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IAF veteran dropped from West Bengal voter list in mass SIR deletions: 'Feels like I'm the only one who isn't Indian'

New Delhi, April 21 -- Wing Commander Md Shamim Akhtar (Retd) is a decorated Indian Air Force (IAF) veteran from West Bengal. He served in the IAF for 20 years, including 17 as a commissioned officer.... Read More


Mass SIR deletions cloud West Bengal's Matua belt ahead of polls: Will they back BJP this time? - a ground report

Nadia, Gaighata, April 21 -- On a windy April afternoon, Gopal Sarkar is sitting at one of the tea shops along National Highway 12 in Haringhata assembly seat of Nadia district, 65 kilometres north of... Read More


West Bengal Elections: Entire family in Murshidabad deleted from voter list in SIR - 'What more proof do we need?'

New Delhi, April 20 -- Tariq-ul-Alam, 27, anxiously awaits 21 April. Like other residents of Housenagar village in Tinkapuriya panchayat of Samserganj, he hopes the Election Commission of India will r... Read More


Entire family in Murshidabad deleted from Bengal voter list in SIR ahead of polls: 'What more proof do we need?'

New Delhi, April 20 -- Tariq-ul-Alam is 27. Like other residents of Housenagar village in Tinkapuriya panchayat of Samserganj, he is desperately waiting for 21 April. The Election Commission of India ... Read More


SIR deletions raise fears beyond voting rights in West Bengal's Murshidabad - 'Soil bears witness we belong here'

New Delhi, April 19 -- Mobarak Hossain is a ward member in Chachanda gram panchayat under the Samserganj Assembly constituency in Murshidabad, nearly 280 kilometres north of Kolkata, along the eastern... Read More


SIR cleared voter list of Bangladeshis, Rohingyas ahead of West Bengal polls, says Union Minister Shantanu Thakur

Thakurganj, Bangaon, April 18 -- West Bengal will vote in two phases for its 294 Assembly seats on April 23 and 29. The contest is widely seen as a bipolar fight between the ruling All India Trinamool... Read More


Lok Sabha rejects Modi Govt's amendment move: What next for Women's reservation in Parliament? - Explained

New Delhi, April 17 -- The Constitution Amendment Bill to tweak the Women's Reservation Bill was defeated in the Lok Sabha on 17 April as the Union government failed to get a two-thirds majority in th... Read More


Modi Govt's amendment move defeated in Lok Sabha: What next for women's reservation in Parliament? - Explained

New Delhi, April 17 -- The Constitution Amendment Bill to tweak the Women's Reservation Act 2023, or the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, was defeated in the Lok Sabha on 17 April as the Union government... Read More


Assigned poll duty, but can't vote: Bengal teacher finds name deleted from electoral rolls ahead of assembly election

Kolkata, April 16 -- Md Ahmed Hossain Mondal, a government high school teacher in Murshidabad, has been assigned a poll duty in this assembly election in West Bengal. Hussain, 59, will be the 'first p... Read More


Assigned poll duty, but can't vote: Bengal teacher finds name deleted from electoral rolls ahead of election

Kolkata, April 16 -- Md Ahmed Hossain, a government high school teacher in Murshidabad, has been assigned a poll duty in this assembly election in West Bengal. Hussain, 59, will be the 'first polling ... Read More