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Aizawl, March 30 A total of 68 candidates, including 28 women, are contesting in the Aizawl Municipal Corporation (AMC) elections, a senior official said on Monday.Polling for the 19-member AMC will take place on April 21, and the votes will be counted on April 27.Mizoram State Election...

Kolkata, March 28 The process of establishing tribunals to hear appeals from voters whose names were missing from the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal has not yet been finalized, a senior official said on Saturday."The Supreme Court has...

Aizawl, March 20 Political activity is intensifying in Mizoram ahead of the Aizawl Municipal Corporation (AMC) elections, with parties stepping up preparations, finalizing candidates, and outlining agendas for the civic body.Polling for the 19-member AMC is scheduled for April 21, with...

Aizawl, March 18 The Aizawl Municipal Corporation (AMC) will go to the polls on April 21, announced the Mizoram State Election Commission (SEC) on Wednesday.State Election Commissioner H Lalthlangliana told reporters here that polling for the 19-member civic body will be held across 19 wards...

Guwahati, March 16 Improved infrastructure and better security arrangements are key factors behind the decision to hold the upcoming Assembly elections in Assam in a single phase, top officials said on Monday, a day after the Election Commission announced polling in the state for April 9.They...

Kolkata, March 15 With the Election Commission announcing the assembly poll schedule on Sunday, stating that elections in West Bengal will be held on April 23 and 29, the fate of over 60 lakh "under adjudication" electors, whose voting eligibility is currently under judicial scrutiny, hangs in...

Kolkata, March 15 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Sunday a two-phase polling schedule for the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections – April 23 and April 29 – even as the fate of over 42 lakh voters referred for judicial adjudication after being classified under the "logical...

Kolkata, March 7 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that voter deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls were aimed at dividing the state.Addressing a gathering during her demonstration against the alleged arbitrary deletions, Banerjee accused the BJP of depriving...

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...

Kolkata, March 6 In a dramatic return to street politics that defined her rise, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday launched a protest in central Kolkata against large-scale deletions in the state's voter rolls following the SIR exercise, escalating the TMC's confrontation with...

Kolkata, March 6 – The political atmosphere in West Bengal intensified on Friday as TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee called for a "social and political boycott" of the BJP, accusing the Election Commission of attempting to disenfranchise over one crore voters through the Systematic Voters'...

Kolkata, February 28 – In a major electoral reset barely two months before the West Bengal Assembly elections, around 63.66 lakh names, nearly 8.3% of the electorate, have been deleted from the state’s voter list since the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) began in November last year, reducing...

Kolkata, February 28 Over 63 lakh names were deleted from the pre-SIR electoral rolls in West Bengal, resulting in the revised total electorate of a little over 7.04 crore, Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal said on Saturday.The voter count exceeded 7.66 crore in the state before the...

Kolkata, Feb 28 – Around 63.66 lakh names, nearly 8.3 per cent of the electorate, have been deleted in West Bengal since the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) began in November last year, bringing down the total number of voters in the state to over 7.04 crore ahead of the assembly elections due...

Kolkata, February 28 The Election Commission (EC) is likely to delete another eight lakh names, in addition to the 58 lakh voters previously removed from the state's draft rolls, taking the total deletions due to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal to around 66 lakh so far...

Kolkata, February 28 The Election Commission's phased publication of the post-SIR electoral rolls in West Bengal has revealed that the Nadia district has recorded around 2.71 lakh deletions since the exercise began in November, while Bankura has seen a net reduction of 1.18 lakh names...

Kolkata, February 27 – The North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal has recorded the highest number of cases currently under review ahead of the publication of the final voter list by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday.As the Commission has already clarified, the final voter...

Kolkata, February 27 When West Bengal's post-election voter rolls are published on Saturday, it will not only update a list of over seven crore voters, but also reflect months of political confrontation, courtroom battles, street protests, and a climate of anxiety that has reshaped the narrative...

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...