| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.09.2024 | The Political Landscape of India: A Tug of War for Democracy | India stands at a crossroads. The recent general elections have ignited a fierce debate about the state of democracy in the world's largest democracy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) faced a significant challenge... |
| 10.09.2024 | India's Modi had advantage in 'controlled' election, opposition leader Gandhi says | NEW DELHI: India's opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday (Sep 10) he did not view this year's two-month general elections as a free exercise, but rather as one structured to deliver an advantage to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, wit... |
| 04.06.2024 | India's BJP concedes defeat in Ayodhya, where Modi opened grand Ram temple | NEW DELHI: India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party conceded defeat on Tuesday (Jun 4) in a constituency where the inauguration of a grand Hindu temple just months ago by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was seen as an event that would cement his ... |
| 03.06.2024 | Lok Sabha election 2024: How to check poll results on ECI website? | - |
| 02.06.2024 | Lok Sabha polls: Election Commission to hold press conference on June 3 | - |
| 02.06.2024 | Election Commission orders repolling in two booths in West Bengal | - |
| 01.06.2024 | Lok Sabha polls: Counting of votes to begin from 8 am on June 4, says ECI | - |
| 27.05.2024 | Phase 6 turnout reaches 63.36%; ECI releases data for all completed phases | - |
| 27.05.2024 | Two-tier security for polled EVMs locked in strong rooms in Delhi: CEO | - |
| 26.05.2024 | Commentary: The extraordinary logistics of India’s election | HYDERABAD, India: The world’s largest democratic election is well underway in India, with approximately 968.8 million registered voters. That’s almost a billion people registered to vote, roughly three times the total population of the Unit... |
| 25.05.2024 | LS elections: EVM related complaints from some polling stations in Delhi | - |
| 24.05.2024 | Lok Sabha elections: What is Form 17C that EC has refused to make public | - |
| 23.05.2024 | LS polls: 60,000 personnel, cameras to ensure peaceful voting in Delhi | - |
| 23.05.2024 | LS polls: 45,576 EVMs at 20,031 polling stations in Haryana, says officer | - |
| 23.05.2024 | Publishing polling booth-wise data will 'vitiate' electoral space: EC | - |
| 21.05.2024 | EC bans BJP candidate Abhijit Gangopadhyay from campaigning for 24 hours | - |
| 16.05.2024 | Nearly 67% voter turnout in first four phases of Lok Sabha elections: EC | - |
| 16.05.2024 | Lok Sabha polls: EC rejects Shyam Rangeela's nomination from Varanasi seat | - |
| 13.05.2024 | From homemakers to kingmakers: Battle to win over India's women voters in the world's biggest election | Listen to this article
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| 13.05.2024 | LS polls 2024: EC rescues 3 kidnapped TDP polling agents in Andhra Pradesh | - |
| 12.05.2024 | Lok Sabha Polls 2024 LIVE: TMC files complaint with ECI against NCW Chief, BJP leader | - |
| 12.05.2024 | EC to use 160,000 EVMs for simultaneous LS, Assembly polls in Andhra | - |
| 11.05.2024 | Who is Justice Sanjiv Khanna, the future CJI who granted interim bail to Arvind Kejriwal? | Justice Sanjiv Khanna granted interim bail to Arvind Kejriwal on May 10
On May 10, a bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta granted interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy case to campaign in th... |
| 11.05.2024 | Voter turnout in phase 3 of Lok Sabha elections at 65.68%, says EC | - |
| 11.05.2024 | 'Means to deter an elector': EC pulls up Kharge over turnout data charge | - |
| 10.05.2024 | LS elections: Andhra CEO reviews poll preparation 72 hours before voting | - |
| 09.05.2024 | EC orders repoll at Gujarat polling station where man live-streamed voting | - |
| 07.05.2024 | India urges political parties to avoid using deepfakes in election campaigns | India’s Election Commission has issued an advisory to all political parties, urging them to refrain from using deepfakes and other forms of misinformation in their social media posts during the country’s ongoing general elections. The move ... |
| 07.05.2024 | Election Commission's credibility at all-time low: Kharge to INDIA partners | - |
| 06.05.2024 | ECI Directs Political Parties To Remove Fake Content From Social Media Within 3 Hours | SUMMARY
The commission also warned parties against misuse of AI-based tools to “create deepfakes that distort information or propagate misinformation”
The mandates were part of ECI’s latest directions to political parties to use social medi... |
| 04.05.2024 | Representatives of poll bodies from 23 nations to see LS elections up close | - |
| 04.05.2024 | LS polls: AAP's campaign song gets poll body approval after modifications | - |
| 03.05.2024 | Why India's voter turnout is low and improving it will be complicated | - |
| 03.05.2024 | Lok Sabha polls: 1,717 candidates to contest elections in phase 4, says ECI | - |
| 01.05.2024 | LS polls 2024: AAP delegation meets EC over its LS polls campaign song | - |
| 30.04.2024 | LS elections: Phase 1 turnout at 66.14%, Phase 2 at 66.71%, says EC | - |
| 30.04.2024 | LS polls: EC to hand out diamond rings to Bhopal voters to boost turnout | - |
| 28.04.2024 | Lok Sabha elections: AAP claims party's poll campaign song banned by ECI | - |
| 28.04.2024 | LS polls: ECI orders repolling at 6 outer Manipur stations on April 30 | - |
| 27.04.2024 | LS polls: Congress accuses Anurag Thakur of violating model code, moves EC | - |
| 27.04.2024 | EC orders re-polling at one booth in Chamarajanagar LS segment in Karnataka | - |
| 26.04.2024 | After EC's reply to SC queries, verdict on EVM-VVPAT case likely today | - |
| 26.04.2024 | SC issues notice to EC on plea seeking re-election if NOTA gets majority | - |
| 24.04.2024 | Can't control polls or pass directions on basis of suspicion, SC on EVM | - |
| 24.04.2024 | Lok Sabha 2024: What to do if your name is missing from electoral rolls? | - |
| 24.04.2024 | Commentary: How can India hold elections when it’s too hot to vote? | SYDNEY: How do you run a democracy when the mercury rises above 40 degrees Celsius?
That’s the problem faced by voters in India. A swathe of the country’s east is sweltering under a brutal heatwave. The city centre of Kolkata has emptied ou... |
| 24.04.2024 | Cross-verification of votes: SC reserves verdict after noting EC's answers | - |
| 23.04.2024 | Lok Sabha elections: 1,351 candidates in fray for phase 3, says EC | - |
| 23.04.2024 | Lok Sabha polls: Can India hold elections when it is too hot to vote? | - |
| 23.04.2024 | Hold Modi accountable for 'false, unverified allegations': Congress to EC | - |
| 23.04.2024 | Election Commission declines to comment on PM Modi's Rajasthan poll speech | - |
| 22.04.2024 | Meta's AI Chatbot Restrictions in India | Meta's AI chatbot is facing restrictions in India during the ongoing general elections. The company is blocking specific election-related queries and redirecting users to the Election Commission of India's website. This move comes as part o... |
| 22.04.2024 | Lok Sabha polls: ECI orders repoll in 8 polling stations in Arunachal | - |
| 22.04.2024 | EC forms task force to review heatwave impact before each phase of polling | - |
| 20.04.2024 | LS polls: Over 200,000 complaints of election violation received in Kerala | - |
| 19.04.2024 | LS polls: 4 EVMs damaged by unidentified people at different Manipur booths | - |
| 19.04.2024 | Lok Sabha election 2024: How much does it cost to hold elections in India? | - |
| 19.04.2024 | Meta’s AI Chatbot Blocking Poll-Related Queries In India Amid Ongoing General Elections | SUMMARY
A company spokesperson said that the chatbot is restricting certain election-related keywords for AI in the ongoing test phase
In response to user queries about politicians, the chatbot responds with a link to the website of the Ele... |
| 19.04.2024 | Meta AI Chatbot Filtering Election-Related Queries Amid General Elections in India | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 19 April 2024, 08:04 pm
Meta is following in Google's footsteps in limiting the use of AI chatbots to avoid misleading or false information that might confuse voters. This time, Facebook's parent firm is bringing th... |
| 18.04.2024 | Election Commission issues notification for fourth phase of Lok Sabha polls | - |
| 18.04.2024 | TMC files complaint with Election Commission against Bengal Guv Ananda Bose | - |
| 18.04.2024 | LS polls: Election officials climb hills, ford rivers to reach voters | - |
| 17.04.2024 | Elections 2024: ECI receives 200 complaints on code violations; acts on 169 | - |
| 17.04.2024 | Cooch Behar visit violates model code: ECI cautions Bengal governor | - |
| 15.04.2024 | ECI permitted WB to pay ex-gratia to families affected by storm: Adhikari | - |
| 12.04.2024 | Lok Sabha polls 2024: EC updates 'Form M' procedure for Kashmiri migrants | - |
| 12.04.2024 | Nomination process begins for Phase 3 of Lok Sabha elections on May 7 | - |
| 08.04.2024 | Indian Government Increases Windfall Tax on Crude Oil for Fifth Time in 2024 | The Indian government has once again raised the windfall tax on petroleum crude, this time to Rs 6,800 per metric tonne from Rs 4,900, marking the fifth increase since February. The tax, which is adjusted every two weeks, remains at zero fo... |
| 08.04.2024 | We have transformed Northeast to 'abundant region, says PM Modi | Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asserted that the past decade of BJP governance at the Centre has been dedicated to transforming the Northeast from an "abandoned region" to an "abundant region".
There has been a m... |
| 08.04.2024 | Mahila Samman Savings Certificate: All you need to know | The Mahila Samman Savings Certificate is a one-time savings scheme for women announced by the central government in budget 2023. The scheme is valid till March 2025 and aims to empower women by increasing their participation in investments.... |
| 08.04.2024 | 10 TMC MPs sit on 24-hour dharna outside Election Commission office | A 10-member delegation from West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) is currently staging a dharna outside the headquarters of the Election Commission (EC). They are demanding to meet with the full bench of the poll body to address the... |
| 08.04.2024 | Lok Sabha polls 2024: All you need to know about phase seven of polls | The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the Lok Sabha elections 2024 in seven phases between April 19 and June 1, with results on June 4.
There are a total of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. Of these, 412 are for general, while 84 are ... |
| 07.04.2024 | Consider weather, climate inputs while planning one nation, one poll: IMD | With the government contemplating the idea of simultaneous Lok Sabha and state elections, India Meteorological Department chief Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said the authorities should certainly take weather conditions and the climate into consider... |
| 07.04.2024 | Manipur LS polls: Over 24k displaced people to vote from relief camps | Eleven months of conflict, over 50,000 displaced people and an anti-poll sentiment among few---the Election Commission in violence-hit Manipur is gearing up for the challenging task of holding Lok Sabha elections in the state where the poll... |
| 05.04.2024 | NHAI maintains toll tax status amid Lok Sabha polls | ROADS & HIGHWAYS NHAI maintains toll tax status amid Lok Sabha polls
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The significance of the toll plazas situated at Shivapur and Anewadi as vital links between Pune and Satara, two of the busiest cities. ... |
| 05.04.2024 | Defeat predicted for Rishi Sunak-led Conservative Party in UK polls: Survey | Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party, which has been in power in the United Kingdom (UK) for nearly 15 years, is likely to be defeated in a “tidal wave” by the Labour Party in elections. This may be due to the public's growing di... |
| 05.04.2024 | LS polls: Digital clocks and smart TV box are new-age freebies in Karnataka | In hopes of winning the coming Lok Sabha elections race, Karnataka candidates have stepped up their strategies by expanding the scope of freebies offered to the voters to include a wider array of attractions, the Times of India reported on ... |
| 05.04.2024 | Nearly 5,000 polling booths identified as vulnerable in Punjab, says CEO | Punjab Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sibin C on Friday said that vulnerability mapping ahead of the Lok Sabha poll is going on and around 5,000 polling booths have been identified as vulnerable.
"Vulnerability mapping is going on and a... |
| 05.04.2024 | EC asks officials to work on increasing voter turnout in Lok Sabha polls | Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Friday held a meeting with senior officials of the country’s major cities and select states and directed them to make efforts to improve voter turnout in the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha Elections.
Muni... |
| 03.04.2024 | ECI calls meeting to review law and order on borders ahead of LS polls | The Election Commission of India (ECI) has called a crucial meeting on Wednesday with all the top officials of the states, union territories and central agencies to review the law and order situation on borders ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha p... |
| 03.04.2024 | Centre asks states to mitigate heat wave impact during Lok Sabha elections | (Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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| 03.04.2024 | Integrated framework | The government has made it clear that its plan is to create a “Viksit Bharat” — a developed India. Various dates have been suggested for the realisation of this ambition, though the one most often cited is 2047, the hundredth anniversary of... |
| 03.04.2024 | NOTA vote share declines in 2019 LS polls to 1.06% from 1.08% in 2014 | In the 2019 Lok Sabha (LS) polls, 1.06 per cent voters pressed the NOTA button, choosing None Of The Above . This was down from 1.08 per cent in the 2014 LS polls.
A statewise look at the data shows that in 2019, Bihar recorded the highest ... |
| 02.04.2024 | LS polls: No ticket for 12 of 20 MPs who won with highest margins in 2019 | Uncertainty is the only certainty in Indian politics, something that MPs of Karnal and Vidisha have recently found out.
