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AA Edit | Electoral Reforms Merit More Attention In Parl

AA Edit | Electoral Reforms Merit More Attention In Parl

The discussion on two important topics, the national song and electoral reforms at the start of the Winter Session,...

11 Dec 2025 10:54 PM IST

Shashi Warrier | Of Class Assignments & The Theatre of SIR

Shashi Warrier | Of Class Assignments & The Theatre of SIR

“I know,” he said after another little gap. “It’s unfair. But you should have told me as soon as it happened. I can’t do...

7 Dec 2025 1:20 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Amend Law For EC That Can Defend Democracy

Pavan K. Varma | Amend Law For EC That Can Defend Democracy

In its original incarnation — from 1950 until the late 1980s — the ECI was a single-member body, led only by a Chief...

7 Dec 2025 12:50 AM IST

Apprehensions Over SIR: Omar Seeks ECI All-Party Meeting To Explain SIR Process

Apprehensions Over SIR: Omar Seeks ECI All-Party Meeting To Explain...

CM seeks all-party meet on Special Revision, presses for statehood and restored holidays

4 Dec 2025 7:31 PM IST

AA Edit | On SIR Issues, EC Must Be More Responsive To Voters

AA Edit | On SIR Issues, EC Must Be More Responsive To Voters

Reports say the commission has granted an additional week “for sharing details of absent, shifted, dead and duplicate...

1 Dec 2025 10:07 PM IST

Modi To Begin BJP Campaign in Poll-bound West Bengal Next Month

Modi To Begin BJP Campaign in Poll-bound West Bengal Next Month

It might be recalled that the Prime Minister had sent a message to the BJP’s workers and supporters in West Bengal while...

24 Nov 2025 11:43 PM IST

The EC was responding to a story carried out by this paper in which former IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan had raised serious concerns with regard to sanctity of EVMs due to use of VVPAT machines, saying VVPATs have made EVMs amenable to hacking.

AA Edit | Inclusive SIR Can Help Clean Up Electoral Rolls

The exercise is based on the voters’ list published after the last SIR, which was held in 2002-2004

28 Oct 2025 10:47 PM IST

The EC was responding to a story carried out by this paper in which former IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan had raised serious concerns with regard to sanctity of EVMs due to use of VVPAT machines, saying VVPATs have made EVMs amenable to hacking.

EC To Announce Pan-India SIR Voters' List on Oct. 27

The ECI is expected to club these states and UT with a few more in the first batch. States having local body polls will...

26 Oct 2025 10:39 PM IST

AA Edit |As Poll Battle Begins In Bihar, EC Must Play Fair

AA Edit |As Poll Battle Begins In Bihar, EC Must Play Fair

It may be remembered that the election to the state Assembly last time was held in three phases and the 2024 Lok Sabha...

7 Oct 2025 1:32 AM IST

AA Edit | EC Must Use Bihar Lessons For Nationwide SIR Rollout

AA Edit | EC Must Use Bihar Lessons For Nationwide SIR Rollout

The exercise started on June 24, 2025, with an electoral roll of 7.89 crore people, out of whom 65 lakh were removed...

2 Oct 2025 1:27 AM IST

AA Edit | Give Bihar Voters Fair Chance To Get Back On Rolls

AA Edit | Give Bihar Voters Fair Chance To Get Back On Rolls

Having dragged its feet over the issue despite voluble objections and displayed a pedantic face amid vilification by...

2 Sept 2025 10:13 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | PM’s Ghuspetiya Outrage: Isn’t It Too Little, Too Late?

Pavan K. Varma | PM’s Ghuspetiya Outrage: Isn’t It Too Little, Too...

The Election Commission of India (EC) made a general statement that there are “large numbers of people from Nepal,...

30 Aug 2025 9:38 PM IST