The appointment of the election commissioner was made as a vacancy would have arisen in the three-member poll panel after the retirement of...

Tripura is going to polls early next year. The Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra (INPT) has already offered to enter into a pre-poll a...

Takam Sanjoy, in a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Achal Kumar Joti, said Pakke-Kessang (ST) Assembly constituency has been vacant si...

Chief Election Commissioner Achal Kumar Joti on Monday said EC was not ‘favouring any party’ and it shall not interfere in the poll process...

Chief Election Commissioner Achal Kumar Joti said VVPAT machines would be used for the first time in all the 7,516 booths in 68 assembly co...

Besides Gujarat, the machines would be used in the Himachal Pradesh assembly elections, likely to be held around the same time.

Designed by BEL/ECIL, VVPATs were approved by EC in 2013 and the Centre recently released Rs 3,174 crore for its procurement.

An EC spokesperson said the Gujarat Chief Secretary has been asked to furnish a report to the poll panel in this context by the evening (5 ...

"It was satisfying. I achieved a lot. We initiated several steps... It was really satisfying," he told after a warm send off at his office.

Joti, a 1975-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, had joined the three-member poll panel as an election commissioner on May 8...

CEC Nasim Zaidi along with ECs will be visiting Patna and Muzaffarpur to review poll preparations for the ongoing Assembly elections.

Om Prakash Rawat's appointment will come into effect from the day he assumes office, a Law Ministry statement said.

The Election Commission (EC) will be on a two-day visit to Bihar from tomorrow before it finalises the dates for the Assembly elections in ...

The CEC urged his colleagues to work in the direction of ensuring integrity and promptness in their work related to mitigating the problems...

The decision of the Commission to visit the poll-bound state comes as the poll body published the final electoral rolls today.

While 67 constituencies, over 25 per cent of the total 243, have been categorised as 'sensitive', 75 others have been marked as 'slightly s...

Though the date of the full Commission's visit has not yet been finalised, it would be some time in August before taking a call on the date...