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Protests over India’s voter list revision exercise and demands for accountability from the Election Commission have drawn attention across the country. The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) organised a rally in Delhi, while farmers in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, entered the Collectorate and dem...

A lawsuit filed in the United States is challenging new immigration policies that could make it more difficult for some eligible immigrants to obtain Green Cards, raising concerns about permanent residency, employment and family separation. The lawsuit, filed on October 5 in the US Distric...

A major political and activist mobilisation is planned in Delhi around October 10, with protests focusing on the Election Commission, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and demands for electoral reforms. However, several claims circulating on social media need to be se...

Bengaluru: Bengaluru’s Freedom Park witnessed a major protest on Thursday over concerns surrounding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. YouTuber and political commentator Dhruv Rathee and actor activist Prakash Raj joined the protest along with Cockroach Janta Party (C...

New Delhi: Professor Apoorvanand has criticised the Supreme Court’s handling of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, questioning the Court’s role in allowing the process to continue and raising concerns over Form-6. Apoorvanand argued that concerns relating to Form-6 ha...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a batch of petitions seeking an independent investigation, including a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe, into the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots and the 2019 violence at Jamia Millia Islamia during protests against the Citizenship (Amen...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is hearing two petitions challenging the functioning of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and raising questions over decisions taken during the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. A three...

India and Pakistan have summoned each other’s senior diplomats following a deadly border incident in Punjab on October 2, with both countries presenting sharply different accounts of the incident. The diplomatic exchange followed the deaths of two Pakistani nationals near the Interna...

New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has announced a new initiative titled ‘Satyagraha’, aimed at bringing together people across India who are raising concerns about injustice and fighting for their rights. In his message, Gandhi highlighted the struggles of vario...

Protests demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar were held in Delhi and Mumbai on Friday, with student organisations, political groups, activists and civil society participants raising concerns over the Election Commission’s handling of electoral-roll r...