Ever wondered why electronic voting machines, used in four Lok Sabha elections and 127 assembly polls since 2004, are not deployed in polls to elect the President and Vice President of India, members ...

Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday had alleged that EVMs not used in the just-concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections were being smuggled into strongrooms where machines deployed in the polls have been kept...

Akhilesh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party president, has alleged that EVMs not used in the just-concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections were being smuggled into strongrooms where machines deployed in the...

As the results of 107 civic bodies were announced on Wednesday, it was found that a number of candidates who had contested from political parties or as Independents were unusual victors.  Some w...

Taherpur municipality in Nadia stood out on a day marked by Trinamul sweep as the 13-member strong civic body turned out to be one of the two places in the state where the ruling party had to taste de...

A BJP candidate contesting Englishbazar municipal polls has been accused of offering money to a voter during his campaign. A video circulating on social media shows Krishna Mandal, the BJP candidate ...

A former chief election commissioner and an ex-returning officer who had flagged the “vulnerability” of electronic voting machines to tampering have opposed a purported proposal for remote...

The Darjeeling district administration has cleaned ballot boxes that were lying unused in a store room for decades, a move which has created excitement among political parties because panchayat electi...

The Election Commission on Friday issued a notification for a bypoll to a vacant Rajya Sabha seat in Bengal on August 9. The bypoll was necessitated by the resignation of Dinesh Trivedi. The term of ...

Many were also seen laying out newspapers and having lunch huddled in groups. Some others had tucked their masks into their pockets to have lunch or tea and biscuits. No facilities to conduct tempera...