scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Friday, April 10, 2026
TopicVoters

Topic: voters

Dead, in hiding, relocated—Haryana women voters with Brazilian woman’s photo in Rahul’s list

In press conference Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi displayed a segment of the voter list from Haryana’s Rai, claiming the photo of a Brazilian woman had been used for 22 different voters.

Amid ‘fake voter’ row, Maharashtra EC moves ahead with civic polls, promises electoral roll cleanup

SEC has scheduled voting for 2 December & counting for 3 December. Opposition had been demanding local body polls should be conducted only after voter list 'anomalies' were fixed.

SC takes note of ‘confusion’ over Bihar voters’ list, seeks clarification from EC on new voters

A two-judge bench also asked petitioners against the Bihar Special Intensive Revision to file affidavits if any names had been wrongly removed or added in the final voters’ list.

Extending deadline for claims & objections will disrupt schedule for Bihar SIR: ECI tells SC

Election Commission said claims & objections regarding draft electoral roll can be filed after 1 Sept deadline, but will be considered after electoral roll is finalised. 

Percentage of voters who don’t trust ECI nearly doubled in last 5 yrs — CSDS-Lokniti survey

Findings show 1 in 4 voters believes there is some scope of manipulation in EVMs by ruling party, while only 1 in 6 believe there is no scope of EVM manipulation.

4 billion people from 40+ countries eligible to vote in 2024. Is this democracy’s biggest test?

National elections will be held in the United States, India, Indonesia, Russia, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Mexico, and South Africa, to name just a few.

Indian elections have evolved a lot like arranged marriages. Technology is the disruptor

Technology has enabled voters today to share notes and build a consensus on who is ‘deserving’.

Vote-buying encourages graft, hurts rule of law, finds study. And it’s getting worse in India

‘Vote-buying’ has increased significantly in India since 2010, according to the authors of the study, which is due to be published in the peer-reviewed journal World Development.

Women are voting more, but in UP, they are literally pushed out of campaign spaces

Congress, BJP, SP— all talk about ‘nari shakti’, but this is where women stand. Literally.

UP voters prefer Facebook over Twitter for state politics updates: Digital marketing survey

Survey conducted by digital marketing platform iCubesWire over three weeks in January. It had 1,094 participants from Uttar Pradesh, most aged between 18 and 40 years.

On Camera

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Theaterisation proposal to be shared with defence ministry in a week or so—CDS Gen Anil Chauhan

Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.