Twelve seafarers were injured after a Panama-flagged oil tanker was struck by a projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, according to India’s Ministry of External Affairs, marking one of...

The ECI is using Form 6, meant for first-time voters, to reinstate people removed during the SIR. Its changing declarations and demands for past voter or family records have drawn criticism as an ill-conceived burden for eligible voters.

The bulk submission of pre-printed Form 7s targeting Muslim electors by BJP booth-level agents signals a conspiracy. Election officials’ failure to publicly disclose the “claims and objections” process makes the exercise even murkier.

Two Supreme Court petitions ask whether the three-member commission, or only its chief, took decisions on Form 6 and the rolls. Independence requires a traceable record.

For decades, one of the oddest spots on the world’s political map was a patch of farmland roughly the size of a soccer pitch. It was called Dahala Khagrabari (enclave number 51) and it belonged to India. It sat inside a piece of Bangladesh, which lay inside a pocket of Indian territory, which was itself […]

Durante décadas, uno de los lugares más raros del mapa político del mundo fue una parcela de cultivo de menos de una hectárea. Se llamaba Dahala Khagrabari (enclave número 51), pertenecía a India y estaba rodeada por un trozo de Bangladés, que a su vez estaba dentro de una bolsa de territorio indio, que a […]

As one advocate warned India’s Supreme Court on Monday that “this country will burn” unless action is taken to stop what thousands of protesters have denounced as an illegal purge of voters by the head of the Election Commission of India, the court demanded accountability from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Chief Justice Surya Kant […]

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