New York, July 24 (IANS) Author Salman Rushdie has given a chilling account of the attack that felled him on a stage at a literary meeting and cost him his right eye. “It was an enormous and expansive lake of blood,” he said while testifying on Thursday at the federal terrorism trial of the assailant Hadi Matar.Rushdie narrated the chilling account of the blind fury he faced as stabbings rained on him. Knocked to the floor, he said, “I was on the stage, lying down, with an enormous pool of…
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Bengaluru, July 2 (IANS) The Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka gathered pace on Thursday, with more than 1.12 crore (1,12,65,893) Enumeration Forms distributed to voters within the first three days of the door-to-door verification exercise. According to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Karnataka, the state had a total of 5,54,32,314 registered electors as of June 16, 2026. Enumeration Forms have been printed and supplied to Boo…
Bengaluru, July 1 (IANS) The Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka gathered pace on its second day, with Booth Level Officers (BLOs) distributing nearly 55 lakh Enumeration Forms (EFs) to voters across the state.The Election Commission also released preliminary field verification data. During the exercise, 2,565 electors were marked as absent, shifted, dead, duplicate and others (ASDDO), while 21 electors were found to be untraceable or absent. Of…
Hassan (Karnataka), June 30 (IANS) Booker Prize-winning Kannada author Banu Mushtaq on Tuesday said the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls was a simple and straightforward exercise, adding that her experience had dispelled fears that it was intended to harass citizens. She also appealed to officials to patiently guide the public through the enumeration process.She was speaking to the media after launching the SIR exercise in Hassan district from her residence in Hassan city,…