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Thiruvananthapuram, March 21 Ministers from the Kerala state, top leaders from the Congress and BJP, filed their nomination papers on Saturday for the upcoming Assembly elections.Several state ministers, including P. Rajeev, V. Sivankutty, R. Bindu, and P. A. Mohamed Riyas, as well as CPI(M)...

Chennai, March 21 – Following the announcement of the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has launched a special doorstep voting facility to ensure greater accessibility and inclusivity in the electoral process.The initiative is aimed at enabling senior...

Kolkata, March 21 – Addressing a gathering on the occasion of the Eid festival on Saturday morning, the Chief Minister of West Bengal criticised the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state and also launched a scathing attack against Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, claiming that the...

New Delhi, March 21 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Saturday that the first randomization of EVMs and VVPATs for the upcoming Assembly elections has been completed in Assam, Kerala, and Puducherry.The poll body had, on March 15, announced the schedule for the General...

The Election Commission has issued an order to regulate political advertisements across electronic and digital media in preparation for the upcoming state assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and the Union Territory of Puducherry, as well as by-elections in six other...

Kolkata, March 20 – A record number of 2,400 companies, comprising personnel from the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF), India Reserve Battalions (IRB), and armed police from other states, will be deployed in each of the two phases of the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal.The first...

Kolkata, March 20 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday issued a notification announcing the constitution of 19 appellate tribunals to hear objections on decisions taken by judicial officers during ongoing adjudications of cases classified under the “logical discrepancy” category...

Bhubaneswar, March 20 The six BJD MLAs issued a show cause notice on Friday, asking the party whip to withdraw it, for voting for the BJP-backed independent candidate Dilip Ray in the Rajya Sabha election.The six MLAs – Chakramani Kanhar (Baliguda), Naba Kishor Mallick (Jayadev), Souvic Biswal...

Kolkata, March 20 Alleging that an "unofficial President's Rule" has been imposed in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday claimed that people's citizenship could be "taken away" in the name of NRC and Census after the assembly elections in the state.Addressing reporters while...

New Delhi, March 20 – Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant recused himself from hearing a group of petitions challenging the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Terms of Service and Tenure) Act, 2023, which excludes the CJI from the process of appointing...

Kolkata, March 20 West Bengal BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya on Friday said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s allegations that the saffron party is bringing in outsiders to foment trouble across the state reflect her "desperation" ahead of the assembly elections.Addressing a press conference at...

Chennai, March 20 Tamil Nadu CEO Archana Patnaik warned on Friday that any "misleading or unlawful" deepfake or AI-generated content will be removed from party handles within three hours of detection or reporting.She urged political parties and their candidates to adhere to the Election...

Kolkata, March 20 – The Trinamool Congress on Friday released its election manifesto for the upcoming two-phase assembly polls in West Bengal, outlining 10 key promises.One of the promises was regarding the Laxmir Bhandar, the monthly welfare scheme for women in West Bengal.The manifesto...

March 20, New Delhi – The Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued orders requiring all registered political parties, groups, or individual candidates to apply to the Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC) for pre-certification of all political advertisements on electronic...

New Delhi, March 20 Chief Justice of India Surya Kant recused himself from hearing a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of a 2023 law that removed the Chief Justice of India from a committee responsible for appointing the Chief Election Commissioner and the Election...

Kolkata, March 20 Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Friday alleged that Mamata Banerjee has violated the election code by using the chief minister's letterhead for political correspondence and demanded immediate action by the Election Commission.He...

Kolkata, March 20 – Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, accused an officer-in-charge of a police station in his native district of East Midnapore of making a WhatsApp call to a prominent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from the district and asking...

New Delhi, March 20 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday directed political parties to get their advertisements verified and certified by its media certification wing before releasing them on any electronic platform, including social media.The directive, which comes ahead of...

Kolkata, March 20 – The Kolkata Police recovered a large sum of cash from the trunk of a vehicle in New Town, a northern suburb of Kolkata, on Friday.Following instructions from the new Commissioner of the Kolkata Police, security arrangements have been tightened in the run-up to the Assembly...

Kolkata, March 20 – A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Calcutta High Court challenging the transfers of bureaucrats and police officers of the West Bengal cadre ordered by the Election Commission of India (ECI) since the Model Code of Conduct came into force on Sunday.The...