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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicVoter ID

Topic: Voter ID

SC allows draft voter list publication in Bihar, but tells EC to accept Aadhaar and voter ID as proof

New Delhi: Reiterating the presumption of authenticity attached to official government documents, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the Election Commission of India (ECI)...

Taking cue from India & Brazil, Trump to overhaul US electoral system with new citizenship checks

Trump’s latest executive order follows his long-standing grievances with the American electoral system. He has, in the past, blamed his electoral defeats on voter fraud.

Bengalis love a good ghost story. This time, it’s in the voter list

How do ghost voters sneak into the voter lists? It is truly spooky. Also spooky, it is only in West Bengal that ghost voters were turned into political weaponry.

Ghost voters, duplicate IDs, model code double standards—EC’s denial and damage control

There are now far too many complaints, too many troubling incidents, from too many quarters for the Election Commission to keep up a sab-changa-si attitude. All is not well.

Congress finds common ground with TMC, alleges voter list manipulation by BJP ‘in connivance’ with EC

TMC had alleged that multiple voters in various states had been issued similar EPIC numbers. ECI admitted Sunday that it had happened due to ‘a decentralised & manual mechanism’.

‘In general elections, police scared Muslim voters,’ SP writes to UP election body ahead of by-polls

Samajwadi Party's Shyam Lal Pal requested that police not check voter IDs during UP by-polls, citing misuse of power in past elections and urging fair voter slip distribution to all.

Aadhaar linkage can sink India’s electoral democracy – with voter profiling, selective exclusion

The real objective of Modi govt's move to link voter ID with Aadhaar doesn't seem to be eliminating bogus voting. Here's why it's also unconstitutional.

Common digital voter list can aid ground officers stuck with drawn maps, duplicate entries

Considerations to use voter information to make Covid-19 vaccine priority lists show the importance of voter list reforms on India’s 10th National Voters’ Day.

Modi govt tells EC it will amend laws to link Aadhaar with voter IDs to enable remote voting

Govt assures poll watchdog it will soon take the proposal to Cabinet for approval as this would require amendments to Representation of People’s Act.

EC wants Aadhaar linked to electoral roll at the earliest, tells Modi govt to amend laws

Election Commission says move will be in national interest, since Aadhaar’s unique IDs would clean up duplicates from electoral roll. But it won’t be mandatory.

On Camera

India-Pakistan marriage breakdown that British can’t stop crying about

Ever since the Love Is Blind: UK episode dropped, there has been a collective meltdown online over the separation of Pakistan-origin Kal Pasha and Indian-origin Sarover Kaur Aujla.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.