Mumbai: CM Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday defended the Delhi police action on protesters at Jantar Mantar, saying that had the police not taken control, many unwanted incidents could have happened.“No govt wants to use force against its people. Police showed great restraint and took only the necessary action. If we go in depth, there are…
The emergence of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) and the thousands of young people who gathered under its banner have prompted a broader debate that extends beyond examination paper leaks, unemployment or a march towards Parliament. The more significant question is whether India’s political class is losing its ability to communicate with Generation Z. The…
Hyderabad: Telangana govt has begun drafting the Rohith Vemula Telangana (Prevention of Identity-Based Discrimination in Higher Education) Bill, 2026, and will study similar initiatives underway in Karnataka before finalising the legislation aimed at curbing discrimination in universities and colleges.At the first meeting of the cabinet sub-committee constituted to frame the law, chaired by deputy chief…
Aizawl: Central committee of the Young Mizo Association, the largest civil society organisation in Mizoram, decided to urge the election authorities to re-examine constituencies showing unusually high increases in the number of electors in the draft electoral roll prepared under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls2026.The organisation also plans to take up the…
Enumeration process underway in Ranchi Ranchi: The office of the chief electoral officer K Ravi Kumar on Friday clarified through a statement that all eligible voters who submit their signed Enumeration Forms (EFs) will be included in the draft electoral roll to be published on Aug 5.On Thursday, a conglomeration of civil society groups sent…
COIMBATORE: It’s not stunning art works that adorn the city flyovers and compound walls. In fact, these public spaces are marred by illegal hoardings and posters.City roads and flyovers, be it Kavundampalayam flyover, Mettupalayam Road, Singanallur and Sundarapuram, are dotted with hoardings without a licence number, while compound walls of city corporation’s open ground at…
Hyderabad: As Telangana begins its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, questions remain over whether booth-level officers (BLOs) will physically reach every voter. Similar challenges in states like West Bengal and Gujarat — where locked houses, apartment complexes, migrant settlements and urban localities made contact difficult — had led to electors being marked absent…
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court Advocates’ Association has urged that only practising advocates of Telangana origin be considered for elevation as judges to the HC by following social justice norms and by giving proper representation to all sections.The association made this appeal to the Supreme Court and high court collegiums on Monday, during an extraordinary…
Bhubaneswar: Under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) programme, enumeration forms have been distributed to more than one crore of the total voters in the state within six days of the start of this exercise to make the voter list more transparent, updated and error-free, office of the chief electoral officer (CEO), Odisha, said this…
Picture for representation Koppal: The district completed mapping for 11,34,937 voters out of a total 11,92,307 voters in the 2025 electoral roll, while the exercise remained pending for 57,370 voters, deputy commissioner and district election officer Dr Suresh B Itnal said on Thursday.Addressing the media at the DC office, Dr Itnal said the voter list…
