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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...

Bhubaneswar, March 7 Odisha Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) R S Gopalan said that approximately 90 per cent of the voters in the state have been linked to the 2002 electoral roll.The CEO stated on Friday that this linking process is expected to be completed within the next 15 days, and the...

Kolkata, March 6 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused the BJP of plotting to remove the names of over 1 crore people from the state's voter list through the Systematic Voter Identification and Voter Registration (SVIR) process in its attempt to win the upcoming assembly...

New Delhi, March 5 – The West Bengal Congress unit urged the Election Commission on Thursday to announce the state Assembly election schedule only after all pending cases related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the state's electoral rolls are resolved.The state Congress submitted a...

Kolkata, March 4 – The office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has sent a detailed report to the Election Commission of India headquarters in New Delhi, highlighting deliberate negligence on the part of a section of electoral registration officers (EROs) and assistant electoral...

Kolkata, March 3. More names are likely to be removed from the electoral roll of the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in West Bengal, represented by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, at the end of the ongoing judicial review of voter documents, sources said.According to statistics available from...

Kolkata, March 2 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday evening announced that an additional 100 judicial officers each, from neighboring Jharkhand and Odisha, will join the ongoing judicial process related to voter identity documents flagged under the "logical discrepancy" category...

Kolkata, March 2 – The full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI), led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, is likely to visit West Bengal on March 9 to review the post-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) situation in the state ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections...

In a coordinated political offensive launched a day after the publication of West Bengal's post-SIR electoral rolls, the BJP on Sunday sought to use the deletion of names as a central political platform, alleging that "over 50 lakh infiltrators" had been removed and declaring that "the time has...

Kolkata, February 28 – The final voter list in West Bengal, prepared as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR), was published on Saturday, with a total of 61,78,245 voters being deleted.This figure is likely to increase further, as the identity documents of approximately 60 lakh...