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Lok Sabha reconstitutes three Financial, one Standing Parliamentary Committee till 2027Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has reconstituted four key parliamentary committees for the 2026-27 financial year. Notable reappointments inclu...
Ethnic aspirations define political loyalty in Bengal's Junglemahal ahead of Assembly elections 2026West Bengal elections 2026: Political contests in West Bengal's Junglemahal are influenced by ethnic identity struggles. The Kudmi-Mahato c...
BJP-led govt’s constitutional amendment bill for women quota in Parliament fails Lok Sabha testParliament rejected a bill to implement 33% women's reservation by 2029, requiring an expansion of Lok Sabha seats. The government blamed o...
“No state will lose Lok Sabha share”: Narendra Modi defends delimitation, women’s reservation pushPrime Minister Narendra Modi assures states their Lok Sabha seat share will not decrease with new delimitation and women's reservation laws...
Women's Reservation Bill 2026: After 30 years, here's how India moves to reserve 33% seats for women in ParliamentParliament is considering a new law to bring 33 percent reservation for women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies starting from the 2029 elec...
26-year-old Rubi Kumari Thakur elected Nepal deputy speakerNepal has elected 26-year-old Rubi Kumari Thakur as the Deputy Speaker of its House of Representatives. Thakur, a Member of Parliament from...
RSP to pursue 'development diplomacy' to boost Nepal-India ties: Chairman LamichhaneRastriya Swatantra Party Chairman Rabi Lamichhane aims to boost Nepal-India relations through development diplomacy. He thanked Prime Minis...
EVM an aggregator of votes, can't be used in presidential, vice presidential electionsElectronic Voting Machines or EVMs are unsuitable for certain Indian elections. These include presidential, vice presidential, Rajya Sabha,...
One parliament, 27 ways of voting: Europe's electionMore than 350 million people across 27 countries are called on to participate in one of the West's largest democratic events from June 6 to...
Presidential poll 2022: Electoral fate of Draupadi Murmu, Yashwant Sinha to be stored in ballot boxes, not EVMsVoters press the button against the name of the candidate of their choice and the one who bags the maximum number of votes is declared elec...
EVMs not designed for presidential poll voting systemBut the election of the President is held in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of single transferable vote...
Ex-CEC JM Lyngdoh bats for doing away with candidates fighting pollsJ M Lyngdoh has instead advocated the concept of proportional representation for political parties based on the percentage of votes they wi...
No plan to introduce proportional representation system in Lok Sabha: GovernmentRavi Shankar Prasad said elections to the office of the President and to Rajya Sabha are held in accordance with the system of proportional...
M Karunanidhi calls for debates on Proportional Representation systemAIADMK and CPI(M) had a vote share of 3.3 per cent each at the national level, but the ruling party in Tamil Nadu had won 37 seats.
Jaitley to Ansari: Govt put nominated member to JPC to "rig"BJP today lodged a protest with RS Chairman against the government putting a nominated member in the JPC on 2G spectrum scam to ensure its ...
Make voting compulsory, says Vice-President AnsariHamid Ansari calls for electoral reforms, including compulsory voting and proportional representation in legislatures across all sections o...
- Maoists sweep Nepal polls: Final results
Final results from Nepal's landmark elections gave the Maoist outsiders a clear victory with double the number of seats of their nearest ri...