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Bengal SIR: ECI clarifies further on notice to Amartya Sen
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday, December 7, further clarified on the notice for hearing on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list was served to Nobel Awardee economist…
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SIR notice to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen: ECI clarifies on ‘error’
The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Tuesday, clarified the claims made by the Trinamool Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee accusing the Commission of serving notice for a…
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Amartya Sen caught in SIR row over spelling error, TMC slams EC
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has been issued a notice by the Election Commission (EC) for a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearing for a spelling error in the enumeration form, with Trinamool Congress (TMC)…
- India
EC using mobile apps developed by BJP’s IT cell to conduct SIR: Mamata
Gangasagar: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged on Tuesday that the Election Commission is using mobile applications developed by the BJP’s IT cell to conduct the ongoing SIR exercise in the…
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Mohammed Shami, brother get EC notice over SIR discrepancies
Fast bowler Mohammed Shami and his brother Mohammed Kaif have been summoned by the Election Commission (EC) for a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearing in Kolkata due to discrepancies in their voter…
- India
SIR in West Bengal: CM Mamata to move court on Jan 6
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she would move court against the EC’s SIR of electoral rolls, alleging that fear, harassment and administrative arbitrariness linked to the exercise…
- India
Bengal SIR: CEO office finds 14 voters holding Bangladeshi passports
Amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has received information about 14 voters who are holding Indian EPIC cards and Bangladeshi…
- India
Bengali migrant workers assaulted in Maharashtra
Kolkata: Three migrant workers from West Bengal‘s Paschim Bardhaman district were allegedly assaulted in Maharashtra after being suspected of being ‘Bangladeshis’ for speaking Bengali, prompting sharp political reactions in the state. The…
- India
Attempts being made to turn West Bengal into ‘West Bangladesh’, alleges Mithun
Cooch Behar: BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty on Friday alleged that attempts were being made to turn West Bengal into “West Bangladesh”, but those efforts would never be successful. Addressing a public meeting…
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Bengal SIR: ECI seeks Odia interpreters for four gram panchayats
Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has been compelled to engage Odia interpreters-cum-translators for four gram panchayats — two each under the Dantan and Mohanpur community development blocks — in West…
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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
Youth TMC leader killed on New Year’s Eve in Bengal’s Raiganj
Kolkata: A Trinamool Congress district youth vice-president in Uttar Dinajpur district was allegedly murdered on New Year’s Eve, said the police on Thursday. His body was recovered from the Milanpara area near…
- 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
West Bengal BLO found dead; suicide note cites work pressure, probe on
Kolkata: A Booth Level Officer (BLO) was found dead in West Bengal‘s Bankura district on Sunday, triggering allegations that work-related pressure linked to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls…