Voting
- Bangalore
Karnataka: Congress camps MLAs at resort over cross-voting fears
Bengaluru: Resort politics has once again returned to Karnataka ahead of the Legislative Council elections, with the Congress taking precautionary measures to prevent any possibility of cross-voting. Whenever elections result in political…
- Pakistan
Voting underway in PoK’s Gilgit-Baltistan region
Islamabad: Voting was underway on Sunday, June 7, in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir’s Gilgit-Baltistan region for elections to the so-called legislative assembly. India has lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over the elections to…
- India
Dark day for judiciary: Lawyers, Opposition react to SC’s order upholding SIR
New Delhi: An uproar followed the Supreme Court’s approval of the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, with advocate Prashant Bhushan terming it a “dark day for the judiciary”…
- India
West Bengal: Falta repoll sees over 60 p c polling till 1 pm
Kolkata: The repoll in the Falta Assembly constituency in West Bengal on Thursday, May 21, saw a voter turnout of over 60 per cent till 1 pm, with no untoward incident reported…
- Telangana
SIR: Check your name now or risk losing your vote, Telangana EC tells voters
Hyderabad: The Election Commission of India (ECI) is set to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across Telangana, with the schedule to be announced shortly, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) C…
- India
ECI rules out re-poll in TN, West Bengal after scrutiny
New Delhi: The Election Commission of India on Saturday, April 25, said that no re-poll has been recommended in either Tamil Nadu or West Bengal after the completion of scrutiny of the…
- India
Why have an election: Kapil Sibal slams EC, Gyanesh Kumar
New Delhi: Former law minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday, April 23, launched a scathing attack on the Election Commission, accusing it of carrying out an “experiment in disenfranchisement” in West Bengal and…
- India
SC seeks Calcutta HC report on Bengal voter tribunals not functioning properly
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, April 20, said it will seek a report from the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court on the functioning of appellate tribunals set up to…
- Kolkata
Over 3.6 cr people eligible to cast votes in 1st phase of Bengal polls: EC
Kolkata: More than 3.6 crore electors across 16 districts are eligible to exercise their franchise in the first phase of the West Bengal assembly elections on April 23, according to Election Commission…
- India
Right to vote, right to contest not fundamental rights: Supreme Court
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday, April 10, reiterated that neither the right to vote nor the right to contest an election is a fundamental right, holding that both are purely statutory…
- India
Karnataka bypolls: Voting begins in two assembly segments
Bengaluru: Voting was underway for bypolls to two Assembly segments–Bagalkot and Davanagere South in Karnataka on Thursday, April 9. The polls were necessitated by the deaths of senior Congress MLAs H Y…
- India
Voting begins in Puducherry amid tight security
Puducherry: Voting commenced amid tight security across the union territory of Puducherry on Thursday, April 9, with 9.50 lakh voters set to decide the electoral fortunes of the ruling NDA and the…
- Hyderabad
SIR in Hyderabad: How BLOs’ mistakes can put your voting rights at risk
Hyderabad: Hyderabad, along with other districts of Telangana, is going to see Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in April. As the exercise is going to begin next month, some lessons…
- Telangana
Telangana Governor calls upon voters to exercise right on National Voters’ Day
Hyderabad: Telangana Governor Jishnu Dev Varma on Sunday, January 25, called upon citizens to actively and responsibly exercise their right to vote, asserting that democratic institutions remain strong only when voters participate…
- India
Maharashtra civic polls: All eyes on Mumbai as voting begins
Mumbai: Voting in 29 municipal corporations across Maharashtra began on Thursday, January 15, morning with the spotlight on Mumbai, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Mahayuti alliance is locked in an intense…
