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Electoral Watchdog Flags Duplicate Voter Listing for Jan Suraaj Chief
Election authorities have issued a formal notice to the leader of the Jan Suraaj Party, Prashant Kishor, following allegations that his name appears on electoral rolls in both Bihar and West Bengal — a purported breach of voting registration regulations. The poll body’s directive, addressed to him via the...
Rahul Launches Bihar Campaign Amid Alliance Tensions
A major campaign drive is underway in Bihar as senior Rahul Gandhi arrives to address two high-profile rallies in the districts of Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga, marking his formal return to the state’s electoral theatre since early September. At both gatherings he will share the stage with Tejashwi Yadav, the...
EC Launches Unprecedented Nationwide Voter-Roll Revision
The Election Commission of India has initiated a sweeping special intensive revision of electoral rolls across twelve states and union territories, placing over 51 crore voters under scrutiny and setting a completion deadline of 7 February 2026 for the final list. This exercise, described by the Commission as a...
Bengal Bureaucratic Shake-Up Raises Questions Ahead of Electoral Roll Revision
A sweeping administrative reshuffle in West Bengal saw the state government reassign more than 500 senior officials on 24 October, just hours before the Election Commission of India announced a pan-India Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls that includes the state. The transfer orders, covering 67 Indian Administrative Service...
Under-representation of Muslim Candidates in Bihar Election
Candidate lists for the forthcoming legislative assembly election in Bihar show a sharp mismatch between the proportion of Muslim candidates and the community’s share of the population. In the coalition led by the party of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, only four Muslim candidates were nominated out of 101 seats...
Court Clears Path for MGNREGA Restart in West Bengal
The Supreme Court of India has dismissed the Union Government’s plea challenging a directive from the Calcutta High Court, ordering a resumption of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme in the state from 1 August 2025. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta said...
“Delhi’s Diwali Crackers Trigger Severe Air-Quality Spike”
A plume of dense smog strangled the national capital region following Diwali fireworks, driving the Air Quality Index into the “very poor” and “severe” categories across much of the city-region. Data from the Central Pollution Control Board and monitoring platforms show that several localities within the Delhi-NCR region hit...
Hidden Conversions and Reservation Claims Trigger VHP Alarm
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad flagged what it terms “crypto-Christians” during a press briefing on Sunday, alleging that individuals embracing Christianity for worship nevertheless retain Hindu status on official records in order to continue accessing caste-based reservations. VHP general secretary Milind Parande claimed that many such converts do not update...
Airbus sees India as key partner for future growth
Airbus Chairman René Obermann has expressed strong optimism about the company’s prospects in India, highlighting the country’s engineering capabilities, ambition, and high-quality standards as pivotal factors in the aviation giant’s future plans. Speaking at the Berlin Global Dialogue, Obermann described India not only as a key strategic partner but...
BJP predicts wipe-out for Jan Suraaj’s 153 candidates
A sharp rhetorical strike was launched by Sanjay Jaiswal of the Bharatiya Janata Party, who asserted that all 153 candidates fielded by Prashant Kishor’s newly formed Jan Suraaj Party in Bihar’s upcoming assembly elections will lose their deposits. Jaiswal made his claim during a press interaction in Bettiah, signalling the BJP’s...
Unexpected Vote Gap Fuels Jammu and Kashmir Upper House Dispute
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference has publicly challenged how the Bharatiya Janata Party managed to secure one of four seats in the Rajya Sabha elections in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, despite the NC clinching the other three. Abdullah asserted that...
Parties Agree to Replace Worn Cloth at Gyanvapi Lock
The court overseeing the dispute involving the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi has scheduled a hearing for October 29 concerning the replacement of a torn cloth tied to a lock on the sealed ablution-area within the complex. Both Hindu petitioners and the mosque committee have given verbal consent to the...
MP Moitra Clarifies Endorsement of Offensive Diwali Post
An elected representative of the All India Trinamool Congress, Mahua Moitra, has issued a clarification after she visibly endorsed a social-media post by a Canadian vlogger that mocked Diwali and labelled Indians “brain dead.” She stated the endorsement was unintentional, occurring while she was travelling, and that she had...
SP’s Star Line-Up Signals Power Shift
The Samajwadi Party on Friday unveiled a roster of 20 “star campaigners” to bolster its support for the Mahagathbandhan in the forthcoming Bihar assembly elections, but the list drew more attention for the notable absences than the inclusions. At the forefront are party president Akhilesh Yadav and veteran leader...
Judiciary Prepares Successor Selection Process
The government has formally requested Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, current Chief Justice of India, to recommend a successor as he is due to demit office on 23 November upon reaching the age threshold of 65. The move initiates an established procedure for appointing the next head of the apex court....
Mahagathbandhan candidates pull back in Bihar seats
Four candidates from the opposition coalition in Bihar withdrew their nominations to allow allies to contest selected seats for the assembly election. The three individuals from the Indian National Congress and one from the Vikassheel Insaan Party stepped aside in favour of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, illustrating tighter coordination...
Judiciary Embraces Error-Rectification Principle – Newspack Live!
The Supreme Court emphasised that judges, being human, can commit mistakes and that courts must not shy away from acknowledging such errors and rectifying them when they occur. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta observed that the long-established maxim “actus curiae neminem gravabit” — meaning the...
Mahagathbandhan names Yadav and Sahani for Bihar leadership
A key political alliance in Bihar has declared Tejashwi Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal as its chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming Assembly elections, while elevating Mukesh Sahani, leader of the Vikassheel Insaan Party, as its nominee for deputy chief minister. The announcement took place during a joint...
