The roll has 8.97 lakh voters less than the electoral roll that was updated in October 2025 before carrying out SIR. The roll, before the exercise, had 2.78 crore voters.
Rajeeve explained that around 19.32 lakh voters across the state figure in the draft electoral roll but remain in the 'no mapping' category due to technical mismatches.
Moved by the simple plea to protect children’s right to play, V Sivankutty heard out 12-year-old Muhammad Farhan from a Kozhikode school after classes were allegedly held during the Christmas holidays
Over 24,08,503 distributed enumeration forms were not returned, of which 14.61 lakh were marked as either ‘absent’, ‘untraceable’, ‘permanently shifted’ or ‘enumeration form shifted’, while 6.49 lakh ...