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ET Awards: Sitharaman flags AI threat and global risks, says reforms on the way to support India Inc growthFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is preparing new reforms to ease business compliance. She believes strong domestic consumption will hel...
LS polls: Kerala records 71.27 per cent polling, says ECKerala has registered 71.27 per cent voter turnout in the April 26 Lok Sabha polls, according to the updated figures released by the Electi...
Vote from home begins in Tripura; Target 8k ElectorateThe Election Commission has made special arrangements for people living in Indian territory but outside the barbed wire fencing, to exercis...
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...
Parties want UP polls on time with strict Covid protocol: CEC Sushil ChandraThe Allahabad High Court had, in a recent observation, had appealed to the EC to ban the political rallies in the state immediately in ligh...
UP polls: Parties have urged to hold elections on time, CEC saysThe Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sushil Chandra in a press conference on Thursday said that political parties in Uttar Pradesh have ur...
Yogi government lays emphasis on women-oriented schemesIn the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the Yogi Adityanath government has stepped up welfare programmes targeted at women, ...
Uttar Pradesh: Yogi government reaches out to women hit by Covid-19 with doorstep servicesWomen who are landless but eligible to get the land will be attempted to be given agricultural land, and those who live in kaccha houses wi...
BJP tries to make its presence felt in KolkataThe Covid restrictions on campaigning, the fact that the capital city is the only place that has not seen many defections from the TMC to t...
At all-party meet, BJP says it is against clubbing of poll datesBJP leader Swapan Dasgupta said that virtual election meetings for the remaining phases are not possible as half of the eight phases have a...
Notification issued for second phase of Assam Assembly electionsThe three-phase election in Assam will begin on March 27 and conclude on April 6.
For home-based 'postal ballot' disability certificate must nowA person with a disability, who wishes to opt for the home-based ‘postal ballot’ system, will now have to submit a proper disability certif...
1st phase of Bihar poll passes off peacefully with 54.26 per cent voter turnoutBihar recorded a 53.54 per cent polling in the first phase of assembly polls on Wednesday, according to a release by the Chief Electoral Of...
Polls open in first phase of Bihar elections with Covid protocols in placeOf the nearly 2.15 crore electors eligible to exercise the franchise, 1.12 crore are male, 1.01 crore female and 599 are categorised as thi...
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...
EC not to extend facility of postal ballot to voters above 65 in Bihar polls, bypollsThe Election Commission, in a statement, said the facility of optional postal ballot to electors who are above 80 years of age, voters with...
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 ...