The incident took place at Yanner in Pahalgam tourist resort in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district late on Saturday night, they said.

The Rajasthan Election Commissioner, Madhukar Gupta, announced that bypolls for vacant posts in urban local bodies and panchayati raj insti...

A total of 4,629 candidates are in the fray for the post of sarpanch and 11,373 for the post of panch, he said, adding that 26 sarpanch and...

Polling for the fourth and last phase of panchayat elections in Rajasthan, covering 897 gram panchayats, began on Saturday morning amid tig...

The state election commission had issued guidelines for ensuring compliance of protocols like social distancing, wearing of masks and sanit...

Raje had recently said there were just two castes in Rajasthan: men and women. But it seems the former caste matter more when it comes to c...

In response to a question about how the decision could exclude many from contesting, Gandhi said, "If you are going to raise the benchmark ...

They have additional criteria for exclusion such as a two-child norm, functional toilet at home, and no pending power bills or loan payment...

Counting of votes will begin in all 33 district headquarters at 8 am, a spokesman of State Election Commission (RSEC) said today.

Noted activist Nikhil Dey said 80 per cent people in villages and 95 per cent women could not contest the Panchayat polls due to the educat...

The nomination process for first phase poll ended yesterday which was also the last date for withdrawal of nominations.

Filing of nomination papers for the first phase of three-phased panchayat polls ended at 1500 hrs today, an official of state Election Comm...

Vasundhara Raje-led Rajasthan government in an ordinance had said those contesting to be a panchayat member should be class V pass.

"Go and challenge the vires of the ordinance in Rajasthan High Court," a bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu said.

Filing of nomination papers for the first phase of January 16 panchayat polls in Rajasthan started with the issuance of its notification to...

While one of the petitions has been filed by a person affected by the new law, the other has been filed by activist Aruna Roy and the ADR.

The same month last year she spoke at the UN about transforming rural India by ensuring basic facilities like drinking water, electricity, ...