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The Election Commission is committed to creating an error-free and inclusive Voters' List through the ongoing revision exercise. This process is designed to ensure that every eligible citizen has the opportunity to exercise their right to vote, while simultaneously removing duplicate, shifted, or deceased entries.

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Half the Money, Half the Work, Full Page Ads: The anatomy of Modi’s flagship schemes

BY CHARU SONI

Flagship schemes here debut with similar bravado – deadlines are declared, targets set, outcomes counted in ledgers – while the machinery needed to deliver them remains inadequate. The applause arrives on schedule; the implementation does not.

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Vote purchase in Bihar debate hots up

BY NIRNIMESH KUMAR

The victory cannot be attributed to one single factor but undoubtedly the transfers of cash into the voters' accounts under various schemes just before the election and all through the poll process proved the game changer.

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Small Films Bypass Blockbusters’ Hype by Word of Mouth

BY ABHISHEK SRIVASTAVA

Small films are put on silent trial from day one: succeed immediately or make room for the next release. But serious cinema often grows slowly. It needs discovery, not instant deployment. By denying it time, the system forces independent films into competitions they were never built for.

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When Ticks Bag Exhausted, NDA Resorted to Power in Bihar

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Travelling solo as a woman in India

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Rushing Through SIR Takes Heavy Toll on BLO’s

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Crisis Brewing in ‘Ayodhya of South’

The Thiruparankundram hill near Madurai in Tamil Nadu is becoming yet another laboratory for the Hindutva forces to test their communal politics, though it would turn out to be an uphill task for them.

Key to Bihar’s Assembly is in Migrants’ Hands this Election

Bihar demographics are in favour of those political formations that are courting the vote of the youths. And it is their and their families' votes that will decide which way the scales will tilt as 65 percent of the families in the state have one of their members working outside the state. Bihar's demographic advantage is much better than the country’s with the nation's to last till 2040, while the state’s till 2050. Remittances by migrants' make up 50 percent of their families’ annual income and 28 percent of the village economy. Remittances sent by the migrants to their families averaged about 50,000 per year.

Bihar Election 2025: Muslims Optimise Mobilisation for Phase 2 Poll

For the first time, Bihar is seeing the largest number of Muslim candidates in the fray. Prashant Kishor of Jan Suraaj has nominated 34 Muslim candidates, RJD 10 and JDU four. In the second phase of polling, there are several Muslim-dominated constituencies.

Indian American Trump Supporters Taste Their Own Medicine

The heat has turned on Indian American leaders of the Donald Trump's Republican party who earlier promoted the white Christian nationalism in US. Trump's MAGA supporters are targeting them, calling them useful idiots who are discarded the moment they become a political liability.

Job Starvation Stalks Bihar

Amit Shah at an election meeting promised to the youths that the NDA would start a new era of industrialisation after it came back to power. The NDA in its manifesto has promised a factory in each district. Even the NDA candidate, muscleman Anant, at present jailed in the Dularchand murder case, told a reporter that if elected he would request the new government to open a good school and a hospital in Mokama where he was fighting from.

Politicians Losing their Sleep Over Record Turnout

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar says that the largest polling percentage led by women voters shows that that there is a wave in favour of the NDA alliance. But on the ground, there is no feel of any wave.

Another Gen Z-led Change, Bihar Awaits it

Mamdani is just 34 years old. He defied both establishments--Democrats and US President Donald Trump. He started his campaign just six months ago with padyatra and social media outreach. Mamdani brought morality in politics centre stage. His agenda was class-neutral with free public transport and universal child care.

World Cup triumph can be a watershed event for women's cricket

This epoch-making triumph by the women is going to be a generational shift in the dynamics of women’s cricket and usher in a new era--something what the 1983 World Cup win did to men’s cricket.

Pinarayi Takes Modi Path, then Does a U-Turn

Pinarayi Vijayan and his Left Democratic Front Government in Kerala had consistently opposed the PMSHRI (Prime Minister’s Schools for Rising India) scheme launched by the Central Government in 2022. They had called it a ‘danger to the nation’ and a ‘Trojan Horse’ to introduce the National Education Policy (NEP).

Modi Bihar Election Speeches Stuck in the Groove

Modi have been cornering the major chunk of the votes both in Assembly and the Lok Sabha elections harping on the 'Jungle Raj', pandering to the Bihari pride promising utopias to them. At a different election meeting in Patna, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that Bihar will soon become a developed state.

Sabarimala ‘Loses its Glitter’

The temple has been thrown into the eye of a storm over the missing gold used for gold-plating (cladding) of the idols of the ‘dwarpalika’ (gatekeepers) on either side of the sanctum sanctorum.

No End to BJP Agenda of Reclaiming Mosques

Making claims to mosques which were allegedly built up over existing Hindu religious structure has been integral part of the Hindutva philosophy. As Hindutva is a political ideology aimed at making India a de facto Hindu Rashtra, the Babri Masjid- Janmabhoomi Bhumi and issue and the other issues subsequent to it have purely been political issues.

Through SIR, ONOE and Delimitation, BJP Wants to be a Hegemon: Yadav

Through SIR, delimitation and one nation one election (ONOE), BJP wants to be a hegemon, said Yogendra Yadav, president of Swaraj India. After it failed to get a mandate for its desired changes in the architecture of the constitution in 2024, BJP now wants to carry out its agenda from the back door through the three exercises, he stated.

Left Govt Goes Against the Grain, To Hold Ayyappa Sangamam

Ayyappa devotees’ popular pilgrimage centre Sabarimala is in the news again these days. It is over the controversy over organising a Global Ayyappa Sangamam by the Kerala government in association with the Travancore Devasom Board on September 20 at Pamba. Pamba is the base camp from where the Ayyappa devotees start the five-km trek to the temple.

