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Battle of Jadavpur: TMC nominee counts on knowing 'pulse of people' in Triangular contestJadavpur Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal is set to face a three-cornered fight between CPI-M's youth face Srijan Bhattacharya, Trinamool Yout...- Opposition asks Govt and ECI to implement SC order and release donors' namesThey asked the Modi government to follow the judicial order and ECI to release the names of donors. Congress sounded caution against any mo...
- Top law ministry officials brief panel chairman Kovind on simultaneous pollsTop officials of the Union Law Ministry on Sunday held a preparatory briefing for former president Ram Nath Kovind who heads the high-level...
- EC should have looked at CPI's rich history, role in freedom struggle: CPI after losing national party status"The Election Commission of India should have given due consideration to the rich history of the Communist Party of India and its preeminen...
- Election funding: What makes India's campaign finance regime ripe for reformsIndia's campaign finance laws have set pending limits for candidates, but have not capped expenditure by parties, a situation that creates ...
- Vedanta-led Cairn India CEO, CFO quit firmMathur is the fourth CEO to have quit the company since Vedanta completed the acquisition of Cairn India in December 2011.
- State funding of polls may not be popular once rolled out: FM Arun JaitleyThe bonds will open for sale a little before every election and donors can buy the bearer bonds from scheduled banks and donate to parties ...
- View: When parties take money in cash from 'unidentified' donors, they work for tax evadersIf those who are supposed to make laws against corruption are themselves the products of a corrupt system, how can the rest of society be c...
- SC/ ST pinch-hitters in BJP's forward defence in West BengalA case in point is Khanakul in Hooghly where the BJP nominee is Bikash Chandra Dolui. He takes on TMC MLA Iqbal Ahmed.
- Poll reforms not a priority for the political class: A P ShahThe Law Commission believes that the lack of consensus is focused mainly on the issue of death pen on the issue of death penalty for terror...
- Polls should ideally be in conducted 2 to 3 phases, not 5-6 phases: CEC H S BrahmaMoney has had a play in elections for 65 years and money and muscle always tilt in favour of the one who can afford to spend and deploy mor...
- Radical changes to be made in electoral system: Law Minister Sadanand Gowda"The issue of electoral reforms in its entirety has been referred to the Law Commission for its examination and report," he said.
- Mild mannered Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan not averse to strong actionMahajan may be described as soft spoken and mild mannered, but the new LS Speaker is not averse to taking "strong" action against erring me...
- Why Left parties are shrinking as an electoral force?They were too late in grasping caste dynamics and continue to remain fidgety about striking pacts with like-minded outfits.
- No decision on mandatory audit of donation received by political partiesGovernment said there is no decision, as of now, for mandatory audit of donations received by political parties.
- The hush-hush change of guard in ChinaThe Chinese government may be redrawing the public sphere in pushing the agitprop of economic growth, but can a burgeoning virtual sphere b...
- Injecting white money into elections will strengthen inner-party structures and democracyThe excess of black money in elections is at the heart of the problem that besets the Indian political system. That's the perception.
- What Team Anna is missing on poll reformRight to recall isn't the most pressing change needed in India's creaky poll system. But the really smart ideas have been languishing for y...
- Electoral reforms: Right to recall practical only when electorate is small, say former Election CommissionersGopalaswami argued that state funding of polls would be a lost battle unless political parties make way for inner-party democracy that allo...
- Sibal launches N-attack from Left bastionForced on to the backfoot by relentless bouncers from their Left allies over the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal, the Congress has resolved t...
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