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New Delhi, February 27 The Supreme Court said on Friday that it is aware of its judicial officers and they will not be "influenced by anything," after the West Bengal government submitted that the Election Commission had issued a training module for judicial officers deployed in the Special...

Kolkata, February 26 – Political tensions continue to simmer in West Bengal amid the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, as the final voter list is set to be published on February 28, in line with Supreme Court directives.West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Agarwal...

Kolkata, February 25 Approximately 200 judicial officers from Jharkhand and Odisha are likely to arrive in West Bengal soon for the ongoing SIR exercise, special rolls observer of the Election Commission, Subrata Gupta, said on Thursday.Gupta said the poll panel will shortly be informed about...

Kolkata, February 26 The Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court held a meeting with the Chief Electoral Officer and top state officials on Thursday to review the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise of electoral rolls in West Bengal, in which judicial officers have been assigned...

New Delhi, February 26 Electoral authorities in West Bengal have been directed to ensure that all pending verification documents related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls are submitted to the designated judicial officers by 5 p.m. on Thursday.The direction was issued...

New Delhi, February 25 – The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed electoral authorities in West Bengal to ensure that all pending verification documents are submitted by 5 p.m. on February 26 to the judicial officers overseeing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.A bench...

New Delhi, February 25 Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale said on Wednesday that Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar should be "jailed", alleging several irregularities in the ongoing Systematic Voters' Registration (SVRS) process in West Bengal.In a post on X, the TMC leader said...

Lucknow, February 25 Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Wednesday that notices were being issued to voters on a large scale during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and described the exercise as the BJP's "vote suppression" (depriving someone of the right to vote) after...

New Delhi, February 25 The Supreme Court on Wednesday clarified that Class 10 admit cards accompanied by a pass certificate can be produced as supplementary documentation for identity verification in the ongoing SIR exercise in West Bengal.A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and...

Kolkata, February 24 The Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court ordered the cancellation of leave for all civil judges in various courts of West Bengal until further orders, to ensure compliance with the directions issued by the Supreme Court for the completion of the electoral roll revision...

New Delhi, February 24 The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the deployment of West Bengal civil judges, in addition to 250 district judges, and the requisitioning of judicial officers from Jharkhand and Odisha to handle the 80 lakh claims and objections related to deletion from the electoral...

Kolkata, February 24 Union minister Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday alleged that a high-level meeting convened in West Bengal to further the SIR process, as mandated by the Supreme Court, was attended by unauthorized individuals, including former chief secretary Manoj Pant.The BJP leader demanded...

The Supreme Court has allowed the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court to deploy civil judges and requisition judicial officers from neighboring Jharkhand and Odisha to handle the 80 lakh claims and objections under the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal.A bench...

New Delhi, February 24 The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court to deploy civil judges and also to requisition judicial officers from neighboring Jharkhand and Odisha to deal with the 80 lakh claims and objections in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision...

Kolkata, February 23 Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul held an internal coordination meeting with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal and senior administrative and police officials on Monday regarding the work assigned to judicial officers, officials said.The Chief...

Chennai, February 23 The Election Commission released the final electoral roll for Tamil Nadu on Monday, and 97.37 lakh names of voters were deleted under various categories.The state now has 5.67 crore voters, Chief Electoral Officer Archana Patnaik, who released the final electoral roll...

Kolkata, February 22 – As the deadline for the completion of the scrutiny phase of voter documents submitted during the hearing on claims and objections to the draft voter list in West Bengal has ended, uncertainty remains regarding the number of voter documents classified as "logical...

Sri Vijaya Puram, February 21 The Andaman and Nicobar Islands saw the removal of 5,269 names from the draft electoral roll, as the final list of voters was published after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) on Saturday, officials said.The final electoral roll released by...

In Chhattisgarh, the final publication of the electoral roll has been released today, following the completion of the Special Intensive Revision. According to the updated list, a total of 87,30,914 voters have been registered in the state.Following the directions of the Election Commission of...

Raipur, February 21 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) released the final electoral roll for Chhattisgarh on Saturday, with the total number of registered voters in the state reaching 1,87,30,914, including a net addition of 2,34,994 new voters.The Commission released the final electoral...