Booth Level Officers (BLOs) play a key role in this exercise, confirming voter details, receiving new applications from eligible citizens, and removing duplicate or invalid entries. The initiative ...

Amid widespread reports of booth-level officers (BLO) facing severe stress, with some of them allegedly dying by suicide, the Election Commission of India on Sunday (November 30, 2025) extended the ...

As only a few days remain before the December 4 deadline to finish the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Uttar Pradesh and other participating states, many voters are still unsure about ...

SIR in West Bengal: The Election Commission has introduced Annexure IV for the new applicants to include their names in the electoral roll.(PTI) SIR in West Bengal: Amid the ongoing Special Intensive ...

Amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, approximately 14 lakh SIR enumeration forms have so far been identified as “uncollectable” in West Bengal, the ...

NEW DELHI: As the Supreme Court on Wednesday began the final hearing on petitions challenging the Election Commission’s decision to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in ...

SIR deadline: Booth-level officers (BLOs) try up to three times to collect voter forms from each household. (Image: PTI) The process of SIR has created quite a stir nationwide. There are n number of ...

Joan Templeman, the wife of British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, has died at the age of 80. Ms Templeman was not publicly known to be ill, and her family did not specify a cause of death. Sir ...

India's voter rolls are undergoing a Special Intensive Revision (SIR), a nationwide exercise to ensure accuracy. While the Election Commission calls it crucial for democracy, political parties allege ...

Congress minister Irfan Ansari has asked people to lock up electoral officers to stop the SIR exercise The BJP has demanded legal action against Ansari, calling his statement highly irresponsible The ...

After the intense battles fought on the plains of Bihar and in the Supreme Court, the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise frontline has moved to West Bengal, where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ...