New Delhi: In a significant move ahead of the elections to five state Assemblies in November this year and the general elections next year, the Centre today announced the setting up of the Seventh Pa

New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has recommended that statutory back-up be provided to the Model Code of Conduct — “leaving no vacuum for the Election Commission to exercise its powers” — and sought

New Delhi: The Election Commission will convene a meeting of political parties next month to formulate its opinion on the proposed guidelines on poll manifestos announcing freebies against the backdr

New Delhi: CPI has become the first political outfit to respond to an RTI application after a CIC order declared parties as public authorities but underlined that it does not come under the transpare

New Delhi: The Election Commission is mulling issuing a notice to BJP leader Gopinath Munde on his statement that he had spent Rs 8 crore in the last Lok Sabha elections much above the prescribed cei

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today rescheduled the dates of West Bengal panchayat elections and directed the State Election Commission to conduct the exercise in five phases starting July 11.
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New Delhi: The remarks of senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde that he had spent around Rs 8 crore in the last Lok Sabha elections, which is much above the prescribed limit, came under the Election Commi

Bengaluru: Did you wake up to loudspeakers blaring and somebody screaming into the megaphone to vote for so-and-so? Did you pick up the morning newspaper and find a bunch of pamphlets dropping from i

Expressing unhappiness over the announcement of the much-touted direct cash transfer scheme by the Government even when the Model Code was in force, the Election Commission on Sunday wrote to the Cabi

The Election Commission (EC) has issued a show cause notice to Gujarat Congress president Arjun Modhwadia for his reported remarks on the personal life of Chief Minister Narendra Modi and also for com