BJP largest ad spender on Google, regional parties take second spot

The ruling party BJP spent as much as Rs 1.21 crore on 554 political ads since February 19.

Technology: Bharatiya Janata Party is the top promoter for political advertisements on Google, trailed by territorial gatherings in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, as India heads towards decisions in seven days, information from the innovation mammoth shows.

The decision party BJP spent as much as Rs 1.21 crore on 554 political advertisements since February 19.

Ideological groups and applicants have spent a sum of Rs 3.76 crore for 831 political advertisements on Google in the previous month and an a large portion of, the organization’s Political Ad Transparency Report appears.

Google India on Thursday discharged its political promotions straightforwardness report, which subtleties the spend on political advertisements since 19 February.

With the job of online life and innovation mammoths in affecting decisions turning into an idea the world over, Facebook, Google and Twitter have discharged advertisement straightforwardness reports for political promotions for India in the wake of doing as such for the US and EU prior.

After the BJP, provincial gatherings have been high spenders on Google. Andhra Pradesh and Telangana-based YSR Congress were the following high spenders with Rs 1.04 crore spent on 107 advertisements.

Pramanya Strategy Consulting Pvt Ltd set video and picture advertisements for Chandrababu Naidu, adding up to Rs 85 lakh for 53 promotions that were a blend of recordings and pictures.

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Fake news in elections: Now tip off WhatsApp about it using ‘tipline’

People in India can submit misinformation or rumours to the ‘Checkpoint Tipline on WhatsApp’ at +91-9643-000-888

Technology: WhatsApp on Tuesday propelled an administration in India where more than 200 million clients in the nation can tip off phony news, falsehood and gossipy tidbits identified with races.

Propelled by PROTO, a media skilling start-up, the tipline will help make a database of gossipy tidbits to ponder deception amid decisions for Checkpoint – an exploration venture dispatched by WhatsApp, the Facebook-possessed organization said in an announcement.

Individuals in India can submit falsehood or gossipy tidbits to the “Checkpoint Tipline on WhatsApp” at +91-9643-000-888.

Burrow Deeper Media and Meedan, who have recently chipped away at deception related activities around the globe, are helping PROTO to build up the check and research structures for India.

“The objective of this task is to think about the falsehood marvel at scale – locally in WhatsApp,” said PROTO’s organizers Ritvvij Parrikh and Nasr ul Hadi.

At the point when a WhatsApp client imparts a suspicious message to the tipline, PROTO’s confirmation focus will look to react and educate the client if the case made in the message shared is checked or not.

The reaction will demonstrate if data is named valid, false, deceptive, debated or out of extension and incorporate whatever other related data that is accessible.

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Facebook removed 687 pages, accounts linked to Congress, BJP ahead of polls

These include 138 Facebook pages and 549 profiles and have hundreds of thousands of followers

Technology:Under about fourteen days before India’s general decisions, Facebook said on Monday it has brought down more than 1,100 pages, gatherings, and records from the stage just as its unit Instagram in India, connected with India’s two biggest ideological groups and Pakistan, as a feature of its bigger endeavor to stem the spread of falsehood.

In a blogpost by Nathaniel Gleicher, its head of cybersecurity strategy, Facebook said it expelled 103 pages, gatherings, and records on both Facebook and Instagram for participating in composed ‘inauthentic conduct’ as a feature of a system that began in Pakistan.

Further, 687 Facebook pages and records connected to the primary Opposition party Indian National Congress (INC) and 15 Facebook pages, gatherings, and records connected to individuals related with an Indian data innovation firm Silver Touch, which has likewise built up the Prime Minister’s NaMo application, were expelled.

The examination was completed by Facebook’s in-house agents, just as research organization Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), Gleicher told columnists in an approach Monday.

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All-women polling booths in every LS constituency of Maharashtra

As per the Election Commission’s (EC) directions to set up polling stations entirely managed by women, such booths will be set up in all 40 Lok Sabha seats of the state

ELECTIONS: An all-ladies surveying stall will be set up in each Lok Sabha supporters of Maharashtra amid the following month’s surveys in an offered to urge increasingly female voters to practice their establishment.

According to the Election Commission’s (EC) bearings to set up surveying stations totally overseen by ladies, such corners will be set up in each of the 40 Lok Sabha seats of the express, a discharge issued by the race office here said.

“Each one of those sent at such surveying stations – police, decision officers and different workers – will be ladies. These corners, an activity towards sex uniformity and including ladies’ interest in the discretionary procedure, will be called as ‘Sakhi Matdan Kendras’,” it said.