Mamata Succumbs to Communal Forces

The cancellation of the four-day function of the West Bengal Urdu Academy on the ground of invitation to lyricist Javed Akhtar once again lends credence to the allegation that political parties across the ideological divides practice secularism to the extent it does not hurt their support base.

To Bring in Morality in Politics through Laws is not the Solution

What is needed to clean politics is not a new law but filtering down criminals while deciding to nominate candidates to fight elections by the political parties. .

Mamata's Monetary Benefit Scheme Will Pay Political Dividend to her

The chief minister on Monday (18 August) announced at a press conference at the state secretariat a monetary benefit scheme of Rs 5,000 per month for those who have fled from their work places to home from different BJP-ruled states following the police actions. They will continue to get the benefit for one year till they get a new job.

Male Fort Crumbles Before Women Fire in Mollywood

Following public outcry, the Kerala Government set up the Justice Hema Committee, headed by retired Kerala High Court judge K. Hema, in July 2017 to investigate the issues faced by women in the Malayalam film industry, especially allegations of sexual violence and gender inequality.

PM Announces Demography Mission to Deport Illegal Migrants

The prime minister announced setting up of a high-powered demographic mission to deal with the challenge of demographic change due to infiltration.

The allegation of voters' list manipulations is getting murkier day by day

Now, BJP has jumped into the fray with former minister Anurag Thakur demanding resignation of Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav, Priyanka Gandhi and TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee, accusing irregularities in the voters' list in each constituency-- Amethi, Kanauj, Wayanad, and Diamond Harbour-- from where they were elected.

Rahul Fires Another Salvo At EC

Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday fired another salvo at the election commission over declaration of as many as 22 lakh alive voters as dead and about 36 lakh voters as shifted out in the draft electoral rolls prepared and released after completion of the first phase of Special Intensive Revision in Bihar.

Stay on Action Against Plying Old Vehicles Was Overdue

The touchstone for a vehicle to be competent to drive on the road should be emission levels, not age. Nowhere in the world has age as a basis for retiring vehicles been successful.

Complaints against the election commission are piling up.

BJD spokesperson Amar Patnaik accused that the total votes counted in a parliamentary constituency differed significantly from the votes recorded in the Assembly constituencies falling under the Lok Sabha constituency.

No Stoppage of Aggressive Rhetorics by India and Pakistan

India is yet to share with public how many aircraft it lost in the operation which was launched Post Pahalgam terrorist attack. It said just that losses are part and parcel of any war.

Booths' CCTV Footage Review Will Take 273 Years: EC

The commission asked Rahul Gandhi to apologise to the nation or file claims and objections against specific voters in an affidavit as per the Registration of Electoral Rules.

EC Must Address Rahul's Allegations

Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday dropped what he has been claiming his atom bomb, accusing the commission of inflating the voters' lists in one of the seven Assembly constituencies in the Bangalore Central Lok Sabha constituency in collusion with the BJP to ensure the party's victory.

Right to Question Powers is Intrinsic

Court should not interfere in every political debate in the name of defamation. Let politicians decide rules for the debate among them by themselves.

It is more than that meets the eyes

What happened suddenly that the vice-president had to take this decision? Though he had cited his health as the reason for submitting his resignation letter but the chain of events before his announcement of quitting suggests something else.

Air India Plane Crash: DGCA Probe May Lift the Curtain

Two days after release of the inquiry report on the Ahmedabad air crash, the DGCA on Monday ordered inspection of fuel control switch locking mechanism, which was found transitioned in the AI 171 aircraft whose crash claimed more than 250 lives, in certain Boeing planes operated by airlines.

Kolkata Rape Case: When educational Institutions Turn a Blind Eye to Women's Safety

Kolkata is once again shamed. Just a year after the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital shook the city

The ugly spectre of doping haunts Indian sports

Indian athletes have been shamed as the world’s largest dope cheats. According to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), India has the maximum 3.2 % of Adverse Analytical Findings (AAF) among 100 tested athletes which is the highest in the world.

Losing Voting Right Has Become a Major Concern of SIR in Bihar

Snatching the voting rights of the poor by default by the Election of India while doing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters' list has become a major concern not only among the opposition parties but in the media as well.

Search for Documents Has Bihar Voters in a Quandary

The timing, necessity, feasibility and the short period in which the Election Commission of India wants to wrap up the Special Intensive Revision (SIR of the voters' list in Bihar) has created doubts among the opposition parties in particular and people in general in the state.

Government Must Share Jet Losses with People

The cloud of silence over how many war planes India lost in the initial stages of the Operation Sindoor now must end as the talk on it refuses to die down.

US Mission Impossible in Iran

Can Trump stop Iran from going nuclear? This question is agitating the minds of world leaders as well as the US as they want to ensure that Israel remains the only country in the West Asia in possession of nuclear weapons.

This Comical Serial of Who Stopped Indo-Park War Must End

Who prevented Indo-Pak skirmishes from escalating into a full- scale war? Trump or Modi?

Multi-Party Delegations to Various Countries was an exercise in futility: Experts

Experts are of the view that the seven delegations sent to about 34 countries post Operation Sindoor to reiterate India's position on terrorism and Jammu and Kashmir has been a futile exercise.

Is Violation of Safety Norms is the Culprit for the Crash?

Many causes have been put forward for the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad.

Warmth returns to US-Pak relations post Pahalgam

After having been cold, the warmth in the relations between the US and Pakistan, post the Pahalgam terror and the Operation Sindoor against it, has revived.

Trump and Musk at each other’s throats

Just six months after Tesla CEO Elon Musk helped Trump capture the presidency, both are at each other's throats now.

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