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Twins and triplets being born less than nine months apart, six people with the same father, and a 26-year-old man whose father is 38 are among the logical discrepancies being flagged by the automated system in Delhi s draft electoral rolls during the ongoing S
An estimated 13.37 crore names have been deleted across the country from draft electoral rolls prepared during the Election Commission s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) over the past year. One of them is that of the youngest Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha, who
The Karnataka High Court Tuesday rejected a plea by former BJP MLA Subhash Guttedar, his son Harshanand, and personal secretary Thipperudra seeking to scrap a chargesheet filed against them in the 2023 Aland 'vote theft' case. A bench directed the accused to a
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Delhi s electoral rolls has reduced the gender gap among voters even as nearly 4.76 million names were excluded from the draft rolls, with men accounting for 57.2% of the deletions and women 42.8%, according to data rele
The first day of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Mumbai got off to a faltering start on Tuesday after hundreds of booth level officers (BLOs), many of them school teachers and BMC employees, stayed away from duty, demanding to be for
Mumbai: Urban constituencies in Maharashtra, including those in Thane, Pune and Mumbai, have reported among the highest rates of uncollectible enumeration forms during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.Rural and tribal constituencies, on
The Election Commission of India has initiated a Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls across Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Meghalaya, and Jharkhand. Booth Level Officers are conducting door-to-door verification to update electoral data, ensuring accuracy
South East Delhi is expected to be the worst-hit district in terms of the expected number of deletions in the draft Special Intensive Revision (SIR) roll which will be published on August 24. It had the lowest digitisation rate of electoral forms at 56.32%, In
The draft electoral rolls, which will be published on August 24, will likely exclude over 20.8 million or 21.25% electors in the state, as the deadline for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ended on Monday. Over 3.66 million or 35.24% electors in Mumbai and
Duplicate entries in other states, relocation, and lack of awareness are among the factors that the booth level officers (BLOs) have attributed to the expected deletion of 32.82% of names of electors in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) draft rolls in Delhi
With just one day left in the deadline for the enumeration process under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), officials on Sunday said that the nearly 34% of the forms left to be digitised largely belong to individuals who may have moved and would be removed
Hours after actor Prakash Raj put out a video highlighting that he was included in the Absent, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate and Others (ASDDO) list during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka, the Bengaluru Central City Corp
The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it cannot fix a timeline for the tribunals formed to hear appeals against the exclusion of names from the voters list following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal but said it would look into the quantum of d
Mumbai is likely to seek an extension of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as progress in the enumeration exercise has remained slow, with officials blaming heavy rain and resistance from teachers assigned as booth-level officers
The government and the Election Commission of India (ECI) need to carefully read criticisms of the latest round of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by one of the country s digital governance pioneers. In an article in this newspaper, Ram Sewak Sharma who
The INDIA bloc plans to confront the government on key issues during the upcoming Parliament session. They will raise concerns about the Ram Mandir donation case and the NEET examination paper leak
They say politics has a strange way of writing scripts overnight and changing fortunes. The Akal Takht s censure of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and its decision to summon AAP legislators over the anti-sacrilege law have had an unexpected beneficiary in the fo
Since March end, when tribunals were set up in West Bengal to tackle cases of logical discrepancies after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise by the Election Commission was concluded, and long after the Assembly polls which the SIR was timed with got
As the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls gathers momentum in the city, confusion over two lists of documents one in Marathi and another in English that have to be submitted for verification, has led to difficulties in filling enumeration
Delhi SIR form guide: Delhi's Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls is underway, with over one crore enumeration forms distributed across the capital. Residents have until 29 July to submit their forms to designated Booth Level Officers
New Delhi: Around 22 lakh voters have been left out of the draft electoral rolls in four states, where Phase 3 of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists is underway.According to data made available in the public domain in the last few days by chie
The Election Commission s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is underway across Punjab, with Booth Level Officers (BLOs) carrying out door-to-door verification of voters. While the exercise is aimed at updating the state s electoral rolls, wit
Former Congress corporator Mohsin Haider on Wednesday alleged that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Andheri taluka has virtually come to a standstill , citing poor field deployment of Booth Level Officers and warning that the July 29
The Karnataka High Court has sought responses from state and election bodies. A petition questions the State Election Commission's parallel voter revision process
A 26-year-old supervisor for booth-level officers (BLO) engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in Karnataka died on Saturday after a truck collided with her scooter in Tumakuru, triggering overnight protests against alleged exces
Bhubaneswar: Names of more than 20 lakh people were deleted from the voter lists following the enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision in Odisha as the Election Commission published the draft electoral rolls on Sunday.Odisha's Chief Electoral Offic
Mohali police on Friday registered an FIR against AAP councillor Ravinder Singh Bindra and several others three days after a clash broke out between supporters and leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) during the Special Int
Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje has urged the Election Commission to probe Karnataka's electoral roll revision, alleging widespread guideline violations. She claims mandatory door-to-door verification has been replaced by camp-based exercises, potentially all
The Pune district administration will launch a door-to-door verification of more than 91 lakh voters from June 30 as part of the Election Commission of India s Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the first exercise of its scale in over two decades. The drive wil
In its first major organisational overhaul in nearly 12 years, the Haryana Congress on Wednesday appointed 103 block presidents across 19 districts, a move aimed at rebuilding the party s grassroots structure ahead of future electoral battles in the state. The
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR-2026) of electoral rolls will begin across the Gurugram district on Monday, with booth-level officers (BLOs) undertaking door-to-door verification of voters till July 14, district election officer and deputy commissioner Utt
A top Kuki body has opposed the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Manipur under the prevailing circumstances , expressing concern over the status of thousands of people displaced by the conflict in the state. In a statement issued Thursday, the Kuki Inpi Man