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Friday, November 7, 2025
TopicElection Commission of India

Topic: Election Commission of India

‘Jaitley was sent to threaten me, LS poll was rigged’: Rahul’s speech at Congress conclave raises storm

Rahul was speaking on constitutional challenges at a Congress conclave in Delhi Saturday. Rohan Jaitley, the son of Arun Jaitley, hit back, asking Rahul to be mindful.

Vocal elsewhere but silent in Tripura, BJP in a bind over ally TIPRA Motha’s demand for SIR

BJP-TIPRA Motha ties are already strained over Centre not having implemented a tripartite agreement signed last year to address tribal grievances in the state.

JDU MP calls voter roll revision ‘Tughlaqi farman’, says EC doesn’t know history or geography of Bihar

Ahead of the Bihar assembly elections scheduled later this year, the Election Commission is conducting the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral roll in Bihar.

Can’t accept Aadhaar, ration card, voter ID as standalone docs—ECI to SC on Bihar electoral roll revision

SC was hearing petitions raising concerns over the Special Intensive Revision exercise being undertaken in the poll-bound state & the 11-document list being accepted by ECI.

No legal, valid ‘citizenship’ document that’s issued—how it puts big question mark on ECI’s Bihar exercise

Current exercise involves an indicative list of 11 documents to be submitted by eligible voters, which ‘may not be proof of citizenship, only identity’. Aadhaar, voter ID not on the list.

SC invokes ‘document starvation’ to suggest EC accept Aadhaar for special roll revision in Bihar

Two-judge Supreme Court bench says it has ‘serious doubts’ whether EC can meet timeline of its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.

Kharge leads Congress charge against BJP over ‘undeclared Emergency’, ‘puppet’ election commission

Seeking to push back against the Centre on the 50th anniversary of the Emergency, Mallikarjun Kharge says India was going through an 'undeclared Emergency' under BJP.

Amid Rahul’s ‘match fixing’ charge, ECI to set up webcasting in 100% polling stations

The Election Commission of India plans to set up webcasting monitoring control rooms at state, district & constituency levels, the chief electoral officers of states & UTs have been told.

Maharashtra CM Fadnavis takes jibe at Rahul Gandhi, accuses him of misunderstanding country’s mood

Fadnavis launched an attack on the LoP's poll rigging allegations against EC, adding that he has been constantly 'insulting' the democratic process & the people’s mandate.

Rahul slams EC’s ‘unsigned’ rebuttal of his Maharashtra poll rigging charge—’show voter rolls’

Rahul Gandhi's opinion pieces on election rigging spark controversy. EC sources call the allegations 'absurd', having made similar criticism in April.

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.