In the last assembly elections in Karnataka in 2018, the Election Commission of India (ECI) piloted a mobile app — cVIGIL. The philosophy behind it was simple: let citizens shoot photos and videos of election code violations and upload the material for immediate action. The first trial was not entirely ...
At the G20 Science 20 conference next week, India is expected to draw attention to the recent Covid-19 experience and the need to proactively prevent "zoonotic spill overs" because of the danger they pose towards advancing the infection from "local outbreaks to a global pandemic".The Wuhan outbreak in China is ...