According to the EC’s rules, there would be no particular shading code for such surveying stations, the discharge stated, including that their security will be a top need.

Delicate surveying stations will be kept out of this trial while those close tehsil office or police headquarters will be viewed as overseen by ladies, it said.

Rangoli and other fine arts would be utilized to make these stalls increasingly appealing and to lay accentuation on tidiness, it included.

The quantity of ladies voters this time hasincreased to 911 for every 1,000 men, as against 889 for every 1,000 men in 2014, according to official figures.

Out of the all out 8,73,29,910 voters in the state, 4,57,01,877 are men, 4,16,25,950 ladies and 2,083 third sex voters.

Lok Sabha decisions will be held in Maharashtra in four stages on April 11, 18, 23 and 29 and outcomes will be announced on May 23.

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Cash, liquor and freebies worth Rs 540 cr seized since poll announcement

Karnataka saw the total seizure of inducements and cash worth Rs 26.53 crore, Maharashtra Rs 19.11 crore and Telangana Rs 8.2 crore

Elections: Suspect money, illicit alcohol and medications worth about Rs 540 crore have been seized the nation over since parliamentary race plan was declared by the Election Commission a fortnight back, official information demonstrated Tuesday.

Tamil Nadu recorded the greatest seizure of these illicit affectations, suspected to have been directed and used to pay off voters, worth Rs 107.24 crore, trailed by Uttar Pradesh Rs 104.53 crore, Andhra Pradesh Rs 103.4 crore and Punjab Rs 92.8 crore.

Karnataka saw the all out seizure of actuations and money worth Rs 26.53 crore, Maharashtra Rs 19.11 crore and Telangana Rs 8.2 crore.

An Election Commission official said the complete estimation of caught things was Rs 539.99 crore.

The surveys were announced by the Election Commission on March 10 and according to information refreshed till March 25, an aggregate of Rs 143.37 crore presume money, Rs 89.64 crore worth of alcohol, drugs esteemed at Rs 131.75 crore, gold and different valuable metals worth Rs 162.93 crore and different complimentary gifts of Rs 12.20 crore have been seized, the EC information for all states for Lok Sabha surveys said.

The EC has conveyed many general onlookers, use spectators and static and portable observation groups in the nation to keep a beware of stream of dark cash and other unlawful delight with the goal that the dimension playing field of holding reasonable surveys isn’t irritated.

The seven stage surveys will start from April 11 and the tallying of votes will happen on May 23.

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Lok Sabha elections: Why some parties are fielding more women this time

While the overall sex ratio has marginally worsened from the 1960s to the 2000s, the voter sex ratio has improved in India

Nadia: Women stand in a queue to cast their vote for Panchayat election at Shantipur polling station in Nadia district of West Bengal on Monday.( PTI Photo) (PTI5_14_2018_000071B)

Elections: To see how some ideological groups appear to have woken up to the requirement for more prominent ladies’ political portrayal in front of the general races booked for April and May 2019, you have just to take a gander at the millennial female voter.

Anju Baa, a 20-year-old ancestral young lady from Rajgampur town in Sundergarh locale in northwestern Odisha, has finished her graduation. She is taken a crack at a PC class and says she will apply for work once her course is finished. Marriage? She shrugs, first comes the activity.

At the point when Anju was only an infant, her mom, Rani Secundra Baa, class 12 pass and utilized as a household specialist in Delhi, casted a ballot in her first- – thus far just – race. The contender for Birmitrapur, her get together seat in the year 2000, was inborn pioneer George Tirkey, who as of late joined the Congress party. For what reason did she vote in favor of Tirkey? Since, said Rani, her town had taken an aggregate choice to help him.

Be that as it may, no one discloses to Anju who to vote in favor of. Like her companions, she is guided by her marzi (decision). Would she lean toward a lady hopeful? “I will see who the competitor is. In any case, up until this point, ladies have done great work in my town. Our sarpanch [elected leader of the town council] is a lady and she is open and dedicated. She got a great deal of street works accomplished for us. Along these lines, indeed, ladies are more devoted than men with regards to serving the network,” she told IndiaSpend via telephone.

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Lok Sabha polls: Rahul Gandhi promises Rs 6,000 a month for poorest 20%

Congress leaders said NYAY gets its inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of helping the last man and woman

Elections: Congress President Rahul Gandhi said his gathering, if it somehow happened to shape the legislature at the Center after the Lok Sabha races, would guarantee a base pay of Rs 6,000 every month to 20 percent most unfortunate of poor family units, or 250 million individuals.

