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...
New Delhi, March 1 The Election Commission, led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, will visit Kerala this week to assess the state's preparedness for upcoming elections, which are likely to be held next month.The Commission is expected to arrive in Kerala on the night of March...
assam
assembly elections
bihu festival
election commission of india
election schedule
elections
electoral preparedness
guwahati
gyanesh kumar
kerala
puducherry
state elections
tamil nadu
voterlists
west bengal
Kolkata, March 1 – As the final list of voters in West Bengal, as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state, was published, it showed that there had been no new voter registrations in as many as 99 Assembly constituencies during the entire SIR exercise, from the beginning...
assembly constituencies
bangladesh border
chief electoral officer (ceo)
deletion of voters
electoral rolls
form-6 applications
judicial adjudication
malda district
murshidabad district
nadia district
north 24 parganas district
special intensive revision (sir)
voterlistsvoter registration
west bengal elections
Kolkata, March 1 – The Trinamool Congress protested in Hasnabad, North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, over the "deliberate" removal of names from the final voter list, police said on Sunday.On Saturday night, Trinamool Congress' local leaders and activists set tires on fire on the road...
basirhat south assembly constituency
bjp (bharatiya janata party)
booths
election commission of india
hasnabad
minority voters
north 24 parganas district
political protest
road blockage
sahapur
sir (special intensive revision)
trinamool congress
voterlists
west bengal
west bengal elections
Gandhinagar, February 28 – On Saturday, MLAs from the Congress and AAP in Gujarat raised concerns in the Gujarat assembly regarding alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, including the deletion of voter names.During a discussion on a bill authorizing...
aadhaar
article 324 constitution
de-notified tribes (dnt)
election commission of india (eci)
electoral rolls
epic cards
evms
form 7 applications
gujarat assembly
gujarat state government
nomadic communities
representation of the people act
special intensive revision (sir)
supplementary appropriation bill
voterlistsvoter name deletion
vvpats
Kolkata, February 28 The dates for the West Bengal Assembly elections are likely to be announced in the second week of March, an official in the state CEO office said on Saturday.There has been sustained speculation about the number of phases in which the polls would be conducted."There is a...
election commission of india
election schedule
india
kolkata
march
political elections
polling phases
state ceo office
voterlists
west bengal assembly elections
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...
booth level officers (blos)
district electoral officers (deos)
eci.gov.in
election commission of india
electoral roll
electors
epic number
final voter list
judicial scrutiny
north 24 parganas district
polling booths
under review cases
voterlistsvoter verification
west bengal elections
Kolkata, February 26 – The final voter list in West Bengal, which will be published on February 28, will include names under two additional categories: "under adjudication" and "deleted", in addition to those listed as genuine voters of the state.This means that the names in the final voter...
Kolkata, February 26 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to send one central observer to each of the 294 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal to oversee the pre-poll nomination phase.Sources from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that all the...
armed police force (capf)
assembly constituencies
central observers
chief electoral officer
election commission of india
election oversight
holi festival
india
model code of conduct
nomination process
political violence
polling dates
pre-poll nomination phase
voterlists
west bengal assembly elections
Jaipur, February 25 The final voter lists for the upcoming panchayat elections in Rajasthan have been released, with the total number of voters exceeding four crore, officials said on Wednesday.State Election Commissioner Rajeshwar Singh said that of the total 4,02,20,734 voters, 2,08,62,380...
banswara district
demographic data
elections
jaipur
january 29, 2026
panchayat elections
phalodi district
rajasthan panchayat elections
rajeshwar singh
sri ganganagar district
state election commissioner
tonk district
transgender voters
voterlistsvoter registration
New Delhi, February 25 A group of experts representing international electoral institutions have said that expanding digitalization increases exposure to cybersecurity vulnerabilities, while "opaque automated systems" raise concerns about transparency and accountability.Election bodies cannot...
ai translation
algorithmic bias
artificial intelligence in elections
cybersecurity
deepfakes
digitalization
election commission of india
election integrity
election management
india international institute of democracy and election management
international electoral institutions
logical discrepancies
misinformation
transparency and accountability
voterlists
Kolkata, February 23 – The West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) demanded the release of error-free voter lists before the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal on Monday.WBPCC President Subhankar Sarkar also announced a 24-hour sit-in protest in front of the West Bengal Chief...
election commission
electoral roll revision
forms 6
forms 7
forms 8
indian youth congress
manipur violence
narendra modi
political protest
protest
special intensive revision (sir)
subhankar sarkar
voterlists
west bengal assembly elections
west bengal pradesh congress committee (wbpcc)
New Delhi, February 20 The Election Commission, led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, will visit Tamil Nadu and Puducherry from February 25 to 27 to assess the state's and the Union territory's preparedness for the upcoming elections, where assembly elections are likely to be...
assam
assembly elections
election commission
election schedule
electoral process
electoral rolls
guwahati
gyanesh kumar
kerala
political elections
puducherry
state elections
tamil nadu
voterlists
west bengal
Kolkata, February 17 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused the Election Commission of behaving like a "Tughlaqi Commission" and alleged that it was acting at the behest of the BJP to manipulate voter lists in the state.Speaking to reporters at the state secretariat, she...
assistant electoral registration officers (aero)
bengal voters
bhowanipore constituency
democratic elections
district magistrates
election commission of india
electoral process
mamata banerjee
muhammad bin tughlaq
political parties
sir (special identification of registered voters)
supreme court
voterlistsvoter rights
voter verification
west bengal
Kolkata, February 18 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Election Commission of behaving like a "Tughlaqi Commission" on Tuesday, alleging that it was acting at the behest of the BJP to manipulate voter lists in the state.Speaking to reporters at the state secretariat, she...
bengal
bhowanipore constituency
election commission of india
electoral registration officers
india
mamata banerjee
muhammad bin tughlaq
political campaigns
political criticism
political disputes
sir process
state secretariat
voterlistsvoter verification
west bengal
Ahmedabad, February 17 The total number of voters in Gujarat now stands at 4.40 crore, according to the final electoral rolls published on Tuesday by the Election Commission (EC) following the nearly three-and-a-half-month Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, officials said.The final...
New Delhi, February 16 – The India AI Impact Summit 2026 commenced on Monday at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, marking a significant milestone in the country's push to become a global leader in artificial intelligence.Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally inaugurated the event, which has...
ai for all
ai impact summit
artificial intelligence
bharat mandapam
education
election commission of india
governance
healthcare
india
india-us trade deal
make in india
micro small medium enterprises
narendra modi
new delhi
voterlists
New Delhi, February 14 Nine states and three Union territories have missed the original deadline to publish their final electoral rolls as part of the ongoing special intensive revision of the voter list.However, the Union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry released their final rolls on...
andaman
assam
chhattisgarh
election commission
electoral rolls
goa
gujarat
india
kerala
lakshadweep
madhya pradesh
puducherry
rajasthan
tamil nadu
uttar pradesh
voterlists
west bengal
New Delhi, February 11 The final voter rolls for Goa, as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list, will be published on February 21 instead of February 14, the Election Commission (EC) said on Wednesday.In a letter to the state chief electoral officer, the EC...
Guwahati, February 10 More than 4,300 names have been deleted from the voter list of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's Jalukbari constituency in the final voter list published on Tuesday after the special revision.In Jalukbari, 2,06,314 electors found their names on the list, a...