A day after self-proclaimed cyber expert Syed Shuja said he was an ECIL employee who designed the EVMs that were used in the 2014 elections, the PSU company denied that he worked with them ever.
The ECIL said that Syed Shuja has neither been in the rolls of the ECIL as a regular employee nor was he in any way associated in the design and development of EVMs between 2009 and 2014.
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey targeted the Congress party and the Gandhi-Nehru family and questioned why there hasn't been a discussion on books and literature detailing the Emergency, Bofors scandal, and alleged foreign influence when the grand old party was in power.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, and Union Minister Kiren Rijiju met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in his chamber amid the ruckus in the House.
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri slammed Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi for calling BJP leader Ravneet Singh Bittu a 'traitor' and said the remark was unacceptable.
In this Special Report, India Today’s Mir Fareed provides exclusive details on a major counter-terror operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur. Security forces, including the Army, Jammu Kashmir Police, and CRPF, successfully eliminated two Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists who were hiding in a natural cave within a dense forested terrain. Mir Fareed noted, ‘Finally, their luck ran out as security forces used IEDs to blow up the entrance. And with that, they were eliminated.’ One of the deceased has been identified as a top commander, Abu Mavia. The operation involved sophisticated drone surveillance and sharpshooters to pin down the terrorists who had previously evaded capture. The report highlights the evolving tactics of security agencies in tackling infiltrators using the treacherous forest reaches of Jammu. The area is currently being sanitised as per standard operating procedures following the recovery of weapons.
