Believe It or Not: This is Why Election Commission Website Lagged for Two Hours
New Delhi, Dec 12: What's in a name? While the bard surmises not that much, the Election Commission of India may not agree with him.
Even as the whole country was glued to their TVs, phones, and computers on the day that the results of assembly elections of five states (ahem, Madhya Pradesh) were to be announced, media organizations around India provided a constantly updating stream of coverage of the latest counts. Every constituency in Rajasthan, Mizoram, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh was closely monitored so as to provide the public with the most recent polls, which would help choose the state governments. Every site was updated with all the latest figures. Every site, except one.
The Election Commission's own website was lagging and showing two-hour-old voting numbers in a situation which was changing every minute. While one might be tempted to blame this on the Windows 95 systems and Internet Explorer browser they presumably use (hey, we don't know; they never invited us over), the reason was far more random.
According to the Indian Express, the reason behind the lag was that one particular Mizo political party's name was longer than the 60 characters limit, causing problems with the system's pagination of counting leads. If that's gobbledygook to you, don't feel bad; we're tech-challenged as well.
Basically, the Peoples Representation for Identity and Status of Mizoram (PRISM) Party had too long a name for the system/software/whatever to compute/process/figure out. Huh, guess there's something in a name after all.
In any case, once the problem was identified, it was promptly rectified, and the lag was removed.
Were you wondering why thr Election Commission website was so slow yesterday? The Indian Express has the answer and it's hilarious pic.twitter.com/3cOMkuJ02X
— Mihir Sharma (@mihirssharma) December 12, 2018
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Rupee falls 9 paise to record low of 90.87 against US dollar in early trade
Mumbai (PTI): The rupee plunged 9 paise to a record low of 90.87 against the US dollar in early trade on Tuesday, weighed down by sustained FII outflows and no breakthrough in the India-US trade deal.
However, a weaker greenback and a decline in global crude oil prices capped further losses in the domestic unit, according to forex traders.
At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at its all-time low of 90.87 against the US dollar, down 9 paise from its previous close, and traded in a narrow range of 90.77- 90.87 in early trade.
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The rupee on Monday settled at a new all-time low of 90.78 against the US dollar, registering a loss of 29 paise over its previous close, weighed down by uncertainty over an India-US trade deal and persistent foreign fund outflows.
"The US-India trade deal still seems to be off by a distance with the Commerce Secretary saying the first phase will be signed before the end of the year and news that we are closest to the deal being signed. The uncertainty has clouded the recovery on the USD/INR pair as the rupee opened lower with dollar buying happening every day," Anil Kumar Bhansali, Head of Treasury and Executive Director, Finrex Treasury Advisors LLP, said.
Even a reduction in trade deficit on Monday could not bring about a recovery in the rupee with Foreign Institutional Investors (FII) outflows continuing, he added
According to the latest government data released on Monday, India's trade deficit narrowed to a five-month low of USD 24.53 billion in November, as exports rebounded by 19.37 per cent to a six-month high of USD 38.13 billion after contracting in October, driven by higher shipments of engineering and electronics goods.
At the same time, the country's imports dipped by 1.88 per cent to USD 62.66 billion due to a fall in the inbound shipments of gold, crude oil, coal, and coke.
FIIs sold equities worth Rs 1,468.32 crore on Monday, according to exchange data.
Also, wholesale price inflation stayed in the negative for the second consecutive month in November at (-) 0.32 per cent, even though there was an uptick in prices of food articles like pulses and vegetables on a month-on-month basis, government data showed on Monday.
Wholesale Price Index (WPI)-based inflation was at (-) 1.21 per cent in October and 2.16 per cent in November last year.
Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's strength against a basket of six currencies, was trading 0.03 per cent lower at 98.27.
Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, was trading 0.61 per cent lower at USD 60.19 per barrel in futures trade.
On the domestic equity market front, the 30-share benchmark index, Sensex, declined 363.92 points to 84,849.44 in early trade while the Nifty was down 106.65 points to 25,920.65.