While the Narendra Modi government had guaranteed to Rs 6,000 every year to poor ranchers, the Congress has guaranteed a coordinating add up to all poor, especially the landless.

The gathering, notwithstanding, rejected its prior suggestion that conceived fixing up the hole between a poor family unit’s salary to convey it to Rs 12,000. It has now guaranteed a level Rs 6,000 every month stipend, or Rs 72,000 every year, if a family’s salary is beneath Rs 12,000. Gandhi said an advisory group of gathering pioneers, which included Manmohan Singh and P Chidambaram, had determined that the essential living salary every family needs to endure is Rs 12,000.

Calling the plan “keep going assault on neediness”, Gandhi said the salary would be exchanged to the financial balances of ladies in every family. The plan would cover country also urban poor. The execution will be founded on pilot extends the gathering intends to take up in the initial two years of its legislature, and the plan is probably going to be propelled in the third year.

As indicated by gathering sources, NYAY, or Nyuntam Aay Yojana, could subsume a portion of the current plans, especially maturity annuities. In any case, they denied any designs to scrap its provincial work ensure plot. The gathering said the financial weight at Rs 3.5 trillion for each annum would be around 1.2 percent of the GDP of India.

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WhatsApp, NASSCOM Foundation partner to fight fake news before elections

WhatsApp and NASSCOM Foundation has partnered to deliver digital literacy training to curb fake news, propaganda and misinformation menace before Lok Sabha Elections 2019

Technology: WhatsApp, a Facebook-possessed texting stage, has joined forces with the social arm of National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) to convey computerized proficiency preparing. Expecting to control counterfeit news, purposeful publicity and deception threat on its stage, the preparation is assessed to contact roughly 1,00,000 individuals before the Lok Sabha Elections 2019.

“We are eager to grow our associations with common society to progress significant advanced education abilities that can help battle deception share on WhatsApp. This preparation instructs individuals all through India to be aware of the messages they get and to confirm the actualities before sending,” said Abhijit Bose, Head of India, WhatsApp.

The main group of preparing is booked to begin from March 27 in Delhi, trailed by workshops for agents from provincial and urban areas, and roadshows and connections in different universities. NASSCOM Foundation, on its part, will give volunteers to be prepared, who might later impart their figuring out how to no less than three additional individuals, satisfying the NASSCOM Foundation order of ‘Every One Teach Three’ battle. These volunteers will likewise post their takeaways from workshops on their web based life handles to expand the range of their learnings.

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Google ups efforts to check misinformation ahead of Lok Sabha elections

Google is also going to launch its political ad transparency report before Indian elections, scheduled to begin on April 11

Google signage is seen at Google headquarters in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., December 17, 2018. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

Technology: Not simply Facebook and Twitter, Google is additionally attempting to guarantee the legitimacy of data on its commercials and video stage as India heads towards General Elections in under a month.

On Thursday, the organization said it is guaranteeing legitimate news content shows signs of improvement play on YouTube, where recordings have seen development in watch time triple for substance from definitive sources over the most recent two years, said Tim Katz, the video stage’s executive of news associations.

YouTube, which is possessed by Google, is guaranteeing there is news from dependable sources that is put on the stage, with enough setting.

With races not exactly a month away, the Indian government has been attempting to address the issue of fake news spreading through online life and informing stages, for example, WhatsApp. As of late, the Parliamentary Committee on data innovation met with senior officials of Facebook and Twitter and the Election Commission has likewise said internet based life stages have resolved to help check the spread of phony news in the keep running up to races.

The video stage has acquainted certainty checks with its boards in India, just beneath the query items, which depends on and “open environment of distributers and actuality checking experts”.It is as of now accessible in Engligh and will in the blink of an eye be accessible in Hindi.

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Lok Sabha elections: 21 Opposition parties move SC against EVM machines

The parties have also sought that at least 50% of the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail machines be tallied with the voting machines to avoid any discrepancy

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Somewhere around 21 restriction gatherings, including Indian National Congress and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu have moved the best court looking for better security standards to keep the altering of electronic casting a ballot machines.

The gatherings have additionally looked for that something like 50 percent of the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail machines be counted with the casting a ballot machines to dodge any error. The gatherings have approached the best court following a gathering of 15 non-BJP parties held at Sharad Pawar’s living arrangement in New Delhi in February.

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