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Bhubaneswar, March 30 The names of 7.68 lakh voters in Odisha were removed from the electoral roll for various reasons from June 2025 to March 22 this year, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi told the state assembly on Monday.Responding to a written question from BJD legislator Ranendra Pratap...

Chennai, March 28 Tamil Nadu has seen a significant increase in voter registration ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections, with over 6.48 lakh applications submitted during the extended revision period.The updated and consolidated electoral roll is scheduled to be published on April 6, which...

In Kerala, the final list of voters for the upcoming Assembly elections was released last night. According to the final electoral roll, Kerala has a total of 27,142,952 voters. The list also includes 466,408 new voters under the age of 19. Notably, there are 54 voters over the age of 110 in the...

Chennai, March 26 – Ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections on April 23, Thursday marks the final opportunity for eligible citizens in Tamil Nadu to have their names included in the electoral roll.The Election Commission has urged all unregistered voters to take advantage of this last chance...

Kolkata, March 24 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the purported BJP stamp on a communication from the Election Commission proved beyond doubt which party was controlling the poll watchdog from behind.A political row erupted on Monday after a March 2019 letter...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 23 – A total of 676 candidates have filed their nomination papers for the April 9 elections to the 140-member Kerala Assembly, setting the stage for a fiercely contested electoral battle.The deadline for filing nominations was 5 p.m. on Monday.The scrutiny of the...

Kolkata, March 22 A 54-year-old booth-level officer in West Bengal's Malda district died of a heart attack, with his family alleging that excessive work pressure related to the SIR exercise in the state caused his death.The BLO, identified as Utpal Thakur, suffered a heart attack at around...

New Delhi, March 22 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Sunday that assured minimum facilities and comprehensive voter assistance will be provided at all polling stations for the upcoming Assembly elections in five states and one Union Territory.The poll body had earlier, on...

Kolkata, March 22 The West Bengal government has directed all district magistrates to take precautionary measures to maintain law and order during the publication of the supplementary electoral rolls on March 23.A senior official said a communication issued by the Home and Hill Affairs...

Chennai, March 21 – As the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly elections approach, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has intensified measures to ensure transparency, accountability, and strict enforcement of election norms across the state.A large network of Central Observers has been...

In West Bengal, after reviewing the names of voters who were undergoing a special revision process (SIR), the first supplementary list of disputed voters may be released today. The final electoral roll, which was released on February 28 after intensive revision, contained over sixty lakh names...

Kochi, March 19 In a setback for NDA ally Twenty20 in Kerala, the party withdrew two actress candidates on Thursday after their names were found missing from the voter list.The party withdrew Lakshmi Priya's candidature from Perumbavoor in Ernakulam district and Veena Nair's candidature from...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 15. With a total electorate of 2.71 crore spread across 140 Assembly constituencies, Kerala is set to go to the polls on April 9 after the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the election schedule on Sunday.The poll panel unveiled the election calendar at a...

Opposition MPs, including from the TMC, have submitted notices to both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha seeking a motion to remove Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Sources said that the secretariats of both houses will examine the format of the notices.In response, Union Minister S P...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 13 Kerala Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Ratan U Kelkar on Friday said the upcoming assembly elections will be meticulously planned and executed to ensure a record turnout of over 85 per cent and a smooth voting process.Speaking to reporters here after inaugurating a...

New Delhi, March 10 In a new set of directions, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the setting up of independent appellate tribunals, headed by former high court judges, to hear appeals against exclusions from voter lists during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West...

In Jammu and Kashmir, the State Election Commissioner (SEC), Shantmanu, instructed officials on Monday to prepare for the revision of village council electoral rolls. An Akashvani Jammu correspondent reports that Shantmanu chaired a high-level meeting on Monday to review preparations for the...

Kolkata, March 9 A woman allegedly died by suicide in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Monday after her name was listed as "under consideration" and the names of her two sons were omitted from the recently published post-SIR voter list.A police officer said that the incident...

Lucknow, March 7 Over 70.69 lakh Form 6 applications for inclusion in the electoral rolls and 2.68 lakh objections via Form 7, seeking deletion of names, were received in Uttar Pradesh between January 6 and March 6 as part of the 2026 Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, Chief Electoral...

Kolkata, March 7 Ahead of the assembly polls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that from Saturday, unemployed young job seekers, who have passed the secondary examination (class 10), will receive Rs 1,500 allowance every month to help them move towards a self-reliant future.The...