Both the representatives -- Karnal’s Sanjay Bhatia and Vidisha’s Ramakant Bhargava -- have joined the league MPs, who, d... |
| 02.04.2024 | 'Viksit Bharat' takes centre stage at first BJP manifesto committee meet | The road map for the government's "Viksit Bharat" agenda took centre stage at the first meeting of the BJP's election manifesto committee on Monday as eight Union ministers and three chief ministers joined other party leaders to d... |
| 02.04.2024 | People's mood has changed, it is now against PM Modi, says Sharad Pawar | NCP leader Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said the mood of the people has changed and it is now against PM Narendra Modi.
Addressing a press conference in Nagpur, Pawar also said there was "no thinking yet" on who would be the INDIA bloc... |
| 01.04.2024 | BJP urges EC to file FIR against TMC leader for 'casteist slur' on PM Modi | The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has lodged a formal complaint with the Election Commission of India (EC) regarding alleged derogatory remarks made against Prime Minister Narendra Modi by Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Piyush Panda. The pa... |
| 01.04.2024 | BJP writes to EC, seeks 'stringent action' against Rahul over EVM remark | The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday filed a complaint with the Election Commission of India (EC) regarding a controversial statement made by senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during the INDIA bloc's rally on March 31.
During the ra... |
| 31.03.2024 | LS polls: BJP once again falls back on Yediyurappa to deliver in Karnataka | BJP veteran B S Yediyurappa is out of power and electoral politics for sure, but his clout in the party's affairs in Karnataka remains undiminished as its central leadership seems to be once again falling back on this seasoned oarsman to de... |
| 30.03.2024 | Home Minister Amit Shah to visit Assam on April 6: CM Himanta Sarma | Ahead of the Lok Sabha poll, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Assam on April 6, said Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
"Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Assam on April 6. We have also discussed with New Delhi, t... |
| 26.03.2024 | Lok Sabha polls 2024: ECI issues advisory for voter safety against heatwave | The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday issued an advisory to the Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) regarding the prevention of heat wave impact on voters during the Lok Sabha elections 2024. The Indian Meteorological Department (IM... |
| 22.03.2024 | LS polls: BJP releases third list, former Telangana guv among candidates | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday released third list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, fielding former Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan from Chennai South seat, and the party’s state unit chief and former... |
| 22.03.2024 | Cong's 3rd list for LS polls: Kharge's son-in-law to contest from Gulbarga | The Congress released its third list of Lok Sabha candidates on Thursday, pitting heavyweight Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury against former cricketer and now TMC man Yusuf Pathan from Baharampur seat.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge is not co... |
| 22.03.2024 | Election Commission asks Centre to stop Viksit Bharat WhatsApp campaign | Lok Sabha elections 2024: The Election Commission on Thursday asked the government to stop delivering WhatsApps messages about ‘Viksit Bharat’, sending a notice after Opposition parties complained that the letter from Prime Minister Narendr... |
| 21.03.2024 | EC releases electoral bonds data with bond numbers: See full list | The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Thursday, released the electoral bonds data, including bond numbers provided by the State Bank of India (SBI), in compliance with the directives of the Supreme Court (SC).
In compliance of Hon’ble ... |
| 21.03.2024 | LS polls: 'Modi-Aurangzeb' row, 200k political ads axed in Delhi. 10 points | Filing nominations for phase one of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections got off to a slow start on Wednesday, with 33 candidates' affidavits submitted for the key battle across 102 constituencies on April 19. The data on the Election Commissio... |
| 21.03.2024 | Lok Sabha polls 2024: Here's why BJP leader Shobha Karandlaje is in trouble | The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday directed the Chief Election Commissioner of Karnataka to take immediate action against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje based on the complaint filed... |
| 21.03.2024 | Election Commission publishes electoral bond data with matching numbers | The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday evening made public a fresh data set of electoral bonds, including their alpha-numeric numbers, which enable matching the purchases of these bonds with the political parties that received the funds.
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| 21.03.2024 | Gaps remain in electoral bond information despite additional disclosures | This report has been updated.
Information on over a quarter of electoral bonds said to have been issued since 2018, may not be in the public domain in its entirety, despite new disclosures due on March 21.
The Election Commission of India (... |
| 21.03.2024 | Postal ballot voting: Eligibility and process for Lok Sabha elections 2024 | The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday announced that media persons covering "polling day activities" are now eligible to vote in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024 and state Assembly polls through postal ballots.
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