Puducherry Assembly Elections 2026 voter turnout: Polling held for 30 constituencies, final turnout reaches 89.87%Puducherry Assembly Elections 2026 Voter Turnout: Voting is underway in Puducherry for 30 assembly seats. Over 9.5 lakh voters are deciding...
29 Apr, 2026, 02.43 PM IST
₹1,000 crore in poll freebies, cash, liquor seized in West Bengal, Tamil NaduAuthorities have seized over ₹1,000 crore in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu before Assembly elections. Tamil Nadu saw seizures of ₹599 crore, w...
23 Apr, 2026, 01.15 AM IST
Poll seizures in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal cross Rs 1,000 crore markEnforcement authorities have seized over Rs 1000 crore in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. This includes cash, drugs, liquor, and precious metal...
22 Apr, 2026, 06.28 PM IST
Election Commission seizes items worth Rs 1,262 crore in TNTamil Nadu has seized over Rs 1,262 crore in cash, gold, liquor, and drugs ahead of the April 23 elections. The state's electoral roll comp...
22 Apr, 2026, 12.27 PM IST
West Bengal polls: Asset declaration of Trinamool nominee under I-T probeThe Income-Tax Department is probing Trinamool Congress MLA Debasish Kumar over alleged asset discrepancies after searches uncovered jewell...
22 Apr, 2026, 01.03 AM IST
West Bengal polls: ECI flags 55 seats as 'expenditure sensitive'West Bengal faces heightened election scrutiny. The Election Commission has marked 55 constituencies as expenditure sensitive. This year, 1...
20 Apr, 2026, 12.36 AM IST
I-T Dept finds 'discrepancies' in declaration of assets by TMC MLA: SourcesThe Income Tax Department has uncovered discrepancies in assets declared by TMC MLA Debashis Kumar. Seizures from his residence during rece...
19 Apr, 2026, 09.31 PM IST
EC seizes over Rs 650 crore in voter inducementsElection Commission teams have seized over Rs 650 crore in potential voter inducements. West Bengal leads with nearly half the seizures. Fr...
06 Apr, 2026, 07.14 PM IST
Assembly polls: Rs 650 crore worth illicit cash, liquor seized; nearly half from West BengalElection authorities have seized over 650 crore rupees in illegal cash, drugs, and liquor across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, an...
05 Apr, 2026, 05.16 PM IST
Enforcement agencies seize ₹181 crore in West Bengal ahead of pollsWest Bengal has seen cumulative seizures worth Rs 181.31 crore, including cash, liquor, and narcotics, ahead of assembly polls. The Electio...
23 Mar, 2026, 12.37 AM IST
Seizure worth Rs 4,650 crore made; 45% of them drugs: ECElection Commission authorities are seizing Rs 100 crore daily for Lok Sabha elections, surpassing 2019 seizures. The ECI aims for the high...
15 Apr, 2024, 03.51 PM IST
Record cash, liquor seized as Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat go to polls: ECGujarat witnessed seizures of Rs 71.88 crore in just a few days after the announcement of the election, which surpassed the seizures made d...
11 Nov, 2022, 03.19 PM IST
Assam breaks all records in poll seizures, Rs 18cr worth items caught so farSince the Model Code of Conduct came into force, the agencies have seized an overall Rs 18.31 crore worth of items till Monday, according t...
09 Mar, 2021, 02.52 PM IST
Karnataka among top 3 states in poll sop seizuresTwenty-one states have gone to polls since the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and Karnataka — the 22nd — is already among the top three states where ...
05 May, 2018, 07.16 AM IST
Karnataka polls: Seizures soar past Rs 115 croreAccording to EC, the total amount of seizures, including cash, alcohol and jewellery, is Rs 115.9 crore. In 2014 LS polls, EC had confiscat...
01 May, 2018, 12.40 PM IST
Assembly polls: Cash, liquor seizure go through the roof in 2017"The surveillance teams are, however, on their toes to thwart these efforts as much as possible," a senior Income Tax department official, ...
26 Feb, 2017, 01.56 PM IST
Despite note ban, dirty cash flows for assembly electionsThough UP is yet to see four more phases of polling, cash seizures in the state stood at Rs 109.79 crore on February 18, three times the am...
21 Feb, 2017, 08.32 AM IST