SIR: Hyderabad BJP booth agent booked for misusing Form 7 to seek deletion of 30 Muslim voters
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·5d ago
A Bharatiya Janata Party booth-level agent has been booked for allegedly misusing Form 7 to seek the deletion of 30 Muslim voters from the electoral roll of the Musheerabad Assembly constituency in...
Congress MPs Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra booked after protest against CEC
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·5d ago
Congress MPs Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have been booked for entering Akashvani Bhawan without permission during protests against the Chief Election Commission Gyanesh Kumar on Tuesday...
How Netanyahu and Modi turn security failures into political weapons
Scroll.inby Ashok Swain·5d ago
The passengers aboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv survived because a wounded captain, some passengers and reserve pilots prevented a disaster.
Saeed Naqvi on being the first journalist to interview Nelson Mandela after his release from jail
Scroll.inby Saeed Naqvi·5d ago
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signalled the end of the Soviet Union. This, in its wake, unfroze conflicts across the globe that were sustained by the West in the Cold War.
Kashmir-born filmmaker detained in the US by ICE two weeks ago still awaits bail hearing
Scroll.inby Oishika Neogi·5d ago
On Tuesday, nearly two weeks after US immigration agents detained Arfat Sheikh as he was getting off a plane at Washington Dulles International Airport, the Kashmir-born filmmaker was scheduled to...
‘Police acting like BJP agent’: Bengal bye-election was rigged, allege Opposition workers
Scroll.inby Anant Gupta·5d ago
An Assembly bye-poll in West Bengal on Tuesday saw the administration making widespread attempts at rigging it in favour of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, Opposition workers alleged.
Bengal SIR tribunal judges say EC portal delaying disposal of cases, reports ‘The Indian Express’
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·6d ago
Judges heading tribunals that are hearing appeals against decisions taken during the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal have flagged that several problems in the Election...
Fiction: An enchanted heirloom from Ava’s traumatic childhood is guarded by a spirit animal
Scroll.inby Leeya Mehta·6d ago
For Ava, sleep comes faster these days. It rushes in like a drowning. Leila must have told Roxanne that she was frightened because Sushma is holding the phone to her ear.
Madhya Pradesh: Did not anticipate Ladli Behna scheme’s ‘financial burden’, says CM
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·6d ago
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has said that he had not anticipated the “financial burden” that his government’s cash transfer scheme for women, the Ladli Behna Yojana, would cause the...
Godrej Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest announces longlists in five categories for its 2026 book
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·6d ago
The longlists for the Literature Live! Literary Awards for Fiction, NonFiction and Business have been announced.
How El Niño is causing droughts in parts of the world and floods elsewhere
Scroll.inby Ligin Joseph, The Conversation·6d ago
The Pacific Ocean is warming unusually quickly, and this year’s El Niño has already surpassed previous records.
SIR: Telangana poll chief orders action against persons misusing Form 7 to delete eligible voters
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·6d ago
The Telangana chief electoral officer on Monday directed officials to take action against persons misusing Form 7 to seek the deletion of eligible voters from electoral rolls during the special...
Scabies: The invisible skin infection that is more than skin-deep
Scroll.inby Vasundhara Rangaswamy·6d ago
What is it like to itch all the time, to lose sleep every night, to be dazed in the classroom and accept this as normal?
Rush Hour: SC says it did not approve Form 6 changes, medicine Nobel for brain researchers and more
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·6d ago
Chief Justice Surya Kant verbally observed that the Supreme Court had not approved any changes to the Election Commission’s Form 6, which is used to register new voters.
Crime fiction: Mirza Ghalib witnesses a man plunge to his death from the top of an imambara minaret
Scroll.inby Raza Mir·6d ago
The sight of a dying man taking his last breath is not for the faint-hearted. Mirza wanted to avoid approaching the victim. Asadullah Khan Baig, this is not your matter in the least.
Ex-TMC MP Koel Mallick joins BJP, gets Rajya Sabha ticket
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·6d ago
Former Trinamool Congress MP Koel Mallick on Monday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, a day after the Hindutva party nominated her for the Rajya Sabha elections.
SC asks Delhi Police to create fear that those committing crimes against women will ‘die’
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·6d ago
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the police to create “fear and fright” among persons found to be threatening the safety of women in Delhi, saying that offenders should know that they could “die”...
SIR: Modified Form 6 not approved by Supreme Court, says CJI
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7d ago
Chief Justice Surya Kant on Monday verbally observed that the Supreme Court had not approved any changes to the Election Commission’s Form 6, which is used to register new voters, Live Law...
Karnataka SIR: BJP booth-level agent sought deletion of more than 7,500 voters, says report
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7d ago
A Bharatiya Janata Party booth-level agent allegedly sought the deletion of more than 75,000 voters from the electoral roll of Ballari City Assembly constituency in Karnataka using Form 7 during...
Punjab: AAP suspends MLA hours after he alleges teacher shortage in government schools
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7d ago
The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday suspended Punjab MLA Sukhveer Singh Maiserkhana for “anti-party activities and indiscipline” hours after he accused the state government of not addressing a shortage...
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