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Earlier this week, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had urged Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to halt the SIR in Bengal

How to check if your name is in 2002-2003 electoral roll during SIR?

November 25, 2025 8:03 pm

Voter ID List PDF Download: If you are a registered voter in Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, or West Bengal, you have to fill up the SIR Enumeration Form.

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Extending PM-Poshan to include breakfast will help align national policy with nutritional and educational realities

October 31, 2025 6:58 am

Centre should consider states' proposal with focus on feasibility and fairness

Fishermen rowing their boat near Worli Koliwada on Thursday. November 21st is celebrated as World fisheries day across the world. Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran. 21.11.2019. Mumbai.

How India is attempting to harness its marine fisheries potential

August 29, 2025 6:33 pm

A new enabling and regulatory framework will help tap into India’s vast marine wealth

Policy that excluded Mahl, Arabic from Lakshadweep schools deferred by Kerala High Court

June 11, 2025 7:52 am

The new language policy was set to be implemented at schools on the islands from July 1

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Lakshadweep atolls shaped and reshaped by natural phenomena, biological and human activity: IITGN study

May 20, 2025 7:12 pm

The study, published in Marine Geology, further revealed how local hydrodynamics — waves, currents, and tides — interact with biological zones to shape the patterns of sediment transport and deposition.

‘Why study?’: Lakshadweep's first woman PhD holder in marine sciences was once asked

November 17, 2024 6:01 am

In a befitting reply to naysayers, Shabeena M – who would not dare dream of doing higher studies as a child – successfully defended her thesis on macroalgae on November 5, 2024 and was felicitated by the Lakshadweep administration.

Why are Lakshadweep coral reefs undergoing severe bleaching?

May 07, 2024 11:35 am

Bleaching leaves corals exposed to disease and starvation, and has major consequences for their long term health.

HDFC Bank becomes only private bank to have presence in Lakshadweep

April 10, 2024 5:23 pm

HDFC Bank’s distribution network includes 8,091 branches and 20,688 ATMs across India's 3,872 cities and towns, as of December 31, 2023.

New naval base INS Jatayu in Lakshadweep

Navy chief: INS Jatayu apt tribute to Ramayan’s ‘first responder’

March 07, 2024 3:22 am

At the commissioning ceremony of INS Jatayu, Admiral Kumar said, in the Ramayan Jatayu was the “first responder” trying to stop the abduction of Sita, even at the cost of his life exemplifying “service before self”.

Lakshadweep residents fume as administration continues to number trees on Pandaram lands

February 16, 2024 5:06 pm

Former revenue dept official claims the Indian Government brought Rs 30 lakh cash in trunk boxes and handed over it as compensation to the people in return for acquiring their lands.