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New voters list in Bihar includes wrong photos and dead people

Patna, August 11, 2025 (BBC) A few days ago, India’s Election Commission released updated draft electoral rolls for Bihar state, where key elections are scheduled for November, following a month-long revision of the voters’ list. But opposition parties and election charities say the exercise was rushed through – and many voters in Bihar have told the BBC that the draft rolls have wrong photos and include dead people. The Special Intensive Revision – better known by its acronym SIR – was held from 25 June to 26 July and the commission said its officials visited each of the state’s listed

Trust in Zelenskyy is diminished even after reversal of law that fueled anti-corruption protests

KYIV, Ukraine, August 8, 2025 (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy quickly reversed course last month on a law that would have curbed the independence of the country’s anti-corruption watchdogs after widespread protests that threatened the stability of his leadership for the first time since Russia’s invasion. It’s unlikely that the damage to the president’s image can be changed as easily. Zelenskyy’s reversal followed years of public discontent that simmered around his inner circle, some of whom have been accused of corruption. But Ukrainians have been largely deferential toward their president in wartime, trusting him to lead the fight against

SIR ‘institutionalised chori’; EC colluding with BJP to carry out ‘vote theft’: Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi, Aug 8 (PTI) Describing the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) of electoral rolls as an “institutionalised chori”, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday claimed that the Election Commission is “openly colluding” with the BJP to carry out this “theft” with the objective of taking away the voting rights of the poor. Gandhi made the charge in a video released on his YouTube channel in which he also claimed that SIR has been brought in Bihar because the EC knows that “we have caught their chori”. He alleges that the Election Commission (EC) and the BJP are “colluding” to “steal

‘When India and Pakistan went to war, we got involved directly,’ claims US Secretary of State Rubio

New York, Aug 8 (PTI) The US “got involved directly” when India and Pakistan “went to war”, and President Donald Trump was able to deliver peace between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has claimed. Since May 10, Trump has repeated his claim many times that he “helped settle” the tensions between India and Pakistan and told the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours that America will do a “lot of trade” with them if they stopped the conflict. India has been consistently maintaining that the understanding on cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached following direct talks between

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