The letter - the third the Congress leadership has sent Modi on this issue, with the previous two unanswered - comes days after the Home Ministry's August 14 notification detailing the census question format and frames the methodology choice as a decision that will determine whether the caste census produces usable data at all.
The scale of deletion, concentrated overwhelmingly in urban Bengaluru constituencies, combined with the EC's refusal to publish a benchmark ratio and Karnataka's comparatively opaque disclosure practices, has raised concerns about whether the SIR exercise can be independently assessed before it finalises the state's rolls.
The Court's intervention comes as West Bengal's municipal elections approach, with petitioners warning that thousands of wrongly excluded voters could remain disenfranchised through the panchayat and Lok Sabha polls unless the appellate backlog is addressed with urgency. The Supreme Court directed the Election Commission to provide a detailed break-up of pending appeals before West Bengal's Special Intensive Revision…
The Centre's plea, filed as a miscellaneous application before a bench different from the one that delivered the March 11 verdict, forced the Chief Justice to acknowledge a special bench will need to be constituted - with the CSE-2025 foundation course due to start within weeks. The Supreme Court is setting up a special bench to address the Centre's plea regarding the retrospective application of its March 2026 ruling on OBC…
The talks mark the second consecutive year of stated intent to advance boundary delimitation without a named outcome and arrive just before a high-visibility Xi visit to New Delhi that both governments have strong incentive to keep free of friction. NSA Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held the 25th Special Representatives talks in Beijing, focusing on boundary delimitation and border stability. This marks a…