It is election season and the ‘festival’ of democracy is upon us. We are expected to exercise our franchise and elect the government that will rule India for the next five years. How do we actuall...

Assam tried the tech-savvy way as well as the colours of tradition to attract voters to the polling stations in the final phase of elections on Tuesday.These included selfie points, handwritten letter...

Former Assam director-general of police and poet Harekrishna Deka on Tuesday alleged that the voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) machine at a polling station here had malfunctioned and the rec...

Krishna Kumar, a resident of S.K. Bhuyan Road in Latasil, was shocked to find his name was missing from the voter list. Poll officials told him that his family members, too, would not be able to vote...

Voters in Finland are casting ballots in a parliamentary election after fierce debates over how best to tackle climate change dominated the campaign, even overshadowing topics like reforming the natio...

Nagaon Bengali Girls’ High School under Nowgong Lok Sabha constituency will be a model polling station with all women officials and a poll booth manned by female personnel. This is the school that h...

The villagers of Margherita subdivision on Tuesday said there was sunya parivartan (zero change) in their areas and resolved to boycott the 17th Lok Sabha elections after the BJP failed to solve their...

The Election Commission has asked the government to give it statutory backing to collect Aadhaar numbers of new applicants and existing voters to check multiple entries in electoral rolls.In a letter ...

CPM leaders in Dum Dum have prepared lists of absentee, shifted and deceased voters — referred to as “ASD” in poll parlance — that they plan to submit to the presiding officers of booths befor...

Steel city was up and running from early Sunday morning with voters of all ages making a beeline outside polling booths to exercise their franchise for the prestigious Jamshedpur Lok Sabha seat.Though...