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SIR in Bengal: ECI announces hearing relaxations for four categories of voters

Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Thursday evening, had announced special relaxations for four categories of voters as regards to identity proof-related formalities to be followed at the ongoing hearing…
India

Migration drives most of the 2.88 crore UP voter forms unclaimed

Lucknow: Permanent migration has emerged as the primary reason for electoral discrepancies in Uttar Pradesh, accounting for nearly 1.30 crore of the 2.88 crore uncollectable electoral forms identified during the Special Intensive…

Offbeat

Presumed dead, elderly UP man resurfaces to collect documents for SIR

Muzaffarnagar: After nearly three decades of silence, a septuagenarian man long presumed dead by his family returned to his hometown, Khatauli in Muzaffarnagar district to collect documents for the Special Intensive Revision…
India

Bengal SIR: OBC certificates issued after 2010 invalid for hearings, says ECI

Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has clarified that Other Backward Class (OBC) certificates issued by the West Bengal government after 2010 — earlier scrapped by the Calcutta High Court —…
India

Bengal CEO dismisses allegations against EC officials over SIR process

Kolkata: The office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Wednesday dismissed allegations made in police complaints against poll officials in connection with the ongoing SIR exercise, describing them as…
India

West Bengal 2025: SIR, Bangladesh unrest and road to Assembly polls next year

Kolkata: As West Bengal edged closer to the assembly polls due next year, 2025 unfolded as a year in which the mechanics of voting, border anxieties and sharpening communal lines eclipsed governance,…
India

SIR hearing: Complaint filed against CEC after elderly man dies due to fear

Kolkata: A complaint was filed against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and West Bengal’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal at a police station in the Purulia district on Tuesday,…

India

Kerala parties seek exemption from voter hearings during SIR

Thiruvananthapuram: Political parties on Saturday requested the Kerala CEO to minimise hearings of voters as part of the SIR of the electoral rolls. The request was raised during a meeting convened by…
India

CM Stalin alleges communal harmony in Tamil Nadu ‘irritates’ BJP

Kallakurichi: Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday slammed the BJP over alleged incidents of attacks on Christians and said that though the Saffron party wanted to replicate such a model in…
India

Bengal SIR: ECI orders two-level document checks during voter hearings

Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed a two-level verification to confirm the authenticity of the supporting identity documents of voters during the hearing session on claims and objections on…
Kerala

Electoral roll observers appointed for SIR in Kerala

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala CEO Rathan U Kelkar said on Wednesday that four electoral roll observers have been appointed for all 14 districts of the state to ensure a smooth and transparent special intensive…
India

42.74L voters in Madhya Pradesh face deletion from electoral rolls

Bhopal: More than 42.74 lakh voters in Madhya Pradesh are at risk of getting their names deleted from the voter list after the first phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of…
India

SIR in Bengal: Each ERO to daily handle 150 claims & objections from Dec 27

Kolkata: Each Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) will daily handle 150 cases of hearings on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal from Saturday, as per the target set…
India

SIR in Madhya Pradesh: Draft electoral roll to be published by ECI on Monday

New Delhi: After more than one-and-a-half month of door-to-door Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Madhya Pradesh, the Election Commission of India (ECI) will release the draft electoral roll of voters for…
Kolkata

West Bengal to call 32L unmapped voters for first SIR hearings

Kolkata: Around 32 lakh unmapped voters will be called in the first phase of hearings under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, officials said. Hearings for this category, in…