Representatives from 22 countries praise India’s voting process
New Delhi The impressive turnout in Kerala, Assam and Puducherry, with two of the three states/UTs achieving record highs, attracted global attention, with 38 international delegates from 22 countries witnessing the results first-hand and expressing…
CPM’s Baby writes to CEC on West Bengal SIR
CPM Secretary-General Mabebi has written to the Electoral Commission to express “grave concern” over the mass deletion of voters from Bangladesh’s poll lists. In a letter to CEC Gyanesh Kumar, Babi said, “SIR represents a systematic…
Sanitation workers appointed as BLO for Hyderabad SIR pre-exercise
Representative Image (PTI) Hyderabad: Several residents of Old Hyderabad on Tuesday approached a station-level officer (BLO) of the Election Commission to help them identify their names in the 2002 electoral roll as part of the SIR pre-mapping exercise.…
A day ahead of Assam polls, Congress candidate Udalguri quits party
CEC response ‘lost’: TMC’s Derek O’Brien details ‘7-minute’ meeting with Gyanesh Kumar
TMC MP Derek O’Brien (ANI photo) New Delhi: In partnership with election committee Wednesday, Trinamool Congress (TMC) vacillated, calling Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar a “Joel, criminal” and accusing him of having a…
Appeal court accepts Aadhaar card in first SIR appeal
Kolkata: “Motab Shaikh and Motab Herul are the same person”, the Appellate Tribunal ruled on April 5 in its first SIR appeal, accepting Congress’ Farakka candidate Adharka as proof of identity election committee No reason was provided…
EC seeks report on BJP candidate’s ‘love jihad’ remarks
T’puram: The EC on Monday asked Thiruvananthapuram district collector seeking a report on BJP Katttakkada candidate PK Krishnadas’ controversial speech that victory of LDF or UDF would boost “love jihad‘In Kerala. The EC also…
EC confiscates voter rewards worth over 650 cr from poll-restricted states like UT
New Delhi: Potential voter incentives worth over Rs 650 crore have been election committee Teams from five polling states/UTs, with West Bengal accounting for nearly half of the seizures so far.Since the launch of the Electronic Seizure Management System…
RG Kar victim’s mother threatens to ‘beat’ Didi, TMC seeks action
KOLKATA: The mother of a trainee doctor who was raped and murdered at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital in 2024 has sparked a bitter political controversy as the BJP candidate after she threatened to throw out the Bengal chief minister in a purported…
West Bengal polls: EC suspends 4 policemen after TMC workers stormed Amit Shah’s Bhabanipur road show
New Delhi: election committee West Bengal chief secretary on Saturday directed the West Bengal chief secretary to suspend four Kolkata policemen for their “failure” to maintain law and order during the time when BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari…