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Federalism in India and Cooperative Federalism

         The Government of India (referred to as the Union Government) was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of a federal union of 29 states and 7 union territories. FEDERALISM IN INDIAN CONSTITUTION     Federalism is a politico-administrative structure where multiple governments function and rule a given territory and a set of people. In a federal system the sovereignty of a country is constitutionally divided between a central or national Government and other state or provincial governments where political and administrative powers are shared between them. In the overarching system the union government and the state governments take and implement decisions through negotiations, at the same time maintaining regional identity and liberty but remaining united as a nation in a bigger political formation headed by the national Government. USA, India, Germany, Australia, Canada, Nigeria are the examples where federal system of governance is in

Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in India : How EVMs works

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          In this post I will discuss most talked about thing during elections in India. As the losing side always tries to find out culprits and EVMs are most innocent ones to blame. So let us analyse how whole system works and whether tempering is possible or not. Electronic Voting:      Electronic voting refers to a form of voting where casting and counting of votes are done by electronic means. It can be implemented as online using internet and servers or standalone offline device or anything in between. Particularly in India, electronic ballots are used for polling instead of paper ballots. For this an electronic machine is provided at every polling booth.       Electronic voting is pretty old concept and it debuted in 1960 as punched card. Their first widespread use was in 1964 presidential election in USA.  Electronic Voting Machine in India      Electronic Voting Machines are used to facilitate an election system. In layman's term, it can be understood

Syrian crisis

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However, it is impossible to condemn in words about chemical weapon attack in Syria, but reaction of Trump led USA government to avenge that is worth noticing. To avenge chemical weapon attack, USA missiles have targeted Syrian Airbase. US President, Mr. Donald trump has promised during his election campaign that he will work on reducing scope of United States of America’s scope in Syrian crisis but latest events indicate something else and clears US stance on this issue. Syria may prove as Litmus test of Trump’s foreign policy, where Russia and USA are poles apart. On other hand, this is an enigma for Gulf countries, for which no one have any direct solution. Iran and United Arab Emirates along with many other countries are in different lobbies. The regional alliance said that US cruise missiles strikes on a Syrian base which Washington said was involved in a chemical attack that killed dozens of civilians would not deter their forces from liberating all of Syrian terr