Claiming that more than 7,500 electors were either “absent or had shifted,” a BJP-affiliated Booth Level Agent (BLA) attempted to fill Form-7 applications and, after his claims were not accepted by the election authorities, sought “revision” of their names by submitting objections, even though these electors figured in the draft electoral roll of Ballari City Assembly constituency.

House-to-house verification was the ECI’s answer to Delhi’s notice mess. Booth-level officers aren’t reaching the houses. Instead, 33 lakh citizens are running around to find them.

Most of the works cited in the X post contain arguments critical of the caste system and, in some instances, Hindutva.

The allegations were made after police detained dozens of protesters demanding the resignation of the election chief over changes to voter rolls.

He pressed for equal rights for Dalits, women and minorities, an economic model that is equitable and sustainable, and the cultivation of non-violence.

Decentralised messaging platform Bitchat has been removed from Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store following an official government order.

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The protest was called against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the Special Intensive Revision, with opposition leaders and student groups among those detained.

Gandhi found in the cartoon the mirror to the political language he was perfecting. A basic language that shared a common ethics and sustained conversation. The news cartoon had both

As demands for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation grew, it wasn’t Gyanesh Kumar who came out to defend himself.It was the BJP that came out

The portrait of Gandhi visible on banknotes is a cut-out of a photograph taken in Delhi in 1946. But his image was not a fixture of Indian currency for a long period.

Machchhar, who didn’t always want to be a pilot, was hailed for his heroism after being stabbed on Flight 1073.

Form 6, changes to which the two ECs had red-flagged, will be re-entry route for those deleted, without the SIR question.

Women are no longer petitioning for safety but claiming their right to public spaces. Yet, the rest of the country seems willfully ignorant.

India's power shortfall hit a three-year high in September at 560 million kWh as El Niño lifted demand and coal plant stocks ran critically low.

At least 23 unarmed people have been killed in 30 days in ongoing Naga-Kuki conflict. Residents say the government is missing in action.

Instagram blocked Satish Acharya's account the day he posted a cartoon which was restricted. A deep dive reveals 9 post blocks, 2 automated.

But think of the implications of this dynamic. It is a way of saying that the rot in the system does not begin and end in politics; it saturates a whole elite and perhaps even a generation of voters and public servants

Centre seeks SC stay on Great Nicobar hearing, asserting petitioner lacks locus standi amid FRA-related challenges to the ₹92,000-crore project.

Documents are meaningless with ethno-linguistic identity reason enough for arbitrary detention and even deportation of marginal workers across India.

The Indian pilot is being credited with helping save the aircraft, which landed safely in Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk following the cockpit altercation

The Afro-Asian sand snake lives in arid regions of Rajasthan and Gujarat in India, and across several parts of West Asia and Africa. But sightings are rare, and the only previously recorded sighting in Kutch was in 1872.

The new chapters frame the medieval period largely as a story of “resistance” against foreign forces.

Indian tax authorities have faulted appliance makers Haier, Godrej & Boyce and Blue Star for not detecting documents fabricated by a spurious recycler who did no e-waste work, while relying on them to meet green goals, a government notice showed.

Ministry rejects proposed space of two rooms for Central Secretariat Library, one of Central government’s oldest.

For nearly 30 years, generations of Bhovi community families were held in forced labor at a Tumakuru stone quarry, enduring daily beatings, 11-hour shifts in al

Another cartoonist, Manjul, said that one of his works about the Election Commission had also been restricted to the platform’s users in the country.

A Supreme Court-appointed task force's nationwide survey finds 9% of students report suicidal thoughts and 15% felt overwhelmed, ahead of its October 31 report.

An Indian court on Tuesday quashed the food regulator's order to stop Austrian beverage firm Red Bull using the label "energy drink" on its cans, saying the decision had been taken without allowing the company to explain its position.

With just a few years of exposure to silica dust in quartzite mines and ramming mass factories, labour succumb to silicosis as lung capacity swiftly declines; theirs is a death foretold

Senior Advocate Vikas Singh sought an early hearing, arguing that questions about the poll panel's collective decision-making raise a serious constitutional issue.

With bye-elections in two Assembly constituencies scheduled for October 6, an earlier hearing had been sought in the case.

Among the cartoons restricted, one is drawn for South First, that is critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, following the ECI expose by Indian Express.

India's Supreme Court questioned on Monday why the government wanted to "waste so much time" on fresh public and industry consultations before adopting ‌warning labels on packaged items, in its latest push for swifter action on food labelling.

Chinnari village’s negotiations offer a glimpse of the messy aftermath of decades-long conflict in the region. The first part in a new series.

The strike has been deferred by the bank unions after reaching an understanding with the IBA over the contentious issue of declaring a five-day working week for banks.

Solar power projects are being planned across Ladakh. As the Union government maintains ambiguity over who controls the land in the region, people say it is encroaching on their land rights.

There was a time when bosses didn’t mind their subordinates recording notes freely and would overrule them with sound, superior arguments. Now, bosses seek ‘alignment in thinking’ and political masters want a ‘committed bureaucracy’

When the prices of your groceries increase, would you blame it on your petrol tank?Seems like there is no connection, right?But right now, the price of your chi

While student suicides were the immediate focus of the unrest, frustrations had been building on the campuses in recent years.

At a special SIR camp at a Sarai Kale Khan night shelter, residents struggle to prove their place on the electoral rolls — some after missing hearings, others after finding their names deleted.

Street vendors are considered self-employed, and fall outside many worker protection systems, while construction workers on smaller sites are not eligible for protections