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TopicSpecial Intensive Revision

Topic: Special Intensive Revision

‘Nice joke, game on’: Actor Prakash Raj says fought polls, but name deleted from voter list amid SIR

Raj contested 2019 polls as Independent from Bengaluru Central. Officials say that during SIR verification, they found Raj had "permanently shifted" from registered address.

How India’s tapping its diaspora to boost ‘sagging rupee’ & IT sector is ‘surviving AI’—global media

From voter rolls & the rupee slide to AI and shrinking IT jobs, global media examines challenges facing India’s economic, technological & geopolitical ambitions.

Absent, shifted, deceased, duplicate: Almost half of Bengaluru’s voters face deletion in SIR

According to data released by Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer, 49.42 lakh of Bengaluru’s 1.03 cr registered voters have been placed under ASDDO category.

Photos of the week: Jantar Mantar protest, SIR in Shaheen Bagh & too old to retire

In Photos of the Week, we bring you pictures clicked by ThePrint’s photo journalists, video journalists and reporters.

FAQs that BLOs face on the ground daily. SIR has turned them into counsellors

For BLOs, the task does not end with helping people find their details. Once residents locate their names on the electoral list, the next challenge begins.

How many ‘ineligible’ voters removed in SIR, referred to foreigners’ tribunals, asks ex-EC Ashok Lavasa

At conclave on ‘One Nation-One Election, Federalism and Citizenship’, former Election Commissioner raised several points regarding special intensive revision of electoral rolls.

Passport reduced to ‘bus ticket’, ECI an ‘empire within an empire’, says ex-SC judge MB Lokur

Speaking at a conclave in Delhi, Lokur said, that to say that a passport is nothing but a travel document is a complete misreading of the provisions of the Passports Act.

PIOs or Muslims—who is Modi govt aiming at when it says passport isn’t citizenship proof?

Now that this flawed SIR exercise is being used to deny our very Indianness, it may be time for the Supreme Court to take a less passive role and clarify what it means to be an Indian.

Electoral revision or citizenship proof? How journalist passport row has restoked SIR implication debate

Can absence of name from electoral roll be reason to deny citizen rights unrelated to an election? SC said in May that SIR is not a conclusive adjudication of citizenship.

Ex-Telegraph editor passport renewal row: Kerala CM Satheesan writes to Suvendu

Ex-editor R. Rajagopal says adverse police verification after his name was deleted from Kolkata's electoral roll caused him to miss his daughter's wedding in San Francisco.

On Camera

Tukaram Mundhe shows food is a big issue in India. Just not in the way BJP thought it was

Does it really harm anyone if a man in Kolkata enjoys his beef biryani? Of course not. But it does harm us when we eat dangerously unsafe food.

NITI Aayog wants India to reimagine skilling, pitches ‘skills not degree’, training from Class 6

Federal think tank in its latest report maps India’s workforce and learners across five segments, reveals that fewer than one in 12 secondary schools currently offer vocational subjects.

India, Japan look at joint naval shipbuilding, technology transfer with pact to deepen defence ties

Maritime security agreement opens avenues for joint development of naval ships and design, greater use of Indian shipbuilding and repair facilities by Japan.

Gen Vaidya won 2 Maha Vir Chakras, fell to assassins’ bullets 40 yrs ago. India forgot a great soldier

Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman