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March hate crime tracker: Ramnavami, Holi, Eid month marked by 58 incidents
Hyderabad: As Ramzan drew to a close and Ramnavami processions filled the streets, hate crimes surged across India, targeting Dalits, Christians and Muslims in incidents that ranged from vigilante killings to police…
- India
SC seeks Calcutta HC report on Bengal voter tribunals not functioning properly
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, April 20, said it will seek a report from the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court on the functioning of appellate tribunals set up to…
- India
Group of intellectuals, lawyers, social activists demand immediate end to SIR
New Delhi: A group of intellectuals, lawyers, students and social activists have demanded the immediate termination of the Special Intensive Review (SIR) of the electoral rolls, which they said is “against citizens’…
- India
Bengal SIR: Six residents file ‘suicide petition’ with President Murmu
Kolkata: Six residents of Arambagh in West Bengal’s Hooghly district have filed a suicide petition with President Droupadi Murmu after their names were removed from the state’s electoral rolls post Special Intensive…
- India
SC refuses to entertain plea against deletion of names from Bengal voter list
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, April 13, declined to entertain a plea by a group of 13 people seeking its intervention in the deletion of their names from the voter…
- India
Bengal’s 65-seat faultline: How SIR deletions could decide who forms govt
Kolkata: West Bengal’s 2026 election may be decided not by the arithmetic of 294 seats that dominate campaign speeches, but by around 65-70 constituencies where victory and defeat are separated by little…
- India
SIR country’s biggest scam in recent times: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday, April 12, alleged that the BJP bribes voters before elections, and called the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls the “country’s biggest…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: BLO reluctant to perform SIR mapping over unpaid remuneration
Hyderabad: A purported audio recording of a Booth-Level Officer (BLO) refusing to carry out the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) mapping exercise of voter rolls in Hyderabad has gone viral on social media, with…
- Kolkata
Suvendu’s firm grip, ‘skewed’ SIR deletions likely deciders in Nandigram
Kolkata: Shifting loyalties, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) strengthened organisational control and allegations of skewed Special Intensive Revision (SIR) voter deletions seem to have added extra layers of intrigue to Nandigram, making the…
- Kolkata
Bengal SIR: Flag maker Raju Halder among 90 lakh deleted from voter rolls
Raju Halder, a Howrah resident who works as a second-generation Indian flag maker, said he found his name missing from the electoral rolls following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West…
- India
Bengal SIR: NIA files 12 FIRs over gherao of judicial officers in Malda
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday, April 8, registered 12 cases to probe a gherao of judicial officers, who were deputed for work relating to the Special Intensive Revision…
- India
EC-Trinamool meet ends on bitter note, CEC tells party leaders to ‘get lost’
New Delhi: The meeting between a Trinamool Congress (TMC) delegation and the full bench of the Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday, April 8, culminated on an acrimonious note, with the TMC saying the…
- India
Bengal SIR: Voter count drops for first time since 2011
Kolkata: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal has concluded following the release of the final supplementary list. Statistical analysis indicates that this marks the first instance of a decline in…
- Hyderabad
A sanitation worker as BLO: Hyderabad’s voter mapping has untrained officials
Hyderabad: When residents of Hyderabad’s Barkas visited Qurmushi School to meet the Booth Level Officer (BLO) assigned to polling station number 101 of Chandrayangutta Assembly constituency, they found a man with no…
- India
Names of people belonging to Matua, minority communities deleted: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday, April 7, alleged that names of people belonging to the Matua and minority communities were deleted from the post-SIR voter rolls in the…