Kolkata: Mehebub Sahana was looking forward to visiting his family in West Bengal this April. A 36-year-old lecturer at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, Sahana had booked tickets for himself, his wife, Sanjida Parveen and their 18-month-old daughter, Iqra Parveen. Sahana was visiting his ancestral village in the Khandaghosh assembly constituency in…
Bengal Sir: The office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer has clarified that SIR hearing summons to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, cricketer Mohammed Shami and Bengali actor-turned-MP Dev were part of a routine electoral verification process, and not targeted actions. Notices issued to these well-known personalities had sparked a controversy in the poll-bound state….
The Election Commission has once again revised the schedule for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh. The with the draft voter list will now be published on January 6, 2026, and the final list on March 6. This is the third revision in the SIR schedule in Uttar Pradesh…
