Bihar polls: How the state breaks its voting ceilingEven more striking is the 71.6% turnout among women - nearly nine percentage points higher than men and arguably unmatched in 75 years of I...
EC's 2024 survey found Bihar rolls almost error-freeA 2024 Election Commission survey in Bihar reveals high accuracy in voter rolls but significant gaps in household registration. While most ...
West Bengal conducts first-ever booth level officers' training amid speculations of special intensive revisionWest Bengal is conducting Booth Level Officers’ (BLO) training across five divisions for the first time, sparking speculation about a Speci...
Election Commission sweats over missing summer collectionECI addresses low voter turnout in Phase 1, plans interventions for upcoming phases, including engaging political parties, mobilizing young...
Actor Pankaj Tripathi steps down as Election Commission's National IconPankaj Tripathi was named the ‘National Icon’ of the Election Commission in October last year. Of late, he has been promoting his upcoming ...
Taste a tukda of democracy: Evolution of voter turnout trends in IndiaIn the five poll-going states of the federal union of India - Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Manipur - there are 18.3 crore ci...
Election in vaccination mode: Twin tasks for 5 assembly pollsOperational guidelines issued by the ministry of health and family welfare underline that “The entire vaccination process will be broadly s...
View: Bihar tests democracy positive amid world-wide pandemicPeople of Bihar have vindicated the EC decision to go ahead with the conduct of polls that it described as “a leap of faith and not a leap ...
View: Democratic exercise prevails despite Covid-19A month ago, there was a virtual mode discussion among election management bodies from about 50 countries on the predicament thrown up by C...
The much-needed Corona code of conduct for upcoming Bihar assembly electionsWhile election operations in the field have always required oversight by nodal officers in a range of critical areas such as security, elec...
Bihar election calendar to be worked out keeping Covid concerns in mind: CEC AroraOptional postal ballot voting facility will be provided to those above 80 years, persons with disability. The SVEEP (systematic voter educa...
In Bihar, mask to be as prominent as EVM, indelible ink, says ex-Director General, Election CommissionBihar 2020 belongs to Covid-19. The vibrant landscape has turned into a health and livelihood minefield. Bihar is once again in the despera...
Working on new voter app, postal ballot for old: Election Commissioner Ashok LavasaThe key challenge is to complete the election process by fully adhering to pandemic-related guidelines in terms of restriction on movement ...
More women are coming out to vote in general electionsThe 2014 Lok Sabha election earned the distinction of recording the highest voter turnout ever at 66.4%.
Why the current assembly elections are witnessing record voting levelsIn the ongoing assembly polls, innovative campaigns were targeted more at the urban pockets, which often see lower turnout, than rural area...
In 10 states, less than 40 per cent new voters are womenCompared to 47.6% women in the national electorate as on February 14 this year, the fairer sex constitutes just 41.4% of the 2.3 crore elec...
Lok Sabha polls: 6 of 10 eligible voters aren’t registeredMeanwhile, the EC, with the help of its SVEEP, plans to address this problem by reaching out to youth on college campuses, organizing aware...