Articles by TheDC News Desk

Special Intensive Revision – A basic intro

The Special Intensive Revision is a comprehensive overhaul of the electoral roll, where voter verification is done from scratch. This is different from the regular annual summary revision that accounts for new voters, deaths, and migration. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has ordered this for Bihar, and now it will be implemented in 12 states and UTs, including West Bengal.

Since 1951 to 2004, it has been done 8-times. The last SIR was done in 2002-2004.




The Himalayan Cleanup Speaks: Insights to Action

The Himalayan Cleanup 2025 has put the spotlight on the Himalayan waste crisis and a call to action against plastic pollution.The Himalayan Cleanup waste and brand audit insights becomes more pertinent at the time of the global treaty negotiations to end plastic pollution. It highlights the need to have a vulnerable areas approach to the plastic waste crisis while adopting a complete life cycle perspective with producers taking responsibility as well as intersecting it with food and nutrition security, climate and biodiversity crisis. 



Breaking the Glass Ceiling – A Gorkha at the Helm

Breaking the Glass Ceiling is the inspiring and long-awaited story of the first ethnic Gorkha officer to rise to the highest echelons of command in the Indian Army. Commissioned into the Grenadiers, a regiment where Gorkhas traditionally do not serve, Lt General Shakti Gurung’s journey defies norms and challenges assumptions