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KOLKATA: The parents of Sunali Khatun, 26, the Bengal woman pushed into Bangladesh as an “illegal immigrant” last year, have their names on the voters list, strengthening her citizenship claims even as a legal battle continues for her husband and other kin packed off to the neighbouring country.Sunali’s mother, Jyotsna Bibi, was among the lakhs…
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan Mounting voter unease, fiscal stress and rifts in CPM will test whether his governance model is enough to defy the state’s alternation patternThe road to the 2026 Kerala assembly elections is shaping up to be a defining political moment not just for the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF), but, more crucially,…
This image provided by the Emily Gregory Campaign shows Emily Gregory in Jupiter, Fla, Aug. 24, 2025. (Emily Gregory Campaign via AP) There’s a video of Donald Trump that keeps resurfacing online. The video, from 2016, has Trump telling a rally, “You are going to win so much… you are going to get tired of…
KOLKATA: The anxious wait to know whether they are eligible to vote or not is set to end on Monday for 27.2 lakh people in Bengal — out of around 60 lakh under adjudication — after Election Commission publishes the first supplementary voters’ list.Around 8.6% of 7 crore people — close to 60 lakh —…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has a total of 5,67,07,380 electors — 28,960,838 women and 27,738,925 men, according to the final electoral roll of the Special Intensive Revision 2026 released on Monday.Chief Electoral Officer of Tamil Nadu, Archana Patnaik, released the final electoral roll.Post the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the state saw 97.37 lakh voter deletions, with…
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat’s electoral strength contracted 13.4% to 4.4 crore voters on completion of a special intensive revision (SIR) that saw 77 lakh-odd names being deleted from the 2025 rolls and 9.5 lakh new electors getting added to the final list published Tuesday. The double-digit percentage decline caps two rounds of scrutiny, starting with 73.7 lakh…
Election Commission of India (ECI) NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Tuesday published the final electoral rolls for Assam after the Special Revision (SR) exercise. Over 2.43 lakh names were removed from the draft list ahead of the Assembly elections due in the coming months.According to a statement issued by the office of the Chief…
NEW DELHI: The ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls — being carried out with the declared intent of including all genuine electors and weeding out ineligible ones — will be showcased as a key initiative of EC to strengthen the electoral process at an international conference to be hosted by the poll panel here.Nearly…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it has both the power and constitutional competence to carry out a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, arguing that it is duty-bound to ensure that no foreigners are included in voter lists.The submissions were made by senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, appearing…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh’s chief election officer Navdeep Rinwa on Tuesday said approximately 2.89 crore voters were removed from Uttar Pradesh’s draft electoral roll published after the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR). Addressing a press conference, Rinwa said the Election Commission received around 12.5 crore ballot papers during the exercise. He added, “The number of…
