The Election Commission will ferry disabled persons and those who accompany them from their homes to polling booths and back, reports our special correspondent. In a letter to chief electoral officers...

At least 200 politicians, former bureaucrats, activists, academics, artistes and civil society groups have written to the Election Commission urging the poll watchdog to dismiss a plea to link voter i...

The Election Commission has postponed the elections to 11 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council seats which will fall vacant in May in view of the ongoing lockdown, a senior official said on Saturday.The ...

Now that the general elections are over, it might be instructive to look back and reflect on some important questions. For instance, a small step in the right direction is always encouraging, but does...

The Trinamul Congress wrote to the Election Commission of India on Sunday, alleging the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath is a violation of the model code of c...

As differences within the Election Commission spilled into the open with election commissioner Ashok Lavasa deciding to stay away from future meetings if dissent notes were not recorded, chief electio...

Although Sintu Bagui is one of the first transgenders to become a Lok Adalat judge in Bengal’s Serampore district, his voter ID says “male”. Sintu insists he will update his gender status post t...

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Saturday described as 'unsavory (sic)' and 'avoidable' news reports that fellow commissioner Ashok Lavasa had recused himself from meetings related to model ...

How much coverage of the Indian general elections has there been in the British press? The answer is provided in an amusing tweet from the Channel 4 news anchor, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, who has characte...

Watching Narendra Modi’s television ‘interviews’ confirmed my suspicion that this is not a medium for our part of the world. Perhaps it isn’t Modi’s fault that the organizers handed him the ...