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Justice V. Mohana, who is part of the Supreme Court Bench hearing petitions challenging the clampdown and transit shutdown on October 10 anti-CEC protests, is not holding court on October 15.

Thirteen Municipal Corporations and 87 Municipalities in the State to go to polls on October 28; the government is prohibited from launching new welfare schemes and development projects till the Model Code of Conduct is in force

The application has asked the court to direct the EC to frame an appropriate mechanism for restoration/inclusion of deleted voters without forcing them to apply as first-time voters

Despite these trends, the margin of victory of the BJP in the recently concluded bypolls at Nandigram and Rejinagar is something that must ring alarm bells for the Opposition parties.

Muslims, who form 13.6% of electors on Delhi’s draft roll, made up 20.3% of those flagged for ‘logical discrepancies’ and 30% of those flagged under five reasons indicative of family size by the Election Commission’s ERONET software; in Bihar, which didn’t have ‘logical discrepancy’ checks, Muslims accounted for 18.4% of deleted electors, in line with their 17.7% share in population

Members students’ wings of Left parties call for re-elections in Bihar and West Bengal; amid heavy deployment of police personnel, many are detained and taken in buses to designated areas for dispersal

P. Jagadeesh inspects the proposed EVM distribution and counting centres and the nomination centre, and visits hyper-sensitive areas of the town

Protesters climbed over barricades in central Delhi to demand the election chief resign over revised voter lists.

BJP has governed the GMC for the last five years. This time, the BJP, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party are the main contenders in Gandhinagar

Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari had earlier said that 80% of the Muslims in Nandigram and 60% of the minority population in Rejinagar had voted for the BJP in the bypolls held on October 6

This year, an important psychological barrier for the bond market was crossed. Yields across different US Treasury maturities exceeded levels not seen in decades. And they show no sign of slowing down. (Source: Bloomberg)

Protesters in New Delhi continue to take to the streets demanding the country's top election commissioner resign. Frustrations have been mounting after an investigation in a leading newspaper revealed concerns had been raised within the body, over the revision of voter lists. Delano D'Souza reports.

The electorate increased from 1,93,94,435 in draft roll to 2,01,00,727 in the final roll, representing a net increase of 3.64%, says CEO

Five Mayor posts are reserved for women (general) and backward Classess each, followed by four for unreserved, two for Scheduled Castes and one for Scheduled Tribes

Opposition parties joined by student groups are back on the streets, disrupting New Delhi with flash marches.

It urged the Centre and the ECI to address the defects in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls and restore voting rights to all eligible voters.

Thousands of security personnel have been deployed before a protest rally calling for the election chief's removal.

Duplicate entries, outdated records and the names of deceased persons remaining on voter lists can compromise their accuracy, he says

Main opposition Congress party announces rally to the top court to demand removal of the chief election commissioner.

Indian opposition politicians and journalists alleged that police had been heavy-handed in cracking down in protests that swept New Delhi over the weekend in response to a nationwide voter roll revision that critics say disproportionately affects Muslim and other minority voters. Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi called for a fresh march to the nation's Supreme Court Monday.

Police say three cases registered against activists of the Kerala Students Union, Youth Congress, Students Federation of India, and Democratic Youth Federation of India. Tension began following college union elections at the College of Engineering, Adoor

The Congress president also demands ballot paper elections, removal of CEC Gyanesh Kumar and action against those allegedly involved in vote manipulation

The results will be the yardstick of the leaders’ performance, and hence they should leave no stone unturned to ensure NDA’s victory and teach a fitting lesson to the YSRCP for doing grave injustice to the BCs

The complaint, coming ahead of the local body elections, has created a stir in the SPSR Nellore district politics

Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar has asked BJP State president N. Ramchander Rao to fix a date for him to produce voters who claim to have lost their voting rights, along with supporting documents

A New Delhi court ordered on Sunday the release of three leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), including its founder Abhijeet Dipke, their lawyer said, a day after they were detained. “Executive Magistrate court releases Abhijeet, Saurav (Das) and Ashutosh (Ranka),” lawyer Ratna Singh said in a social media post. The trio were detained on Saturday ahead of a major protest against the country’s chief election commissioner. The protests are the culmination of weeks of opposition mobilisation...

The election will be held for Nellimarla, Rajam Nagara Panchayats, 27 Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituencies and Mandala Parishad Territorial constituencies

Central Delhi was sealed on Saturday, with thousands of police and paramilitaries on patrol, metro stations shut, mobile internet suspended and markets closed to guard against a youth protest demanding India’s chief election officer quit. The protest, called ‌by the “cockroach” youth movement, hopes to draw thousands of demonstrators who want Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to quit over a revision of voter lists that critics say favours Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata...

The seat is currently held by BJP MP Naresh Bansal, whose six-year term ends on November 25

The party made inroads into areas dominated by Muslims, who, according to Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, account for 62% of the constituency’s voters