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- 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…
- India
SC gives Malda incident probe to NIA, pulls up Bengal chief secretary
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, April 6, exercised its plenary power to transfer cases related to gherao and attack on seven judicial officers engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise…
- India
Constitution illustrator Nandalal Bose’s grandson dropped from Bengal voter list
Kolkata: The 88-year-old grandson of Nandalal Bose, the renowned illustrator of the Constitution of India, said that his and his wife’s names are missing from the voter list after the Special Intensive Revision…
- India
Bengal SIR: Man allegedly kills self after name removed from electoral rolls
Kolkata: A man allegedly died by suicide after his name was removed from the electoral rolls in West Bengal following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, police said on Monday, April 6.…
- India
Bengal SIR: Tribunal orders Congress candidate reinstated in supplementary roll
Kolkata: Congress candidate Mohtab Sheikh, whose name was earlier put under the adjudication cases column of the final electoral roll on February 28, was a happy man Sunday, April 5, evening after…
- Hyderabad
SIR in Telangana delayed, family mapping in Hyderabad remains slow
Hyderabad: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll is not going to be held in April, although the mapping has begun in Hyderabad and other districts of Telangana. A Times…
- Hyderabad
SIR to begin in Hyderabad soon – Know mapping rules, document checklist
Hyderabad: Ahead of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which is likely to begin soon in Hyderabad and other districts of Telangana, citizens need to be clear with the mapping…
- India
ECI asks NIA to probe attack on judicial officers in Bengal
New Delhi: Acting on the directions of the Supreme Court, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has written to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) requesting it to conduct an inquiry into the…
- Kolkata
Bengal: Anti-SIR protests rise, Mamata says BJP plotting unrest
Kolkata: Just three weeks ahead of the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly election, protests over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls spread across several districts of the state on…
- India
Calculated attempt: SC raps Bengal after judicial officers held hostage for SIR
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday, April 2, took suo motu cognisance of the gheraoing of seven judicial officers, including three women, by a mob in West Bengal’s Malda district during the…