While observing ‘Vigilance Awareness Week’ this year, the Central Vigilance Commission unveiled a pertinent theme — “Independent India @ 75: Self Reliance with Integrity”...

In the essay, “Of wealth”, Albert Einstein wittily critiques the role of money and philanthropy saying, “Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly t...

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The Election Commission had circulated guidelines for submission of contribution reports of electoral trusts to submit an annual report containing details of contributions received by the electoral tr...

Most candidates who changed parties in the recent polls to five Legislative Assemblies were from the Congress and the destination of most party hoppers was the BJP, according to a report by the NGO As...

The number of recently-elected MLAs in Assam with criminal cases and assets over one crore has risen.    As many as 34 MLAs out of 126 have declared criminal cases against them — ten ...

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A heartening aspect of Indian democracy has been the rise in turnouts of women voters. The results of the assembly elections in Delhi and Bihar in 2020 reinforce this claim. In Bihar, the National Dem...

Three former chief election commissioners (CECs) have highlighted the challenges of extending voting facilities to migrants within and outside India.  In the 2019 polls, a third of eligible vote...

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