindava Keralam - global community of dedicated Hindu Keralites with a peace mission

• Courtesy: S.Srivathsan

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• On April 25th,2010 Sunday, a group of Parish Priests, New York based Biblical Student group and the Thasildhar who is working in Erode District Collector Office visited
• Sooriyampaalayam,Sottaiampalayam villages near Erode District,Tamilnadu and other villages around these two with colourful pamplets,brouchers stating the greatness of Christianity, benefits that can be attained when joining in Christianity, End of Democracy and Start of Jesus Kingdom all over the world and especially in Bharath (India), denigrating Hindu Gods and Hindu Customs and practices etc. They issue the pamplets,notices in the schools and in slum areas. Some group visiting each and every huts in the village and call them for small meeting where they preach these things in detail and threaten them psychologically to convert as christians.
• Ranganath 28/04/2010 13:54:52 milk the conversion based churches The churches are very rich. Why don't Hindus kidnap these converting priests and demand huge ransom in return?