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TREND | 07 Jan 2026, 04:46PM

Voting advisory firms back MUFG's $4.4 bn investment in Shriram Finance

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The special resolutions will be put to vote between January 11 and 13, with an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) scheduled for January 14

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TREND | 07 Jan 2026, 11:52AM

SIR: Lucknow, Ghaziabad top in delisted voters; Bundelkhand least hit

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Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Balrampur and Kanpur Nagar are among the top districts in Uttar Pradesh that have recorded the highest percentage of electors whose forms remained uncollected during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll, according to official data. Districts like Lalitpur, Hamirpur, Mahoba, Jhansi and Chitrakoot in the Bundelkhand region of the state had the least removals from the draft roll. The draft electoral roll published on Tuesday after the SIR excludes 2.89 crore voters but retains 12.55 crore. The 2.89 crore voters, or 18.70 per cent, of the 15.44 crore listed earlier could not be included in the draft list due to deaths, permanent migration or multiple registrations, UP Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said. According to district-wise draft roll data published on January 6, Lucknow topped the list with 30.04 per cent uncollected forms, involving about 12 lakh electors. The district's electorate declined from 39.94 lakh in October 2025 to 27.

West Bengal SIR: Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen Issued Notice By Election Commission, Claims TMC

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TREND | 06 Jan 2026, 08:58AM

India's 'Homebound' Advances To Next Round Of Oscar Voting Details Inside

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'Homebound' is inspired by journalist Basharat Peer's The New York Times article Taking Amrit Home, also titled 'A Friendship, a Pandemic and a Death Beside the Highway'.

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TREND | 04 Jan 2026

CM Mamata urges CEC to halt 'arbitrary, flawed' SIR in West Bengal

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Sharpening her attack on the Election Commission, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged CEC Gyanesh Kumar to halt the "arbitrary and flawed" SIR in the state, warning that its continuation in the present form could trigger "mass disenfranchisement" and "strike at the foundations of democracy". In a strongly worded letter dated December 3, Banerjee accused the commission of presiding over what she described as an "unplanned, ill-prepared and ad hoc" process marked by "serious irregularities, procedural violations, and administrative lapses". She asserted that the situation on the ground had worsened despite her two earlier communications to the chief election commissioner (CEC). "I am once again constrained to write to you in order to place on record my grave concern," Banerjee wrote, recalling that she had flagged similar issues in letters dated November 20 and December 2. "Regrettably, instead of any corrective course being adopted, the situation on the ground has only

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TREND | 03 Jan 2026

EC orders FIRs against five poll officials over roll lapses in Bengal

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The Election Commission directed the registration of FIRs against five poll officials for alleged irregularities in the distribution and collection of enumeration forms during the ongoing special revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, an official said on Saturday. These officials are two Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), two Assistant Registration Officers (AROs) and a data entry operator, he said. "We have identified five state government employees, two from Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district and three from Moyna in Purba Medinipur, against whom FIRs will be filed for alleged procedural lapses in the revision exercise," he said. "The district magistrates have been asked to lodge cases and submit reports promptly," he added. Meanwhile, the EC has scaled down the logical discrepancy cases from over 1.3 crore to nearly 94.49 lakh after a thorough evaluation of the list, an official said. In the draft rolls, published on December 16, around 1.36 crore entries were flagged for .

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TREND | 01 Jan 2026

UP SIR: Permanent migration led to 28.8 mn uncollectable voter forms

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Permanent migration has emerged as the primary reason for electoral discrepancies in Uttar Pradesh, accounting for nearly 1.30 crore of the 2.88 crore uncollectable electoral forms identified during the Special Intensive Revision. Official data as of December 27, 2025, shows that permanent shifting of voters constitutes 8.40 per cent of the total electorate. Election officials said this trend reflects large-scale inter-district and inter-state migration, with the highest impact observed in urban and semi-urban areas. Apart from 1,29,77,472 cases of permanent shifting, the second largest category includes untraceable or absent electors. This accounts for 79,52,190 cases, or 5.15 per cent of the electorate, and is largely attributed to temporary migration, frequent changes in residence and inaccurate addresses. Deaths of registered voters accounted for 46,23,796 forms, or 2.99 per cent of the electorate, indicating outdated entries in the rolls due to the time gap between revisions, .

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TREND | 30 Dec 2025

UP SIR schedule revised: Draft electoral roll on Jan 6, final on Mar 6

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The Election Commission has revised the schedule for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh, with the draft voter list now slated to be published on January 6, 2026, and the final list on March 6, the state's Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said in a statement on Tuesday. According to the new schedule, claims and objections will be invited from January 6 to February 6, he said. Rinwa said the notice stage, disposal of claims and objections, and decisions on enumeration forms will continue from January 6 to February 27, after which the final electoral roll will be published on March 6. The revision of the schedule comes amid heightened scrutiny of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in the state, where a large-scale pruning of voter list has been carried out. The nearly 52-day SIR exercise, conducted with the theme 'Shuddh Nirvachak Namavali, Majboot Loktantra' (Clean Electoral Roll, Strong Democracy), began on November 4 and...

Bangladesh polls: BNP's Tarique Rahman files nomination papers in Dhaka

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TREND | 28 Dec 2025

As BMC Election Nears, Anthony Waste Bags Contracts As Solid Waste Work Pushes On

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The seven-year contracts carry an execution value of around Rs 1,300 crore and place responsibility for vehicles, manpower and maintenance with the company.

Mumbai Civic Polls: 44 Nomination Papers Filed Till Sat; 10,343 Forms Distributed

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TREND | 27 Dec 2025

Trinamool Party's 10-member delegation to meet CEC on Dec 31 over SIR row

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A 10-member Trinamool Congress delegation will meet Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on December 31 on the issue of Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal, a source said on Saturday. According to the source, the delegation, which will include Abhishek Banerjee and Derek O'Brien, Trinamool leaders in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, respectively, will raise the issue of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in the state. The ruling party of Bengal has been raising concerns over the SIR exercise for some time now. On Saturday, Banerjee, the national general secretary of the party, demanded that the Election Commission (EC) must come out with the number of illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingyas out of the 58.20 lakh names deleted in the draft electoral rolls published for West Bengal under the SIR. On November 28, a Trinamool delegation had met the full bench of the EC, alleging deaths of booth-level officers (BLOs) due to the "work pressure" o

1.05 mn names deleted as EC releases Assam draft electoral rolls after SIR

Business Standard | 27 Dec 2025 3 more

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TREND | 26 Dec 2025

BMC Election 2026: Mumbai Doesn't Care About Your Party It Cares About Your Work

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The single most important factor influencing voting decisions is the work done by the corporator not the party symbol, not ideology, and not even the faces at the top of the political pyramid.

BMC Election 2026: Safety To Sanitation What Mumbai's Voters Want Fixed Before Anything Else

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