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Two phones and an app: How Russians skirt Putin's digital iron curtainSince the Kremlin ratcheted up control over the internet this year, Russians have been turning to increasingly convoluted technical solutio...
Forget the DOJ. For a Trump pardon, call "Bobby" and other influencersPresident Donald Trump's pardon system has shifted dramatically. Influence now hinges on personal networks and narratives of victimhood, by...
Congress flags broken NRC portal, seeks probe into Assam website, helpline failuresCongress leader Debabrata Saikia has raised concerns about the National Register of Citizens NRC Assam website and its helpline. He reporte...
West Bengal records historic 92.47% voter turnout in two-phase polls, highest since independenceWest Bengal Phase 2 Elections 2026 voter turnout: West Bengal concluded a fiercely contested Assembly election with a record 91.66% voter t...
Can BJP blitz breach TMC citadel? The battle for Bengal beginsWest Bengal politics remains a high-stakes battle between the long-standing dominance of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) under Mamata Banerjee...
Strong rooms, unsealed rooms shouldn't be opened under any circumstance: ECThe Election Commission has directed all District Election Officers and Returning Officers in Kerala not to open any strong rooms before vo...
A town divided: Inside Perumbavoor’s migrant flashpoint, where drugs, fear and politics collideA signboard in Perumbavoor, Kerala, warns against drug peddling and prostitution, highlighting tensions between local residents and migrant...
What Census 2027 will reveal about the country we’ve becomeIndia's Census 2027, launched April 1, is a crucial exercise. It will assess the nation's socioeconomic transformation since 2011. The cens...
Census 2027 to be India’s first fully digital enumeration; datasets likely within the year, says RGICensus 2027 promises faster data release with digital capture. This will be India's first fully digital population count. Citizens are urge...
No decision yet on rollout of voter appeal tribunals in Bengal: CEO Manoj AgarwalTribunals for voters missing from West Bengal's electoral rolls are not yet operational. The Supreme Court directed these tribunals, but th...
Meta watchdog says grassroots fact checks risk harm to usersMeta said it would ask ordinary users to verify controversial claims in a system known as "community notes", aping methods on X and other s...
West Bengal's supplementary voter list hit by server glitches, data unclearWest Bengal's first supplementary voter list faced significant technical issues upon its release. Servers crashed, preventing downloads of ...
New EC platform launched; CEC calls it tool to counter misinformationA new digital platform called ECINET has been launched by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. This tool aims to combat misinformatio...
Bihar SIR controversy: Supreme Court seeks details of 3.66 lakh excluded names as EC says no voter complaints yetThe Supreme Court has directed the Election Commission to provide details of 3.66 lakh voters excluded from Bihar’s final electoral roll. T...
West Bengal prepares for special intensive revision of electoral rolls ahead of 2026 assembly electionsThe Election Commission of India directs states to match old and new electoral data. This is ahead of a nationwide Special Intensive Revisi...
EC releases data on electoral bonds: BJP biggest beneficiary; Vedanta, Airtel, Essel among top donors"In compliance of Hon’ble Supreme Court's directions, contained in its order dated Feb 15 & March 11, 2024 (in the matter of WPC NO.880 of ...
Electoral Bonds scrapped, what's next? FM Nirmala Sitharaman comments over poll bond controversyFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman responded to the Electoral Bonds controversy, suggesting that assumptions are shaping the discourse. At...
View: To read electoral outcomes accurately, pay attention to what happens between electionsOver the past decade, electoral politics has become more professionalised and so has the tiny universe of electoral analysts. Experts, poll...
EC disables easy access to electoral data across statesWhile the poll result led to what many see as the beginning of a national front comprising regional parties, the steps Karnataka’s chief el...
Civic groups cry over safe voter dataElectoral rolls were in an accessible format from March 2013 till the publication of the latest draft electoral roll. “Now that the electio...